Never in my life have I heard of the fairy tale "The Juniper Tree." It was a very interesting tale. After hearing it in class, I had to go home and finish the story because I wanted to know what happened. It has been a pretty long time since I read a fairy tale. I think what surprises me the most is how dark they are. Growing up I always seemed to get the fairy tales with the happy endings. I never knew that Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the wolf or the Cinderella's step-sisters cut off part of their feet to fit there shoes in the glass slipper. I'm trying to figure out how I would have reacted to a fairy tale like that when I was young. Would I have thought it was cool or would it have grossed me out?