Two
children that get lost in the woods is the central event. One family had
nothing to eat, so the stepmother said to the children’s father “we should take
the children to the woods and leave them there; they won’t find the way back
and we won’t be worry about feed them”. The man didn’t want to do that but the
woman persuaded him, so the next day they abandoned the children in the woods
and cheated on them saying that they would be back to take them home;
surprisingly the kids found the way back and they came back home; their father
felt really happy. Later, the family had a difficult situation again and had
nothing to eat, so the stepmother persuaded the man again and they took the children
deeper into the woods so the kids couldn’t find the way back home and they got
lost. In the evening they started walking, trying to figure out the way back
home, suddenly the children saw a house made of cake and confectionery and they
approach it, then an old woman came out of the house and invited the kids to
enter, she served them a good meal and made two beds for them. The children
noticed that she was a very nice person but the next morning the old woman, who
actually was a wicked witch, told them that she was going to feed them and then she
would eat them. The kids were scared but they couldn’t run away. A couple of
weeks passed and the witch was going to cook Hansel, so Gretel managed to push
the witch into the oven and closed it. Immediately the two kids took some
pearls from the witch’s house and run away. Finally, they found the way back
home, arrived in the house, threw their arms around the father´s neck; their
stepmother had died. From that moment on they stayed together and lived
happily.
It’s a
story with eloquent writing and well-drawn characters.
The story
is written by Grimm Brothers in a style immediately accessible to any reader.
I´d definitely
recommend it to anyone because it’s one of the best fairy tales that I´ve read
and make me feel like if I was a child again
