Hansel & Gretel - McCarthy Style

A very poor man lived in a cottage in a forest with his ill-mannered wife and 2 Children. Hansel and Gretel.
There is not enough food for us all, she said.
Okay.
Good.
The man abandoned the children in the forest. And walked away.

Hansel did not eat his bread. They walked through the blackened forest only to stop and turn around and search for the source of the sound that caused them to stop before going on. He crumbled the bread and created a path through the forest. The starved wildlife however ate this. The children were lost.

Im frightened; she wept.
Dont be afraid.
Okay.
Okay.

Night fell. Darker than Black. Temperatures fell.
They huddled together for warmth.

Two days later. The dawn broke. They walked through the forest.
All hope faded. They came across a house all covered in jet black chocolate discoloured from age. They peeped through the windows.
Im not too sure about this, Gretel said

Come in! Come in you've nothing to fear. An old woman said.
The children walked in. They walked into the kitchen. They looked around the kitchen. Stopped. Before continuing to look round the entire house from the upstairs to the lounge.
You're nothing but skin and bones.
Okay.
Hansel had fallen into her trap. As she locked the chains around his legs he wrestled to free himself but she only tightened the chains as she trapped his sister at the same time. Trapped. Alone. Isolated.

Light the Oven! We're eating roasted boy! she told Gretel. She delayed the response. She just waited. And waited. Waited. The hagged old woman walked over and bent towards the oven.

Gretel pushed. Old woman fell, into the fire she went. She freed her brother and stormed out of the house.

I told you so she said as they attempted to catch there breath.
Im sorry! Hansel babbled, im so sorry.

In my opinion, Hansel and Gretel has similar scenes to the road;

• for example the mystery house which both the fairy tale and the man and the boy venture into.