• Jacks mother kicks the beans is a passion and some land out the window.
• Both go to bed supperless.
• Jack wakes early to find some of the beans have grown and are entwined to form a ladder nearly like a chain in appearance.
• Jack resolves to climb the ladder to seek his fortune but first he communicates his intention to his mother. Jacks mother declared he should not go.
Up the Beanstalk
• Jack finds a strange country which appears to be desert.
• Jack sees an infirm woman, old and in tattered garments. She asks if he remembers his father and Jack does not and adds there must be some secret about him because his mother carefully avoids talking about him. Jack is told by the women she is a fairy and that if Jack does not do exactly as she desires his mother and himself will be destroyed. She tells Jack about his father. His father was as rich as a prince and deserved all he possessed as he lived to do good. He was killed by a giant, who tricked his father into believing he was a gentleman who had lost all he owned in an earth quake. Jack was only three months old and he and his mother survived because the giant felt a moment of remorse and allows them to live as long as Jacks mother never speaks of Jacks father. The giant steals all the treasures, burns the house down and is gone before the servants return. The fairy was Jacks fathers guardian but had her powers suspended which is why she couldn't help his father. She tells Jack she got them back the day she appeared as a butcher and gave him the beans and