So the best food was cooked for poor Hansel, but Gretel got nothing but crab-shells. When he's fat I'll eat him up." Gretel began to cry bitterly, but it was of no use she had to do what the wicked witch told her. Then she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: "Get up, you lazy-bones, fetch water and cook something for your brother. Read the excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel."Įarly in the morning, before the children were awake, rose up, and when she saw them both sleeping so peacefully, with their round rosy cheeks, she muttered to herself: "That'll be a dainty bite." Then she seized Hansel with her bony hand and carried him into a little stable, and barred the door on him he might scream as much as he liked, it did him no good. What role does the wife play in this story? "But I can't help feeling sorry for the poor children," added the husband. They won't be able to find their way home, and we shall thus be rid of them." "No, wife," said her husband, "that I won't do how could I find it in my heart to leave my children alone in the wood? The wild beasts would soon come and tear them to pieces." "Oh! you fool," said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, and you may just as well go and plane the boards for our coffins" and she left him no peace till he consented.
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One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry, he sighed and said to his wife: "What's to become of us? How are we to support our poor children, now that we have nothing more for ourselves?" "I'll tell you what, husband," answered the woman "early to-morrow morning we'll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread then we'll go on to our work and leave them alone. He had always little enough to live on, and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he couldn't even provide them with daily bread. Once upon a time there dwelt on the outskirts of a large forest a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children the boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.
Read the excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel" How does the protagonist move the plot forward in this excerpt? He cried so much that the glass splinter swam out of his eye then he knew her, and cried out, "Gerda! dear little Gerda! Where have you been so long? and where have I been?" He looked at her and then he burst into tears. Then Gerda wept hot tears which fell on his neck and thawed his heart and swept away the bit of the looking-glass. She caught sight of Kay she recognised him, and ran and put her arms round his neck, crying, "Kay! dear little Kay! I have found you at last!"īut he sat quite still and cold. The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall. Then it happened that little Gerda stepped into the hall. He sat so still that you would have thought he was frozen.
"I must go and powder my black kettles!" (This was what she called Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius.) "It does the lemons and grapes good."Īnd off she flew, and Kay sat alone in the great hall trying to do his puzzle. "Now I must fly to warmer countries," said the Snow-queen.
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