Fairy Tale Behind the Scenes #2

Fairy Tale: Behind the Scenes

 

Hello people, it’s me again, and I’m here to answer more of your questions about a Fairy Tales. Last time, I talked about several princess stories, but today, we’re going to move away from the Pretty Princess and True Loves Kiss stuff, and think more about a story with an actual moral, but with just as many questions.

 

So, today I’m analyzing a true classic… Actually, I’m not sure of it’s a classic, but it sound cooler to say that. But anyway, the story I’m going to analyze is called, “The Gingerbread Man” by… Well, I don’t know. I did a bit of research on “The Gingerbread Man”, and apparently the author is unknown.  

Ok, my first question is… (Drumroll please…)

Why would the old couple bake child-shaped cookies because they were childless? I mean, what does it have to do with anything, and how is baking going to help them?

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against baking cookies. In the tale, it says that the old couple didn’t have children, so they baked a gingerbread cookie shaped like child to be there kid, and then… Uh oh. The cookie somehow came to life and ran away.

In my opinion, this just comes across as weird. I mean, what were they going to do if the cookie hadn’t come to life? Just talk to and inanimate object while it sat on a plate till the end of their days? Why not just, like, go down to the orphanage and adopt a kid that needs parenting more than a cookie with gumdrops for eyes? (BTW, if this story isn’t where Mary Shelley got the idea for Frankenstein, I don’t know what is.)

So, as I always do, I came to the perfect conclusion.

The Blue Fairy (The one from Pinocchio) was a young fairy-in-training who had just gotten her new FairyWand 4000 with the newly added life-granting function and was itching for a chance to try it out. Just then, she was flying past the old couples cottage, and through the window she could see the childless old woman placing the pan of gingerbread men into the oven and her husband reading the newspaper. That was the moment the Blue Fairy realized that she could do something for the old couple that would make them very happy.

You’re probably thinking, “Oh, she’s gonna conjure up a little baby for them! How nice of her!” But nooooooooooooo. That, of course, would have been the right course of action. Let’s take this as an example of a reason we should always remember to do our homework, because the young Blue Fairy… Well, let’s just say that when it came to her fairy training studies she was very forgetful. If she had just read the chapter about Reading Peoples Body Language and Expressions to Understand What They Want and Need, this story might have been very different.

The young Blue Fairy thought, “Hmm, those people look like they could really use some exercise. I know! I’ll give them something to chase! That’ll get their hearts pumping!” so with one flick of her new FairyWand 4000, the young Blue Fairy used her life-granting function to bring the gingerbread man to life, which… well, you know the rest. The old couple chased him, the cow chased him, the this chased him, the that chased him, till they chased the gingerbread man down to the river where he asked a fox to help him cross…

Wait a second.

THE GINGERBREAD MAN, THE GOOD SMELLING, SWEET TASTING, CANDY COATED, HIGHLY EDIBLE MAN MADE OF GINGERBREAD, IS ASKING A FOX FOR HELP?! A FOX?! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE FOX IS ALWAYS THE BADGUY! ALWAYS! WAS THIS GINGERBREAD MAN BORN THAT MORNING?!

Oh wait, he was born that morning. But then he was chased. And the Fox ate him. Bet he wishes he did more with his life now.

Never Mind.

But lets take this as a lesson people, that in a fairy tale, the fox will always be bad. ALWAYS. Here is a list of stories with evil foxes in them.

Pinocchio.

Henny Penny.

The Fox and the Hen.

Jemima Puddle Duck.

See? Quite a list.

Well, thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed. Adios. Bon Voyage. Ciao. Toodleewoo. Till next time.