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 * The Princess Bride #5 – So Unfair!**

In chapter six Goldman explains that he was upset when he first heard about Buttercup’s dreams because it all seemed very unfair (He didn’t know it was a dream at first). Goldman later explains that life is not fair and that //The Princess Bride// is not necessarily fair either. He then states that “This isn’t //Curious George Uses the Potty//.”

What is Goldman’s point? How is it illustrated in the novel?

When Goldman was first read this book, the fake out made him very mad. He didn’t think that it was fair for Prince Humperdinck and Buttercup to get married. He says that life isn’t fair, and it isn’t. He tries to explain that there will be a lot of things that won’t go the way you planned, and he was explained that. The Princess Bride is not a fair, a lot of bad things happen to the wrong people, like Westly in the machine, and Buttercup being kidnapped, it is that it is happening to the good people in the book. The bad people didn’t start getting punished until almost the end. Goldman’s neighbor explained to him that life wasn’t fair, when her son told Goldman that Goldman would beat him one day. She told him that wasn’t necessarily true, that he might never beat him, because life is not fair, and it might never change. He’s trying to get us to see that there will be some things that you do and some things you don’t like, but you still have to take it, and hopefully you can move on. Bridgett