In my childhood, I love to read abroad old tales. Of course these are written in Japanese. And my favorite story is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When I found this book written in English at the library, I was very happy and soon decided to rent. However after reading I realized some different point between "Japanese Snow White" and "Original Snow White." I will explain a little.
At first, I was surprised because the bad queen is the mother of Snow White. I can't believe that the queen tried to kill her daughter! Sometimes old tales are cruel. The queen killed her daughter with poisoned apple. It is same to Japanese one. But after that is a little different. The bad queen died because she fell from cliff. However in this book how to die is not same. In this tale the bad queen was killed by prince who fell in love with Snow White. The prince took hold her and made her put burning-hot iron shoes on her feet. The queen made her dance to death. How cruel!!!
I love this book because Snow White recovered with the kiss of prince. But it is also different. Snow White could wake up because the coffin bumped against trees and piece of poisoned apple flew out from her throat!! I think it is interesting but a little practical.
Through this story I could find reading old tales in English is interesting because there are some differences. I can rent some other books in the library, I would like to keep reading and reviewing in my blog.
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1 comment:
Hello Fumi.
Oh, really? Is the story different between in Japan and original?
To tell you the truth, I don't remember all of story now.
Toshi
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