Rewrite of Rapunzel

Once in a quiet town in America, there was a mother who lived with her little and cute daughter. One day, the mother owed an infamous private moneylender large amount of money, but the high interest compounded to double the principal, so the dept became beyond her capacity. Instead of pressing her for the payment of the dept, the greedy moneylender required the mother to give up parental right of her adorable baby. It was too harsh for her; however, she had no choice. Then, the moneylender adopted the girl, and raised her for making her as a maid.

After she became a girl, the spiteful moneylender not only forced her to overwork for all of the household chores, but also totally abused her. Furthermore, she wasn’t allowed to go outside or watch TV at all. She wore rags rather clothes, and got extremely long hair because she even wasn’t provided things to wear or chance to cut her hair. Such a daily routine was so suffering and distressing for the little girl, she nevertheless tried to overcome everything by herself. Only one joy of her life was singing songs learnt from her mother and the radio programs. Once a headhunter of an entertainment company passing by the moneylender’s house, listened her singing by chance. He was totally surprised by her charming and angelic voice. By the doorbell, he suggested her to appear in American Idol*. She explained him her situation, and planned for escaping the house with him. After a couple of secret meetings via the doorbell, she could finally escape there, thanks to his help.

She was trained and educated to be a singer for several months. However, the first time appeared in American Idol, she got a not good score. It seemed she have a long way to the title. Therefore, the headhunter started to post some writings regarding her story on the internet. It truly had a great resonance with the public. It enabled a lot of people to cheer her, and reporters to wait her for interviewing. Despite other competitors’ promising talent and powerful performance on the stage, she could finally survive until the finals, and it was a truly successful debut for her as her singer. At the end, she became famous singer in her country, and could find her biological mother.

Lesson : Sometimes, selling a person’s drama or story can be the best way of marketing.

* American Idol : A totally famous reality television competition to find new solo singing talent.

Link of original version : http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm012.html

Written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

And Rapunzel's film adaptation of Disney, 'Tangled(2010')

The World's Greatest Invention

I insist that the greatest invention ever is the book, indeed.
 

There is no doubt that books have definitely contributed to build today’s society in education and literature, for example, if there were no books in the past, there would be neither schools nor poets in present. It is too harsh to think about my life without Minkyu-Park(my favourite author) and Arthur Limbaud(my favourite poet).

Two bookss written by Minkyu Park

Because books have had major proportion of our civilization, it is virtually impossible to imagine society without them, no matter how the function of the internet is getting bigger.



Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-1981)



Furthermore, paper books contain more reliable contents than the counterpart of the internet. Since the translation and copyright, and all the making process is guaranteed and charged by the company, safe and dependable information can be provided via traditional books. Maybe that's why I prefer going libraries to using the internet when I'm doing a research, although the convenience of the internet enabled a lot of students to leave from libraries.

 

Considering all of the aspects I presented, I personally believe that the book is the most superb invention ever.