Beauty & the Beast

Jessica (Kyoung Mee) Jung

Publisher : Pearson Education Limited.

Genre : Folk tale

Date Started: 19 June 2010
Date Finished : 19 June 2010

# Describing the book #

This book was first published by Librairie du Liban Publishers in 1996.

This book's story is Beauty and the Beast.

# Responding to the book #

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a rich man lived with his family in a big house. He loved his family, but his favourite child was his youngest daughter, Beauty. She was kind and beautiful.

One winter, there was a terrible storm and all his ships were lost at sea. The family got poorer and poorer and had to move to a smaller house in the farm but they was happy. All the family had to work very hard on the farm. Beauty was helping with the father’s farm work.

One day Beauty’s father decided to go visit friends in town. In the afternoon it started to get cold and was getting dark. He needed a place to stay. He made the discovery of a big house.

He went into the big house and he cried loudly but no one answered. He stayed a while. Next morning he could not believe his eyes. Just in front of him was an ugly monster. The monster is half man and half beast.

The beast said. If you do not bring a your daughter Beauty, I will to kill all your family. He went to his house and told his family. He and Beauty were afraid and then Beauty went to the Beast’s house.

Beauty saw a magic mirror on the wall. She could see her family so she lived in the big house with Beast.

The beast was very kind.

One day she could see her father in the magic mirror. Her father is very sick.

She requested the Beast to let her go back to the house. The Beast gave a ring to her after she promised to come back. Time passed and he was not sick. One day she looked at his ring. The ring's colour was changed to black.

She went to the Beast as she was worried. She arrived at his house. He was lying down. She was crying and kissed him. Then he turned into a prince born of light.
Her kindness saved the beast. He was a hexed prince. She was amazed and the prince was very happy. Then he married her and they lived happily ever after.