GREEN VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC. Km 2, Bo.2, General Santos Drive, Koronadal City, South Cotabato Submitted to: WESLEY JOHN ODANGGO SUBJECT TEACHER Submitted by: RONALYN B. LOZADA BEED 2HB SUMMARY Cinderella was a fairy tale and imaginative story written by Charles Perrault in1697.’Rags to riches' this is how to describe Cinderella who has a beautiful, sweet and very kind heart. The ordeal and oppression of her life started when his father married her evil stepmother and meet her evil step sisters, where Cinderella suffered and take hardships a lot from them. Where the name Cinderella did came from? The named Cinderella was named by her stepsisters because Cinderella always sits in the cinders and ashes at their chimney corner which caused her to be called cinderwench or cindery. Her life began to change when the King’s son got a royal invitation to have a royal ball in the palace. But this Cinderella was not allowed by her evil stepmother to attend the royal ball. Because she wanted to attend the ball and met the Prince, her fairy godmotherhelped her to fix herself using the magic wand. She also made carriage for ride and its attendants using the animals in their yard but all this has a limit until midnight. When they first met, the Prince was immediately fascinated by her beauty. Cinderellarun away at their first meeting but at the second invitation the Prince spoke toCinderella and they both danced. At the second time Cinderella ran away again at the ball and return home-losing one of her glass shoes. Thanks to this pair of shoes because the prince has make a way to find and search the owner of the left glass-shoe through shoe-fitting for everyone that whoever can fit the glassshoe will be married to the prince. Until the guards arrived at Cinderella’s house and put the slipper on her foot. Everyone was surprised because it fit on her and she took the piece of her shoe from her pocket to prove that it was really her. Not later, her step sisters asked for forgiveness which she immediately forgave them with all her heart. Soon, Cinderella and the prince got married and they lived happily ever after.https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault06.html VERBAL ELEMENTS 1. THE WRITERS PURPOSE Charles Perrault was born on January 12, 1628, Paris, France, and died on May 15, 1703 at Paris, France. He was a French poet, prose writer, and a storyteller, a leading member of the academic Francasie, who played prominent part in a literary controversy known as the quarrel of him Ancient and Moderns. In other hand, one of his best known works was the fairytale story of Cinderella where the story teaches the readers about the virtues and kindness, patients and perseverance in the face of adversity. The tale also serves as a commentary on a social class and the importance of inner beauty over outward appearance. The purpose of Perrault’s fairytales, including Cinderella, was to entertain and instruct his readers, particularly the upper classes, about proper behavior and morals. Perrault’s tales often contained a moral lesson or message at the end, which was meant to guide readers in their behavior and decision-making. Overall, Perrault’s Cinderella and his other fairytale were written to both certain and educate his readers, teaching them important lessons about morality and proper behavior through the medium of storytelling. 2. CHARACTERS CINDERELLA - The antagonist in the story - The main character in the story - The most beautiful lady who married by the prince. - A daughter that has the most kindness and goodhearted. -A slave and a servant in her own house by her evil stepmother and stepsisters. STEPMOTHER -The protagonist in the story -The second woman married by the father of Cinderella -The proudest and the haughtiest evil woman. - The mother of two evil stepsisters of Cinderella also an abusive stepmother. STEPSISTERS -The two stepsisters are also evil. They are jealous of Cinderella. PRINCE -The prince charming of Cinderella -Husband of Cinderella -The one who invite everyone to the royal ball at the palace. FAIRY GODMOTHER - The one who helped Cinderella to attend the royal ball in the palace. - -The magical character in the story. KING - The father of the prince. 3. PLOT THE BEGGINING In a long time ago, on the land of far away there was a beautiful lady named Cinderella, she was a girl who has a kind and good hearted which she tooked it from her late mother. Cinderella has a wicked and evil stepmother and stepsister who were unparalleled to her goodness and kindness. Her stepfamily was made her a servant and slave in her own house. CONFLICT The day after, the king’s son invited everyone for a royal ball in the palace and Cinderella wants to go there and met the prince but her stepmother didn’t want her to go to the ball, hence she gave Cinderella’s many house chores that she had to finish on time. Cinderella cried and cried and thought that she lost hope to attend the royal ball and didn’t met the prince to see but her fairy godmothercame and save her a. So that the conflict in the story is External, Cinderella vs. her stepmother and it’s character vs. character. RISING ACTION She dressed her in fancy clothes with gold and silver clasps with other jewels, she also made a carriage for Cinderella’s to ride to palace, and lastly she also gave the young lady a pair of glass of shoes and immediately rushed off to attend the ball. By midnight, Cinderella immediately ran as fast as she could. This is also what she did on the second night when the prince invited her again. She ran with great speed until she left the piece of her glass-shoe and the prince saw it. CLIMAX The day after, the prince search the owner of the pair of glass-shoeby fitting it to everyone who attended the night of the ball. Until the guards arrived at Cinderella’s house and put the shoe to her foot and it fit. FALLING ACTION Cinderella went home to prince’s palace and her two stepsisters also begged for her forgiveness and she forgave them without any hesitation. RESOLUTION Cinderella and the prince got married and they live happily ever after. 