The Uglies series

learnt lessons would help other and they when content with themselves when they died. For other people they are not lucky enough to learn on their journeys some time it's after the journeys are over the “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen. The “duck” grew up thinking it was ugly and different but he lack the expression to know that he was beautiful. “Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing;for he did not know what to do, he was so happy and yet nat at all proud.…

I feel that the story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon” has many of the same characteristics that are found in fairy tales. For example many fairy tales have magical elements and characters that are witches. Most fairy tales have evil and good characters, and animals that talk. Fairy tales also have a clearly defined problem and something happens within a group, it could be characters or events. I found all of these elements in this story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon.” For example some of the…

Fairy tales have been around for centuries, but underneath the sugar coated, Disney films we have come to know and love, lies a dark truth. The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the tradition of written stories. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation. After years of these stories being passed down orally, two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, became fascinated with old folktales, fables, legends, and…

Once upon a time Alive at the beginning of the story. Seems like a loving father who cared for Cinderella as well his stepsisters, but simply could not confront his domineering second wife. When the father went into the town, he asked all three girls what they wanted and brought them what they wished. He is also present at the ball and suspects the mysterious beautiful maiden is his daughter. At the end of the tale he refers to Cinderella as “little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left…

Dasiana Williams October 20, 2015 Twisted Fairytale English 9, Period 2 Once upon there was a so called “princess” that went by the name of Cinderella. She had two sisters, Lottie and Dottie, and yes of course I am Lottie. Cinderella is NOT who you think she is. She is a rotten liar, so don’t let her fool you by saying Dottie and I are the evil stepsisters. In fact, she lies so much I am planning on catching her in one to get her in even more trouble since she’s so good at…

There are many different versions of the Cinderella story. In every one of the stories, for example Cinderella (French) and Cendrillon(Caribbean) there is a reoccuring theme, as well as a motif. For example, there is always an evil villain, or in this case the stepmothers and stepsisters. In the two stories, Cinderella and Cendrillon, both of the girls are treated poorly by their stepmothers and sisters. The stepmothers represent the evil villians/antagonist and the stepsister/sisters as the…

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel based off Cinderella. The story departs from the original in many ways and follows the stepsisters, Iris and Ruth for a majority of the book, later introducing Clara van den Meer or Cinderella and her family. The characters and narrator are constantly bringing up beauty as a curse. The author also shows a lot of changes in the form of Clara and the household in general. Possibly the biggest difference from the classic Cinderella story and…

“Cinderelly Cinderelly” call Jaq and Gus mocking Cinderella’s stepsisters. All the mice and birds Cinderella has saved are angry at Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s stepmother, for not letting Cinderella design a gown ball. Jaq loves Cinderella because she waived him from being eaten by Lucifer, the cat. She loves him like family even those he's a little mouse. Cinderella did not obtain the trait of loving things from her stepfamily; however, she got it from her animal family. Cinderella’s most…

importance of beauty. Lieberman notices that portraying Cinderella as a passive character, like many other females, is done purposely and causes a reason for concern. Cinderella is thought to be beautiful and kind, while her stepmother and stepsisters are ugly and cruel. Similar to other fairytales, the powerful woman is almost always considered the villain, while the passive girl is given the happy ending without having to work for it. The tale of Cinderella idolizes suffering in silence and…

it to the ball. An additional difference between the two films is that the original version by Grimm’s ending included the step sisters going blind due to the birds pecking out their eyes. Disney’s very popular version displayed the step sisters as ugly. The third difference is the…