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Hey people. Today I will read one of the dumbest fairytales of the Brothers Grimm.
The entire fairytale is only a half a page long.
It is called, “The Golden Key” and you will soon see why I think it is dumb.
In the wintertime, when there was a deep sno on the ground, a poor boy had to go out and get wood with his sled.
Once he had searched for it and put it together, since he was so frozen,
he didn't want to go home yet, but instead make a fire and warm himself a bit. He scraped the snow away and when he cleaned to the ground floor he found a golden key.
He thought, where there was a key there must also be a lock for it, dug in the dirt and found an iron box.
"If only the key would fit!" he thought, "There are surely expensive things in the box."
He searched, but there was no keyhole there. Finally he found one, but it was so small that one could almost not see it.
He tried it and the key luckily fit.
He turned around once and now we have to wait until he unlocks it and opens the box. Then we will know what kind of wonderful things lay in the box.
Ok, first there is no real end in the story. We never find out what was in the box.
I think that the Brothers Grimm are laying in their graves and laughing themselves to death again.
We don't know anything about the boy. Is he poor? Is he rich? Is he a prince? Did an old witch curse him?
Does he even need these great things that might have been in the box?
After I read this fairytale, I had more questions than information. I thought that the Brothers Grimm were supposed to have collected fairytales.
They collected lots of fairytales, but this half page story is not a fairytale. It is a detective story. My brain wants to know the answers to all of my questions.
My head hurts. This book angers me. I'm going now. Bye.