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Cinderella Comparison

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One female had a dreadful life after the loss of her beloved father. She wouldn’t regret the past but that wouldn’t stop her to look into the future. To make matters worse her wicked step-mother and step-sisters made her life inconceivable. They make her do handiwork, gardening, and wash the dishware. Cinderella was the girls name, she really adapted with the orders that her step mother & sisters. She did what she was told and never asked back, and little did she know something extraordinary will happen in the future.
The German’s side of the story is a lot similar in some ways and different in other ways. For example in the French version they say that his dad died because he wasn’t even mentioned in the story but in the German version he …show more content…

Passing time the king proclaimed a festival but in the French version it was a royal ball. When the sisters got an invitation they made Cinderella’s life worse they made her comb their hair, and fasten their buckles. The German and the French version, the stepmother did not let Cinderella go to the ball and/or festival. The stepmother in the German version told Cinderella that she scattered a bowl of lentils in a bowl for her and if she picked all of them in the next two hours she’ll let her go. She called out to the turtle doves and pigeons and in the next hour they finish. Cinderella rushing to her stepmother thinking of going to the festival but as wicked her stepmother is she said no because she didn 't have any clothes or knew how to …show more content…

The bird in this case also represents the godmother in the German version. Cinderella told the bird to give her a gold and silver dress and slippers embroidered with silk and silver. In the French version the godmother turned a pumpkin into a carriage, rats into horses, and lizards as service men. The fairy godmother also gave her a beautiful dress with glass slippers. In the both versions they say when Cinderella walk in it took their breath away, I guess she 's that beautiful. In the German version the prince quickly takes her and starts dancing, and when someone wanted to dance with her he’ll be like NO. In the French version he admired her from afar and he was her last dance, and she had a curfew not after midnight because everything will be back to normal. In the German version she didn 't have any curfew or duedate.Aslo in the French version Cinderella’s dress disappears after midnight but in the German Cinderella took it off and placed it on her mother 's grave but later the birds took it away. In the German version there were two parties but in the French there was only one. But these two versions finally come in an agreement, in both they say that in some time during the ball and/or festival Cinderella had to leave and she left her slipper and the prince picked it up and searched everywhere to find his lost love. The German version said that the stepsisters were so

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