The Glass Slipper

Cinderella is a popular folk tale where a common girl goes from rags to riches. The story of Cinderella has received some criticism because Cinderella is too passive and has a man save her from her suffering. Revisions of traditional folk tales have become popular. Some authors do it to give it a modern day twist and have it reflect modern day society. Cinderella is one those stories that has slowly become modernizes with a feministic approach. The two Walt Disney versions Campbell Grant’s…

everyone just drinks a glass of milk like I do, and that a real taco night isn't like any tacos I've ever had before. One of the biggest ways we bonded was over food. We took turns cooking in the kitchen. Each week I was trying new things that I had never heard of before. We always had vegetables. When I first came home to find one of my roommates shoes lined neatly outside her door, I thought it was a little odd. But that is part of her culture, and she had special slippers for her room and a…

orphan child who goes to live with her evil stepmother and stepsisters, is one of those various stories. Although there are stories told alike, many are also told differently. In the French story told by Charles Perrault, “Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella forgives her stepsisters for all the misery they caused her and allowed them to live in the palace with her and the prince and the stepsisters’ husbands. Whereas in the German version of Cinderella, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm…

In the novel, Life of Pi by Yan Martel readers follow Pi on his journey of self-discovery. In part one of the novel Pi begins to accept and practice other religions; Hinduism, Christianity and lastly Islam. Pi’s family decides to move to Canada to start a new life. Tragedy strikes while they’re on the freighter to Canada when a storm hits. Pi is thrown overboard onto a lifeboat along with various animals. Throughout the rest of the novel Pi and the tiger named Richard Parker are left to survive…

A classic princess story, Cinderella remains to be one of Disney’s most popular movies. However, what is disturbing is the manner in which this movie imposes gender roles by depicting women in a negative manner. This film seems to be reinforcing the notion that women are weaklings and that the only way in which any society can survive is by upholding male dominance and embracing female submissiveness. The movie begins by showing Cinderella living happily with her parents in a faraway kingdom.…

wings to put on it. Once she arrives at the ball she tries to talk to Prince Henry about her being a servant but her Rodmilla exposes her as a servant before she can tell him herself. Heartbroken Danielle runs out of the castle losing one of her glass slippers. Being that Prince Henry did not announce his engagement his father did so for him. The wedding of Henry and Gabriella begins but seeing how unhappy they are Prince Henry calls off the wedding and begins to look for Danielle. Prince Henry…

world by young children and inspire them. For ages we thought we knew these wonderful, bright and happy fairy tales, but they were a lot darker than they appear to be today. In the original story of Cinderella, or the original title The Little Glass Slipper, a widowed prince had a daughter and named her Zezolla, who is tended by a beloved governess. The governess with Zezolla’s help persuade the prince to marry her. The Grimm Brothers wrote most of the fairy tales we know too, but very…

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remarried. Her male savior is a prince and they meet at a ball. The setting is back in the day. A tree branch grants her wishes with the animals as helpers. The sister have a cruel ending with their eyes poked out. The prince finds her because of a glass slipper. She had always wanted to go the ball from the beginning. She never met the prince until the ball. The prince finds her and it is a happily ever after. In Another Cinderella Story Dancing Ever After…, Cinderella (Mary’s) parents both…

Beep, beep, beep! went Juniper's alarm. "Ugh," groaned Juniper, dragging herself out of bed. Juniper used the washroom, made her bed, and changed her clothes. Juniper loved the mornings, except for one part: going through the hallway; it took like one million years to get through! One million years later, she reached the stairs and sighed with relief. "Ahhh!" exclaimed Juniper. She started to walk down the stairs . . . until she reached the bottom stair with a toy car stuck to her bottom.…