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Once upon a time there was a family. The boy was named Hansel. The girl was named Gretel. The father was a farmer. The mother had died long ago. One day, the father married a new wife. The new wife was the stepmother of Hansel and Gretel.

Times were hard. For many months, there was no rain. The crops did not grow. Without crops, there was no food. There was not enough to eat. Now, the family was hungry and poor. One night, the father asked, “Wife, what will we do? We do not have enough to eat.”

“Don’t worry, ” the stepmother said. “I have a plan. Tomorrow morning, we will take the kids to the forest. We will go on a picnic.” “A picnic!” the father said. “How will that help?” “We will leave the kids in the forest,” said the stepmother. “Then we will sneak away. The kids will be lost. And we can have more food at home.” “That is a terrible idea. What kind of father would do that to his children?” the father asked. “A poor one, ” the stepmother answered. “I don’t like it, but I’ll do it, ” the father said sadly.

Little did the parents know that Hansel and Gretel had heard every word. “Don’t worry, Gretel, ” Hansel whispered. “I have a plan.” The very next day, Hansel got up early. He collected lots of bright blue pebbles. He put them in his pocket. After breakfast, the stepmother said, “Let’s have a picnic!” Then, the family went to the forest.

As the family walked into the forest, Hansel dropped a bright blue pebble every few steps. “Now, children, ” the mean stepmother said, “your father and I are going to collect some berries. We’ll be right back.” The father kissed both of his children. Then he walked away with the stepmother. Gretel started to cry. “Do not cry!” Hansel said. “We will find our way home. I dropped blue pebbles all along the way.” Hansel and Gretel followed the pebbles all the way home.

A few hours later, Hansel and Gretel arrived home. The stepmother looked angry. The father looked happy. “Thank goodness, you came home!” their father said. “It was silly of you to get lost, ” said the stepmother.

After Hansel and Gretel went to bed, the parents had a talk. “We have to try it again, ” the stepmother said. “I can’t, ” said the father. “I love them.” “We are doing it again. Tomorrow, ” the stepmother said. Her voice was firm. This time, Hansel and Gretel did not overhear them. The next morning, the family went to the forest. The stepmother gave each of them a crust of bread. Hansel broke the piece into bits. He left the bits as he walked through the forest. “Now, children, ” the stepmother said, “ your father and I are going to get berries. We will be right back.”

Of course, the parents did not come back. “Do not worry, ” Hansel told Gretel. “We will follow the bread crumbs home.” But the bread crumbs had been eaten by birds. They were long gone. Now Hansel and Gretel were truly lost. Hansel and Gretel kept walking. They tried to find a way home. Suddenly, they came upon a gingerbread house. It was made of gingerbread and candy. The children ran to the house. They were so hungry. They started eating.

An old woman came out. “Why, children! How nice to see you.” “We are lost, ” Gretel explained. “I can see that, ” the old woman said. “Please come inside and have a good meal. I will take good care of you.” Hansel and Gretel could not believe their luck.

As soon as they got into the house, the old woman changed. She was a witch. She threw Hansel into a cage. She made Gretel do all the housework. “I will eat Hansel when he is fat enough, ” the old woman said. But Gretel tricked her. The old woman was almost blind. Every day, she checked to see if Hansel was fat yet. “Let me touch your finger, ” the old woman said. Gretel gave Hansel a chicken bone. The old woman touched the chicken bone. “I don’t understand it, ” said the old woman. “I keep feeding the boy. But he stays so thin.”

“Well, I have had enough of waiting, ” the old woman said. “Thin or not, I am going to eat him right now. Gretel, turn on the stove.” Gretel opened up the stove. She had to think fast. “Can you help me?” Gretel asked the old woman. “There is something at the back of the stove.” The old woman stuck her head in the oven.

“Where?” the old woman asked. With all her might, Gretel shoved the old woman into the oven. Then she unlocked Hansel’ s cage. “Quick! Let’s go!” Gretel cried. They ran outside. A swan spoke to them. “You two look lost. I can take you home if you like. Hop on.”

