Rapunzel:The Truth Comes Out
Author: Jessica
From: Sheboygan Falls, USA
Age: 12
Date: 14th Mar 2002, 2:53 AM
Rating: 3
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Title: Rapunzel:The Truth Comes Out
Rapunzel:The Truth Comes Out
As told by Elizabeth Hathaway, her sister
My name is Elizabeth, Lizzie for short. You have probably heard about my older sister, Rapunzel. You’ve read story after story after story about her. Contrary to what you have heard, Rapunzel wasn’t charming, delightful, sweet, kind, and all those other things you’ve heard about her. Let me back up to when we were kids growing up in the land of princes, princesses, dragons, and occasionally a white rabbit running around, exclaiming he was late, 7 little men going to work in the mines, and all sorts of mice, cats, and even dishes running around talking.
Rapunzel was always mean to me. I think it was because she was jealous that she was ugly and I looked beautiful. That’s right, she was hideous! Her hair was blond, but it was cut so short, it looked like she didn’t have any. Rapunzel had green eyes. She bit her fingernails and put on too much make-up. She didn’t look at all like she does on the cover of her books. Since I have long, blond hair and deep, sea blue eyes, I guess I looked more like the picture on the books (notice I said looked instead of look, but I’ll tell you about that later). She must have been jealous.
Anyway, Rapunzel locked herself in a tower. She grew her hair very long (like it is in the story). One day, a witch came to the tower.
“Rapunzel!” the witch called up. “Let me in!” But Rapunzel just ignored her. She continued drying her hair, which was still wet from her shower earlier in the day. Since it was a beautiful, sunny day, Rapunzel let her long, blond hair out the window. The witch took advantage of this and started climbing up the hair.
“Ouch!” yelped Rapunzel.
When the witch finally reached the top of the tower, she said, “If you let me live here with you, Rapunzel, I will teach you my evil spells.”
“Okay,” said Rapunzel reluctantly. So the witch lived with Rapunzel in the tower, and together, they turned anyone who strolled by the tower into a toad. Yes, one of those “people” would happen to be me.
Well, now you know the true story of Rapunzel and how she really wasn’t all that glamorous. (I don’t know how that prince-climbing-up-her-hair-and-whisking-her-off-to-a-beautiful-palace thing got started either, but it certainly isn’t true!) Think about this the next time you read about Rapunzel, and in the words of my friend’s pig, Porky, “That’s all folks!”
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