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When we think about Cinderella or any other type of princess, we think of a prince, a castle, and a happy ending, but some people think of it differently. I'm one of those people. I grew up thinking all the time that Cinderella and all the other Princesses were happy but when I grew up I learned the truth, and somehow it makes me love them more than I did before.
The
first Grimm Brothers book I read was Cinderella, I was around 11/12 and when I
found out the truth I was eccentric. It wasn't all happy and joyful; in fact it
was depressing with a hint of good. It was like the world I know in real life.
Cinderella's mother had died, and a year after her death her father remarried.
The mother brought in the two-step daughters and like the Disney story goes
they treated her terribly. On the night of the ball, she cried onto her mother
grave where a dress fell upon her and she got dressed and went. (There were no
magic involved just birds.) When she got home she took the dress off and
it was taken away by the birds so no one would imagine it was her. The ball
went on for another day and that’s when she lost the shoe. The prince took the
shoe and went looking for her, he tried the stepsisters first. The older one
went first and when the shoe didn't fit she cut it off, held her pain and went
to see him. He took her onto her house and rode off, but the birds from the
ball night warned him that he was wrong. So he brought her back and tried the
younger step sister who cut her heel off. He took her onto the house but
again the birds warned him and he went back. Finally Cinderella tried the shoe
on and it fit, and she became a queen. On the day of her Wedding the birds who
warned the prince picked out the eyes of the stepsisters and left them
permanently blind and as poor beggars.
To me this story
had the theme of, when you do wrong to others it gets thrown back to you. The stepsister degraded Cinderella as a
beggar, and treated terribly, but when she became queen they wanted to baste in
her glory, and that probably would’ve worked if they didn’t degrade her in the
past. So they called her beggar but in the end they were permanently blind. So
pretty much the moral of this very long blog post is “Do unto other as you
would have them do to you.”
Sabrina, since the assignment was to tell me about a theme from your favorite childhood story, that should have been you thesis sentence. Remember to proofread for errors before submitting. Sometimes it takes a 2nd, 3rd or even 4th reading to catch them all. Over all this was a pretty good story and analysis that you submitted. Just try to stick with the directions.
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ReplyDeleteI love the music!!!! I will upgrade your grade just because of the effort and creativity you put into the assignment. :-) but remember to follow the directions.
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