Who would name their kids Hansel and Gretel? Hoodwinked 2.
Childhood memories, rich with comforting Stories... or maybe not. Hansel and Gretel was a bit scary, what was that all about?
Published in 1812, Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery
How about the Three Little Pigs, that started pretty harmless but went awry pretty fast. There was all that huffing and puffing and being terrorized at every turn.
Published in 1890, the story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to "seek their fortune".
Sleeping Beauty had the witch that was trying to kill her, Cinderella had a nasty step-mother and 2 terrible step sisters. Little Red Riding Hood had her own issues with the wolf. Racking my brain, trying to find a nice, warm fuzzy childhood Story and coming up short.
Yet I imagine that if ask most any kid, they would say that happily ever after is the main theme of their childhood Stories. There is a special resilience in children. They see past the dangers that our Big People brains pick up immediately on. That can be a good or a bad thing. Maybe why we have to teach them over and over about stranger danger. It just doesn't compute in their little minds.
Maybe we could learn from them. Not that everything turns out wonderfully every time but that if you look at the whole, consider it all, happily ever after may be the only thing you can say...
