Once upon a time, a pregnant queen was
sitting by the window in a winter night. The window was made of black
ebony. She was looking out of the window at the snow while she was
sewing. She had pricked her finger on a needle. A drop of her
blood fell upon the snow. She liked the color of white, red
and black be together. She made a wish: "I wish to have a child white
as
snow, red as blood and black as ebony."
After several months, the queen had a little daughter who was white as
snow, red as blood and black as ebony. The queen called her Little
Snow White. The queen died after Little Snow White was born.
The King married another woman when Snow White was 7 years old. The
woman was very pretty. Everyone thought she was the prettiest women in
this country. The new queen had a magical mirror which would tell the
truth. The queen asked the magical mirror every day, "Who is the
prettiest in the world?" The magical mirror replied with the same
answer every time, "You are the prettiest in the world."
Snow White was growing up. She became more and more beautiful. The
queen was getting afraid that Snow White would be prettier than her
someday, so she did not like Snow White at all. She did not do anything
until one day the mirror gave her a new answer when she asked the same
question. When Snow White was 10 years old, she became a very pretty
girl. The answer that the queen got from the magical mirror changed
from
that day. The magical started to reply, "Snow White is the prettiest in
the world." The queen was shocked. She could not accept this fact, so
she ordered a huntsman to bring Snow White to a forest and kill her.
The huntsman did not want to do that, but he could only obey to the
queen. When he was about to pierce Snow White's heart, Snow White began
to cry and said, "Please don't take my life. I would run away and never
go back to the palace again." The huntsman pitied her because of her
beauty and innocence and let her run away. He killed a boar and took
its
heart to the queen as Snow White's heart. The queen ordered a chef to
cook the heart for her to eat because she believed that she would be as
pretty as
Snow White after she ate her heart.
Snow White was so terrified by the dark forest. She hoped to run out of
the forest so she kept running until she saw a cottage. She got into
the cottage and found no one was there. Everything inside the cottage
was very small. She was very hungry and tired. She took some food from
each of the plates and slept on the only bed that fitted her size.
The owners of the cottage, seven dwarfs, came back at the
evening.
They knew someone had been there since they could tell the things were
placed in different order. They saw Snow White was sleeping in one of
the beds. They did not wake her up because of her sweetness and beauty.
Snow White apologized to the seven dwarfs for eating their food on the
next day. The seven dwarfs agreed to let Snow White to stay in their
place if Snow White was willing to take care the housework. Snow White
was so glad and thankful to them so she agreed to take the job and
stayed
with them. They reminded Snow White to be careful since the queen would
find
out she was there soon.
The queen was so happy because of Snow White's death. She asked the
mirror the
same question again. However, the mirror said, "Snow White is the
prettiest in the world. She is living in the forest." The queen was so
angry that she decided to kill Snow White by herself.
She dressed herself as an old woman and she made a poisonous apple. She
appeared in front of the cottage and cried, "Very cheap apple." Snow
White opened the door and she saw an old woman was holding a basket of
very red apples. She was attracted by the apples. The queen offered to
let her try the apple before buying it. Snow White never thought the
apple could be poisonous so she just bit into it. She fell
down dead immediately. The queen laughed happily and said, "I am now
the prettiest in the world."
The seven dwarfs went back home at the evening and they saw Snow White
was dead. They were very upset. They made a glass coffin for Snow White
and put her into it. They did not want to bury her because she looked
like she was just sleeping.
At that time,a prince from another country passed by. He saw Snow White
sleeping inside the coffin and he was stunned by her beauty. He opened
the cover of the coffin and kissed her. Snow White opened her eyes and
woke up in the coffin and looked at the prince and said, "What
happened?" The prince said with a smile, "A miracle happened."
The prince asked, "Would you marry me?I loved you at first sight."
Snow White smiled and nodded her head.
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I kept my story similar to the original one. I omitted the part of lace
and a poisonous comb because I want to keep my story short. The queen
tried to use lace and a poisonous comb to kill Snow White before using
the poisonous apple in the original story. The most of my story is
the same as the original one, but I changed the end of the story. The
original story does not have the part of the prince kissing Snow
White but I wanted to make the ending more romantic. Also, I want it to
be a story for kids and I want my story to end happily so I did
not mention the part of the queen's
death. In the original story, the queen died at the wedding of Snow
White and the Prince. She was forced to wear red-hot slippers to dance
until she died.
I chose to retell this story because I like this story a lot and also
this is a very popular story. I think people will be interested in
reading my storybook if I retell some very classical stories. Snow
White and the other three heroines I will be including are all very
kind girls. She and Cinderella also have their mother dead. Snow White
is the only characters who get killed, but she comes back to life. It
makes people pity her
because of her humble life.
Title: Snow White and the seven dwarfs
Authors: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Book and Year: Household Tales(1884)
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