Cinderella By The Grimm Brothers

Cinderella, was written by the Grimm brothers in 1812. It begins with the death of a young girl's mother. She tells her daughter to be good and pray faithfully before she dies.. The next spring, the father remarries a very evil woman who has two daughters of her own. Even though cinderella is treated poorly, she remains calm and hopeful. her father offers to bring something home from the fair for each of the girls. The stepsisters ask for beautiful dresses and fine jewels, but Cinderella simply asks her father to bring her the first branch that brushes against his hat. When he gives her this branch, she plants it by her mother's grave, and it grows into a beautiful tree. Any prayer made by Cinderella under this tree is granted to her by a white

Cinderella, and of course every other girl wants to attend to the festival. When Cinderella's step-mother hears about the festival, she makes it almost impossible for Cinderella to attend. Instead of listening to her stepmother, cinderella gets help from birds. She then goes to the the magic tree in search for help. Her magic tree gives for a dress and shoes. When she finally gets to the festival, she is so beautiful to the point none of the people recognize her. The prince sees her and falls madly in love. At the end of the three day festival cinderella manages to sneak away every night. One of those nights when cinderella runs away she leaves her glass slipper behind. The prince then finds her slipper. He goes around town making women try on this shoe so he can find out who it belongs to. When he gets to cinderella's house her step sisters try the show on. Before they both try the shoe on, one sister cuts off her big toe, and the other cuts off her heal. The birds who helped cinderella before point out that the sisters were both bleeding ( you think it would be obvious if someone cut a part of their limb off). The birds also sing a song when the prince is about to take the wrong bride home. To end the story the Prince and Cinderella get married. The birds peck out the eyes of the stepsisters at the

The movie is different as in less gruesome. The movie starts off with cinderella living with her mother and father. The three of them have a happy little family. Sadly cinderella's mother dies early on in the story. Cinderella's father remarries a cruel women who has two equally cruel stepdaughters. When her father dies, her step mother turns her into a slave/maid around the house. The king in the story decides that the prince needs to find a girl that he can marry. A fancy dress ball is created in order for the prince to find a suitable bride. This is different than the story by the Grimm brothers because the ball only lasted one night. In the Grimm brothers story the festival (ball) lasted three days. Instead of just having birds help Cinderella, she has mice as well. Her little animal friends help her create a dress for the ball. When Cinderellas step sisters see the dress, they tear it apart. After the step mom and sisters leave for the ball, Cinderella discovers that she has a fairy godmother. Her fairy godmother provides her with glass slippers, a new dress, and a pumpkin carriage. Her Fairy godmother warned her to be home by