Snow White
Well, welcome
back, everyone. It is now time for Marcus's date with Snow
White. He is taking her on a romantic picnic in the park. Last we
checked, they were setting up their blanket and lunch underneath a huge
oak tree. Let's see how things are going now.
(Camera turns to park, and we see
Marcus and Snow White sitting on their blanket eating peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches.)
"So, Snow White, why don't you tell
me a little more about yourself?" asks Marcus.
"Well,
I don't know if there is really anything else to tell you. I think I
have told you just about everything," replies Snow White.
"Well, how about the scariest thing
that has ever happened to you."
"Okay, well, there was this one
time
when I was almost killed."
"WHAT?!?! Wow, you have never told
me about that. Tell me everything!" exclaims Marcus.
"Okay,
well, it all started with my really evil stepmother, who became Queen
when she married my father. She was a very proud woman, and she had
this magic mirror. When she asked the mirror who the fairest of all
was, it would assure her that she was. That is until one day it told
her that I was more beautiful. Of course this angered her, so she
called upon one of her huntsman to fix it for her. She had the huntsman
take me into the forest to kill me. He was supposed to kill me and take
my heart back to the Queen as proof."
"Well, seeing as you are still
alive, I assume he did not succeed. What happened?" asked Marcus.
"Lucky
for me the huntsman had a heart of his own. I always liked walking in
the woods, so when he asked me to go for a walk I was thrilled.
Unfortunately, when we got far enough into the woods he turned to me
with the most horrible of faces. It scared me to death, and then he
pulled out his knife. I began to weep, and he decided to let me go only
if I promised to never return home. So, I ran and ran until I came
across a little cottage in the middle of the woods. I found some food
to eat in the kitchen, and then I went into a large bedroom that had
seven beds and found one to take a nap in. When I woke up the next
morning the seven dwarfs who lived in the cottage were there, and they
told me that if I took care of the cottage and did the chores and
cooking then I could stay there with them. So each day they would go to
work in the mountains mining for precious metals, and I would stay and
tend to the cottage."
"Man, that is a crazy story. I am
glad you were okay."
"Well,
it is not over yet. After a few days, the Queen's mirror told her that
I was still the most beautiful, and she realized I was still alive. She
tried to have me killed again. First, she disguised herself as an old
peddler-woman, and she tried to sell me some exotic silk. As I was
trying on some of the material she laced it up so fast and tight that
it suffocated me. I passed out and did not wake up until the dwarfs
came home and unwrapped the material. Since I didn't die, the Queen
only got angrier. So the next time she came disguised as a poor old
woman who told me she was selling combs to buy food for her sick baby
grandson. She pulled out a poisonous comb, and once she ran it through
my hair, I fell to the ground. But lucky for me the dwarfs came home
soon and removed the comb, so it did not kill me. So now the Queen was
livid, and she came back as another old woman, with a poisonous apple.
After I took one bite of the apple, I fell down dead. The dwarfs could
do nothing to revive me,but they told me about what happened. They put
my body in a hollow glass coffin and put it on top of the mountain. One
day a prince came by and saw me in the coffin. He asked the dwarfs if
he could have me and the coffin to cherish as his prize possession.
They said he could, and as his men were carrying the coffin away one of
them tripped over a stump. With the jolt this caused, the piece of
apple that was lodged in my throat came out, and I woke up. So I went
home with the prince and married him."
"Wow that is quite a story. So what
happened to the prince? I mean I am assuming you are not married to him
anymore."
"Well, about six months after our
wedding, I found him in bed with our maid. So here I am now."
"Dang!
Well, I have to say I am glad he is a scumbag, because if he wasn't I
would have never met you," replies Marcus, as he kisses Snow White.
(Television returns to narrator.)
Never
saw that story coming did you? I know I never did. It looks like Marcus
enjoyed the ending though. Coming up next, Marcus takes Rapunzel out.
Author's Note:
Again, I hope you enjoyed my story. Like the last story,
it too was fun to write. I tried to resemble Snow White's story with
the date being a picnic in the park. I was trying to imitate the woods,
without it being quite as scary and creepy. Much like my previous
story, I kept the story as being told from Snow White through dialogue.
I think it helps make the story more personal, and it assists in making
the date seem more real. I chose the image of a red apple, because it
is easily linked to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I also chose the
color scheme, because I thought it was a symbol of Snow White. I chose
the black background symbolizing the evil in the story, with the white
font being a symbol for Snow White's pureness and her name of course. I
tried to keep the story consistent with the one told by the Brothers
Grimm. In the original story, the Queen died from having to wear
red-hot iron
slippers, but I omitted the details of her death, because I did not
want to draw away from Snow White and her story. Rapunzel is coming up
next, and I hope you stick around to see her date with Marcus.
Bibliography
Story Title: Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs
Story Author: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Book: Household Tales
Book Author: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Year Published: 1884
Web Source: SurLaLune
Fairy Tales
Image Information
Poisonous Red Apple
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