Both swallowed in their job, the janitor in “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” by Martin Espada and the secretary in “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown.…
Both Cinderella’s mother…
Lottery style poker. Poker requires plan. Lottery. No plan. Just scratch. No strategy only rhythm: Scratch card, have hope, lose, lose hope, curse odds, repeat, survive.…
In ELA, we read three of the 900 Cinderella stories and one poem. I liked “Ashenputtel” because it had some cool features of the story such as the background of the story, but what was surprising is that it had blood and gore in it. “Yeh-Shen” was not my favorite, but I did think her step-mom and sister deserved punishment because of how they treated her. Apparently they didn`t know the phrase “treat others the way you want to be treated”. In the “Algonquin Cinderella” the step-sisters should have been punished for the horrible things they did to her (the Algonquin Cinderella). The poem, I didn`t care for because the step-mother was a liar. She doesn’t know how Cinderella feels so she should step into Cinderella’s shoes.…
How many Cinderella stories do you think there are? There is over 900 of them! But right now I’m only going to compare\contrast 3 stories called, “Ashenputtle”, “Yeh-Shen”, and “The Algonquin Cinderella”. Plus 1 poem, “Interview”. All of these stories, not the poem, are from long ago! Yet, the poem is a modern poem! Here is all of the compare/contrast I’m going to do.…
The story Cinderella was more for kids like the sisters and stepmother wasn’t as mean like Ashputtles sisters . I feel like Cinderella was more of a fairytale with the mouse turning into horses. Ashputtle…
Many writers on their venture to becoming great, are faced with roadblocks. I too feel those stresses. When sitting down to begin a story, novel, or poem we all strive to be different. But as Baldwin explains, "there is no original thought, because we all humans think and feel has been thought and felt so many times before, by so many generations." This in itself makes starting writing a very daunting task. Not to mention the sea of fellow authors you are competing with for limited shelf space. A trip to a jam packed bookstore reiterates this feeling instantaneously. Really, what sets the writer apart is the original perspective and finding out what shape to give it to really hold the readers attention. This can all be achieved through the power in…
Cinderella is a 1950 classical musical produced by Walt Disney. Cinderella was a young modest forgiving young lady who had a servant’s heart. At a young age her mother died and it was just her and her father. Cinderella father wanted her to have a mother’s care and marries her step mother. Cinderella is abused and mistreated by her step family who basically took over everything when her father passed. They took over the estate and made her become a maid in her own home. Overlooking all the negative things Cinderella grows into a kind young woman, friending the animals in the barn and the mice and birds that lived around the estate. The cast in Cinderella consist of 8 main characters. Cinderella, Jaq and Gus, Lady Tremaine, , Prince Charming, Anastasia Tremaine, Drizella Tremaine, Lucifer, and the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella is 19 years old with hair to her shoulders with blue eyed. After her father passes she is forced into being a servant in her own home. In spite of that she maintains hope through her dreams and remains the sweet person she is. She has faith that one day all her dreams of being happy will come true and her kind-heartedness will pay off. With the help of her animal friends they fix up an old dress that belonged to her mother so she could attend a royal ball. Jaq and Gus are two mice who are Cinderella sidekicks. They perform many favors for Cinderella. Jaq was the leader of the mice, planning all the strategies on how to avoid the cat Lady Tremaine the evil…
Throughout the years, there have been several retellings of Cinderella. Some of the retellings are based on culture, the society at that particular moment and what would grab the audience attention. One of the most common retelling of Cinderella is: The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tale. There’s also the: Radio Plays for Children. One of the most recent retelling would have to be: A Cinderella Story. All three of the retellings leave the audience with a different interpretation of Cinderella. Never the less you will get the same moral of the story from all three.…
In the movie Cinderella the evil step mother is the villain. Cinderella is the protagonist.Her real mother that she loved dearly died whenever Cinderella was little.So she lived with her dad which was a merchant and died on one of his journeys.So…
Cinderella is a classic childhood fairy tale of a young woman who’s mother and father both die, leaving her with a wicked stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. There have been several movies portraying this classic tale. One of which is Everafter starring Drew Barrymore. In this movie a girl loses her father and mother leaving her to be a servant for her stepmother. She meets a prince and falls in love. In another Cinderella type story line A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duff, a girl who loses her parents end up with her stepmother and two sisters. She falls in love with the popular boy in school, who ends up being her prince charming. Both movies are based on the same classic fairy tale yet they differ from each other and the classic story.…
There are many versions to the famous fairy tale Cinderella. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s German version of Cinderella, “Aschenputtel,” is a household story of a young girl named Cinderella who eventually marries a prince. This specific version of Cinderella gave birth to the Walt Disney version of Cinderella that most Americans know today. However the stories are very different. The Grimm brothers’ version is much darker and gory then the classic American version. Small differences like this shed a different light on Cinderella and her journey to a “happy” ending.…
In "Cinderella" the story begins with an intro explaining the situation. Cinderella's father has remarried to a woman that already has two daughters. The narrator uses a "good vs. bad" analogy, Describing Cinderella's Stepmother as an overly proud and "haughty" Person who is jealous of Cinderella's Sweet demeanour and "employ's her in the meanest of works". The author gives us descriptions of Cinderella, so that we as the audience feel Cinderella's sadness and despair. "Cinderella slept in a miserable garret upon a wretched straw bed" "when she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney corner and sits down among the cinders and ashes."…
A fair maiden sat by the window gazing into the sky. She was the only daughter of Henry, the general who had been killed during the war. He remarried after Cinderella’s mothers’ death and then he left for the Great War. She was named Cinderella living with her step mother, Lady Tremaine. In addition to that she was no longer the only daughter as she had to sisters know.…
These three Cinderella stories were all written long ago, Yeh-Shen is over 1000 years old, Oochigeaskw is 100 or more years old, and Aschenputtle is at least 120 years old. Each story has a Cinderella character, again, Germany has Aschenputtle, China has Yeh-Shen, and Native America has Oochigeaskw. Cinderella is always treated poorly by the stepmother, stepsisters, or sisters. All the stories have magic, Aschenputtle had magical doves and pigeons, Yeh-Shen had magic fish…