ABSTRACT
We have seen in the previous chapter how a ‘new’ story, ‘Johnny, I Want My Liver Back’, has evolved according to the structures and conventions of familiar traditional narrative and yet has modified itself to fit into a teenage narrative tradition, where it has thrived (and continues to thrive) for the past fifty years or more. In this chapter I wish to examine related issues but from a different direction, in that I would like to look at how a well-documented traditional story has survived in the contemporary adolescent context and the changes that the story has undergone, whilst remaining true to the type. My reference will be to the texts I have collected.
