Once upon time a King and a Queen had a baby daughter. When
they saw her black hair, snowy white skin and red lips they decided to call her
Snow White. Snow White grew up to be a beautiful kid. After a few years her
mother died and her father married again. The new Queen Snow White's stepmother
was a so beautiful woman too but she was very vain. Snow White's stepmother had
a magic mirror and she used to look at herself in it each day and say
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" and the
mirror always replay "You oh Queen, are the fairest one of all". The
Queen would smile when she heard this because she knew the mirror never failed
to speak the truth.
The years passed. Each year Snow White grew prettier and
prettier. One day Snow White's stepmother looked in the magic mirror and said
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" and the
magic mirror said "You, oh Queen, are fair but Snow White is fairer than
you now". The Queen was very angry and jealous. In a terrible rage she decided that Snow
White should be killed. She called for a hunter. She ordered the hunter to take
Snow White far into forest and to kill
her there. In order to prove that Snow White was indeed dead he must take the
Snow White's heart and bring it back to her. The hunter was sad for the
commanded. He must obey his orders but when he was in the act could not Snow
White kill. He let it go Snow White and he told her that never again should
return to the kingdom. She was running very scared. Lost deep in the woods she
found a little house. She opened it and went inside. There she saw a room with
a long table laid with seven places with food, and she ate a little from each
one. Beyond the table were seven little beds. She tried out some of them, and
when she found one that was comfortable, she fell into a deep sleep, for she
was exhausted by her long journey through the forest. The cottage was the home
of seven dwarfs. All day long they worked in a nearby mine digging diamonds
from deep inside the mountain. When they returned home that evening, they were
amazed to see that someone had been into their cottage and had taken some food
and drink from each place at their table. They were also surprised to find
their beds disturbed, until one dwarf called out that he had found a lovely
girl asleep on his bed.
The next morning Snow White awoke and met the dwarfs, and
she told them her story. When she explained how she now had no home, the dwarfs
immediately asked her whether she would like to stay with them.
Snow White's stepmother learns that Snow White is not dead. The
queen trembled with anger as she realized that the hunter had tricked her. She decided that she would now find Snow White and kill her
herself.. The queen disguised herself as an old pedlar woman with a
basket of apples, and one of them was poisoned. Snow White took a bite a apple. At once Snow White was
affected by the poison and fell down as though dead. That evening when the dwarfs returned they were quite unable
to revive her. They watched over her through the night, but when morning came
she still lay without any sign of life, and they decided she must be dead.
Weeping bitterly, they laid herein a coffin and placed a glass lid over the top
so that all could admire her beauty, even though she was dead. Then they carried
the coffin to the top of a hill where they took turns to stand guard. After a
prince saw her and fell in love with her. Asked the dwarfs to open the coffin
and kissed slowly. She woke with his kiss and fell in love with him.
QUESTIONS
1. Where did Snow White go?
2. What did she eat before fall into a deep sleep?
3. How did Snow White met the dwarfs?
