Rapunzel

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“RAPUNZEL”

A long time ago there lived a young couple, a man and his wife. His wife was expecting their baby. She wanted a plant that only grew in their neighbor’s garden. She wanted it so much.

“Darling, please take that plant for me and our baby.” asked the wife.

“But, Darling, you know that the plants are mother Gothel’s plants. She is a witch.”

“So what? I really want that plant, Darling.  Please, take it for me.”

“Huh,” the husband breathe soundly. “Okay, I will take it for you and our baby.”

Finally, the husband went to the mother Gothel’s garden to steal the plant. But unfortunately, mother Gothel caught him doing it. She was very angry. Then, mother Gothel forced the couple to gave their first baby to her.

“You stole my plant! Both of you must give your first baby to me!”

That couple very sad. They won’t give their baby to that witch, but they couldn’t reject what mother Gothel said.

A few months later, the baby was born. It was a girl and named Rapunzel. Soon, this baby was taken away to live with mother Gothel. Rapunzel grew to be a beautiful young girl with her long golden hair. At first she was cared for in a normal way. When she reached puberty, she was looked in a tower so that she would never leave mother Gothel.

The tower stood in the forest. It could only be entered by climbing on Rapunzel’s long hair. It was very bored for her to stayed with didn’t do anything at that tower. To cheer herself up, she loved to sing.

One day, a young prince was out hunting. He stumbled upon the tower. He heard Rapunzel’s beautiful voice.

“Hei, who are the owner of that beautiful voice? It’s sound like the voice come from that tower. I must to meet the owner of that voice.”

The prince saw mother Gothel entered to the tower. He spied and, by watching mother Gothel, learned the words he had to say to have Rapunzel drop her hair. Luckily, he was success at the first tried. The prince met Rapunzel, and they fell in love at the first sight. And from that, the prince visited her often at the tower.

Then, Rapunzel made a plan to escape from the tower. She wanted to be with the prince.

“Price, can you help me?” Rapunzel asked to the prince.

“Of course, Rapunzel. What can I do for you?”

“Can you bring me a skein of silk each time you visiting me from now on?”

“Silk?” the prince confused. “What’s for?”

“To make a rope, so I can escaping from here.”

 The prince agreed that. But unfortunately, mother Gothel caught on. She was so angry.

“Betrayer girl! What are you doing with this insolent boy, huh? Are you want to take out from this tower? Okay, I granted! Get out you from here. Get out you to the desert!”

Then, mother Gother banished Rapunzel to the desert. She also threw the prince from the tower into a thorny bush. The thorns made the prince blind, but he didn’t worry about  it. With the blind eyes, the prince roamed the earth searching for his love.

Eventually, the prince met Rapunzel again, and magicly the prince’s eyes were healed by Rapunzel’s tears of happiness. And then, they married and life happily ever after.

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