HANSEL AND GRETEL

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