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In this well-known folktale, Jack and the Beanstalk told by Joseph Jacobs, a young boy named Jack trades the family cow for magical beans that sprout into a beanstalk so tall it reaches up into the sky. There are a number of important events that build up this story from the point that Jack trades Milky-white, his mother’s prize cow, to the happy ending in which Jack and his mother become very wealthy and live happily ever after.
Jack is introduced as a young boy with some sort of fault, though what exactly the fault is remains rather vague. All that the reader can interpret is that Jack is flawed to the point that villagers were unwilling to even hire him for work. During Jack’s encounter with the mysterious man, his readiness to exchange his mother’s precious cow for strange-looking, magical beans makes the reader worry if Jack suffered from insipidness, yet the author has a way of giving Jack an ambivalent by saying that he retorted replies “as sharp as a needle.
Approximate Word count = 705
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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