Essay Week 13

A Grimm Tale

I did the Grimm Tales Hunt unit for this week. This was a great unit because it had some stories that most readers would be familiar with and it also had some other stories that readers would not have heard of before. The version by Hunt was also a strong version because it had all the elements that a reader would have expected a Grimm story to have, Hunt did a great job of capturing the themes but also the feel of the stories (not sure if that makes sense). The pictures throughout the stories were also new to me, so I found them to be another interesting part of the Unit. This unit has something for everyone and the best thing about it is that I had fun reading these to my two little nieces over Skype so it was fun to bring these stories to a new generation.

Picture Attribution

Arthur Rackham [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Story Telling Week 13

The Little Ginger Boy

Gingerbread Family

There was once two Ginger people. They lived in a gingerbread house. They wanted a Gingerbread Family. They asked Hostess for a Ginger child. They told Hostess that even if the Ginger baby was only the size of a gumbdrop they would love him. So they oven was heated to 325 degrees and 90 minutes later a Gingerbaby the size of a gumbdrop popped out. The Gingerbread family was so happy.

They Ginger parents loved the Ginger boy with all their chalky candy valentine hearts. As a matter of fact their hearts even said “I love You,” well one of them said “You’re Great,” but all the rest of the Hearts said “I love you,” except for the ones that said, “Be Mine,” which is sorta the same.

One day the father was working in the Tootsie Roll garden and needed help. His son asked if he could help and the father said that he was too small, but the little boy insisted and eventually the father let him help. Soon enough a bunch of Nerds came a long and asked if they could have the Ginger boy that was the size of a gumbdrop. The father said no at first, but the little boy said it would be ok if the father gave him to the Nerds because he would soon return and then the father agreed.

The nerds all bounced around with excitement and they headed down the road with the Gingerbread boy. When the nerds were not looking the Ginger boy ran off and hid by the Hershey lake. The Nerds look high and low but could not find the boy. After a little while the Ginger Bread boy heard the laughing of some taffy so he went to see what was so funny. The taffy or better known as the Laffy Taffy were planning to break into the factory down the road from Willy Wonka’s place. After hearing what the Taffy were up to the Ginger Boy chimed in and told them that he could help. So off to the Right Side Twix factory they all went.

When they got to the Right Side Twix factory the Taffy Stretched up all the way to the top window and tossed the Ginger boy in to it. Once inside the factory the Ginger boy began to yell “The Left Side is here, they are trying to steal our secrets” and everyone in the factory came running to the window. The Laffy Taffy were scared of being caught so they ran. In the commotion the Ginger boy jumped into the wrapping paper and took a nap.

When he woke up he had been mistakenly wrapped up into one of the Twix Wrappers. Being as small as a gumbdrop afterall, no one had noticed. He began yelling from inside the wrapper and someone was scared. Being very superstitious Mr. Mars decided to shut down all the factory and ordered all the Twix opened and rewrapped. Just when the Ginger Boy was opened the Krispy Kreme army attacked and stole all the Twix candy from the factory.

The Ginger Boy knew he had to think quick so he started talking and soon one of the Kripsy Kreme soldiers noticed. He told the soldier where there were more Twix that were easy to capture, but he also told the soldier that if the whole army attacked that the soldier would not get any credit for the plan so it was best if the soldier went by himself.

Then next morning just before dawn the soldier and the Ginger boy in the Twix wrapper from the Right Side Twix factory just down the road from the Willy Wonka factory next to the Hershey lake left for the place where more Twix could be captured. The boy took the soldier to his house and told him the only way in was to jump down the icing chimney. They soldier was worried about the heat but the boy told him it would just be enough to warm him up and make him softer so he could fit down the chimney better. When they got into the house the boy screamed “Mom. Dad. I am home.” Both his parents came running so happy to see their little boy. The Krispy Kreme soldier was angry because he had been tricked, but that was no problem for the Ginger parents. All they did was eat him, because what is better than a warm Krispy Kreme donut first thing in the morning. And they all lived happily ever after.

Author's Notes

I based this on the Thumbling from the Grimm Stories. The story is about a little child born the size of a thumb. Two men buy him from his parents and he goes on an adventure and eventually ends up back home. I did change the story quite a bit, but still it is pretty true to the original. I invite you all to check out the grimm stories.

Bibliography

The Thumbling from Margaret Hunt's Household Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Picture Attribution

By Orsotron (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Reading Diary Part A Week 13

The Thumbling

The Brothers Grimm Unit

I love all the Grimm tales. I was familiar with most, but the one I found really interesting because I have never heard of it was “The Thumbling.” A husband and wife want a child to liven up their house. The say that even a child as big as a thumb would be fine. The wife has a baby after nine months the exact size of a thumb. They love the child. The child grows up and wants to help his dad. He hops on a horse and talks in its ear and takes the horse to his father, who is working in the forest. Two men see him and buy him from his father. The boy is a trickster, and escapes the men by crawling into a mouse hole. Then he comes across two robbers looking for a way to steal someone’s riches and tells them he will help, when the men place him in the persons house he starts yelling to wake everyone up. The thumbling then falls asleep on some hay and then is eaten by a cow. In the cows belly he yells and the woman milking the cow is frightened and the cow is killed. When the thumbling is crawling out of the stomach of the cow, the stomach is eaten by a wolf. He tells the wolf he knows where there is more food and the wolf goes to a house and crawls in and eats all the food. When the wolf tries to leave he is too fat, and the boy starts yelling. This is his parent’s house and they hear him inside the wolf and kill the wolf and they all live happily ever after.

Picture Attribution

By Philipp Grot Johann (1841-1892) (http://ru-book-illustr.livejournal.com/231754.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons