Monday, May 1, 2017

Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm by Ashliman, Part A


The Elves: This story is very nice as it brings a very good message to us humans which is about always being thankful to everyone and more importantly thank anyone that does something good for us. This story talks about a poor shoemaker who had only enough leather to make one shoe, one night before he slept, he prepared the leather to make the shoe the next day but surprisingly it was already perfectly done. Every night, he would prepare the leather and found all the shoes done and ready to be sold every morning. After a while he became rich enough and wanted to thank whoever was doing this for him. Therefore, he decided to stay up all night with his wife in order to find out who it is. It turns out to be two elves that were doing the shoes every night. He decides to thank them by offering them very nice clothes and since then they were freed and never returned. However, since he had made enough money, he was able to manage and keep himself a good business. This story is a great story to write as it includes everything and with a little bit of character twisting, it could become fantastic.

The shoemaker and his wife hiding while the Elves working. Web Source

Rumpelstiltskin: This is a very mysterious and dramatic story. It talks about a poor miller who once engaged in a conversation with the King and since he had a beautiful daughter, he told the King that she can spin straw into gold. The King ordered the beautiful girl to do so at night otherwise he will kill her. Therefore an evil witch by the name of Rumpelstiltskin and was able to do it for her but in exchange of something small but with time the King got greedy and asked for more so the beautiful girl offered her baby as the last exchange if he would help her. At the end, he felt sorry for her and let her go if she could find his name which she was able to find out at the end and Rumpelstiltskin ends up killing himself. This story is very nice to write as I can add more plots to what the evil man does to the miller’s daughter.

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