Author: Josef Baudis (1922)
This short story followed the same story line as the popular fairytale, Beauty and the Beast. While reading, you'll realize that there are many things happening at once and the author was pretty straightforward and to the point. There were no extra fluffy or descriptive words, rather words that told the reader fairly quickly what and how something was happening. The story didn't take place in the same setting for very long, and the first main character went many places (home, market, woods, palace) all in a matter of a paragraph or so.
The overall plot of the story wasn't too suspenseful until the mother reached the castle, where she ended up promising the Basilisk to bring her daughter to the castle in return of the three roses that she had picked.
There wasn't too much dialogue between the characters, rather the characters talking to themselves.
The ending was a happy ending, much like Beauty and the Beast. The ending allowed the reader to understand the odd behavior that the Basilisk had towards the end of the story.
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