A+Tale+Of+Dark+And+Grimm-Noah

Title-A Tale Dark And Grimm

Author-Adam, Gidwitz

copyright-2010

Pages-252

Book Level-4.6 Book points-6.0

=Character Analysis= This story is mainly about the popular characters known as Hansel and Gretal. Hansel is a skinny boy with dark hair and is very brave. Hansel is a skinny girl with long luscious blonde hair. Gretal is a girl who doesn't listen."Hansel was dark like his father, with black black curly hair and charcoal eyes. Gretel was fair like her mother, with hair that looked like it was spun from pure gold thread and eyes that shone like the sea"(pg.24). Hansel does listen its just he always likes being right about things. They soon would set out for a long hard journey to run as far away as they can to get away from their parents. The king ad gone on a long journey with his best servant. He got to the island and saw the princess and wanted to marry her as soon as he laid eyes on her. Johannes the servant warned him not to or she would be killed right after they got married. After they got married Johannes had to save them from the three things that could kill her and he did. The consequence to that was he would turn to stone. = = =**Setting Analysis**= The story is and old city in Europe and is very old fashion with kings and queens. There is a lot of settings in this story but the one used most often is their home town. There home town is called the kingdom of Grimm."Once upon a time, in a Kingdom called Grimm"(pg.5).Hansel and Gretal had run away into a dark woods that had a living tree that made a deal with them. They made a deal that if they didn't ruin its habitat it wouldn't be mean and kick them out.That was a deal that was broken by Hansel because he would go out and hunt for dinner. He soon turned into a wolf boy.

=**Problem analysis**= Their are a lot of problems in this story. One of these problems is Johannes would turn to stone and he did. After the queen and king got married they had Hansel and Gretal. When Johannes was stone there was one way he could get turned back. The only way he could get turned back is to cut off the heads of Hansel and Gretal and that's just what the king did. Hansel and Gretal didn't die because as soon as Johannes put his hands on them the became alive ones again. The only problem was Hansel and Gretal saw what there father had done and now ran away because they didn't trust them. He grew up into a harry guy and ran into some hunters that shot and killed him."Across the way the duke sat with his bow string tight, an arrow nocked and aimed at Hansel. The duke let go, Hansel watched the arrow go into where his heart was(pg.80). The hunters brought him to their leader and there leader realized there was a boy under the fur so they skinned the beast and there lay Hansel in boy form again. Since Hansel and Gretal split up they had to find each other. The solution to this problem is Hansel and Gretal found each other in there home town but there was some horrible news. The horribly news is that a dragon had been killing many people in the villages and Hansel and Gretal were the only people that could kill it. Hansel and Gretal had to go find an army so they set out to different towns and found a lot of people that would help them. They gathered up in there group and had a perfect plan. There plan was to set out a cart of golden apples and a cart of barrels full of wine. They put it in a clearing and hid. They waited and waited until they herd the flapping of the dragons wings. The ground shook and the dragon out smarted them and came from behind he tarred through people and killed and injured a lot of them Hansel and Gretal ran."Some faces were covered in blood, with eyes open but dead. Others were crushed beyond recognition"(pg.214) They realized they couldn't leave there army behind so Gretal jumped on t back and stabbed it. The dragon fell to the ground and disappeared. When they got back to there village they realized the dragon was their father so they took a sword and cut his head off. Gretel luckily had magic string and put her fathers head on again. "And then Hansel's sword took off their father's head at he neck and it sent it rolling across the floor and into a corner of the room"(pg.229) = = =Recommendation= I would recommend this book to middle grades because its very intense and gory at some points. I liked this story because it had a lot of blood and i liked how it ended. This stories genre is a fairy tale. I think people who like intense gory books would like this story

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