One story that stood out to me this week was "The Rose Tress." It seems like some of the stories I am interested in always have a trickster and fool. This story is about an evil stepmother who is jealous of her husbands first child from another woman. The reason why she is so jealous is because the daughter is very beautiful. One thing I liked about the description of the daughter is it was so descriptive that I could picture her in my head. I kind of pictured Snow White. The story is also very similar to that of Snow White, minus the fact the in this story the father is alive and well she has a brother. So one day the step mother pretends that she is a loving mother and wants to comb her beautiful daughters hair. However, she told her that she could not part her hair without some wood and and axe. The foolish daughter went and got the tools for her stepmother that ultimately led to her demise. The stepmother than cut out her liver and cooked it in soup that she gave to her husband (the girls father) and he ate it. The brother would not eat the soup though. Later her brother ran out of the house and buried his sister and cried over his sisters grave until his tears made it to the box. He continued to cry days later until his sister grew to be a beautiful rose tree. What I loved about the ending was the everyday the tree would sing about what happened to her, and there would be a bird listening. Then the bird sang the song to three millers and they created a milestone, a pair of shoes, and a gold watch and chain for the bird to carry back to the house where the girl died. In the end, the girl gets the last laugh when she tricks the evil stepmother, by giving her brother the red shoes, her father the gold chain and watch, and then when the stepmother thinks she is getting a gift, the bird drops the milestone on her. The irony of this story is just too great. I think there are many ways that I could retell this story.
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