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 her neighbor’s
garden. She wanted it so much. She even intended to steal it herself, but later
on, she sent her husband to steal it. Unfortunately, mother gothel, the owner
of the garden, caught him doing it. She was a witch. Then, mother gothel forced
the couple to give their first baby to her.
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 goldy hair. She, at first, was cared in a
normal way. When she reached puberty, she was locked 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. 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. He decided that he must meet her. He spied and, by watching
Mother Gothel, learned the words he had to say to have Rapunzel drop her hair. The
prince visited her often and the two fell in love.
Then,
Rapunzel made a plan to escape from the tower. She wanted to be with the
prince. She asked the prince to bring her a skein of silk each time he visited.
She might weave a ladder for her escape. Unfortunately, Mother Gothel caught
on. Then, she banished Rapunzel to the desert. She threw the prince from the
tower into a thorny bush. The thorns made the prince blind and he roamed the
earth searching for his love.
Eventually,
they found each other, and the prince’s eyes were healed by Rapunzel’s tears of
happiness.
