In Bruno Bettelheim’s, “A Child’s Need for Magic”, the reader is torn between the desire for childhood innocence and values and the “adult”, rational viewpoint that we now all hold. Bettelheim explains how fairy tales are how children relate to life and human nature, and he explains that “A child trusts what the fairy story tells him, because its world view accords with his own.” He points out that nothing is too fantastic for a child to believe, especially when shown to him through a fairy tale. To a child, anything can be living and there is no way to distinguish the difference between ordinary objects and living things. Because in fairy tales, as Bettelheim points out, animals and objects ca
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