“mirror mirror on the wall.

Who is the fairest of them all?”

Snow white is of course, but when told by Grimm’s she didn’t become the fairest after the prince set his eyes on her. The queen discover her to be fairer when she was just seven years old. Not only was the queen green with envy but she had so much hatred for snow white that she asked for snows heart and liver for when she ate them she believed she would be the fairest once again. In the Grimm’s fairytale snow was not killed just one but three times, each by the queen. Not by three apples either, snow was killed first by a piece of silk laced too tight. A comb with poisoned bristles. And third a half poisoned apple. The first two times two times snow whites revived by the dwarfs. The third was not so easy, the prince came across her coffin and wanted to buy it from the dwarfs. When he was on his way back to the castle they dropped snow white’s casket and this made the poison apple fall from her, not the princes kiss. Lastly the step mother was punished by death, forced to dance in hot iron shoes until dropping dead.

In the story it surprises me most that snow white is so naïve. I don’t understand how someone can fall for the same trick three times in a row. It baffles me that after the first time she was killed and revived AND warned by the dwarfs she still falls for the same woman and the same trick two more times.

These two tails of snow white are similar but also very different, overall I like the version of Grimm’s better then Disney’s movie remake but I think for children Disney is probably better suited for the minds of the youngsters.

-Jessica Feliz

There are no fellows

That help each day

For he is the one

That likes to slay

The floor is bloody

But her keys are dry

She can live

Until the next day goes by

She has no dreams

For they are taken

When Bluebeard comes

And she is shaken