Comparing Mary Santiago And Another Cinderella Story Once Upon A Song

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Once upon a time, there lived a teenager named Cinderella.Cinderella lived with her wealthy,but horribly evil stepmother and stepsisters who tried to make her out of their servant. Cinderella wished for nothing but to leave the horribly people more than ever. So, she wished to meet the prince and it finally happened. Then Cinderella and the prince fell in love and lived happily ever after. The formal Cinderella is a classic fairy tale that has been around for a very long time. Some people have made different kind of forms of Cinderella such as: movies, plays, story books etc.. “Another Cinderella Story” the main protagonist is Mary Santiago (Selena Gomez) and in the other movie “A Cinderella Story Once Upon a Song” the other main character …show more content…
is a recast with Mary Santiago, a dancer that will dance her heart for what she wants. put-upon princess-to-be, working for cruel popstar, Dominique and her two horrible daughters, (Bree and Britt). Mary worked for them for years.She were abused at the hands of the wicked trio. Mary, goes to public school and she's a junior at Ritzy Beverly Hills High School, and she is counting down until her dance audition for the prestigious Manhattan Academy of Performing Arts school she is trying to transfer to jump start her career and to get away from Dominique and her overly demanding daughters. When teen pop sensation, Joey Parker returns to Beverly Hills High to finish up school like a normal teen because he wants to be normal again. Then they have this masquerade dance that the school is having for everybody but Dominique (Mary guardian) told her she can't go until she clean that nasty, horrible,fifty room. But many knew she couldn't clean it in time that's when her best friends called some workers to clean it then she snuck out the house. Minutes later they got dressed went to the masquerade dance and she ran into Joey Parker and she danced one-on-one with him and he fell instantly in love with the way she danced to the music, Joey danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball but the only wrong thing is that she has one hint at her identity was the Zune(ipod) she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. After the masquerade dance, at school the next morning Joey put out a once in a lifetime search, to find his masked beauty that dropped the Zune( iPod) at the dance. Fairy tale proves that you don't need a fairy godmother to make magic happen it can happen on its own you just have to wait for it and give it time then you would have an happy ever after ending,but wait Mary still has to deal with Dominique and her daughters who treats her like a

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