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# HS-TJ-6.2

### Theme
Family and Redemption

### Title
Mending Her Ways -- Another variation

## Goal:
Save lives and fix the stories

## Plot

### scene 1 :

Ella is a timid girl who lives with her aunt who has a private library. Her aunt tells her to never read a certain book because it will cause trouble, but she is still attracted to it. Ella reads it when her aunt is out of town. She discovers it is a magic book. She can enter and exit the fairy tale land of the book when she reads this book loudly. Ella can choose to enter any scene of the story.

### scene 2 :

She is so excited and tells her friends about all of the characters she becomes friends with. She enjoys becoming friends with princesses. Ella has a bold idea because she knows what will happen to each story, maybe she can help the princesses avoid their troubles in the story.

### scene 3 :

However, things never go as Ella planned. She steals the poisonous apple from the Queen’s room in 'Snow White'. Snow lives and becomes the queen. Unexpectedly, she is cruel to the people. In the meantime, her aunt finds out about the problems due to the content of all the fairy tale books being changed. This magic book controls all fairy tale books. The children who read 'Snow White' are so scared and can not stop crying. The poster of the 'Snow White' changes into a violent design also.

### scene 4 :

Ella feels afraid and avoids facing her mistakes. Aunt finds Ella , tries to persuade Ella to face her mistakes and fix these problems, but Ella refuses. Her aunt tells her what is happening to the current books content: Cinderella kills the stepmother and becomes a villian in the town. Pinocchio can not change into a real boy anymore. He is addicted to playing on Pleasure Island, and does not care that Geppetto is heartbroken at all. All of this is happening because of what Ella did.

### scene 5 :

Aunt keeps encouraging Ella to think about the children in the world. The fairy tale land will be saved if she finds the author Grimm and asks him to rewrite the stories, otherwise the children in the world won't be able to read the great stories again. Ella thinks about that whole night and decides to look for Grimm on the next day.

### scene 6 :

Ella sets out to look for Grimm, though her aunt says she should not mention where she got the book when she finds him. The problem is, nobody knows how to find Grimm. He used to live in the town, but his house is now abandoned. Finally, after searching fruitlessly, Ella returns home and tells her aunt that she can’t find Grimm.

### scene 7 :

Ella’s aunt confesses that she was obsessed with Grimm’s stories when she was a young woman, and stole the magical book from him, which is how it came to be in her possession. Nobody has seen Grimm since, nor do they know what happened to him. If he is not at his house, then Ella’s aunt does not know where he could be. Ella says there is one place she hasn’t looked.

### scene 8 :

Ella flips through the magical book until she finds a story about a lonely man who was betrayed by the woman he loved. She goes into the story, and talks to the man-- it turns out he is Grimm. He was inside the book when Ella’s aunt stole it, and was so shocked by her betrayal that he decided to stay in the book forever. Ella convinces him to come out and give her aunt another chance.

### scene 9 :

Grimm reluctantly follows Ella out of the book. Her aunt apologizes for stealing it, and says she will do anything to make it up to him-- but first, he has to fix the stories. They go back to Grimm’s house, where he uses his magical pens and papers to fix the stories.

### scene 10 :

Grimm says he is too old to hold a grudge, and forgives Ella’s aunt. They get married and live happily ever after. Grimm gifts his pens and papers to Ella, who carries on writing new stories for children to enjoy.