BOOK REVIEW-7 The Gingerbread Man

I introduce to you this story “The Gingerbread Man” this week.

One day, there were a little old woman and a little old man in the farm. They were very happy everyday. But they had no children. So a little old woman decided to make a boy with gingerbread. She patted the dough into a flat cake, and she gave it eyes, a mouth, and buttons. And she baked it in the oven. Soon it baked. She opened the oven door. Then a gingerbread man came out the oven. And he ran away! A little old woman and a little old man shouted “stop!”, but he didn't stop. He was singing.“Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man.” He ran past a horse and a caw. They wanted the gingerbread man to eat him. So they said, “come here.” But he didn't go to them and ran away, and singing. “I have run away from a little old woman and a little old man, and I can run away from you too!” Soon he ran past a farmer in a field. The farmer wanted the gingerbread man too. But he didn't stop. And he was singing as always. Soon he ran past children in a school. They wanted the gingerbread man too. But he ran away, and singing. He ran away from everyone. But he came to a river. He couldn't swim. There is a fox. Then the fox talked him on the fox's back. And the gingerbread man climbed up the fox. Then the fox ate the gingerbread man's feet. He was a quarter gone. The fox ate him one after the other. At last, the fox ate all of him. It was the end of the gingerbread man.

This story is cruel. A little old woman and a little old man was so poor. But why did the gingerbread man run away? Did he want to be freedom? But I can say one thing. The gingerbread man was a Haman's child.

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