Thursday, April 16, 2009

Reading Text

The story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a story that children know well. This story centers on a beautiful and inquisitive young blonde girl who ventures one day into the home of a family of three bears.
Earlier versions of this story were quite different.
It was the heroine who differed so much, and not the family of bears. Robert Southey wrote a version of the story in 1837 entitled "Story of the Three Bears." In Southey's story, the person who entered the bears' home was not a beautiful young girl with golden hair. Instead she was an old, hungry, homeless, grey-haired woman.
Other versions followed Southey's, and in these versions, the lead character changed considerably.
In an 1849 version by Joseph Cundall, the heroine of the story had become a young girl, but her hair was not blonde. The gray-haired old woman of Southey's story no longer existed; the new heroine was a young girl named Silver-Hair in Cundall's story. By 1868, the version published in Aunt Friendly's Nursery Book had a young girl named Golden Hair. By 1904, the name had turned into Goldilocks, the name by which the character is known today.

Questions:

1. The subject of this passage is

2. In what year was the name Goldilocks used, according to the passage?

3. Which paragraph that describes versions of the story other than Southey's?


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