6. Writing the Literature Review

The King brought the miller’s daughter to a chamber that was piled high with straw and gave her a spinning wheel and a reel. “Now set to work,” he said. “And if between tonight and tomorrow at dawn you have not spun this straw into gold, you must die.”“Rumplestiltskin,” Grimm’s Fairy Tales

IN THE CHILDREN’S STORY “Rumplestiltskin,” a greedy king locks a miller’s daughter in a room filled to the ceiling with straw. The king tells her that she has one night to spin all the straw into gold and that if she fails in this task, she will be killed. In utter despair and in complete confusion about how or where to begin, the Miller’s daughter cries and wails until the gnome Rumplestiltskin comes to her rescue and performs ...

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