A CINDERELLA STORY Life wasn’t fair; it just wasn’t fair at all. Cindy’s parents had divorced two years ago and now her mother had fallen ill and was going into the hospital for some tests. Cindy was moving in with her father for a few months until the doctors could find out what was wrong with her mother. Cindy loved her father very much‚ but his new wife was just unbearable. And her two stepsisters were even worse. Cindy came often to visit her father. When her father left for work
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From generation to generation stories are always changing. Fairy tales like Cinderella go from mean step sisters to nice sisters‚ fairy god mother to a tree. After reading 5 different versions of Cinderella I had to choose which I would decide to read‚ above the others to my favorite child. After difficult thinking I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version of Cinderella for many great reasons. I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version because I feel it is the most fitting for children over all the others
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retelling of Cinderella Michelangelo‚ perhaps the most gifted sculptor and painter of all times‚ once said that "geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses." As Michelangelo built upon the brilliance of his predecessors‚ Anne Sexton does the same with her poem "Cinderella". Fairy tales originated as oral traditions and were passed along and sculpted by thousands of story tellers. Each raconteur changes elements in the story to fit their individual needs. Sexton reinvents "Cinderella" as a poem
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Rua Richardson Heidi Rich English 101 17 January 2013 Shoe Size Does Not = Love A very common fairy tale that we have grown up hearing is the story of Cinderella‚ a poor girl whose dreams of marrying a prince and living happily ever after‚ finally comes true after many years of wishing upon a star. Individual writers of the “Cinderella” story may alter the story‚ but the general concept is always the same. This classic story has been told to millions of children and is known as a great romance
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between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are striking and the deserve thorough examination. When the Grimm’s version of Cinderella was written in 1812‚ many things were different than the now most commonly known‚ Disney version. Things were more cruel in the Grimm’s version. Cinderella’s father in the Grimm’s version was brutal and rich‚ but in the Disney version‚ her father is dead. This is one example of the major differences in the two stories. In both versions of the Cinderella‚ Cinderella’s
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Adeline’s character: In Chinese Cinderella‚ there are many instances whereby we can observe positive characteristic of Adeline. Firstly‚ Adeline is accepting of her situation and is very forgiving. On the first day of school‚ there was no one taking her to school and after school‚ “nobody was coming to pick her up”. However‚ she does not blame her father for failing to pick her up from school. Not only she is accepting to her situation‚ she is also very independent. She did not ask for help but
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Introduction Charles Perrault’s Cinderella begins with an introduction intended for the French Court through use of words as nobleman‚ proudest‚ and haughtiest. There is no emotional attachment as is seen in Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Ashputtle. Ashputtle begins by introducing the reader to a young girl at the bedside of her dying mother. As Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm are German authors‚ the reader gets a different sense of appeal. Although it appears to be a tale targeted for the common class‚ there
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Bruno Bettelheim believes that the fairy tale Cinderella has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye. He shares his beliefs in his essay‚ "Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflict" in which Bettelheim explains the underlying complexity of the story Cinderella. Being a Freudian psychologist‚ Bettelheim believes that a person’s conscious mind takes the fairy tale for face value while the same person’s unconscious mind understands the same fairy tale completely different. The conscious
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similarity?) She‚ much like Cinderella‚ is loyal and quiet in performing her daily duties. Ellen is also searching for something to complete her life. But several incidents in Ellen’s life contribute to her un-Cinderella-like ending‚ including the fact that she does not have a mythical figure to help her out. These scenes‚ which are shown through Ellen’s responses to interactions with characters around her‚ prove Ellen to be a very complex character. Both Ellen and Cinderella experience sadness from
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fairy tales about how the beautiful girl meets Prince Charming. They get married‚ and live happily ever after. This idea for girls‚ that one day they will meet their knight in shining armor and live a happy life together‚ is a warped view of the real world. That will also make their expectations somewhat higher about what their dream guy will be like when they do meet him. Anne Sexton’s‚ “Cinderella”‚ can be analyzed using Feminist criticism based on the way that Sexton dislikes this “perfect ending”
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