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Calderon

 “Fairy TalesTransformation” was a very interesting reading, how the motifs of the fairy tale are analyzed, and how this reading does not focus on its form.  What was interesting was that Propp did not pay much attention to the function of the motifs, but instead what fairy tales have in common. He thinks that fairly tales have a common structure and to prove it he uses 31 functions. According to him these functions have the commonality to occur in asimilar sequence. However, I was having trouble with how he believes these 31 functions apply to all fairy tales. Now that we have an emergence of new fairy tales that are not “traditional” and seem to have a different structure, should we then still apply his 31 common functions? Or should we come up with other common functions to apply to the structure of new fairy tales? Do we need to have set of functions?