In our class we were very lucky to be invited to go watch the royal New Zealand ballet company perform Hansel and Gretel. I was excited to go and watch it and one of my favourite parts was when these ice cream mean came out on stage and did a funny dance. The performance was different to the story I've been told, but I thought it was amazing, and the characters looked so cool. In class for writing we talked about how there were so many different story's of Hansel and Gretel that we had to create our own story of Hansel and Gretel and we got to add in all sorts of twists and turns. I hope you enjoy my story, please leave a comment and tell me what I could do better next time.
The true story of Hansel and Gretel One day Hansel overheard his mother screaming, he rushed out to the lake but it was to late Hansel's mother had drowned. “Father father father” said Hansel mother has drowned. “What, you better not be messing with me Hansel”, “ i’m not, quick come look”. Hansel's father Ron grabbed Gretel and Hansel and ran down to the lake, he saw his partner lying there lifeless, tears started streaming down his face, Gretel ran to her room screaming and Hansel cried from the top of his lungs, his father sat on his knees holding his partner in his arms wondering how it all happened.
later that day Hansel helped his father bury the body, it was quite outside the birds stop chirping, the trees swayed quietly and the river stopped flowing. It was quiet at dinner, no one said a word, the father was dying inside, he stormed into his room and took no notice of the kids.
Gretel couldn’t take it she ran out into the woods as fast as she could with tears running down her face, Hansel chased after her. “ Gretel wait you might get hurt”.
After 20 minutes Gretel stopped she looked around and realised she didn’t know where she was, Hansel grabbed her by the hand and pulled her underneath the shelter of a big mushroom, he wrapped his coat around Gretel and they laid down under the mushroom.
2 hours later Hansel woke up, in the distance Hansel could see a glowing figure it had long brown hair and pure white clothes, its eyes were as bright as the sun and it had wings as soft as wool. Hansel got closer and closer and realised he was looking at the face of his mother, tears of joy ran down his cheeks he wrapped his arms around his mother and wished that the moment could last forever but it couldn’t his mother made a glowing path of footprints back to Hansel and Gretel's house, so Hansel picked up Gretel and piggy backed her all the way home.
When they got home they found their dad was with another woman she had short white hair and dark green eyes, she had long fingernails and she looked very pretty. “Well hello you must be Hansel and you must be Gretel” “ Father who is this” asked Hansel “This is your new step mother and from now on we will need you to start getting jobs” Hansel and Gretel were a very poor family and they didn’t have a very big house. “Also, where did you go you were gone for two hours” asked father “Me and Gretel just needed to clear our heads” “Ok” said father Gretel and Hansel’s new step mothers name was Polly and she said that Hansel and Gretel should come with her to go get her stuff and bring it to their house, so they did.
After 15 minutes of walking Hansel and Gretel stopped outside a house made of gingerbread and candy. “You can have some, if you want,” said Polly Hansel and Gretel had a couple mouthfuls then went inside.
Its starting to get dark thought Polly so why don’t you stay the night, Hansel and Gretel didn’t really want to but they did also agree that it was dark outside so they stayed the night. That night, Hansel and Gretel were given lots of food and then they were put straight to bed. A 10pm Hansel's mother appeared and told Hansel to eats lots of food tomorrow because they had a big day ahead.
That morning Hansel took some food up to his bedroom and offered some of it to his mother, his mother refused but started stuffing the food in Hansel’s mouth.
Hansel's father thought that the kids should stay with Polly for a few more days so they can bond and get to know each other. So the kids stayed and each day Hansel got fatter and fatter.
The mother kept on shoving food down Hansel’s throat, and he kept on eating it. The next day it was just about lunchtime so Gretel went with Polly to go get some berries for lunch. Hansel was helping his mum in the kitchen and she was heating up the oven, “Hansel” said the mother, “come check if the oven is hot enough” “Ok mum” Hansel’s mother stood behind him and just as soon as he put his head in, the mother went to push him in the oven, but then Hansel yelled.. “Now Gretel”, Gretel came storming through the entrance and shoved her mother in the oven. It fizzled and it popped with a loud bang, the kids ate their mother and Polly screamed and ran all the way to their fathers house.
In the end the kids stayed living in their stepmothers house and Gretel turned into the old, green skinned witch she is and Hansel became her gargoyle. The parents ended up moving away to Never Land and the stepmother was put into a rest care home.
And they lived not so happily ever after.
