Spinners, Elya's Review

This book is a book that I found at a used bookstore, and I had no idea what it was about. It has some very awkward moments. It is a really good book, but I'm not sure if I would read it again. It is a bout two young spinners, who want to get married, but when the young man (who's name is a secret until the end of the book) talks to her father, the father says that the old miller also wants to marry his daughter. The spinner needs to make the woman a dress of gold to win the woman's hand, and so he tries and tries, and finally he makes the dress, but not before his leg gets cramped from spinning, and he get's sick. When he shows the dress to the father, the father says that he can still not marry his daughter, because he doesn't want his daughter to marry a man who was not long for the world. So the young woman marries the miller. But the woman is pregnant with the spinner's baby, and when she gives birth, the young man prepares to go in, and claim his child. But then he hears that the young woman is dead. And the baby was a girl.

After many years of traveling and working briefly for random families who he meets on the way, he hears of a girl, who is also a spinner, and he befriends a woman who works for the king. The woman, Elke, tells the young man about the young girl, who spins the most magnificent wool. The girl's father, boasts, about his daughter when the king wants her to come to the palace. The father goes along, and he brags that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king hears this, and tells the man and girl, that if the room of straw wasn't spun into gold in the morning, the girl would die. The girl hates her father, and she sends him away. Elke, tells the spinner about this, and he sneaks into the room the girl is locked in, and helps her. In return, she gives him the necklace of shells that her mother gave her. The next day, the king gets greedy, and fills another, bigger room with straw, and again, the spinner comes and helps, and in return, the girl gives him the ring that her mother had given her. The third night that she was in the room, se has nothing to give the spinner in return. So he asks for her first born. The king marries the girl, and the spinner gets a little house ready. Because he had a plan. He would make the house, the bed, the dresser, the toys, and then he would leave the house for a year. Then, the girl would have her second and third children, and he would take the baby, and she would forget about it. But the plan does not go smoothly, and she wants to keep the baby too. So he tells her that if she could guess his name in three days, the baby would be hers, but if she couldn't, it would be his. The first two nights, the woman doesn't understand, she has checked all thee names in the long list... Then, the third night, she sends spies after the spinner, and he sings to himself, using his name in the song. Then, when the woman guesses the name, the name that the young woman named him so many years ago, he goes mad, and falls and dies.

This is a really sad and confusing book. It might not be a great book to do a report on.

9:58 A.M