Compare And Contrast Disney Vs China

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a tree that she had planted on her mother’s grave. The Chinese version receives her clothes by breaking the pot she had placed her mother’s bones in. The Disney and the German version do have some similarities while the Chinese is still different. These variations both have it to where Cinderella loses her glass slipper on the stairs while running out from the ball before everything disappears. The Chinese has it to wear she loses her shoe on the road while riding her horse and that is when the prince finds it. In the Disney or the German version does Cinderella die at all, but in the Chinese version she does. Her sister pushes her down a well. In Disney, the pictures have more colors to make the story seem less evil like and make Cinderella

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