So Hansel and Gretel hopped on. The swan carried them home. When they got home, they found that their stepmother had left. Only their father was at home. “Can you ever forgive me?” he asked them. “I looked and looked for you. I know what I did was wrong.” “We forgive you, Dad, ” said Hansel and Gretel. Soon the rains came again. The crops grew. There was enough food. Hansel and Gretel lived happily ever after.

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Hansel and Gretel: they are siblings and children of a poor lumberjack.

The Father: He is a lumberjack and had two children with his first wife. Is not very clear what happened to his wife, but apparently, it seems that she died, because, later, the father got married again.

The Stepmother: She is the new wife of the father, and apparently (again, is not very clear) she didn’t like the siblings. She tried to persuade the father to abandon the siblings in the middle of the forest.

The Witch: She persuade the siblings into her house with a lot of candy and treats. She seemed nice and kind woman at first, but in the end, we found out that she is a witch and she wants to – literally - cook and eat the kids.

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Historical Context And Metaphoric Representation

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Historical Context And Metaphoric Representation

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The original story, that was written by the Grimm Brothers, is occurred in the Middle Age. Theirs story was very raw and, somehow, cruel. The intention, I believe, is to show how violent and cruel humanity can be. Considering that in the middle age, the act of abandoning children, or any family members, was common, due to the hunger that people of social-economic low layers suffered, you can see that the horrible act as child homicide, was very common, somehow, normal, back then. The family of Hansel and Gretel was part of this low social class.

In summation, this story is a metaphor to the difficulties that people suffered in the Middle Age.

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, best known by brothers Grimm, was great german language scholars, they worked in fields of History and Philology. However, the Grimm's hallmark was their narrative excellence.

Jacob Ludwid Carl Grimm was born on January 4, 1785 and Wilhelm Carl Grimm was born on February 24, 1786. They were born in Hanau, Germany. To ensure that Germany had language and culture protected, the brothers began to hear stories passed down by generations, of friends family and strangers, and recorded them all in text.

With this work they wrote their first book, containing two hundred short stories, among them were "Hansel und Gretel" "Cinderella" "Little Red Cap" "Rapuzel" and others.

Although classified as “Fairy Tales,” the stories collected are not necessarily of a gentle nature and might not be a suitable for all children. For this reason the stories needed to be modified to be told to children, and over time, they had several adaptations.

The publication was a major contribution to German literature and became popular worldwide.

Others short stories:

Briar-Rose

Little Snow White

The Brave Little Tailor

The Bremen Town Musicians

The Adventures of Aladdin

The Golden Goose

The Old Witch

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Adaptation: Hansel And Gratel : Witch Hunters

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Adaptation: Hansel And Gratel : Witch Hunters

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At the beginning of the film, Hansel and Gratel are abandoned in the forest by their father, lost in the forest they find a house made of sweets, hungry they enter the house to eat and come across a witch.
But what seemed like the end turned out to be the beginning of a life full of adventures, as they eliminated the wicked and became true exterminators of evil creatures.  After the disappearance of several children, the two adults, Hansel and Gretel, are hired by the local authorities to solve a mystery.  Except that they did not imagine that this new mission would put them in front of the terrible Black Witch, ready to destroy not only the reputation of excellent witch hunters, but also their lives.  The witches planned to kidnap 12 children and take the heart of Gratel who discovers she is a (white) witch, for a spell that would make her stronger and immune to fire.  Throughout history Hansel and Gratel discover that their mother was a witch and that their father left them in the forest trying to save Gratel from the evil witches, but when he returned home he found his wife burned to the death in a bonfire set by local residents after they find out she was a witch, and then they hanged him and killed him too.  But before the terrible black witch manages to complete her ritual to be immune to fire, Hansel and Gratel manage to stop it.

