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Glossary

kniukstaites — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:18:26 CDT

A-C

Term	Definition
cinderella	girls name
mouse	a small animal
attired (formal)	dressed





to crave something	to want something very much

	to say magic words to make something happen
to cast a spell

D-G

Term	Definition






fairy	a powerful , well-intending, well-wishing lady

gallant (adjective)	A man who behaves politely.


grief	A strong feeling of sadness especially if someone dies.

H-L

Term	Definition



haughty	proud and unfriendly

M-Q

Term	Definition
postilion	Someone who rides as a guide on one of the horses pulling a coach.
Proud	Someone who thinks they are better than other people
mouse	small animal
pumpkin	vegetable

R-Z

Term	Definition

rapture	a feeling of great hapiness


toil	hard physical work



vexation	A feeling of annoyance and confusion.

The Cinderella Story

Topseyu — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:34:30 CDT

Once upon a time, there was a man who had a lovely and beautiful lady as his wife. They had one daughter only and her name was Cinderella, who was very dutiful to her parents. But while she was still very young, her mamma died, to the grief of her husband and daughter. After a time, the little girl’s papa married another lady. This lady was evil and haughty, and had two ugly grown-up daughters as disagreeable as herself; so the poor girl found everything at home changed for the worse.

But she bore all her troubles with patience and grace, not even complaining to her father, and, in spite of her hard toil, she grew more lovely in face and figure every year. Now the King’s son held a grand ball, and all persons of quality were invited to it. Our two young ladies were not overlooked. Nothing was now talked of but the rich dresses they were to wear.
At last the happy day arrived. The two proud sisters set off in high spirits. Cinderella followed them with her eyes until the coach was out of sight. She then began to cry bitterly. While she was sobbing, her godmother, who was a Fairy, appeared before her.

“Cinderella,” said the Fairy, “I am your godmother, and for the sake of your dear mamma I have come to cheer you up, so dry your tears; you shall go to the grand ball tonight, but you must do what I was going to tell you. Go into the garden and bring me the biggest pumpkin you can find.” Cinderella brought the finest that was there. Her godmother scooped it out very quickly, and then struck it with her wand, upon which it was changed into a beautiful coach. Afterwards, the old lady peeped into the mouse-trap, where she found six mice. She tapped them lightly with her wand, and each mouse became a fine white horse. The rat-trap contained two large rats; one of these she turned into a coachman, and the other into a postilion. The old lady then told Cinderella to go into the garden and seek for half-a-dozen lizards. These she changed into six footmen, dressed in the gayest livery.

When all these things had been done, the kind godmother touching her with her wand, changed her worn-out clothes into a beautiful ball-dress embroidered with pearls and silver. She then gave her a pair of glass slippers, that is, they were woven of the most delicate spun-glass, fine as the web of a spider.

When Cinderella was thus attired, her godmother made her get into her splendid coach, giving her a caution to leave the ball before the clock struck twelve.
On her arrival, her beauty struck everybody with wonder. The gallant Prince gave her a courteous welcome, and led her into the ball-room; and the King and Queen were as much enchanted with her, as the Princeconducted her to the supper-table, and was too much occupied in waiting upon her to partake of anything himself. While seated, Cinderella heard the clock strike three-quarters past eleven. She rose to leave, the Prince pressing her to accept an invitation for the ball on the following evening. On reaching home, her godmother praised her for being so punctual, and agreed to let her go to the next night’s ball.

Although she seemed to be tired, her sisters, instead of showing pity, teased her with glowing accounts of the splendid scene they had just left, and spoke particularly of the beautiful Princess. Cinderella was delighted to hear all this, and asked them the name of the Princess, but they replied, nobody knew her. So much did they say in praise of the lady, that Cinderella expressed a desire to go to the next ball to see the Princess; but this only served to bring out their dislike of poor Cinderella still more, and they would not lend her the meanest of their dresses.

The next evening the two sisters went to the ball, and Cinderella also, who was still more splendidly dressed than before. Her enjoyment was even greater than at the first ball, and she was so occupied with the Prince’s tender sayings that she was not so quick in marking the progress of time.

To her alarm she heard the clock strike twelve. She fled from the ball-room; but in a moment the coach changed again to a pumpkin, the horses to mice, the coachman and postilion to rats, the footmen to lizards, and Cinderella’s beautiful dress to her old shabby clothes. In her haste she dropped one of her glass slippers, and reached home, out of breath, with none of her godmother’s fairy gifts but one glass slipper.

