Perspectives

For you to engage in a deeper analysis of “The Spoiled Child” by Sinéad de Valera, you should also look at the text from different perspectives, relate it to current issues, works in the same genre or with the same theme.

Current issues

Being a fairy-tale, the story illustrates timeless moral issues and themes. Growing up and parents’ influence on the development of children will always be actual themes.

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Works in the same genre

For you to better understand short stories which are structured as fairy-tales, we also recommend that you read “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde (1888) which explores ...

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Works with the same theme

The theme of growing up can also be found in more formal short stories, not only in fairy-tales. You can read, for instance, the short story “Araby” by James Joyce, which is also set in Ireland, but it is very realistically rendered.

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