Snow White.

I have never watched snow white before so it was all pretty new to me. However, I have heard about the little dwarfs and how they help snow white before and how beautiful she was.

So I am not sure what parts are different in the Walt Disney’s version, but the parts that surprised me was how evil the step mom was made out to be. She kept coming up with evil plan after evil plan to kill her innocent step daughter, all because her mirror, which could talk (weird), told her she was more beautiful. This part of the story really hit home for me because I went through a kind of similar situation at home this summer. My dad was recently engaged and with that came an evil stepmother to be. When I went home for the summer, like I have every year to work on our ranch she told me that “She could tell that my dad and I used to be very good friends and that was not how it was going to be anymore” and shortly after kicked me out of my own house that I had grown up in because they had talked and didn’t need two headwomen in the house anymore. So the jealous aspect of the stepmother is so true. However, I couldn’t believe that the stepmother hired a huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her liver and lungs so she could eat them. For being a children’s fairytale this really surprised me because it seemed so gory, but I was relieved when the huntsman and her made a deal and she was able to run away. When she made it to the dwarfs house and she drank some from each little cup and ate some from each little plate and used a little fork, and slept in all of the little beds, etc I thought that was kind of a weird lesson to teach kids because she just went on in and made herself welcome in a house that she had never been to and didn’t even know the people that lived there. Seems like it could be a little unsafe. The last part that surprised me was that Snow White was awakened by the piece of apple coming free from her throat when the prince stumbled or something. I thought just from different conversations that I caught about Snow White that she was awakened with a kiss and that seems like it would be more of a love story then her prince tripping and the apple coming free.

I felt like a theme of this story was that the evil stepmother is always out to get her stepchildren. (SO TRUE) Another theme is that you have to be “white as snow” to be as beautiful as Snow White with blood red lips and dark hair and you have to run away from the evil stepmother until your prince can save you.