For this assignment I chose the story of Rapunzel. it took me a while to decide and i went through every fairytale out there see how i could make my own version of it. from Alice in wonderland to Hansel and Grethel ... but then when i thought of Rapunzel the idea came to me . Basically its about a girl that has cancer and escapes the struggles of that disease by imagining her self as Rapunzel.
when i think of this story i can only picture it as a movie, because it is very emotional. only a movie could portray that . so thats how i decided on the choice of making it into a story board .
the name of my story is "Nina"
Nina is a 16 year old girl suffering from
cancer. She escapes the struggles of fighting this disease, losing her hair and
being stuck in the hospital by living a different life in her head as rapunzel.
She imagines herself in a tower with very long beautiful blonde hair.
The thought of being
stuck in a tower doesn’t scare her it’s a nice escape from everything that has
been going on with her. She gets to have her own space where she can do
whatever she wants and brush her hair as long as she wants, but it still
symbolizes how trapped she is by cancer. .Her condition worsens
and that’s where she becomes more involved in her fantasies and the lines start
to blur between her real life and the one she has created. But she still stays
strong and slowly starts to get better and she finally recovers from cancer.
She put up a fight and it was worth it.
The story is set in
our time , but when Nina imagines herself in the tower it's in the medieval era
and she is dressed that way ..here are some examples
Rapunzel's story as
everyone knows it (in a very sarcastic way):
“The word “rapunzel” is a derivative of the
German word for “rampion”. Rampion is a European vegetable, and was a favorite
food of Rapunzel’s mother. This mother convinces her husband to enter a
forbidden garden and steal rampion. She desperately wants the vegetable – this
craving is a symptom of her pregnancy. The garden is owned by a sorceress, who
catches the husband. The husband explains the situation, and in lieu of
punishment, offers the sorceress the soon-to-be-born baby Rapunzel as payment
for the transgression. Life with her new mother is good until Rapunzel turns
twelve. Then the sorceress puts Rapunzel into a tall tower, one that’s
impossible to climb unaided. Luckily, Rapunzel has freakishly long hair: when the
sorceress visits Rapunzel to bring food (and, presumably, lots of shampoo), the
sorceress stands at the foot of the tower and calls out:
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that
I may climb the golden stair.”
Rapunzel throws down her hair, braces herself,
and the sorceress climbs this unique ladder into the tower.
One day a wandering prince hears Rapunzel
singing from inside her tower. He sneaks up and sees the sorceress call out and
ascend the tower. After the sorceress leaves, he stands at the tower and says
the sorceress’s line. He climbs Rapunzel’s hair. Thus begins a peculiar but
successful dating regimen, and after a few more visits and plenty of ***,
Rapunzel becomes pregnant. Not knowing about the mysteries of pregnancy and
childbirth, she makes a mistake. When the sorceress next visits, Rapunzel asks
why her dress is growing so tight around her stomach.
In anger, the sorceress chops off Rapunzel’s
hair and banishes her into a nearby desert. The sorceress waits in the tower
for the prince to return. When the prince next climbs the hair, he comes face
to face with the sorceress. In fear and depression from having lost Rapunzel,
he jumps from the tower, and lands in a thorn bush. The thorns pierce his eyes
and blind him. He stumbles off into a forest, lamenting his bad fortune and
generally acting pretty mopey while bumping into trees.
Rapunzel and the prince wander around separately
for a while. Eventually, they get close enough, because one day the price hears
Rapunzel singing, just like when he first found her tower. They reunite, and
Rapunzel’s tears of joy land in the prince’s eyes, curing his blindness. The
prince takes Rapunzel back to his kingdom. At this point, we can assume the
situation is “happily ever after”, though nothing more is said about what
befalls the sorceress or Rapunzel’s unborn child.
The morals of the original Rapunzel: A child
maturing into adulthood can’t be stopped. It is a parent’s emotional burden to
want to delay this process, though they shouldn’t act on it. Pregnant women may
sometimes have strange requests for food.”
A more for kids version:
There once lived a man and a woman who always
wished for a child, but could not have one. These people had a little
window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be
seen. The garden was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs.
It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it
because it belonged to an witch, who had great power and was feared by all the
world.
One day the woman was standing by the window
and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the
most tasty rapunzel. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it
and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every
day. The woman knew that she could not get any of it and grew more pale
and miserable each day.
