The document analyzes and summarizes various fairy tales and local stories from Singapore. It discusses common features of fairy tales like having clearly defined good and bad characters. It also analyzes specific tales like Cinderella and The Legend of Bukit Merah. The document outlines a local story the authors created that incorporates Malay names, terms and Singlish. It discusses developing the character of Awang and including multiple story endings to allow choices. The authors plan to finalize the story and choices by their finals deadline.

1. Fairy Tales
Created By: Tan Yee Hoong
Avin Chan
Min GuanLin

2. Common Features of the fairy tales we analysed
Short (can be read in 5-15 mins time)
● Events that rarely happens take place in the story
● Humans strengths/weaknesses exploited
● Set in the past
● Most stories often have happy endings
● Have one or two values to teach
● Settings (forest/castles)
● It has clearly defined Good Characters Vs. Bad Characters
● Animals and object are often given human characteristics
● Repetitive phrases

3. Common Features of the local stories we analysed
Uses legend to explain how a particular place in Singapore got its name
All of the settings are based locally
All of the events happened a long time ago
Characters in the story have a malay name
Characters in the story are innocent and are unfamiliar with the outside
world

4. Why are we analysing fairy tales/local stories
We analyse fairy tales to understand how writers develop characters in fairy
tales and find out their common features to use it as a reference to our
story
By analysing local stories, we understand how local writers weave local
elements into local stories

5. Cinderella By Brothers Grimm
In the original tale of Cinderella, her mother passes away and her father married another woman, bringing in two
stepsisters into the family. These stepsisters, however, had evil and dark hearts. They took away all that she had and
often made fun of her.
One day, her father went out to a fair and Cinderella requested for the first twig that brushes against his hat. She
planted it on her mother’s grave and wept so much it grew into a hazel tree. A white bird would visit this tree every
day and would give Cinderella whatever she wished for.
Soon after, the king proclaimed a festival that would last three days. This was to select a bride for his son. Despite all
that she did, her stepmother would not allow her to go. As a result, she would every day go to the hazel tree and say
‘Shake and quiver, little tree, throw gold and silver down to me’ . She would receive a beautiful gown and pair of
slippers and could go to the dance. Every time the prince would choose her to dance with and she would leave until
evening.
On the third day, she left behind a gold slipper and the prince went around looking for the owner. The stepsisters
tried to trick him into thinking either of them is the owner. However, two pigeons sitting on the hazel tree exposed
them and the prince later found the owner to be Cinderella, and rode off with her. During their wedding, when the
stepsisters wanted to gain some of Cinderella’s fortune, the pigeons from earlier pecked out their eyes, leaving them
blind for as long as they lived.

6. Character Analysis
Cinderella
Main protagonist
Represents the pure side of mankind
Obedient and kind-hearted
Cinderella endured all hardships and was able to reunite with the prince in the end, showing that
perseverance and patience can allow one to succeed
Stepmother and Stepsisters
Main antagonists of the story
Represents the dark side of mankind

7. Character Development (Cinderella)
She was often bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters but never once
resisted nor complained
She then learns to find a place and have some time alone so as to express
her feelings of sadness
She then learns to develop the heart of desire to marry the prince so as to
leave the miserable life

8. Moral of the story
The story teaches us that we should never let the bad events in our lives
take away our spirit and perseverance. Despite all hardships, Cinderella
never argued with the injustice and tolerated it all without complaint. She
did not compromise her honesty and humility, selfless traits which she
had throughout despite all that she went through.

9. The legend of Bukit Merah
A long time ago, the southern coast of Singapore was infested by numerous fierce swordfish. The
villagers and fishermen could not ply their trades at the sea, as they would be attacked by these
fearsome creatures if they ever ventured near the waters. The people requested help from the
Sultan, but even him and his royal army could not do anything about it and swordfish
A little boy, Hang Nadim then proposed a solution to the Sultan. Build a row of barricade made of
banana tree trunks along the affected coast, he said. When the swordfish tried to attack the villagers
again, their pointed beaks would pierce through the barricade and would be trapped immediately.
The plan worked perfectly, and the smart boy became popular among the villagers as their saviour.
This invited jealousy from the Sultan. Fearing his rule would be threatened in the future, he sent his
soldiers to kill the boy who lived on top of a hill. As the poor boy died, his blood flew down the hill,
soaking the whole hill red. This was how Redhill, or Bukit Merah (literally means hill red), got its
name.
In turn, the place where the barricade of banana tree trunks were set up became known as Tanjong
Pagar, or “cape of stakes

10. Character Analysis
● Hang Nadim
○ Main Protagonist of the story
○ Intelligent boy
○ Not afraid to use his intellectual prowess to help others in need
○ Became a victim of jealousy
● Sultan
○ Main Antagonist of the story
○ Jealous

11. Moral Of the story
Tells us that there is a presence of evil in man's heart called jealousy and we
must be wary not to become a victim of it as shown in the story when Hang
Nadim was murdered in cold blood
Tells us that by using our intellect, we can find a solution to tackle a particular
problem as proven in the story when Hang Nadim solved the problem of the
numerous fierce swordfish

12. Other fairy tales we analysed
The Three little pigs
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Beauty and the Beast
The Golden Goose
Jack and the Beanstalk
The elves and shoemaker

13. Other local stories we analysed
Legend of Pulau Ubin
Origin of the Sister’s Island
Radin Mas
Merlion
Badang and the Singapore Stone
Legend of Pulau Blakang Mati
Origin of Pulau Ubin

14. Overview of our story
Plot
- A long time ago, humans and the animals were in dispute as the King of
the humans broke the promise made between them. One day, a boy,
Awang, decided to side with the animals in an attempt to end the war
between them.
● Main characters
- The King
- Awang, the brave boy
- Raja Jahat, the king of the animals

15. Local contents that we have weaved into the story
Malay names
We added Malay names to make the story seem more local like, as
Singapore’s inhabitants consisted of mainly Malays back then.
Malay terms
Items like the kris that Raja Jahat wielded and the addition of kampongs in the
area show that this is a developing state of Singapore

16. Singlish
Since singlish is a famous ‘language’ in singapore, we have decided to use it in
some informal conversations between characters to give it a local sense.
Singlish such as “Whatever” “Good game’” and “Last Warning”.
Singapore locations
The location for this story is temasek, which is also Singapore when it was
founded, giving it a local feeling

17. Character development of Awang
Throughout the story, Awang always displayed the values of resilience, and
standing up for what he thinks is right. At first, he only displayed bravado by
not listening to his parents and deciding to enter the forest to talk to the
animals. As the story progresses, Awang could be clearly seen being more and
more proactive in the decisions made by the animals

18. Moral of the story
The story teaches us to stand up against the evil and fight for what is right.
Despite all hardships and some unexpected events, Awang was able to stand
strong and fight against Raja Jahat.
At the climax of the story, we see how Awang is also able to take the initiative
and lead the animals when fighting against the attacking humans.
Furthermore, even though his parents were killed, he did not hesitate.

19. What other endings have we planned?
Alternate ending that includes no violence (convinced humans to replace
Raja Jahat amd elect a new king to put an end to the war)
Animals were slain (Awang was tricked into betraying the animals)
Soldiers all slaughtered (Awang lost the fight with the king and all the
animals seeked revenge)

20. How do we weave the different endings into the story?
We will allow the protagonist to reach a crossroad at certain crucial points in
the story, then a phrase like this will be written, “If you were ‘ ‘ , what will your
next move be?” We will then provide choices and page number next to the
choice. If the reader chooses a particular choice, he will then be redirected to
a page number and continue the story based on the decision he made.

21. What we plan to do by finals