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Jack And The Beanstalk Analysis
In Jack and the Beanstalk and Kate and the Beanstalk, the meaning that is supposed to come out of both of the books is very similar. In both books, they want the readers to know that good will always wins over evil. The plot contrasts some from both books. In Jack and the Beanstalk, the tall woman warned him to leave unless he wanted to be a meal, but in Kate in the Beanstalk every time Kate climbed up the beanstalk the woman asked her for help to cook for the giant. Jack stole the stuff from the giant to help his family, while Kate stole from the giant to help a girl and her mom because the giant had killed the girl’s father, which was a knight. In Kate and the Beanstalk, characters were added that was not in the folktale Jack and the
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