![]() ![]() ![]() Hansel turns into a beast and is hunted down and killed, then travels through hell and sees people being tortured. Gretel later cuts off her own finger and meets a man who steals the souls of young girls and turns their bodies into doves. ![]() When that get fixed (through magic, of course), Hansel and Gretel encounter a mother who ate her children and wants to eat Hansel and Gretel. Thus, A Tale Dark and Grimm runs the gamut of classic fairy tale violence, starting with Hansel and Gretel's parents cutting their heads off. As Gidwitz explains in one of his comments about the nature of fairy tales, it's only by going through the dark that one can fully appreciate the light. ![]()
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