Comparing The Orphan And The Rough-Faced Girl

Have you ever wondered if there were other versions of Cinderella? Well there are, there isn’t just one version of Cinderella. Each version is a little bit different from each story because of the culture behind it. For example the “Cinderella” we know and love and the Ireland version the “Cinderlad”.The two cinderella stories, “Cinderlad” the Irish version and “Cinderella” the French version have both differences and similarities. Using the Motif “Damsel in distress” I can show that they are different & similar because of the culture they originated from and their social necessities.

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

Greed and or Jealousy can lead to bad actions, choices and results. It can happen to one person or multiple people no matter what age they are. This is shown in three stories, “Ponies” written by Kij Johnson, “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury and in “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut. In “Ponies” there are a group of girls who invited one to a “cutting-out” party. Where a pony picks two of the three thing she has to be cut off for her and her owner to join the club. In “All Summer in a Day,” the girl, Margot knows about the sun while the rest of the kids do not know about the sun - or they do not remember it. Last, in “Harrison Bergeron,” the government forced people to be equal making them wear things they called “handicaps.” In all of these stories it shows how greed and or jealousy can lead to bad actions, choices and results.

They are tired of scrimping for little amounts of money. Her dad, strong and courageous, starts to cry. Lizabeth hears her dad’s long and mournful sobs, and she cannot get to sleep. She is so upset, that she wakes up her brother, and they sneak out of the house. Lizabeth is so worked up over her family’s poverty, she goes to the only place she can think of, Miss Lottie’s front yard.

The village they wanted her to come to was full of people with different body parts like her leg. She could have gone and found herself a husband and lived a happy life. She apparently didn’t want that. She wanted to stay and “help” her village become better.

Sandra Cisneros evokes great sympathy for her characters, which added to my favor of the story. In a first few sentences, Sandra has already revealed to the reader the poor social status of the young girls and continues to do so throughout the tale. She particularly points out their pauper way of life by repeating the small amount of toys the young girls have. She mentions all the girls could afford was "one extra outfit apiece" then one paragraph later recalls again "our one outfit apiece". Also, Cisneros touches on the "sock dress" the girls made

The author of “Telling Tails” elaborates on how a good story should be by saying “…, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behavior and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary” (O’Brien). If a story does not afford the reader the luxury to imagine these extraordinary events in our lives, the reader can be easily bored and lose interest in wanting to know more. An example of a well-imagined story that captivates its reader can be deduced from “Boys and Girls.” In this story, the father introduces his female child as a hired man to a salesman who says, “Could of fooled me…I thought it was only a girl” (Kelly 305). The statement being used can tell the reader how a female was thought of as an unimportant person. The author does not mention the obvious but leaves the readers to the device of their imagination. O’Brien would deem this story as a good one as the author is successful in telling a well-imagined and organized story about extraordinary human event and the place women had in society.

The two stories of “Cinderella” are “Tam and Cam”; and “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted by Alexander Chodzko. These stories have similar ways in portraying the hard working Cinderella including her suffering, but they are different in Cinderella’s motive of rescue one tale use violence if necessary; the other just more of a genuine resourceful approach. This means this character isn’t relying on a prince charming to be her rescue, so this makes the concept different from the other because “Tam and Cam” Cinderella lives forever happy with her lover, while “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted lives by herself and then a farmer she likes shows up. These tales went for a more sophisticated setting, each displaying the peasant overcoming the struggle; in which she is set free from all of her hurting. Throughout each story Cinderella is taking and caring she always seemed to get the short end of the stick. But, when the odds back fired on the step-sisters and step-mother the karma was naturally set upon to benefit Cinderella in her favor “Tam and Cam” or set in motion by her as payback to get even with her rival characters of a family in “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted lives.

The Native American story that is known as "Cinderella" is called "Oochigeaskw- The Roughed-Faced Girl." Native American tales were passed down through the generations. In this tale, "the roughed faced girl," unlike Perrault's "Cinderella", is not beautiful. Her sisters burned her with cinders and left scars on her face, which is where the title "The Roughed Faced Girl" comes from. In the village the girls live in is an invisible man, who all wished to see. The one that could see him would be the one he marries. The older sisters dressed their best to go see the invisible one. They are unable to, even though they lied and said they could. When the sister ask they could not answer correctly. When the youngest sister went, she could see the invisible man and could answer his sister's questions correctly. She is the one that he marries (639-640). When she could see the invisible man, the young lady became beautiful and all her scars were washed away. In this story, we see the transformation from "rags to riches." The sisters never recognized the youngest sister, although she had talent and beauty, it was not recognized until she found her true love and her beauty became known.

Cinderella is a fairytale for children that displayed love, loss and miracles; however, when it is further analyzed, it has a deeper meaning. Cinderella is a story about a young girl who became a servant in her own home after her father remarried a malicious woman with two spoiled daughters. She was humiliated and abused yet she remained gentle and kind. She received help from her fairy godmother to go to the prince’s ball after her stepmother rejected her proposal. Cinderella and the Prince fell madly in love but she had to leave at twelve o’clock and forgot to tell him her name but she left her glass slipper behind. He sent his servants to find her and Cinderella was the only maiden in the kingdom to fit into the shoes. She

Each person in the world has heard of Cinderella, no matter what kind of version it may be. Cinderella is the one fairy tale story that has been popular and will always be the one tale that has to be told to children. Words and story lines might be twist and turn, but in the end the knowledge of the story will be learned in similar ways. As we all know when one story is told another is created, when one is at its best then another is at its worse. One version will always be better than another, but no matter what version it might be the story will be told.

The charity appeal targets parents, particularly women because they possess maternal instincts making them more empathetic towards abandoned young girls because they can relate. The sole purpose of the text is to persuade people to donate money to a charity which supports orphaned girls in China because Adeline is Chinese. Alternatively, it was written to educate those unaware of mass amounts of abandoned girls in China. The text is inspired primarily by Adeline Yen Mah’s autobiography, Chinese Cinderella. Yen Mah writes about her childhood, growing up as an unwanted child, “If you had not been born, Mama would still be alive”. Similarly, Jane Eyre is an unwanted girl which is why she is sent by Mrs Reed to Lowood the focus of my second text, a parody of an Ofsted report. The text was written for

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

The story that most of us know as “Cinderella” actually has a lot of different versions. These different versions contain several elements that are similar, but yet even more elements that differ from one another. The three main difference between all the different versions of this story are the characters, how others treat the main character, and the setting in which these stories take place.

Perhaps because they had “learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers” and because they had “been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new” (Cather 127).  These girls show the readers how beneficial hard work and poverty can be to a person.  They were made strong because of the obstacles that they had overcome, and they were beautiful for this.  Jim is able to put their abstract pleasantness into words by equating them with poetry.  Somehow, the unique environment that these girls grew up under has made them into the poetry that they are.