Folktale

One of my favorite folktales is Rupunzel. In this story Rupunzel was a beautiful girl that was kept from the world, secluded in a tower in the forest all by herself. The room had no stairs and no doors, but a little window. She was kept there by an enchantress who had taken her from her parents at birth in exchange for vegetables from her garden. The enchantress would come to see Rupunzel everyday and would stand at the ground and call her name, she would then let her long beautiful hair down and the enchantress would use it as a ladder to go up and see her. Rupunzel used to sit alone and sing and one day the kings son heard her voice and fell in love with her. He saw how she would let her hair down for the enchantress to come up the tower. So one day he stood under the window and called out "Rupunzel, Rupunzel , Let down your hair" and Rupunzel did just that, but to her surprise there was a young man standing in front of her and not the old lady enchantress. At first, she was scared and then he spoke to her in a friendly voice and told her how much he liked her and wanted to marry her. She agreed and told him that there was no way for her to get down, so she asked him to bring some silk everytime he came and she would somehow figure out how to make a ladder to come down. He did as she said. But one day, Rupunzel accidently told the enchantress about the young man and the enchantress was very mad. She cut Rupunzels hair and took her out of the tower and left her in the forest. At night the young man came to see Rupunzel as he did everynight, but this time the enchantress used Rupunzels hair that she had cut off and sent it down the tower for the king's son to use as a ladder. When he came up to the tower, he was surprised to find the old lady and not Rupunzel, she looked at him wickedly and told him he would never see Rupunzel again. He escaped and jumped down the tower, but had hurt himself and thornes had poked his eyes. The young man had become blind. He wandered in the woods for many years crying and wishing he could find Rupunzel again. One day he heard a voice he knew sounded familiar, it was the voice of Rupunzel, when they saw each other she knew him, she cried and with her tears she gave him his eyesight back. He was happy to find the love of his life.
There could be many lessons from the story of Rupunzel. The enchantress would not let the neighbor have any vegetables, until they agreed to give them their baby. This shows how sometimes people do not give anything unless they get something for exchange. Rupunzel, was kept alone and secluded when the enchantress promised to give her a good life when she took her from her parents, she lied and kept her locked away from everyone in the tower, the lesson here is that maybe you cannot believe everything someone says. Rupunzel had to trust the boy and make a decision for herself when she agreed to let down her hair for him everynight so that he could come up and give her some silk so that she could finally get away from the tower, this is the lesson that sometimes you have to make decisions and in order to live you need to be with people and not secluded from the world.