Rapunzel

 1. Why do you think texts change overtime?

The original fairy tales written by the Grimm brothers were not as child appropriate as they had some unsuitable things in it. For example in the original telling of the beloved story of Rapunzel the prince got Rapunzel pregnant and leapt off the tower piercing his eyes in a thorn bush. The story we know now has been changed as to not scare off the young readers.

2. How come each version we have read of Rapunzel is different, even though they have been written by the same authors?

They wrote many copies of the same books and kept adding changes to each copy to make it more and more suitable and more happy and sweet for little children.

3. What was the same or different in the two versions you read?

In the version of Rapunzel that was read aloud to us when the enchantress finds out that Rapunzel has been sneaking a guy up to the tower she banished her in to the forest but in the version I read myself she was banished to a dessert.