Evolution of the story

According to the structure,  show the evolution of the story in “The Golden Bird”

Setting

“A certain king had a beautiful garden”… in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples… a bird was eating these apples and the king asked their sons to keep a close watch to the bird, but he discovered the bird was a golden one he wanted. So the king sent his sons to looking for the golden bird.

Characters

Here we have several kings, several princes, a princess and a fox as main characters. But we also have several secondary characters that help the protagonists to continue to develop the story: golden things (apples, bird, cage, horse, castel), the inns, the wooden cage, the river, the poor man. 

Conflict

The king sent first his two eldest sons, but they never came back. So “the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird”. “In the path to the wood, he met the fox, and heard the same good counsel” his brother had  heard from the fox. The fox bacame the youngest’s son counselor. It knew what was going to happen before it occurred, but the prince could not remember what the fox had said. So he always felt on the trap. According to the prediction of the fox, Prince would past in front of both hostels and would not entered in either; he had not to put the golden bird in the golden cage before carrying it away; he had not to put the gold saddle on the golden horseback; and he had not  allowed the princess to say goodbye to her parents. But despite that the young man was never followed his advices, the fox never would forsake him. Before returning to the palace with the princess, the golden horse and the golden bird, the Prince wanted to fetch his two lost brothers. Finally the fox had to leave him, but before doing so, he gave him one last tip : “I will at any rate give you good counsel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.” Obviously, the prince overlook this last advice and his brothers pulled him down the river and stole the princess, the golden horse and the golden bird.

Solution and happy end

So the youngest son dressed himself as a poor man, and came secretly to the king’s court, and was scarcely within the doors when the horse began to eat, and the bird to sing, and princess left off weeping. Then she went to the king, and told him all about his eldest sons’s roguery; and they were seized and punished, and the youngest prince got the princess back again; and after the king’s death he was heir to his kingdom.

       

After a long time, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet. And at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed into a man, and turned out to be the brother of the princess, who had been lost a great many many years.