Monday, April 25, 2016

The Gingerbread House

The Gingerbread House



It is already toward the evening. The old man leads two children to the dense forest. The old man is wearing torn, ragged cloth which is very dry and faded. he is also wearing cocked shoes. The boy is in ragged cloth. He is walking bare fact. The girl is wearing a very simple dress. Her feet also are bare. All these show that they are very poor. But the boy is very clever. This walking along the road with his father and sister, he keeps on dropping bread crumbs from his pocket. He is always carefully watching the movement of his father so that he will not be suspected by his father. On the other hand, the girl is very smile minded. She is carrying a basket of flower. While walking, she keeps on singing nursery song. She is quite innocent and unaware of what is going to happen. The old man seems to be tired. He is looking ahead to a vague and invisible place from where it would be too difficult for him return. He feels very heavy within himself. This is because he is going to desert to leave his two children in the middle of the forest. He is going children never to be found in this life again. So this is really a difficult situation for him because he wants to lose his lovely children. As they are leading into the forest, they encounter a witch who is very fierce and terrible. She is wearing black rags. She has long nailed hands and beaked nose. Her look is very furious and her eyes are like burning coals. She snatches everything greedily before her. She cackles, scratches and catches a white dove and tears. Its heart out. The white dove fights a losing battle as the witch clutches its body very strongly. 


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