In the Brothers Grimm story, "The Juniper Tree", a man and his beautiful wife struggled to conceive a baby, even though they longed for one. While the wife was peeling an apple under a tree during the winter, she accidentally cut her finger and the blood dripped onto the snow. Nine months later, the wife died while giving birth to a boy as white as snow and as red as the blood, just like she had hoped when she cut her finger all those months prior. Eventually, the man remarried and had a baby girl. This girl's mother loved her very much, but she hated the boy because she wanted the family fortune for her daughter, not him. She ends up killing the boy out of her hatefulness and covers it up by making it look like Marlene, her daughter, had killed
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Somehow I feel as if it's all mine" (Page 192). When he says this, the father is not guiltless in the story, his greed shines him in a very unattractive light. The stew is made up of parts of each of his children. Marlene's tears add to the saltiness and his son is the meat in the stew, the fact that he feels that it is all his, is a form of dramatic irony because the reader knows that it is made from his children, but he does not. Which makes the fact that he likes the stew that much more intriguing. In this text, eating is a way of covering up the mother's murder. She purposely puts the son in the stew because if the father ever found out, he would feel responsible because he ate so much of it. Eating is also a way for the author to express the father's greed, just because he liked the stew so much he would not share with his wife and daughter, who had made the meal, not that they would want to eat much knowing what it is made of. Although he does not know that it was his son, he had a strange feeling of ownership over the stew. Also, he thought that it was odd that his son had not come to say goodbye to him before he left. If he was so concerned with that, why did he not question it further? He more than likely could have found out what had happened because poor Marlene would probably have confessed. Although, if the father never ate the stew, Marlene could not have gathered the bones and
Somehow I feel as if it's all mine" (Page 192). When he says this, the father is not guiltless in the story, his greed shines him in a very unattractive light. The stew is made up of parts of each of his children. Marlene's tears add to the saltiness and his son is the meat in the stew, the fact that he feels that it is all his, is a form of dramatic irony because the reader knows that it is made from his children, but he does not. Which makes the fact that he likes the stew that much more intriguing. In this text, eating is a way of covering up the mother's murder. She purposely puts the son in the stew because if the father ever found out, he would feel responsible because he ate so much of it. Eating is also a way for the author to express the father's greed, just because he liked the stew so much he would not share with his wife and daughter, who had made the meal, not that they would want to eat much knowing what it is made of. Although he does not know that it was his son, he had a strange feeling of ownership over the stew. Also, he thought that it was odd that his son had not come to say goodbye to him before he left. If he was so concerned with that, why did he not question it further? He more than likely could have found out what had happened because poor Marlene would probably have confessed. Although, if the father never ate the stew, Marlene could not have gathered the bones and