Hansel and Gretel-Grimm Brothers


Summary:
A poor woodcutter used to live with his second wife and two children called Hansel and Gretel. Once, when the country was in famine father was really in trouble to maintain the family. His wife wasn’t worried even a little about the children. She rather insisted her husband to desert them into the dense forest. The woodcutter didn’t like the idea but he had to accept his wife’s proposal. The children overheard their parents and Hansel collected jacket full of shiny pebbles.

The next morning, he dropped the pebbles on the way while going to the forest. When they reached the middle of the forest, the parents collected firewood, kindled fire and left the children promising to return soon with firewood. The children soon fell asleep. When they woke up, it was already dark. Gretel began to cry and Hansel consoled her. As the moon shone in the sky, they saw the pebbles shining brightly. Following the trail of pebbles they finally reached their home.

After a few months, the country was again affected by famine and the children overheard their parents’ plan to leave them in the forest. As the door was bolted from outside, Hansel couldn’t go outside to get pebbles this time. In the morning, when they were taken to the forest he scrambled the bread and dropped the pieces on the way. The parents left them in the forest promising them to come back soon. When the children woke in the evening, they couldn’t find the pieces of bread as they had been eaten away by birds. They were lost in the forest. They wandered for three days trying to find out the way to come out of the forest.

Finally, they came to a little house made of sugar and bread in the middle of theforest where a witch used to live. When the hungry children started eating the door and window of the house, the witch took them in and offered them food and rest. The witch wanted Hansel to become fat so that she could eat his meat. Even elapsing four weeks, when Hansel didn’t become fat, she decided to eat him. When she asked Gretel to check the readiness of over, Gretel requested her to demonstrate how to check it. When the witch entered into the oven, Gretel pushed the witch and locked her from outside. When the witch died, Gretel freed Hansel and they escaped away after collecting the jewels from the witch’s room. Finally, when they came back home, they found that their step mother had already been dead. So they lived happily with their father.

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