Cinderella
Fairytales are things that help children sleep at night and implore them to dream. The overall effect that these stories have on children is the same yet there is a stark contrast between the fairytales that are told to small children in the west and the ones that fill the hearts of children in the east. Many western stories have overarching themes of magic, wonder, and always following your heart; whereas eastern stories exhibit themes that have been implemented in their countries for centuries. Bushido morals are a good exemplar for this. It is interesting to see, when taken out of western context, how these stories can be interpreted and morphed into things that they were never meant to be in various ways. What many people from …show more content…
If someone held the same principles as a bushido were to read the story of Cinderella their interpretation would be the following: the only reason that Cinderella has fallen in love so quickly and had such a wonderful night is because she knows that it will all end by midnight. This knowledge of the end just forces her to make the night more special than it ever could be, thereby tricking her into having stronger emotions than she could ever truly feel in a matter of a few hours. If she had the fortune of more time, the probability of her having feelings as strongly as she did are quite unlikely. This is often seen when a person finds out that a close friend or relative doesn’t have much longer to live. Many of the most cherished memories are formed and when they feel closest to each other. When people who get the news that they don’t have much longer to live they take those last few moments and actually make them count. They do what they deem as important. For example, one man described by Mezrich and Scalea was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. When he found this out he realized that he did not have much time left and with the little time that he did have he wanted to save lives. This man started making arrangements for all of his organs to be transplanted after he died; in addition to this, he started donating the organs that he could live without (Mezrich and
Fairytales are things that help children sleep at night and implore them to dream. The overall effect that these stories have on children is the same yet there is a stark contrast between the fairytales that are told to small children in the west and the ones that fill the hearts of children in the east. Many western stories have overarching themes of magic, wonder, and always following your heart; whereas eastern stories exhibit themes that have been implemented in their countries for centuries. Bushido morals are a good exemplar for this. It is interesting to see, when taken out of western context, how these stories can be interpreted and morphed into things that they were never meant to be in various ways. What many people from …show more content…
If someone held the same principles as a bushido were to read the story of Cinderella their interpretation would be the following: the only reason that Cinderella has fallen in love so quickly and had such a wonderful night is because she knows that it will all end by midnight. This knowledge of the end just forces her to make the night more special than it ever could be, thereby tricking her into having stronger emotions than she could ever truly feel in a matter of a few hours. If she had the fortune of more time, the probability of her having feelings as strongly as she did are quite unlikely. This is often seen when a person finds out that a close friend or relative doesn’t have much longer to live. Many of the most cherished memories are formed and when they feel closest to each other. When people who get the news that they don’t have much longer to live they take those last few moments and actually make them count. They do what they deem as important. For example, one man described by Mezrich and Scalea was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. When he found this out he realized that he did not have much time left and with the little time that he did have he wanted to save lives. This man started making arrangements for all of his organs to be transplanted after he died; in addition to this, he started donating the organs that he could live without (Mezrich and