


Finally, as we know, the nutcracker does defeat the mouse king, but only with Marie's help and her sacrifices. If only Marie will give the mouse king her sweets, and her dolls, and this goes on for a few nights. She goes downstairs at night to the locked shelves where it's put away to check on it, and finds the mouse king threatening it. Marie (Not Clara), loves the nutcracker that family friend, Uncle Drosselmeyer makes for her and her brother, even after it gets broken. Hoffmann, which is considerably different from the ballet, so be prepared. In this fantastical graphic novel, Natalie Andrewson goes back to the original story of The Nutcracker, as told by E.T.A.
