Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel are children whose father is a Woodcutter
who chops down trees to for his
bread and butter.

When he wasn't making much money, the woodcutter's nasty second wife talks him
into taking the children into the woods and leave them there, so that she and
her husband will not starve. The woodcutter at first opposes the plan
and
tells his wife to
shut
her trap, but finally and agrees to his wife's plan. Hansel and Gretel had
overheard their plans but thought that
talk
was cheap.

After their paremts had gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of
the house and gathers a pile of white pebbles and puts them in his
back pack.
The next day, the family walks deep into the woods, the
parents kept telling Hansel and Gretel to
hurry up
but Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles
under
their noses. After their parents who were
partners in crime
, leave them, the children wait for the moon to rise before following the
pebbles back home.

When Hansel couldn't see the pebbles in the dark he would ask
Gretel to bring a
fresh pair of eyes
to find the next pebble.

They return home safely, much to their
stepmother's frustration who thought she had got them
out of
her hair .

Once again, the stepmother
says to her husband
wake up and smell the coffee
, that they didn't have any food and orders her husband to take the children
farther into the woods and leave them there to starve. Hansel and Gretel attempt
to leave the house to gather more pebbles, but find the doors locked and escape
impossible.
The following morning,
the family goes back into the woods. This time Hansel takes a slice of bread and
leaves a trail of bread crumbs to follow home. Gretel urges him to
keep it up.
However, once they are again abandoned, the children find that birds have eaten
the crumbs and they are lost in the woods.
After days of wandering,
they discover a cottage
built of bread and cakes, with windowpanes of sugar. Hungry and tired, the
children
fill up and begin to eat parts of the house when the door opens. An old
woman, leaning on a crutch, comes out and tells them to
feel free
to come inside, offering them dinner and cozy beds.

The children do not know
that this woman is a bloodthirsty witch, who built her house of goodies had a
hidden agenda
to lure children to her so she may fatten them,
then cook and eat them.
The following morning the witch locks Hansel in a cage, and
forces Gretel to be her slave. The witch feeds Hansel everything he wants to
fatten him up. Because she is half-blind she
demands that Hansel offer his
finger for her to examine,
but he cleverly
covers up
by giving her a bone instead.
She is fooled into thinking Hansel is still
too thin to eat. After four weeks of this, the witch
decides to eat Hansel
anyway.
The witch prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides to kill
Gretel as well. She coaxes Gretel to open the oven and asks her to lean over in
front of the oven to see whether the fire is hot enough.

Sensing what the
witch's wanted to do, Gretel not wanting to
play fair,
pretends that she does not understand what she is being told to do. So the witch
demonstrates, which was a
slip up,
because Gretel instantly shoves her into the oven and slams the door and used
the
thing-a-ma-jig
to keep the door shut. Gretel frees Hansel, and the pair discover chests of
hot goods.
Taking the jewels with them, they set off for home.
Nobody
cried
their eyes out over the death of the witch.
Their father is overjoyed to find Hansel and Gretel
alive, and tells them that they had
lost a family member
and their stepmother has died. The family is now rich, thanks to the witch's
treasure of
hot goods,
and they live happily ever after.
Moral of the Story:
Don't take candy from strangers.
Idioms in the story:
bread and butter
shut
your trap
talk
was cheap
back pack.
hurry up
under
their noses
partners in crime
fresh pair of eyes
out of
her hair
wake up and smell the coffee
keep it up
fill up
feel free
hidden agenda
covers up
play fair
slip up
thing-a-ma-jig
hot goods
cried
their eyes out
lost a family member