snow white

Snow white and the seven dwarfs

Once upon a time, in a great castle, a Prince’s daughter grew up happy and contented, in spite of a jealous stepmother. She was very pretty, with blue eyes and long black hair. Her skin was delicate and fair, and so she was called Snow White. Everyone was quite sure she was become very beautiful. Though her stepmother was a wicked woman, she was very beautiful too, and the magic mirror told her this everyday, whenever she asked it.

“Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the loveliest lady in the land?”.

 “You are, your Majesty”.

Until the dreadful day, when she heard it say,

 “The loveliest in the land is Snow White”.

“What? Snow White?”.

The stepmother was furious and wild with jealousy. She called one of her trusty servants and said.

“Oh... oh my servants. Come on! Hurry up! This night, you take Snow White into the forest, far away from the castle. I want you to bring back her heart!”.

He replied “Sure, my excellency”.

However, when they came to the fatal spot, the man’s courage failed him and leaving Snow White sitting beside a tree, he mumbled an excuse and ran off. Snow white was all alone in the forest. At last, overcome by tiredness, she fell asleep curled under a tree.

Dawn woke the forest to the song of the birds, and Snow White awoke too. She tried to find out where she was, she came upon a path. She walked it along, hopefully. On she walked till she came to a clearing. 

“What is the place? It’s very strange, the door, windows and a chimney pot are tiny. What tiny plates! And spoons! There must be seven on them, the table’s laid for seven people. Ah...! I’ll make them something to eat. When they come home, they”ll be glad to find a meal ready.” 

Towards dusk, seven tiny men marched homewards singing.

“La...la...la... it’s time to rest. Who are make this? It is a bowl of soup.’’

Upstairs was Snow White, fast asleep on one of the beds. The chief dwarfs prodded her gently.

“Who are you? Why you are in here? Oh... I know, you are enchanter!”.

She replied, “Oh... I am not enchanter, my name is Snow White. I’m abduct from my castle. I don’t know why I’m abduct and throw in this forest and this morning I see your home. I make food to you and cleaning all.” 

Then one of them said, “You can live here and tend to the house while we’re down the mine. Don’t worry about your stepmother leaving you in the forest. We love you and we’ll take care of you! But, if you see strangers you will not to open the door. So many bad people in here.”

Meanwhile, the servants had returned to the castle, with the heart of a roe deer, and gave it to the cruel stepmother. 

She turned again to the magic mirror. 

“Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the loveliest lady in the land?”.

“The loveliest in the land is still Snow White, who lives in the seven dwarfs cottage, down in the forest.”

“What? Snow White? She must die! She must die!” she screamed. 

Disguising her self as an old peasant woman, she put a poisoned apple with the others in her basket. Then taking quickest way into the forest, she crossed the swamp. 

Snow White was in the kitchen when she heard the sound at the door.

“Who’s there?”.

“I’m an old peasant woman selling apples”.

“I don’t need any apples, thanks.”.

“But they are beautiful apples and ever so juicy!”.

“I’m not supposed to open the door to anyone.”. 

“You are a good girl indeed. Good girl! And as a reward for being good, I’m going to make you a gift of one of my apples!”. 

Without a further thought, Snow White opened the door, just a tiny crack, to take the apple. “There! Now, isn’t that a nice apple?” 

Snow White bit into the fruit, and as she did, fell to the ground in a faint. “It’s delicious. But, wait! Wait!”

“Ha...ha...ha... Good bye, Snow White! Hahaha”. But as she ran back across the swamp, she tripped and fell into the quicksand. “Help me! Help me! Auughh...”

Meanwhile, the dwarfs came out of the mine to find the sky had grown dark and stormy. Worried about Snow White they ran as quickly as they could down the mountain to the cottage. There they found Snow White, lying still and lifeless, the poisoned apple by her side. They wept and wept for along time. “Hiiiks, Snow White... Hikkss”. 

Then they laid her on a bed of rose petals, carried her into the forest and put her in a crystal coffin. Then one evening, they discovered a Prince admiring Snow White’s lovely face trough the glass. After listening the story, the Prince made a suggestion.

“If you allow me to take her to the Castle, I’ll call in famous doctors to waken her from this peculiar sleep. She’s so lovely, I’d love to kiss her.”

He did, and as though by magic, the Prince’s kiss broke the spell. Snow white opened her eyes, she had amazingly come back to life! Now in love, the Prince ask Snow White to marry him.

“Will you marry me?”.

“Yes,” she replied.

From that day on, Snow White lived happily in a great castle.



Questions:
1.What is the moral of the story?
2.What makes the queen jealous of snowhite?
3.Where did she stayed when she ran away?
4.With whom did she live with?
5.What does admiring mean?

Direct sentences
1."It's delicious. But wait!"