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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Official Trailer #1 (2012) - Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton Movie HD

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The story begins when two children are thrown out of the house by their own mother and are forced to look for ways to survive in that extremely poor and dark place. Brothers Gretel and Hansel try to find a place to shelter and something to eat at all costs. During the walk they end up meeting a stranger who decided to help them and indicated the way to meet the people of the forest and thus be welcomed and saved from the uncertain destination.

Despite the instructions of the newly known man, they decided to stay in a house they found on the way. The lady of the house was an elderly woman who offered them shelter and a lot of food. Over time the brothers suspected that something was wrong, as there was always a lot of food, which did not match the reality of the place.

Gretel discovers that the owner of the house was a witch and realizes that she also has magical powers. Days later, the witch manages to control Hansel with her powers. So, Gretel also used magic to defeat the witch and save her younger brother. When the witch died all the evil was over, then Gretel and Hansel managed to follow their destinies, this time apart.

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Hansel and Gretel’s tale shows us a lesson about brotherhood and encouragement.

Since the beginning, Hansel and Gretel have to protect each other from the dangerous forest. They have afraid but need show be brave to protect the other one.

The dangerous forest represents the challenges we need to face it. Without a protection of their parents they face an awful situation that put them on a different reality full of fear.

So, they support each other on find a path to home. One of the things that stands out in this story is the bond between brother and sister. Sent alone into the forest, Hansel is very comforting and reassures his sister. The younger of the two, Gretel starts out fearful, but later in the story the determined young girl is not about to let something happen to her brother.

While the story continues, they got lost and hungry until find a candy house.

Without any prudence Hansel quickly start eating the house. So, they got captured by an evil witch. In this point we can see that, sometimes, sweet things can be poisonous, and they couldn’t be what they appear. Because of it, it is need use good sense and judgement. It is important do not be impulsive.

After, the witch invites them to enter and eat more. The important lesson here, it is not to trust strangers, even if they treat you well. The witch pretends be a nice woman. She offers them delicious food and beds –because of it the two brothers decide to enter in the house. It also teaches the lesson that things that look very good may be bad. To two starving children, a house made of candies may look like a good thing, but entering the house almost cost them their lives.

Many moments of the story illustrate the cleverness of the brothers. When Hansel collected pebbles and leaving a trail to find the path to home. Even when the witch asks Hansel to show his finger and he shows her a bone.

To scape both have to use the intelligence and think a way to scape. Hansel and Gretel prove they are quite the resourceful, clever little kids. Hansel and Gretel handle a major situation and get rid of the wicked witch by thinking fast. Being able to think quickly can save you in a tough spot. In this moment they have show again how brave they are.

The situations in the story are not easy, but the two children learn with their mistakes and show us important lesson and make us learn through them.

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The Grimm brothers were the first to catalog and publish on pages that were only passed word of mouth, the story tells a sad reality of the time involving hunger, cannibalism and abandonment.

Between 1315 and 1317 a harsh winter took over Europe followed by a summer of heavy rains. Under these conditions the grains did not germinate. All these climate change brought losses to the countryside, causing people passed starve. The Great Famine was the first in a series of crises that hit Europe in the early 14th century, causing millions of deaths.

It was a period marked by various crimes, illnesses, mass deaths and infanticide.                Food prices have gone up. Salt, the only way to preserve meat, was difficult to obtain because water did not evaporate in wet weather.

Desperate, some parents decided to eat their children to survive, while others abandoned them in the forest.

Researchers believe that, long before the Brothers Grimm, this tale appeared in France and was called The Lost Children. He told the story of Jacques and Toinon, a couple who can no longer support their family and decide to abandon their two children, Jean at 12 and Jeanette at 8.

The chronicles of the time also describe many incidents of cannibalism. In the tale of Hansel and Gretel, cannibalism was represented by the witch.

Cannibalism is a type of ecological relationship in which certain species of animals feed on individuals of the same species. According to some researchers, this practice would have resulted from the evolution of the species, with the aim of eliminating the less able individuals. Practice among human beings is called anthropophagy. However, some recent cases that may be considered criminal mental disorder are widely reported, both in the media and on the internet, as cases of cannibalism.