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    Cinderella Synopsis

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    Cinderella is faithful re-telling of the classic fairytale. Living with a cruel stepmother and two stepsisters‚ Cinderella longs for a better life. Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold‚ cruel woman who has two daughters‚ Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies‚ Cinderella’s wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile‚ across town in the castle‚ the King determines that his son the

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    mind doing the housework and she truly believes that one day a handsome prince will come to her rescue of her evil stepmother and they will run away to a “happily ever after.” However‚ why is it‚ that in order to have a happily ever after‚ there must be a prince involved. Is it so difficult for Snow White to simply decide to make her own life and move away from her wicked stepmother on her own? She does seem to be at the age where she can be held responsible for herself. But it is shown in this movie

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    Novel: Family and Stella

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    Practice 1 – one story you like the best & what lessons you have learned from the story The novel Step by Wicked Step by Anne Fine which I have studied‚ all the stories are special in their own way but the one that strikes a chord with me is Claudia’s Stories: The Green Pyjamas. The story is about Claudia’s slow but sure acceptance of her stepmother‚ Stella. In the beginning‚ she is depicted as young girl who struggles to accept the changes in her life. Her parents have decided to separate

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    __________________________________________ Once upon a time‚ there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella. She lived with her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. They treated Cinderella very badly. One day‚ they were invited for a grand ball in the king’s palace. But Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her go. Cinderella was made to sew new party gowns for her stepmother and stepsisters‚ and curl their hair. They then went to the ball‚ leaving Cinderella alone at home. Cinderella felt very sad

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    Is It Happily Ever After

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    the stories or because the depiction of women in certain circumstances help get a lesson across. In these fairytales‚ women function as a mean to get a moral through to an audience. Woman are either portrayed as beautiful and naïve or beautiful and wicked. In the fairytales‚ not one woman is portrayed as just being mediocre. It is a women’s beauty that will help her attain what she wants or what she ultimately will be in life. It is a women’s duty‚ to be beautiful‚ passive‚ know how to clean and also

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    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

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    Cinderella Story

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    At 8 years old‚ the blonde Samantha Montgomery lost her father to an earthquake‚ leaving her to live in an attic‚ while her stepmother Fiona‚ and stepsisters‚ Gabriella and Brianna take over her life. With popular kids Austin Ames‚ Shleby Cummings‚ and their crew‚ then her house family‚ the only escapes she has are the Diner Staff‚ her best friend Carter‚ and an online buddy-Nomad. They both go to North Valley High and dream of going to Princeton. They have a relationship that goes on through text

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    beautiful girl has to endure from her evil stepmother‚ whose vanity and cruelty know no boundaries‚ is there more to the story though? The Brothers Grimm give us clues here and there‚ about how they both have similarities. Little by little‚ Snow White’s character can be seen changing from the pure character at the beginning of the story‚ to someone that if you look close resembles the evil Queen by the end of the story. Snow White’s and the evil stepmother both share some common traits such as vanity

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    second symbolism is stepmother’s envy she has for Cinderella. The envy that originates from the stepmother is the jealousy she has for Cinderella’s beauty‚ and how it bothered the stepmother that her daughters are not as beautiful as Cinderella. The third symbolism is the hazel tree that provided Cinderella with the wisdom to overcome the abuse she was going through every day by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Also‚ the hazel tree provided Cinderella with the inspiration to not give up and

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    Write about the setting for the story The setting for the story Step by Wicked Step is one dark stormy night when five schoolchildren on a school trip stayed in a towering mansion. They found secret tower room that was hidden behind a wall. The lights in the mansion were not working and they has to depend on the streaks of lightning and the moonlight for light. The tower room‚ covered in a coat of dust‚ had not been used for a long time. There were heavy drapes‚ plain dark coverlet

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