Tétiyette and the Devil

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 The tale of "Tetiyette and the Devil" is a short story from Guadeloupe and is showed as a fairy tale which clues the reader that there is a moral from what the readers are about to read.
"That child was very hard to please and found no one to her taste"( Guadeloupe 1) This sentence shows the child is not humble, appreciative, and suggests the child may only think that there is her way or no way.  
 The author uses metaphor throughout the story that personifies animals as humans to show their judgment on their appearance. Like how the child said "make him go away, make him go away"(Guadeloupe 1) To the Goat and Pig without talking to them and solely judging them just by their appearance.
As the Devil enters the scene, it is the only one of the suitors referred to as "young man." A way of the author to display in the reader's mind what all the suitor's appearance was with referring to some as animals and only the devil as a human. Due to the appearance of the Goat and Pig, they were not given a chance to talk to Tetiyette with her rejecting them. The rejection of the girl made was without any conversation with Goat, Pig or Devil. With her final decision being that she wanted “young man”(Devil).
 Through all this, the girl's mother is skeptical of the “young man” and presents her with a task so she can prove her point of whether the man is devil or man. 
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Tetiyette finds the truth of her mother’s skeptics. Shortly after she that her husband oozes slime rather than bleeds which proves her mother’s skeptics correct she pays the price for not telling her mother. The situation became like the boy who cried wolf. This is where the author employs poetry as the daughter sings out to her family members one by one to save her, emphasizing the end of each line of her pleas with "bel-air drum." Between her crying out the author uses a standard story format rather than the poetry of responses of her family. Her father and mother are stubborn in that they did not come to her aid as she did not heed their warning. The Devil manages to swallow her down to the tip of one of her toes. The girl sings out to one final person, and her brother (reluctantly at first) comes to the rescue and frees her quite literally from the belly of the beast. The innocence of the brother is presented well. The author's dual demonstration that stubbornness has consequences through both the daughter's actions and the parent's actions shows is one of the themes of the story there is more to the story another one is everything is always as it seems. This funeral tales is, I think, intended to be frivolous and yet frightening to young children to listen to their parents.

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