This week I read the Brother’s Grimm (Crane) unit. My
favorite was the alternate story of Cinderella, called Aschenputtel. I thought
it was interesting that in this telling of the tale there was a festival,
instead of a ball, that lasted a few days. I liked that it showed how desperate
the sisters were to be royalty, and that they would even cut off pieces of
their feet to do so. It was definitely a darker twist on the Cinderella we all
grew up with. For my own story I would
like to use a high school setting where a girl goes to school without her
glasses and meets a very cute boy. After they are done talking she accidentally
leaves a book with initials in it. He then searches the entire senior class
until he finds the one he is looking for. The girl’s step-sisters would never
believe it is her because each morning she leaves with her big glasses that
take up her whole face, and also comes back with them. They think that no one
could ever like her with those hideous things on her face. Eventually when he
does find her, her sisters try to suck up and steal the boy away from her because
they have no one. In the end the step-sisters end up sabotaging their grades in
order to win over the boy, and cannot graduate. They get stuck going to summer
school, while their step-sister hangs out with her perfect boyfriend all summer
long.
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| Cinderella's Glass Slipper |
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