#54 Beauty’s Sister- James Bradley
This is a fantastical tale with witches, and spells, and
towers and a beautiful maiden. It’s a re-imagining of Rapunzel, the girl in the
tower with the long hair. In this version, she has a sister Juniper who lives
near by with their mother, both wish to see her sing from the window.
As Juniper gets older and befriends the witch, Jinka who
keeps Rapunzel trapped away from the world, the sister’s become acquainted.
Juniper slowly grows into an independent woman and sees herself as some of the
town does, similar to the Witch. But
unlike, Jinka, Juniper doesn’t seek power or spells:
“I wonder now exactly why I gave myself to Jinka. Was it for
Rapunzel’s sake? For my own? Or was it because I saw in her a way to harm my
mother, to make her suffer for coldness, her lack of love?” “Beneath it all,
though, I suspect she was just cruel, and took pleasure in people’s fear of
her, in the power that it gave.”
Beyond the things they all covet, each character gets
what they deserve in the end:
“We want what is forbidden, yet we have to take what is
available.”
Notable Passage: “…it was that there seemed to be an absence
in our lives, a space that could neither be identified or acknowledged.”
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