Comparing French And Chinese Cinderella Stories

Have you read any Cinderella stories rather than the one everyone knows? If not there are many other Cinderella story’s to read but the one everyone knows is the original one which is much alike to the France one. There are other versions like Mexico, German, Chinese, and Africa and many others more. Two that have some similarities and differences are the French and Chinese. In the France and Chinese Cinderella story a beautiful young girl suffers a lot and is very badly mistreated but at the end of the day she gets her happiness that she has been waiting for and lives happily ever after with her prince charming.
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.
Cinderella was treated very horrible by her stepmother as well as her stepsisters but at the end of the day they realized that what they have done to Cinderella was very wrong and not right. Always remember to treat others the way you would want to be treated. In the French story Cinderella forgive her stepmother and stepsisters. But now in the Chinese story Yeh-Shen did not forgive her stepmother or her stepsisters for they treated her very wrong. They were never allowed to visit her and live in there cave till the day they died. Now Cinderella lived happily ever after for forever and ever with her prince