Rapunzel

Story Review

Presented by: Gena Kelany

Presented to teacher: Mrs Omsia 

Class: 9 ” 4

Date: 5/10/2024

Story ID

Name of the story: Rapunzel

Kind of story:Fairy tale

Writer: Damien Tunnacliffe

Year of publication: In 1998

Setting of The Story

Place: Most of the events happened in a big forest.

Time: In the Spring

The characters

The main character: Rapunzel – A special character in the story, who loves to help, is kind … She looks pretty on the outside, has long and blond hair. 

Minor characters:   

1)Father: A public character in the story, he likes to help, for example when he brought plants to his wife, and also loves to work because he liked working in the garden.

2)Mother: A general character in the story, with a kind heart, who looks beautiful on the outside.

3)The strange old woman: An annoying and evil character in the story, her appearance is ugly, her clothes are old, and even her house is ugly.

4)The young prince: A prominent character in the story, loves to help a lot, has a kind heart, looks very beautiful on the outside.

The plot

The second problem:

She talks about that Rapunzel does not know that the old woman is not her mother, because when the woman kidnapped her, Rapunzel was a little girl who did not understand her mother, and also Rapunzel lived with the woman during her childhood, so she believed that she was her mother.

The third problem:

She talks about that the prince saw the old woman asking Rapunzel to get her long hair down to climb on it and reach the tower, one day when the woman came out of the tower the prince went and asking Rapunzel to get her hair down, so Rapunzel thought that this is her mother (the woman) so she got off her hair and the prince went up and when he arrived, Rapunzel was astonished This is not her mother (the woman) but then they are friends.

The next morning, Rapunzel tells her mother (the woman) that she has a friend of hers who is the Prince. The woman got angry and decided to prank the prince, so she cut Rapunzel’s hair, and when the prince came and asked Rapunzel to take her hair down, then the ten woman that she had cut down, and when the prince reached the top, the woman left the hair, so the prince fell and was soft, and she took Rapunzel to a far place.

Summary

The story is about a husband and wife whose little daughter is kidnapped by an evil old woman. The old woman raises the child until she grows up and the prince comes and helps Rapunzel from the old woman.

End of story

The end of the story was very happy and not sad and the end

was as follows:

After the woman took Rapunzel to a distant place and the prince was blind, Rapunzel began singing, so the prince heard her and followed her voice, but he did not see her, but Rapunzel saw him and cried with joy and when she cried, her tears fell into the eyes of the prince, so the prince opened his eyes and he saw, and then the prince asked Rapunzel to marry him. He was calm and did not see the woman again.

New Vocabulary

picked – التقط

born – وُلِدّ

loud – عالي / مرتفعًا

promised – وعد

grabbed – امسك

tower – برج

escape – الهروب

screamed – صرخ

thick bush – شجيرة سميكة

palace – قصر

Enjoyable reading