The Poisoned Apple

Apple by Andy Warhol

Unlike Snow White, she was not the fairest in all the land, charming, or even good-natured 

(she did have an unhappy childhood, though, having been removed by the authorities from her abusive parents and handed over to her overwhelmed grandmother, and then becoming one of the few African American children in a third grade Chinese Bicultural class in the neighborhood public school) 

but her apple was poisoned anyway 

(three boys—one white and two Asian—did it by removing the apple from her backpack before lunch, filling it with staples and pencil lead, and then replacing it, undetected), 

although, she luckily escaped without any damage, as the kindly cafeteria worker who was helping her to slice the apple at lunch time noticed the poison inside it and took the apple to the principal, and some of the students who had heard the boys bragging about what they'd done told the teacher what they knew, but I suspect this is only the beginning of the story because, as you may recall, it took Snow White’s stepmother, even with all her magic arts, more than one try to poison Snow White and Snow White had the seven dwarves to protect her.

by Nina Zolotov

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