BR-04: The gingerbread man

“Run, run. You can run. Yes, you can!” (P7)

There are an old man and an old woman. The do not have any children. The old woman has making something in the kitchen. It is gingerbread man like a little boy. When she set it in an oven, the old woman hears a little voice in the oven. When the old woman opens the oven door and the gingerbread man jumps out. He doesn’t stop running. He seems a fox. The fox runs after him. Soon he seems a river. He can’t swim. The fox says “I can help you. I can swim across and you can sit on my tail!” Gingerbread man sits on the fox’s tail and the fox begins to swim. But the fox is sat him on fox’s back. Soon the fox is sat him on fox’s nose. When the fox swims across the river, he eats the gingerbread man.

This story is little barbarity. Gingerbread man is confident in himself but the fox is intelligent. I felt interesting.

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Arengo Sue,(1998),The gingerbread man,London,Usborne