Reading Notes: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, Part A
For this weeks reading notes, I have decided to take stories from "Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm", written by the Grimm brothers (link above). The stories I will be covering have been taken and made into modern day adaptations by the Walt Disney Company. They are very familiar stories and most children know them. The stories I will be covering are, "The Frog Prince" and "Rapunzel".
The first story, "The Frog Prince", is about a princess who went by a spring to play with her favorite golden ball. She threw the ball up in the air and missed, watching the ball roll into the spring. The water was too deep for her to see the ball, so she began to cry. A frog popped up and asked why she was crying. She told him that she had lost her ball, and the frog said that if she would love him, and let him live with her, he would retrieve her ball. The princess agreed, thinking that the frog would never be able to leave the spring. The frog found the ball and the princess ran home with it as fast as she could. The next day, the frog came to her door and the princess shut him out. The king insisted that she keep her word, so she did. Soon, she woke up to find a gorgeous prince next to her bed. He was the frog, free from his curse. He took her back to his kingdom and they got married and lived together happily.
The next story is "Rapunzel". This story is about a king and a queen who agreed to give their first child to an enchantress. The daughter, Rapunzel, was put in a tower when she was twelve years old, and she was trapped there with no way out. Rapunzel would use her long, golden hair to allow her kidnapper in and out of the tower window. A few years later, the kings son came across her tower and heard her singing. He yelled for her to let down her hair, and once he reached the princess, he asked her to marry him. The prince agreed to bring her silk everyday until she was able to climb out of the tower. One day, the enchantress found out about the prince and cut off Rapunzel's hair in anger. She took Rapunzel to a desert and went back to the tower to wait for the king's son to climb up the hair that used to belong to Rapunzel. He jumped out of the tower when he was met by the enchantress, and wandered until he found Rapunzel. The two lived happy together after that.
Since both of these stories have been made into movies by Disney, I am more than familiar with them. I like them both and I think the original versions are written very well and have a lot of different plots to them than what is shown in the kids movies. I will definitely have to come back to these stories next time I have something to write.
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