In the article “Cinderella: Not so Morally Superior,” author Elisabeth Panttaja explains what is going on behind the scenes of Cinderella and how Cinderella found her destiny. Panttaja emphasizes that Cinderella’s mother may be physically absent but intervenes to make sure that Cinderella has a happily ever after. Panttaja reasons that Cinderella’s mother is actually the one who has control over the story in the end. Cinderella’s mother will do whatever it takes to get her daughter on top of the social pyramid. Cinderella’s mother grows into a tree to watch over her daughter and then puts magic birds on her tree to protect Cinderella from harm, such as when the magic birds pluck out the eyes of the stepsisters.…
The story of Cinderella is an interesting one as it perfectly depicts the example we’ve been given in class of the “hero’s journey”. Throughout the plot, it begins with her family struggles. Her mother has perished and her father marries a woman who is not fold of Cinderella in the slightest. In addition to this, the woman has two daughters who are spoiled…
How many Cinderella stories do you think there are? There is over 900 of them! But right now I’m only going to compare\contrast 3 stories called, “Ashenputtle”, “Yeh-Shen”, and “The Algonquin Cinderella”. Plus 1 poem, “Interview”. All of these stories, not the poem, are from long ago! Yet, the poem is a modern poem! Here is all of the compare/contrast I’m going to do.…
To begin with Cinderella has always been that girl mistreated very poorly but has never give up. Her stepmother begins to show her true colors after her and her father got married. “She employed her in the meanest work of the house” (Perraultt). Cinderella step mother was very mean and only cared about her real daughters in the French story. But in the Chinese story Yeh-Shen real mother died. And her father married someone else and her stepmother did not like Yeh-Shen so she mistreated her and killed Yeh-Shen’s fish which was her only friend she had. “She would also scoured the dishes, tables, etc.…
Lottery style poker. Poker requires plan. Lottery. No plan. Just scratch. No strategy only rhythm: Scratch card, have hope, lose, lose hope, curse odds, repeat, survive.…
Many writers on their venture to becoming great, are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story, novel, or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains, "there is no original thought, because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before, by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A trip to a jam packed bookstore reiterates this feeling instantaneously. Really, what sets the writer apart is the original perspective and finding out what shape to give it to really hold the readers attention. This can all be achieved through the power in…
Sootface is a better story with a better lesson. Cinderella’s mother died and she was left with two stepsisters and a stepmother. Cinderella’s father was still around but often gone. Sootface mother passed away and left her with her two oldest sisters. sootface father almost was always gone hunting but often came home.…
The story Cinderella was more for kids like the sisters and stepmother wasn’t as mean like Ashputtles sisters . I feel like Cinderella was more of a fairytale with the mouse turning into horses. Ashputtle…
In ELA, we read three of the 900 Cinderella stories and one poem. I liked “Ashenputtel” because it had some cool features of the story such as the background of the story, but what was surprising is that it had blood and gore in it. “Yeh-Shen” was not my favorite, but I did think her step-mom and sister deserved punishment because of how they treated her. Apparently they didn`t know the phrase “treat others the way you want to be treated”. In the “Algonquin Cinderella” the step-sisters should have been punished for the horrible things they did to her (the Algonquin Cinderella). The poem, I didn`t care for because the step-mother was a liar. She doesn’t know how Cinderella feels so she should step into Cinderella’s shoes.…
Cinderella is a classic childhood fairy tale of a young woman who’s mother and father both die, leaving her with a wicked stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. There have been several movies portraying this classic tale. One of which is Everafter starring Drew Barrymore. In this movie a girl loses her father and mother leaving her to be a servant for her stepmother. She meets a prince and falls in love. In another Cinderella type story line A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duff, a girl who loses her parents end up with her stepmother and two sisters. She falls in love with the popular boy in school, who ends up being her prince charming. Both movies are based on the same classic fairy tale yet they differ from each other and the classic story.…
There are many versions to the famous fairy tale Cinderella. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s German version of Cinderella, “Aschenputtel,” is a household story of a young girl named Cinderella who eventually marries a prince. This specific version of Cinderella gave birth to the Walt Disney version of Cinderella that most Americans know today. However the stories are very different. The Grimm brothers’ version is much darker and gory then the classic American version. Small differences like this shed a different light on Cinderella and her journey to a “happy” ending.…
In the movie Cinderella the evil step mother is the villain. Cinderella is the protagonist.Her real mother that she loved dearly died whenever Cinderella was little.So she lived with her dad which was a merchant and died on one of his journeys.So…
In "Cinderella" the story begins with an intro explaining the situation. Cinderella's father has remarried to a woman that already has two daughters. The narrator uses a "good vs. bad" analogy, Describing Cinderella's Stepmother as an overly proud and "haughty" Person who is jealous of Cinderella's Sweet demeanour and "employ's her in the meanest of works". The author gives us descriptions of Cinderella, so that we as the audience feel Cinderella's sadness and despair. "Cinderella slept in a miserable garret upon a wretched straw bed" "when she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney corner and sits down among the cinders and ashes."…
A fair maiden sat by the window gazing into the sky. She was the only daughter of Henry, the general who had been killed during the war. He remarried after Cinderella’s mothers’ death and then he left for the Great War. She was named Cinderella living with her step mother, Lady Tremaine. In addition to that she was no longer the only daughter as she had to sisters know.…
In this essay, I’m comparing and contrasting Cinderella. I have four different versions of Cinderella to write about. Aschenputtle, from Germany. Yeh-Shen, from China. Oochigeaskw, from Native America, and the Interview from modern-day America. Let’s begin with comparison.…