Once Upon a Time

The short story Once Upon a Time is based in South Africa during the raciest times of 1920. It displays how a small white family takes safety to a whole other level, because they constantly live in fear of their house being broken into and a family member being hurt by the black population. The story ends with them mother reading a fairy tale about a night in shinning armor to the son. Then the son, wanting to be a night climbs up the wall surrounding the house, gets caught in the barb wire at the top and falls off. This is why the tone of the story is irony, because having all of those safety pro cations ended up not protecting them, but harming one of their loved ones. Although the ending is very morbid the short story still resembles a fairy tale, because it has a wise old witch, the wire that killed the son is called Dragon's teeth and the son wanted to be a night in shinning armor.