Rapunzel Research Paper

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‘’Well that is the long and short of my hairytale’’, as you could probably tell by that awful joke…this is an essay about Rapunzel. There is two versions I’m going to talk about in this paper; Tangled the movie & ‘’Rapunzel’’ the original fairytale. In this essay I will compare & contrast the two, to help me decide which version of Rapunzel the common American like me & you would enjoy more. So without further a-do… lets get started. Tangled kept a few things in common with the original fairytale. For example, Rapunzel was imprisoned in a tower deep in the woods with no stairs & just a tiny window at the very top. I guess her mother thought she was going to try to run away & I don’t blame her. If I was Rapunzel’s mother I would’ve installed

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