4. SETTING The setting in the story was in Cinderella’s house where in the chimney corner that Cinderella’s always sit in and in the king’s palace where the royal ball happen that the king’s son invited everyone to attend. When Cinderella entered the ball at the palace, a hush for everyone stopped in the middle to admire Cinderella’s elegance and her beauty and grace. 5. THEME The theme in the story was all about love, kindness, envy and jealous. LOVE This is the reason why Cinderella got away from her evil stepmother and stepsisters and also she got the peace and freedom of her life with the prince. KINDNESS Through the kindness of Cinderella’s own she got rewarded for it by her fairy godmother and through this the evil souls of her stepmother and stepsisters got defeated. ENVY AND JEALOUS The stepsisters of Cinderella always feel envy and jealous to her because of her kindness and beauty owned. Even though this 2 stepsisters of Cinderella dresses like a very rich than her but the beauty of her takes hundred times than them. 6. STYLE The style of this fairytale story was narrative style. Because the third person omniscient point of view told all of the action in the story and he/she uses the pronouns “he, she, they his and her”. VISUAL ELEMENTS IILUSTRATION The link that I used as my bases on my chosen story has no photos and pictures included on it. Therefore, I search for new sources that has photos and pictures that produced also by Disneyhttps://princess.disney.com/cinderella. The line that they used is straight line, curved line and diagonal lines. They used also painting to illustrate the characters in the story and the color that they use is light colors and pastel colors. ISSUES AND CONCERNS MOVIE AND TV VERSIONS Literature is one of the ways to enjoy child’s life. This is also the reason why their skills are improved and developed. When we say literature it talks about the works of art either written works, imaginative works through poetry, poem, novels, short stories, fairytales, and essays and so on. Through reading literature it improves their imaginative skills, cognitive skills, critical thinking skills and also their creativity. One of the stories that young people or children love is the story of Cinderella. Cinderella story was one of the known and most popular classic fairytale in all times, even though it has been written and published for a long time ago by Charles Perrault but it’s still known not only in one country but also famous all over the world. It’s not only enjoyed by children but also by adults who love and treasured literature. Because of the well-known and popularity of this fairytale story, it was done in different versions whether in books or in different channels and movies. One of the channels who produce Cinderella story was Disney which is cartoon characters who perform on this channel in the year 1950. At this Disneyversion, they changed a lot of scenarios in the movie they released, just like the dress of Cinderella wore which in the Disney version it was color blue dress in the original version it was a gold and silver dress, also in Disney version it was not explained where the named Cinderella came from but in the original version it was said there and explained where the name Cinderella came from and it was made it, which is her stepsisters because Cinderella always sit in the cinders and ashes at their chimney or cindery. Moreover, on the day of the royal ball where the prince announced for everyone. In the Disney version it only happened for one night and that’s when Cinderella ran away and was left with her pair of glass-shoe on the stairs while in the original version, the royal ball happened for two nights at the palace and on the second night it was therethat Cinderella left her pair of glass-shoe because the magic was lasted only until midnight. Lastly, the carriage of Cinderella in Disney version was color blue, gold and pink while in the original version it was only surrounded by gold and in Disneyversion Cinderella was has golden and charming voice that even her pet mice and birds are obsessed to listen with it while in the original version, writer didn’t mentioned any of it. Another movie was produced also by Disney in the year 2015 at this movie each character was played by a real person. The named of the main character in this story was Ella (Cinderella) where in the story the father of young Ella died unexpectedly while in the original version didn’t mentioned what really happened after her father married to her cruel and evil stepmother. Also, Ella has a golden and charming voice; her dress was color blue while in the original version it was surrounded by gold and silver. The royal ball takes only one night while the original version takes two nights at the palaceofthe prince and lastly the original the new versions of Cinderella has end with happy ending. Both versions have the moral lesson that tells to reader and viewers.
