The Uglies series

This summer, I went to Georgia to be with my step mom and siblings. Starting about two years ago, I go up there every summer and usually during christmas and spring break. It was not until this year that I met my step brother’s friend, Robert. We sometimes went to his neighborhood to play basketball or walk around, but the last trip we took to his house was the most memorable trips I ever took in my life. My step brother Dontae, my step sister Tiana, my little brother Hakeem, our friend Jj, and…

Cinderella is perhaps one of the most famous childhood fairy tale stories of all time. Over the years, numerous versions of the story have been recreated and have been told to children all over the world. The original story of Cinderella follows the life of a young girl who is mistreated by her step mother and stepsisters. With the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a beautiful princess and goes to the ball to meet her prince. However, she has to leave the ball at…

Have you ever been treated like no one wants you? Well, Cinderella has a pretty good idea of what it's like. In her story she is being mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Anastasia, and Drizella. In both the Disney's version and the Grimm's version she feels this way. As she tries her best to please them it seems that it's just not good enough, but with a little help her dreams can come true. While some similarities between Disney's Cinderella and Grimm's Cinderella are evident, the…

"And for you, Miss Deluise?" the genie asked, finally reaching me. "I wish for unlimited wishes!" I exclaimed, the words slipping from my mouth as the laughs tumbled out of those I called my companions. "Jamie, you can 't wish for that! There are rules!" Paul insisted, his glasses almost falling off as his head shook violently. All of them looked at me with pure superiority, as I apparently did not even know the rule. "No, a wish is a wish. As you wished, Miss Deluise. Unlimited wishes," the…

My life wasn’t always the best. Back when I was just a young girl, my mother fell ill and died short after. Every day after her death I would visit her grave and pray that I would turn out to be the woman she hoped for me to be. In time, my father remarried to a nasty woman with two unbearable daughters that found joy in pestering me. Although my new step sisters were indeed very pretty, they had evil souls. My step mother did nothing to stop them, instead egged them on and even replaced all of…

How does a traditional fairytale typically end? Yes, with happily-ever-after. In the original version of Cinderella, we are met with a young girl who is complacent to her life, and only breaks free from it and finds her happiness when a prince appears. Then the story ends, Cinderella and her prince are forever seen frozen in their happily ever after. Anne Sexton’s poem Cinderella presents us with the question of why society views Cinderella as the ultimate fairytale of happily ever after.…

Over the years, many versions of Cinderella have been written, each one is unique in itself but, they share just enough characteristics with the original tale that they can still be called a Cinderella story. One of the key characteristics of a Cinderella story is that there is a stepmother and stepchild. But it is deeper than that, throughout the history of this story the stepmother is always shown as being cruel towards her stepchild. Not only will the nature of the stepmothers’ cruelty be…

Both the chinese version and french version of the cinderella stories have similarities and differences. There are four main similarities that both stories have. The first similarity is also the one that most little kids know of. Which is the part that yeh-shen and cinderella get married to a prince. The second similarity is that both moms die and get mistreated by their stepmothers. They get mistreated because they get treated like servants. The third similarity is something “magical” helps…

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…

Trick or treat! It is Halloween! I dress up as a super girl while my classmates are batman, superman, princess, wolf, pirate, etc. Scary-looking ghosts walk past me I am scared of them. My teacher said, “That the Halloween parade will happen after lunch on the blacktop near the basketball hoops.” “Remember to stay on the line,” she said. I am not worried, besides I am not going to get myself lost in the middle of scary-looking monsters or ghosts. By the time, we line up on the blacktop ready for…