Sarah+Nash

Perspective of: Germany


Cinderella would go to her mother's grave three times a day and wept and prayed. A little, white bird would come and when she expressed a wish, the bird would throw down what she had wished for. ||
 * Frame Element || Information gathered: ||
 * < Characters || young girl-Cinderella, stepmother ||
 * < Setting ||< Castle and mother's grave ||
 * < Initiating Event ||< The mother fell ill and died, so the father then took another wife.The stepmother brought two beautiful daughters into the home. ||
 * < Internal Response ||< The stepsisters considered Cinderella a kitchen maid, and dark days lie ahead for Cinderella. They took all of Cinderella's beautiful gowns and jewelry, and made her wear dirty, old clothes.
 * < Goal ||< The king announced a festival that was to last three day and the prince would select a bride. The stepsisters ordered Cinderella to get them ready for the festival, and she obeyed but wanted to join them. The stepmother gave Cinderella two tasks with a time limit to gather lentils from the ash and both times she successfully collected the lentils with the help of the pigeons, turtledoves, and birds. The stepmother and daughter's laughed at Cinderella's request to join them because she But, ultimately she was dirty with no clean clothes and could not dance, and would therefore embarrass them at the festival. ||
 * < Consequence ||< When the stepmother and daughter's went to the festival, Cinderella once again went to her mother's grave and wept. The birds came back and dressed Cinderella in a beautiful dress and jewels for the festival. ||
 * < Resolution ||< Cinderella attended the festival and the stepsister's did not even recognize her. When it was time for Cinderella to leave she ran down the stairs that the prince had covered in pitch and her dainty, gold shoe stuck to the staircase. In order to find whose shoe the prince found, the stepsister's cut off part of the feet to trick the prince into believing it was them. The pigeons alerted the prince as he rode by the mother's grave that he had the wrong bride. Finally, Cinderella tries on the shoe and it fits! The stepsister's are punished with blindness for their falsehood and wickedness by the pigeon who pokes out their eyes. ||

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