Red in ritual-like action sequences in this story, preceding his rebirth as a bird and his reincarnation as a family member (he is re-membered).

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Why the suddenness of the stepmother’s killing and return to supper for the other family members?  This seems a marked change from the ritualistic aspects of the story – the singsong account of the boy’s ordeal by his bird form.

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After death, the boy’s spirit-cum-bird leaves the home, where there has been so much food (which brought forth life, death, manipulation, and perversity), and goes into the realm of work.  There, things that provide for people are gained, through exchange with beauty and truth, and the little bird returns and gives the stepmother what she has coming to her.  

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The stepmother keeps food from the children and uses it as a tool, psychologically scarring her child to usurp the boy’s birthright.

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The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.  The previously-barren woman gets her wish, but she pays with her life – and she’s happy as she goes down to the depths.  Later, the stepmother keeps the apples away from the children and uses one to trick her daughter into thinking she’s killed her brother.  While food is religious to the original mother – paying in sacrifice and gratitude for life she is given – it’s a tool to the stepmother.

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(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree.”) There is a lot of eating and food in this dark story, including cannibalism.  The wish for a child at the beginning, the devouring of the tormented boy, the interrupted meal, the implement of revenge on the stepmother.  It is related to the mother’s fertility and protection.

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Abrupt Death and Rejoicing (Clip)

Everything happens step-by-step in this story until BOOM–the stepmother is crushed under the millstone.  She goes down to her fate, to her master.  Then the opera resumes, the again-whole family rejoices and goes to finish their dinner.

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The importance of blood in these stories.  It is associated with maturity and death, and new life, the cycles of nature.  Also, blood dropping to the ground may be a kind of psychological seeding or offering, since it’s a sacrifice.  From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree”

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The Strong Spirit Glimmers Quickly: In the story, the beauty of the boy’s resurrection comes soon after his being consumed by his father.  This may have to do with the compressed time period of this story and it seems like a non-modern, non-realistic version of the story.  It’s like hope springs like a shoot as soon as the seeds are planted, indicating fecundity.  It might be said that here, with his second birth, the boy’s true promise is shown.  

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A phoenix-like bird; there is heavy mother symbolism (branches moving as if in an embrace).  Marlinchen instinctively knows her brother is there.  

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