Differences in the Mistreatment of Cinderella
English Comp 1010
10/31/2009
Differences in the Mistreatment of Cinderella Cinderella is one of the best known fairy tales in the world. It was an old story written in China during the Ninth Century A.D. The story of Cinderella appears in the folklore of many cultures and there are between 350 and 1,500 different versions of the story in the world today. In every version of the story Cinderella is a young girl who suffers at the hand of her step-family after the death of her mother. The two most famous Cinderella tales are A Cinderella Story Glass tales. Slipper by Charles Perrault in 1697 and the movie A Cinderella Story made in 2004. In the two versions Cinderella gets mistreated by her peers, step-sister, and step-mother. Sam (Cinderella) was mistreated by her peers at school. They would go to her job and call her “diner-girl” and laughed at her every time they saw her. When she would look for a parking space in the parking lot at school every morning the popular kids would drive really fast to beat her to the parking spaces. They also parked into two parking spaces to keep her from getting a parking space. In Perrault’s story she did not have any friends people did not know she was even alive. The step-family kept her hidden in the house all the time. Cinderella’s peers are not the only people who mistreat her and tried to make her life miserable. Her step-sisters also mistreat her because they are jealous of her and of course they get it from their mother. In Perrault’s story the girls are just sisters and they did her so wrong by taking everything she owned. “They took all of her beautiful clothes away from her, dressed her in an old gray sock dress, and gave her wooden shoes.”(Lang) When the King gave out invitations to go to the ball Cinderella’s Step-sisters got invited. They only had to find out what to wear, while Cinderella had to work hard by ironing their linen and plaiting their ruffles and flowers. The step-sisters asked Cinderella
10/31/2009
Differences in the Mistreatment of Cinderella Cinderella is one of the best known fairy tales in the world. It was an old story written in China during the Ninth Century A.D. The story of Cinderella appears in the folklore of many cultures and there are between 350 and 1,500 different versions of the story in the world today. In every version of the story Cinderella is a young girl who suffers at the hand of her step-family after the death of her mother. The two most famous Cinderella tales are A Cinderella Story Glass tales. Slipper by Charles Perrault in 1697 and the movie A Cinderella Story made in 2004. In the two versions Cinderella gets mistreated by her peers, step-sister, and step-mother. Sam (Cinderella) was mistreated by her peers at school. They would go to her job and call her “diner-girl” and laughed at her every time they saw her. When she would look for a parking space in the parking lot at school every morning the popular kids would drive really fast to beat her to the parking spaces. They also parked into two parking spaces to keep her from getting a parking space. In Perrault’s story she did not have any friends people did not know she was even alive. The step-family kept her hidden in the house all the time. Cinderella’s peers are not the only people who mistreat her and tried to make her life miserable. Her step-sisters also mistreat her because they are jealous of her and of course they get it from their mother. In Perrault’s story the girls are just sisters and they did her so wrong by taking everything she owned. “They took all of her beautiful clothes away from her, dressed her in an old gray sock dress, and gave her wooden shoes.”(Lang) When the King gave out invitations to go to the ball Cinderella’s Step-sisters got invited. They only had to find out what to wear, while Cinderella had to work hard by ironing their linen and plaiting their ruffles and flowers. The step-sisters asked Cinderella