Comparing Hansel and Grettel to The Crooked Tree
Interviewer: Today, we have two special guests in the studio, Jemma Robertson and Ruskin Bond, they are going to talk about their stories.
Interviewer: What is the title of your piece?
Jemma: We performed a Theatre in Education piece of the story "Hansel and Grettel".
Ruskin: My story is called "The Crooked Tree".
Interviewer: What is the story?
Jemma: Hansel and Grettel is the story of two children, Hansel and Grettel, brother and sister who live with their wicked stepmother. They go into the woods and get lost; they then see a house made of sweets and meet the Witch. Hansel is very greedy and eats too many sweets, making him ill, noticing
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Just before she tricks the children into the oven, they realise her plan and use their knowledge to make the Witch end up in the oven. The evil Witch dies and the children are taken home by their Auntie Gertrude to live happily ever after.
Ruskin: it is the story of when I met a boy called Kamal who was an orphan living on the streets. I looked after him and we became very good friends, he was studying for his exams which, unfortunately, he failed. He took this well and this became the moral of the story.
Interviewer: So, Hansel and Grettel don't like their Stepmother and Kamal's an orphan. The Sikh is a scary member of society like the witch and the children are the victims in both stories. Both stories have a saviour; in Hansel and Grettel, it is Auntie Gertrude, in The Crooked Tree, it is Ruskin.
Interviewer: In what time was your piece set? How did you show this?
Jemma: Hansel and Grettel originates from Medieval times when witches were burned at the stake. It had been passed on by word of mouth and modernised. We set the story in the modern day and showed this by out costumes and using an oven instead of a
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I wrote about Kamal's story of how he lost both his parents and also gave the readers his age so they could work out the approximate year that the story is set in.
Interviewer: They are both set in past times but Hansel and Grettel is a folk story, The Crooked Tree is a story written more recently and has not been passed down for generations or modernised.
Interviewer: What country was your piece set in?
Jemma: Hansel and Grettel is a German folk tale, the German names Hansel and Grettel are actually the equivalent of Hans and Greta, names still used there today. We carried on the tradition and set our story in Germany. We showed this by having Auntie Gertrude, another German name, as our narrator.
Ruskin: My story is set in India. I showed this by giving some history and place names. Also, by clothes because Kamal's mother wore a sari. ======================================================================
Interviewer: So Hansel and Grettel is German whereas The Crooked Tree is Indian, so both stories are foreign but both are written in or available in
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