Jack and the Beanstalk summary
Jack and the beanstalk is the story of a young boy living with his widowed mother in a tiny house. Their only means of small income is a cow. When this cow stops giving milk one morning, Jack is sent to the market to sell it. On the way to the market he meets an old man who offers to give him tiny, little magic beans in exchange for the big, healthy cow. Jack takes the beans but when he arrives home without money, his mother becomes furious and throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper.
While Jack was sleeping, the bean grows into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack wakes up to behold an enormous beanstalk. He climbs the monumental beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a gigantic house, which is the home of a giant. He enters the immense castle and asks the giant's wife for food. She gives him food, but the giant returns and senses that a human is nearby. The giant says he smells the blood of an Englishman and would want to grind his bones to make bread.
However, Jack is hidden in a closet by the giant's wife and from there tiny Jack heard the giant sit down at his monstrous table. His wife serves him from a huge bowl and he drank from his very big wine glass. Afterwards, the giant asks for his hen that lays golden eggs. The giant watched as it laid dozens of large admirable golden eggs before he sleeps off snoring. Jack steals the hen which lays big golden eggs. He is almost caught by the giant who follows him down the humongous beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for a large axe and cuts down the gigantic beanstalk down, killing the heavy giant. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches and the golden hen.