When her sisters arrived after the ball, they spoke in terms of rapture of the unknown Princess, and told Cinderella about the little glass slipper she had dropped, and how the Prince picked it up. It was evident to all the Court that the Prince was determined if possible, to find out the owner of the slipper; and a few days afterwards a royal herald proclaimed that the King’s son would marry her whose foot the glass slipper should be found exactly to fit.

This proclamation caused a great sensation. Ladies of all ranks were permitted to make a trial of the slipper; but it was of no use. Cinderella now said, “Let me try—perhaps it may fit me.” It slipped on in a moment. Great was the vexation of the two sisters at this; but what was their astonishment when Cinderella took the fellow slipper out of her pocket! At that moment the godmother appeared, and touched Cinderella’s clothes with her wand. Her sisters then saw that she was the beautiful lady they had met at the ball, and, throwing themselves at her feet, craved her forgiveness.

A short time after, she was married to the Prince, to the intense gratification of the whole Court.

The original text was taken from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23303/23303-h/23303-h.htm

The Queen tells it

princessfranziska — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:22:25 CDT

I am mad ! Nobody ever thinks what I have to say about my boys fiancee!

Cinderella's father tells it

princessfranziska — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:19:12 CDT

I am a middle-aged guy. Well 80 is not that old..... I am so relieved that my precious daughter is in good hands. I needed a break, so I have been away on Makumi Island for a while. Cinderella is with her step mum, who is actually more than a step mum, and lovely step sisters. I will be back in 20 years time, because a man has to do what a man has to do. I am sooo ready for a new adventure, like saving princesses and slaying dragons. If only my back wouldn´t hurt so damn much.

Cinderella's mother tells it

PrincessMarina — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:16:29 CDT

I’m the mother of Cinderella. a beautiful lady and sweetheart of my unique husband. I’m not alive at all. I know that my dear husband became miserable after my death.. I miss him too, but he must be strong enough to look after Cinderella. He must do his best until she gets married, and then I will welcome him..

The pumpkin tells it

eceertem — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:29:31 CDT

I hate being a carriage! Fairy Godmother please change me back! I used to be orange and beautiful! I used be tasty, juicy, delicious and definitely sexy! Besides, I don't want to run with these horses! I want my peaceful life back!!!!

Cinderella tells it

Handan — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:05:02 CDT

Yes I know. Everybody envies me. I married a prince and ended up living happily ever after. Is that what every girl dreams of? Well I can tell you, it isn't easy being married to a prince, especially not when you have to live with his mother and father too. You should try it some time and see how happily ever after you feel. But ten years later it is not so easy if you have five children specially when you have to still live with parents in law. Your handsome husband now is balding and moody you should try it some time - check your dream in your real life. Maybe I will ask my godmother to use a magic wand once more to change the prince to be handsome again. Also do the same for me. If my dream comes true i will move to another castle without parents-in-law.To be honest my life is not easy.We are busy with our own work. We have not enough time for each other. I need some change i want to go back in my dreams.
Our life looks glamorous but it is not.

I’m Cinderalla. I had a dream when I was sixteen, so I got married to a prince. He was handsome and lived in a magnificent castle. That was enough to be fascinated. Wasn’t it ?.. I was a poor girl living with a haughty stepmother and two selfish stepdaughter. Getting up before sun rise, cleaning home, cooking meal, sewing and ironing clothes and finally looking after animals until everybody went to bed and not complaining to the father in order not make him upset was my fate. There was only one way to put up with everything, and I did so. After the marriage, the following morning I woke up and saw that the prince was the servant of the palace. He was short and stout. The godmother had helped him too. The magnificent castle was a coop, beatiful young ladies were hens, the king was the watchdog of the farm and the queen was a cat. Now I’m thirty. I have three daughters. I still have a dream.. I want my daughters to go to university, get a job and hava a decent career.

Hello. Everybody calls me CINDERELLA.I don’t know what Cinderella means. When I was a child, I never imagined that I would be famous one day. If somebody had told me my story, I would have laughed at them.But now it is real. When I was at the party, I met my sweetheart who was the prince. That’s why everybody was jealous of me. When I got married, I was so happy. I am still happy. He is very attractive, successful and handsome. He is also proud of himself. I like him so much.However, I am trying to change his conception about monarchy. Every time I tell him democracy is better than monarchy.

