The Narrative Writing Series – The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk

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Jack and the Beanstalk

By: Aaryav Giri

Once upon a time, there lived a poor widow and her son Jack. One day, Jack’s mother told him to sell their only cow. Jack went to the market and on the way he met a man who wanted to buy his cow. Jack asked, “What will you give me in return for my cow?” The man answered, “I will give you five magic beans!” Jack took the magic beans and gave the man the cow. But when he reached home, Jack’s mother was very angry. She said, “You fool! He took away your cow and gave you some beans!” She threw the beans out of the window. Jack was very sad and went to sleep without dinner. The next day, when Jack woke up in the morning and looked out of the window, he saw that a huge beanstalk had grown from his magic beans! He climbed up the beanstalk and reached a kingdom in the sky. There lived a giant and his wife. Jack went inside the house and found the giant’s wife in the kitchen. Jack said, “Could you please give me something to eat? I am so hungry!” The kind wife gave him bread and some milk. While he was eating, the giant came home. The giant was very big and looked very fearsome. Jack was terrified and went and hid inside. The giant cried, “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” The wife said, “There is no boy in here!” So, the giant ate his food and then went to his room. He took out his sacks of gold coins, counted them, and kept them aside. Then he went to sleep. In the night, Jack crept out of his hiding place, took one sack of gold coins, and climbed down the beanstalk. At home, he gave the coins to his mother. His mother was very happy and they lived well for some time. Jack and the Beanstalk Fee Fi Fo Fum!Climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant’s house again. Once again, Jack asked the giant’s wife for food, but while he was eating the giant returned. Jack leaped up in fright and went and hid under the bed. The giant cried, “Fee-fifo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” The wife said, “There is no boy in here!” The giant ate his food and went to his room. There, he took out a hen. He shouted, “Lay!” and the hen laid a golden egg. When the giant fell asleep, Jack took the hen and climbed down the beanstalk. Jack’s mother was very happy with him. After some days, Jack once again climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant’s castle. For the third time, Jack met the giant’s wife and asked for some food. Once again, the giant’s wife gave him bread and milk. But while Jack was eating, the giant came home. “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” cried the giant. “Don’t be silly! There is no boy in here!” said his wife. The giant had a magical harp that could play beautiful songs. While the giant slept, Jack took the harp and was about to leave. Suddenly, the magic harp cried, “Help master! A boy is stealing me!” The giant woke up and saw Jack with the harp. Furious, he ran after Jack. But Jack was too fast for him. He ran down the beanstalk and reached home. The giant followed him down. Jack quickly ran inside his house and fetched an axe. He began to chop the beanstalk. The giant fell and died. Jack and his mother were now very rich and they lived peacefully in their little house. The next day Jack heard whistling. He checked in the house. No one was in there. he called for his mom. No response. Jack thought to himself, “Maybe Mother went to get milk.” He saw something in the corner of his eye. He whipped around no one was there. He rubbed his eyes and checked again. Then he saw it. The “thing” he saw was some hooded figure just floating in the air. The thing reached into his back and pulled out a tall and sharp blade and pointed it toward Jack. Jack’s hair stood up and he shouted, “Who are you!” The thing didn’t reply. He asked the thing again. “Who are you!” The thing finally replied, ” I am death.” His voice sounded cold but unharming. “You have taken the life of my servant” Death replied. Jack wondered who was his servant and then quickly realized that the giant that he had “killed”. He protested and said, ” “He tried to kill me first and I didn’t kill him.” Jack replied. Death replied, ” I don’t care.” “You took the life of my most trusted and only servant.” “Now I shall take your life too.” Death quickly swiped his blade at Jack and  Jack managed to almost doge the attack but part of his hand got cut. His hand started bleeding then part of death started to fade and could see death was in pain. he studied deaths weapon. “A scythe,” he thought to himself. The only thing he knows about a scythe is that it is used for farming. Then death yelled out a screech. Jack looked up at death and half of his body was gone. Jack realized that this was a dream. He had to escape but death was there. He also realized that death is not real and his hair was going down. Jack was no longer scared of death. More of death started to fade away. Death was in a lot of pain. Death screamed, “No!” Jacked yelled back at Death, “I am not scared of you and you don’t exist.” Death said one last thing before he fully faded away. ” I will be back for you Jack.” Then he disappeared. Jack woke up in his bed. He got up and walked downstairs. His mother made breakfast. He thought to himself “Few that was just a dream.”

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