For the third Brothers Grimm story I choose for the R category, is a story called The Dog and the Sparrow. It is a story of a starving dog and a sparrow becoming friends, and the sparrow helps steal food so that the dog can eat. When the dog takes a nap in the road, a carriage driver purposely drives over the dog and kills him. The sparrow declares vengeance and many tragic events ensue towards the driver, he however catches the sparrow and asks his wife to kill the bird as he holds it so that she may cook it. Unfortunately his wife misses and ends up killing her husband instead, and sparrow flies of having received her vengeance. The story being extremely violent and dark has earned its way into the Restricted category or R. To represent this story and category the illustrations are black in its majority, with white lines to reveal the art. The art is creepy and has dark symbolic undertones. A gritty texture is added over all the pages to add to the degradation of the story and it’s characters. The text is rigid, to add to the uncomfortable atmosphere of the story. All text is laid out either on the left or right hand corner in a binding blacker box, to further hint at the uncomfortable feeling of the book. The text is rigid with no bolding, or paragraph breaks, to overwhelm the reader and add a sense of being very serious. The story is very dark and morbid in a style that represents its category, the original story, and being able to have a modern spin on a very dark matter.
