Ideas - Fairy Tales (Hansel and Gretel)

Hansel and Gretel

• Two children are happy at home with their parents oblivious to the fact that the parents are struggling for food to feed them. 
• They are struggling so much that it gets to the point of where the father believes that his children can handle it on their own.
• He takes Hansel and Gretel out into the woods, and gives them bread to eat. He thens leaves them in the woods alone.
• Hansel and Gretel think they are fine as they left bits of bread behind as they walked into the woods in order to find their way back home. 
• They follow the rail of breadcrumbs and realise that the trail has disappeared, they had forgotten that birds like bread, the birds ate all the bread crumbs they left behind.
• The children begin to panic. 
• They attempt to find their own way home and continues to walk hoping to find a way out.
• They find a opening and see a house made of candy. 
• They are so happy that they have finally found food, they run to the house and start to eat parts of it.
• An old lady comes to the door and invites them in. They see her as no threat as she has candy. 
• The old lady is actually a cannibal witch, she locks the children up and forces them to eat so they can get fatter. Gretel is forced to clean.
• The witch believe Hansel is now fat enough for her and starts preparing the oven. Gretel knows what is going to happen and is terrified as well as Hansel. 
• Whilst the witch is tending to the oven Gretel pushes her in and puts it on the highest temperature. 
• The witch screams and screams whilst she is cooked alive. 
• Gretel sets Hansel free and runs back out into the woods. 
• They then find their father who is so apologetic and feel so bad that he had left them along to fight for themselves. 
• The father then takes them home. 

 This is another story that can be turned into a more realistic one. I think I prefer the Hansel and Gretel story as I am able to turn it into a kidnapping situation rather than a cannibal witch. It could simply be that children had wandered off into the wooded area and got lost and an old find them and comes to their rescue.