Her husband was worried about her and asked
"What is wrong my dear?"
"Ah," she replied, "if I can't
eat some of the rapunzel from the garden behind our house I think I shall
die."
The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner
than let my lovely wife die, I will bring her some of the rapunzel myself, no
matter what the cost."
In the twilight of the evening, he climbed
over the wall into the garden of the witch, hastily grabbed a handful of
rapunzel and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad and
ate it happily. She, however, liked it so much -- so very much, that the
next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to
have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the
gloom of evening, therefore, he set out again; but when he had climbed over the
wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the witch standing before him.
"How dare you," she said with angry
look, "sneak into my garden and steal my rapunzel like a thief? You
shall suffer for this!"
"Ah," the frightened husband
answered, "please have mercy, I had to have the rapunzel. My wife
saw it from the window and felt such a longing for it that she would have died
if she had not got some to eat."
Then the witch allowed her anger to be
softened, and said to him, "If this is true, I will allow you to take as
much as you like, only I make one condition. You must give me the baby
daughter your wife will bring into the world; she shall be well treated, and I
will care for it like a mother." The man in his fear consented and
when the baby was born the witch appeared at once, gave the child the name of
Rapunzel and took the baby away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child
beneath the sun. When she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a
tower, which lay in a forest. The tower had no stairs or doors, but only
a little window at the very top. When the witch wanted to go in, she stood
beneath the window and cried,
"Rapunzel,
Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."
Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as
spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the witch she wound her braids round
one of the hooks of the window, and then the hair fell down the side of the
tower and the witch climbed up by it.
After a year or two, it came to pass that the
Prince rode through the forest and went by the tower. He heard a song
which was so lovely that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel
who in her loneliness passed her time singing. The Prince wanted to climb
up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be
found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart,
that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.
Once when he was standing behind a tree
listening to Rapunzel's song, he saw the witch come and heard how she cried,
"Rapunzel,
Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."
Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her
hair, and the witch climbed up to her.
"If that is the ladder by which one
mounts, I will for once try my fortune," thought the Prince and the next
day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried,
"Rapunzel,
Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."
Immediately the hair fell down and the Prince
climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened
when a man such as her eyes had never seen, came to her; but the Prince began
to talk to her quite like a friend and told her that his heart had been so
stirred by her singing that it had let him have no rest. Then Rapunzel
lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband --
and she saw that he was kind and handsome, she said yes, and laid her hand in
his.
She said, "I will willingly go away with
you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring a bit of silk with you
every time you come and I will weave a ladder with it. When that is ready
I will climb down and we shall escape together." They agreed that
until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by
day.
The witch knew nothing of this, until once
Rapunzel said in her distraction, "Oh my, you are so much heavier when you
climb than the young Prince."
"Ah! you wicked child," cried the
witch "What do I hear thee say! I thought I had separated you from all the
world but you have deceived me."
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's
beautiful hair, seized a pair of scissors -- and snip, snap -- cut it all off.
Rapunzel's lovely braids lay on the ground but the witch was not through.
She was so angry that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to
live in great grief and misery.
The witch rushed back to the tower and
fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off, to the hook of the window,
and when the Prince came and cried,
"Rapunzel,
Rapunzel,
Let down your hair,"
she let the hair down. The Prince climbed to
the window, but he did not find his dearest Rapunzel above, but the witch, who
gazed at him with a wicked and venomous look.
"Aha!" she cried mockingly,
"You've come for Rapunzel but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in
the nest; the cat has got it and will scratch out your eyes as well.
Rapunzel is banished and you will never see her again!"
The Prince was beside himself and in his
despair he fell down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the
thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind
about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries and did nothing but weep
over the loss of his dearest Rapunzel.
In this way, the Prince roamed in misery for
some months and at length came to the desert where the witch had banished
Rapunzel. He heard a voice singing and it seemed so familiar to him that
he went towards it. When he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell into
his arms and wept.
Two of her tears fell on his eyes and the
Prince could see again. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully
received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.
One of the latest variations of the
story is the Disney movie Tangled
it pretty much follows the same story line , but rapunzel is the daughter of the king and queen and awful witch steals her, her prince is actually a wanted thief but he ends up saving her. its a nice and funny twist.
the sketch of how i wanted my final design to look:
the sketch that i traced over:
