Elements of Fantasy

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Elements of Fantasy
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Good Versus Evil

• Good usually wins over evil
• A character represents good

• Another character represents evil

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The Good Character

• Sometimes has magic or weapons to use in the
  battle
• Has a high degree of innocence

Uses courage to gain wisdom and truth, in order
to conquer evil Has to overcome different
challenges or obstacles
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The Evil Character

• Battles the good character to take over
  whatever they are fighting over
• Usually guilty of curses on things, tricking
  people, deceiving people, engaging in greedy or
  selfish behavior
• Sometimes they harm people or things
• Steal
• Have no feelings like love, empathy, or
  compassion
• Want to take over the world
• Sometimes they are very scared of "GOOD"

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Magical Powers

• Sometimes the magic allows them to
• Levitate things
• Transform things
• Destroy things
• Fly
• Protection them from evil

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Unreal Land or Time

• Use figurative language
• Castles on tops of mountains
• Secret lair on different planet

Under the sea Medieval times Narnia is
an example of an unreal land
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Unreal Land or Time continued

• Dictionopolis and Hogwarts school are other
  unreal places
• Time travel
• Dreams can take you to another reality

Pulled through a mirror A spell, a
wardrobe, a glass elevator, natural disasters,
teleportation, or a tollbooth can send you to a
magical place
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Quest or Mystery to Solve

• Help a gargoyle
• Be free and explore
• Reach rhyme and reason before the demons get
  you
• Escape a mean owl
• Destroy an evil black cauldron
• Have a dragon as  a pet
• Discover why the mountain had colorful snow

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Save World From Evil

• Good character gains strength from a magical
  force to overcome the evil character
• Uses own personal resources to solve the
  problem
• Friends help the good character with extra
  power or ideas

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Examples

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Poppy by Avi
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K.
  Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K.
  Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K.
  Rowling
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Shoebag by Mary James
• The Farthest Away Mountain  by Lynne Reid Banks
• Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

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The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander The Dark
is Rising by Susan Cooper Jeremy Thatcher,
Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlRunaway
Ralph by Beverly Cleary Gwinna by Barbara
Berger The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Ella
Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The Knight in
Screaming Armor by R. L. Stine The Wreck of the
Titan or Futility by M. F. Mansfield Charlie
and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
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