Julie+Lang

Perspective of: Russia - "Baba Yaga"

 * Frame Element || Information gathered: ||
 * < Characters || The Girl, Husband, Stepmother, the Baba Yaga (the aunt), the servant maid, cat, dog, doors, and birch tree. ||
 * < Setting ||< in the woods ||
 * < Initiating Event ||< The girl's mother dies and Dad remarries. Stepmother wants to get rid of the girl and sends her to her aunt (who will eat her). ||
 * < Internal Response ||< (turning point) The girl knows the Stepmother's aunt is a Baba Yaga. The Girl is terrified. The Girl goes to a real aunt of hers first and tells her about the stepmother's plan. The real aunt tells her how to get past the tree,doors,dogs, and the cat. ||
 * < Goal ||< Girl is sent to Baba Yaga to get a needle and thread to make a shift. To not get eaten. ||
 * < Consequence ||< Girl is kind to the dogs, doors, birch tree, and the servant maid. This causes them to not kill her, bang shut, to poke her eyes out, to not cook her in a hot bath. The cat gives her a towel and comb to use to get away. ||
 * < Resolution ||< The dogs don't kill her, the doors do not bang shut, the trees do not poke her eyes out, and servant maid does not cook her in a hot bath. The Girl uses the towel /river to slow Baba Yaga down, the comb/forest to block her from continuing. Girl makes it home, tells Dad what Stepmother had done, Dad shoots Stepmother, and Girl and Dad live and flourish ever after ||

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