For this chapter I read Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer to go along with it. I thought this story was very weird but I will try my best to work with it. I'm actually not even positive I read the write thing because I wasn't sure how to access it; I just went to google and tried to find it. I hope this post isn't totaly a waste.
In Once Upon a Time the family has a wife, husband, and son. In Hansel and Gretel I think it is just two orphans that were hated by their stepmom or somebody like that. I don't exactly see how this story relates to H&G but then again I am not too familiar with it. The house in Once Upon a Time could represent the Gingerbread house, because it is what people are attracted to, especially robbers and people in riots. The grandmother being a witch did not exactly make sense, except I can draw that she somewhat is the reason for why the boy got himself tangled in the razor fence; similiar to what the witch in H&G did tangling the children up in the forest and her home. The forest in Once Upon a Time is the suburban life. The husband and wife get lost in the ways of the suburban life and worry to much about their property being safe than their offspring being safe. It is hard to draw all the connections in this story, but I'm sure if I was more familiar with H&G I could. What I was most surprised by is that there was nothing in Once Upon a Time that represented the trail of bread crumbs.
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