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Genre

Fairy-tale is a make believe story that usually happens long ago. It is a type of
short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as
dwarves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually
magic or enchantments. Usually the story ends with happy ending or ends with
happily ever after. For this fairy-tale genre, there are many books that can be
introduced to the children like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and
etc. One of the famous and favourite fairy-tale books among children is Cinderella.
Cinderella as we can see it is a fairy-tale because there was a fairy
godmother with a magic wand and can cast a spell even can make a pumpkin turned
into carriage. This story also ends with happily ever after.
Cinderella basically about a girl who lived with her stepmother and her
stepsisters after her father died. Unfortunately, she was treated like a servant and
every day she needed to wash the floors, do the laundry and cook for them. Then,
they got an invitation to the royal ball. Cinderella wanted to go but she could not.
When her stepmother and her stepsisters were at the ball, Cinderellas fairy
godmother came and made a beautiful dress for her and a pumpkin to ride in. The
fairy godmother used her magic wand. The prince fell in love with Cinderella at the
ball when they danced but he did not know her name. Cinderella was in a hurry to
get home before midnight and left one of her glass slippers. At the end, the prince
finally found Cinderella and married her.

Characters
The protagonist is the main character trying to resolve the main conflict while
the antagonist is the person against the main character. The main character in this
story is Cinderella and her stepmother.
Based on this story, the protagonist is Cinderella. Physically, Cinderella is a
very gorgeous and beautiful young woman. Her personality, she was a very
independent and headstrong young woman because she doesn't let out her anger
and sorrow even she was treated like a maid with her stepmother and stepsisters
and she has nobody. She never ever yells at people and she is very sweet even
though her stepmother is very rude to her. And based on the movie, she was also
kind to her little mouse friends.

Next is the antagonist that is Cinderellas stepmother who made Cinderellas
life was awful and treated her like a maid n her own home. She always ordered
Cinderella to do these and that. Her stepmother even made her to sleep in the
kitchen. She treated Cinderella cruelly. She did not want Cinderella to live happily
and always spoil her daughters. It can be seen when there was an invitation to the
royal ball; they did not allow her to go to the ball even though she wanted to go.
The minor characters are the stepsisters, The Prince and the fairy godmother.
They may not seem important but they play an important role in helping the main
characters. The stepsisters were being cruel towards Cinderella like how the
stepmother treated her. The fairy godmother helped Cinderella to attend the royal
ball. As for the Prince, he was the one who fell in love with Cinderella and married
her and took away Cinderella from living as a maid with her stepfamily. All of these
characters have their own importance in the story. Last but not least, Cinderellas
father who was married to another woman that is the stepmother and he died. So
after the father died, the conflict started.

Setting
In addition, the other feature of the story for young children is the setting. As
have been discussed earlier, the setting is about the context in which the story takes
place that includes the three main components that are the time, the place, and the
social environment. Generally, the setting in Cinderella story takes place a long time
ago in faraway kingdom in a land ruled by a king and a queen. Then, the other is the
stepmothers or Cinderella house and also the Princes castle when they had the
ball. It is clearly to see that most of the story is taking place in their house from the
beginning until the ball and at the end of the story when the messenger go to their
house in searching the owner of the glass slipper.
The other component of setting is the social environment. Based on the story,
the strict class-based society allows the entire story to happen, through how a world
where the wealthy have everything, it sometimes seems like money would solve all
of problems. It can be seen through when Cinderellas stepmother and stepsisters
prepare for the ball like their dress and the carriage to ride in. And luckily, they may
come from the wealthy or upper class family because they have been invited to the
royal ball.

Plot
Exposition is when the characters and the setting are been introduced.
Exposition: Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a girl named
Cinderella. She lived with her evil step-mother and two evil stepsisters. They treat
her like a servant and not as a sister.
Rising action is when something happens that just makes a huge impacted on the
story and leading up to the climax.
Rising action: Everyday, the evil stepmother made Cinderella work all day long.
One day, they got an invitation to the royal ball but the evil stepmother and her
stepsisters would not allow her to go to the ball. Cinderella thought all hope was lost
until her fairy godmother appeared. Dressed in a beautiful own and glass slippers,
Cinderella rushed off to the ball.
Climax is the highest point of emotion.
Climax: Cinderella attended the royal ball and danced with the Prince Charming.
The Prince fell in love with Cinderella but he did not know her name. Cinderella ran
away to go home before midnight because the spell will gone. The Prince Charming
looked for her but he found a glass slipper. The Prince searched her but only found
one of her glass slipper.

Falling action is when all the pasts of the story start to come together.
Falling action: The Prince searched for Cinderella and finally found her that really fit
into the glass slipper. Her stepmother and her stepsisters shocked.
Resolution means the conclusion of the story or the end of the story.
Resolution: Cinderella married to the Prince and lived happily ever after.
There were two events that changed Cinderellas life. The first event was
when her father died and she had to live with her stepfamily and her life turn awful.
The stepfamily treated her badly. The second event was when Cinderella went to the
royal ball and met The Prince. It was a beautiful night for Cinderella. These events
totally gave impact to Cinderellas life.

Themes
Basically, one of the themes for Cinderella story is good over evil. The good
one is portrayed by Cinderella who was very headstrong and patience young woman
who was being badly treated by her stepfamily. And the evil is definitely portrayed by
the stepmother and the stepsisters. As we can see, the good portrayed a very good
behaviour such as patience, headstrong and independent while the evil portrayed
laziness, mean and cruel.
Another theme for this story is we should make the best of any situation and
things will work out in the end. Cinderella was never angry or rebel when the
stepfamily treated her badly. She could just run away but still she stayed. She was
very patience and at the end she got what she supposed to has.

Moral Values
Firstly, what can be learned through this story is be strong and independent
when we face any problem in our life and do not simply give up because everything
happens for a reason and for those who face it with a good way will turn out to have
a positive ending. And for those who choose the wrong and a bad way will turn out to
have a negative ending.
Secondly, we should treat each other nicely especially with our own family
and relatives because we might need their helps and need one another. It is not
good to just simply mistreat other people.

Diction, length and Illustration
This book can be easily understood by the children and in fact they will learn
new vocabularies. Based on the plot, the story is not too complicated for the children
to comprehend the overall story. The length is very suitable for young children and in
fact there are many coloured pictures and illustrations which can help the children to
imagine and understand the story. For this book, they can look at how beautiful
Cinderellas gown during the royal ball that has been illustrated nicely. They can also
see how Cinderellas house looks like and the situation during the royal ball that
happened in the castle.

Conclusion
To sum up, Cinderella story is one of the interesting fairy-tale stories that can
be introduced to young children in order to encourage them to read books. Based on
the features that have been discussed, the children can learn a lot through it and
they can even share with their family, friends and teachers about their feelings and
opinions.

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