English Fairy Tales -- Reading Diary A

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    I really enjoyed these stories. They were very humorous. They reminded of bedtime stories that a parent might tell their child before bed. One of my favorite stories was the story of The Rose Tree.
    The Rose Tree is about a beautiful young girl with long hair. Her father and brother loved her dearly but her stepmother despised her. One day her stepmother sent her to buy some candles. At every attempt of buying the candles something would happen, such as a dog would steal them from her. When she came home empty- handed, the stepmother was angry. She was so angry she chopped the girl's beautiful  long hair and took the heart and the liver of the little girl. She cooked the organs and fed them to her husband and tried to feed it to her son but he refused. Towards the end of the story she is punished. A thunder strikes her and she is killed for her evil deed. All the while, the brother and father live in wealth.
    I also enjoy The Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story was very much similar to the The Three Little Pigs except for some different aspects of the story. I felt like this version of the Three Little Pigs was the extended version.

(Pig)

    The story started out with three pigs that built a house out of three different materials. The first pig used straw. The second pig used furze. The third pig used bricks. The house of bricks was the only house that withstand the wolf's puff. Towards the end of the story, the wolf got so tired of the pig besting him he climbed into the pig's chimney to try to get in and kill the pig. The wolf did not know but the pig had a pot of boiling water at the end of the chimney. So, when the wolf crawled into the chimney he fell into the pot of boiling water and died.