Reflection
The fairy tale that I chose to rewrite, is the story of Cinderella. As a child, this was one of my favorite tales, and I loved to hear it. This being my favorite story, and knowing that Cinderella was so sweet and pure, I did not like how her stepmother, forced her to become a servant. The step mother and step sisters, made her do everything, and I did not like that. Well, in today’s time it is much of the same way when I comes to some step mothers and their step children. The mother is often jealous of the relationship that the child and the father have, and start treating the child much like Cinderella was treated. So, I thought it would be nice to switch the role and make Cinderella’s fathers new girlfriend treat all of the girls bad, so they will know how it felt to do this to Cinderella.
First, I made the setting of the story be in the early 90’s in the city of Chicago. I picked Chicago to be my setting, because, when I think of Chicago, it gives me a chills. I think of the people being mean. I changed the name of my main character to be Spinarella, because I am clearly spinning the story around. I made the characters mother die in the story, so my character was forced to live with her father. Her father was in the military, and he and his daughter would often travel the world, being that she was an only child. While in Hawaii, he meets a woman, whom he falls in love with, and marries her. She has two daughters, and the step mother, alone with her daughters are very mean to Spinarella. They try to turn her into a servant, just like the original story. Well, the evil step mother develop cancer and die. Spinarella’s father take the girls in, and let them continue to live with him and his daughter, not knowing that these girls alone with their mother had, been making his child do all the work around the house. Spinarella, has a fairy god mother, who has been with her ever since her mother had die, that see everything that these girls are doing to this poor child. Spinarella hates these girls for how they have treated her, and she does not want them to stay with her and her father, she wants them to go elsewhere.
But, to Spinarella’s surprise her step sisters are very thankful, and have a change of heart about the way they are were treating her. They would often help her with her chores, when they saw she needed it, and being they were older than her they would stay at home with her, being that their father was a busy man. Their father had started the dating process. This made the step sisters feel a little scared, because they knew that they were not his biological children and they felt as if the new lady would mistreat them or their father would make them leave and go south. But, upon meeting the new girlfriend none of the girls including Spinarella liked her. She came into the home, as if she was power hungry, and carried a bad attitude. That was a bad idea for her to be that way. One day while she was asleep the girls tied her up. She could not deal with the children, so she packed her things and left.
I used a few of Propp’s 31 function, when writing this story. I used victory, absentation, and solution. Victory was use in my story, the girls did not want their father’s new girl around, and so they gain victory by tying her up, making her leave their home. Absentation was in my story. All of the girls had an absent parent (mothers) so this made them have only their father and each other. The solution to the story was, the evil sisters learned to love Spinarella, and take care of her as if she was their own. The girls knew that they did not want an evil lady around giving them orders, so they learned to do things themselves around the house, and make their father happy.
First, I made the setting of the story be in the early 90’s in the city of Chicago. I picked Chicago to be my setting, because, when I think of Chicago, it gives me a chills. I think of the people being mean. I changed the name of my main character to be Spinarella, because I am clearly spinning the story around. I made the characters mother die in the story, so my character was forced to live with her father. Her father was in the military, and he and his daughter would often travel the world, being that she was an only child. While in Hawaii, he meets a woman, whom he falls in love with, and marries her. She has two daughters, and the step mother, alone with her daughters are very mean to Spinarella. They try to turn her into a servant, just like the original story. Well, the evil step mother develop cancer and die. Spinarella’s father take the girls in, and let them continue to live with him and his daughter, not knowing that these girls alone with their mother had, been making his child do all the work around the house. Spinarella, has a fairy god mother, who has been with her ever since her mother had die, that see everything that these girls are doing to this poor child. Spinarella hates these girls for how they have treated her, and she does not want them to stay with her and her father, she wants them to go elsewhere.
But, to Spinarella’s surprise her step sisters are very thankful, and have a change of heart about the way they are were treating her. They would often help her with her chores, when they saw she needed it, and being they were older than her they would stay at home with her, being that their father was a busy man. Their father had started the dating process. This made the step sisters feel a little scared, because they knew that they were not his biological children and they felt as if the new lady would mistreat them or their father would make them leave and go south. But, upon meeting the new girlfriend none of the girls including Spinarella liked her. She came into the home, as if she was power hungry, and carried a bad attitude. That was a bad idea for her to be that way. One day while she was asleep the girls tied her up. She could not deal with the children, so she packed her things and left.
I used a few of Propp’s 31 function, when writing this story. I used victory, absentation, and solution. Victory was use in my story, the girls did not want their father’s new girl around, and so they gain victory by tying her up, making her leave their home. Absentation was in my story. All of the girls had an absent parent (mothers) so this made them have only their father and each other. The solution to the story was, the evil sisters learned to love Spinarella, and take care of her as if she was their own. The girls knew that they did not want an evil lady around giving them orders, so they learned to do things themselves around the house, and make their father happy.