The glass slipper tells it

meryem40 — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:03:56 CDT

I’m the one of the glass slippers Cinderella dropped.. Now I’m very tired and worn out..İf the stupid prince had thought of finding the other pair instead of trying to make thousands of ugly, big and fat feet wear me, now I would be as sparkling, beatiful and new as my parther.

The Mice tell it

hsivil — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:48:23 CDT

We were very lucky mice because we changed into imposing horses. It was such a wonderful opportunity for us to modify our own world and see the great palace of the prince.
We thoroughly enjoyed waiting outside watching the guests going in and out that breathtaking palace.
Unfortunately, as we were horses, we had to cope with the weight of the postilion and also with his bad temper.
Overall, it was a marvellous experience to convert our species, but only for a while.

To be honest, I don't believe that this is a real fairy tale. I was expecting Cinderella to kiss me and turn into a handsome prince. You can imagine the rest of couse. Instead, I was transformed into a horse. I now have an aching back. Worst of all I ended up being in the basement. What a life:(((

The Godmother tells it

lesleyduffin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:44:08 CST

The Fairy Godmother - my story

Once upon a time in a very modern city, in a nice apartment, lived a beautiful girl, her name was Cinderelli, with her parents.

Her mum was a supermodel and her dad a designer. When Cinderelli was born her mum and dad begged me to bless her with beauty and I obeyed them. So she grew up as the most prettiest and beautiful girl of the city when her mum realised that she didn't want her only child to be a supermodel like she was.

She came to me in despair and asked me to bless Cinderelli with intelligence, but unfortunately it was too late. You only have one free wish in life and I already blessed her with beauty. What both of us didn't know was that Cinderelli had sealed her fate at the age of twenty in full grown-up beauty. She decided to marry the richest guy in the city and signed a contract for beauty products with chanel.

And the lived happily ever after.

The step mother tells it

barbapapa — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:01:44 CST

Well to be honest I really can't see what the prince saw in Cinderella. I think my daughters were much more attractive and I think history has been very unfair to them labeling them as ugly!
Well, they can't exactly boast Elf Princess Argwen's legendary beauty, but ugly may not be the most adequate term to describe them. Their mother, in contrast, is a completely other story. She's known to be still in her best years, and despite her 3 children and 4 ops (a completely reconstructed nose among them), she looks and smells like a fresh rose.

The rats tell it

simteach — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:46:44 CST

Hey where's my tail? And where's my mate gone? Oh I certainly do feel different... HELP!!! I can see it it this pool of water, my whole handsome ratty appearance has changed!!! Is there a psychologist round here? What a schizophrenic experience... anybody playing God? No, I must be dreaming this, let's concentrate and think of something like... food scraps, yes, I must be waking up any minute...

The Prince tells it

katringentilini — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:38:12 CST

once upon a time I saw a beautiful girl. She was very shy...

The Uglly Sisters tell it

lesleyduffin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:59:01 CDT

We were so jealous of cinderella. When be noticed she was that beautiful princess we felt extremly bad . If we had cut our heel down, we would have fit in that silly shoe, then we would have been in the castle next to the charming prince. But now that this prince has gone with "young blondy" and the kingdom has big problems with mortgages we are happy. It's not our problem.

The modern story

NikPeachey — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:07:36 CDT

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Cinderella: Thier Story Home

NikPeachey — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:50:42 CDT

This wiki is dedicated to the Cinderella story and examining how we can look at a story and build it up from different perspectives. The original text of the story was taken from the Project Gutenberg site at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23303/23303-h/23303-h.htm

So what can you do here?

You can add details to the story and edit it to make it better

You can add more descriptive language to the story
You can write words from the text into the glossary if you don't understand them
You can add definitions to words in the glossary if you do understand them

But most of all I would like you to start writing and adding to the story by writing it from the perspective of the different characters from the text.
Each one has a separate page set up for their version of the events, so please feel free to add to or improve these texts.

So I hope you enjoy the story and feel that you can contribute to enhancing it.

So now start reading Cinderella

best
Nik

The King tells it

NikPeachey — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:29:35 CDT

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