… And they found a house made of chocolate chips and cookies! At the end of the story, both of them were murderers of an old accommodating lady who thought they were fattened turkeys for her dinner. But was Hansel aware that Gretel was suicidal? If I were the Big Bad Wolf, I would rather eat Gretel than Little Red Riding Hood, though the latter is as equally stupid as the former. I was sleeping that time when she told her brother to scatter crumbs of their bread until none of it was left. Because I was dead asleep, the ravens told me that they had a feast and that Gretel was anorexic. Hansel was so desperate to get her home and decided to ask the "old witch" (who was their neighbor all along) for something to eat. The old lady after baking a fresh irrisistable batch of cookies, let them in and served them food. Because the old woman was suffering dementia and poor eyesight, she forgot that they were real persons and thought that they would make a decent meal. I saw it all, the way they killed the old woman, and how greedily they ate - especially Gretel who I thought was anorexic. The ravens were wrong after all. She was bulimic. Her initial plan was to die in the forest yet her brother saw a way out and she had to resort to her second plan: eat until she’s full, puke it all out and kill herself in the oven which did not happen because Hansel had already pushed the old lady in. Why was Gretel planning to kill herself anyway? Little Red Riding Hood told the ravens told me that Gretel was desperate to answer her father’s question. Sleepy that I was, I missed what the question was while the ravens flew back to their nest and chatted some more. By: Eugene Marte
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