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Comparing Cinderella And Cinderella

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The book Cinderella by Kath Jewitt is going to be compared to Cinderella: or, The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault. It will be compared to this Cinderella story instead of the others because they both have several similarities. Some of these similarities are that they have fairy godmothers, Cinderella’s father gets remarried, Cinderella loses her slipper, and they also have a happy ending. After reading Cinderella by Kath Jewitt it is an alternative text to Perrault’s story because even though it is the same story, for the most part, the ending has a slightly different meaning or moral. This moral will be discussed in more detail below along with anything that makes it an alternative text to the original story listed above. Something that could make the story seem like an imitative text instead of an alternative text is the text itself and how it is used in both stories. The text used in the book is mostly paraphrasing what has been said in the original. This makes it seem like an imitative text because the story is, for the most part, the same it does not change the story very much and if it does the changes clarify a few things that were not mentioned in the original. One of the things that it clarifies is what happened to Cinderella’s mother. The book tells us that her mother died while the original just states that her mother was a kind person implying that her mother had died at some point in Cinderella’s life. However, at the end of the book, the moral is all about getting what you deserve instead of how kindness is more important than beauty. This is the moral to the story because Cinderella never tells her stepsisters that she forgives them or helps them find husbands of their own instead she leaves them to do all the household chores by themselves. While her stepsisters are getting what they deserve for making Cinderella do all the chores herself and Cinderella get to live a happy life with the prince which is what she deserves because of her hard work. One reason it is an alternative text is that the pictures used in the story support the idea that Cinderella’s stepsisters are getting what they deserve. The story shows pictures of her stepsisters are fighting with each other and

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