Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree

history. There are many versions of this story that not a lot of people read. Two texts that were particularly fascinating were Gold Tree and Silver Tree as well as Nourie Hadig. In Gold Tree and Silver Tree, Silver Tree becomes jealous with Gold Tree’s beauty and tries to kill her newlywed daughter, but Gold Tree made a new friend, and she helped take care of Silver Tree. In Nourie Hadig, Nourie is left in the forest by her father because her mother wants to kill her. There, she takes care of a prince

In the Disney version of Snow White, her stepmother is the one that has all the rage towards snow white and plans to kill her so that the stepmother can be the “fairest in the land”. In the Disney version, the stepmother demands that snow white is killed. After the stepmother finds out from the mirror that Snow White is still alive she uses her magical witch powers to disguise herself as an old lady and ventures out to the cabin where Snow white is staying with the seven dwarfs. Snow white takes

(A Portuguese Tale) and “Gold Tree and Silver Tree” (A Celtic

In the story, Silver-Tree is the wife of a king, and Gold-Tree is their stepdaughter. While visiting a glen, Silver-Tree asks a trout, “‘Troutie, bonny little fellow, am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?’” (Ashliman). The trout told her that she was not the most beautiful, and that Gold-Tree was. Silver-Tree was outraged, and made a pact with herself saying that she would not feel better until she ate the

aspect of jazz. At my first glance of this poem I knew it was about jazz, and the struggles African Americans faced. This poem starts out with “Oh, silver tree” (Hughes, Line 1) which indicates that this tree is valuable, seeing as how most trees are green. He then goes on to say, “Oh, shining rivers of the soul” (Hughes, Line 2). I believe the “silver tree” is related to the higher-class people, and the “shining rivers of the

Scottish version of Snow White Was centered around a girl named Gold-Tree and her mother Silver-Tree. Upon asking a trout who was the most beautiful queen, Silver-Tree became enraged when it said that Gold-Tree was the most beautiful. Falling ill, and convinced that she would not become better until she ate the heart and liver of Gold-Tree, the queen asked the king if he would kill his daughter to make her better. The king instead sends Gold-Tree of with a prince to be married abroad. Giving the queen a

been tragic. In the France and German story, Cinderella’s mother died so; she had to live with her evil, mysterious stepmother. Her stepmother neglects her and treats her like dirt. But, this all changes when her mythical creature gives her the gold and silver dress. Cinderella stories are all similar it’s just that the way it is brought up is where it differs. To begin this, Cinderella is a beautiful, extravagant, but mistreated girl. First of all, the prince said,” How beautiful she is! How beautiful

“Now that no one else was at home, Cinderella went to her mother's grave beneath the hazel tree, and cried out:  Shake and quiver, little tree, Throw gold and silver down to me.  Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver. She quickly put on the dress and went to the festival.” (Grimm’s 1) The bird threw Cinderella gold and other beautiful things so she could go to the ball.  In the French version, Cinderella also received

manifests itself. Cinderella plants the hazel twig her father brings home for her because “she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it” (Grimm 2). The twig turned into a beautiful and magical tree as a result of Cinderella sadness. A symbolic importance is placed on where the tree is planted. Due to the fact that it lies on top of her mother’s grave, it reinforces the idea that her mother is watching over her and presents herself partially in nature.

a fairy godmother. It has this magical hazel tree that Cinderella planted from the first twig that brushed her father's hat when he left on a trip. This tree was planted over her mother's grave. When she wanted to attend the three day festival the royal family was throwing, she went to this tree and spoke, "Shake and quiver little tree, throw gold and silver down to me." A bird in the tree threw her a gold and silver dress with a pair of silk and silver slippers. The element of a fairy godmother is