The Original Cinderella vs. Disney's

       We all know of the beloved Disney classic, Cinderella. The story of the sad girl who lost her parents, and the wretched step mother with her two children to match, making poor Cinderella's life miserable even though she always does what she's told. Later she wants to go to a ball so naturally the horrible mother gives her a list with an enormous amount of things to do before she can go, blah blah, she gets them done and low and behold step mom says no, shocker right? Fairy God mother comes gets her the dress and the carriage with horses, but the catch is she has to be back at midnight. As Cinderella is dancing with the prince who gravitated towards her out of all of the other candidates, she realizes that it's time to go, she runs loses her slipper and then the prince is on a wild goose chase to find the one who fits into the slipper. The princes people come to the door the step mom doesn't let Cunderella try the shoe on, locks her upstairs, she gets out and comes down stairs with the shoe that didn't fall off, fits her perfectly and her and the prince get married and live happily ever after. Perfect story of love and tragedy and nice people always winning right? Three real life adaptions and still no one has the original story straight. Not Hillary Duff, Selena Gomez, or Lucy Hale, no, no, and no. 

       Let's get the story straight. In the beginning, it is the same in a sense, but her mother died and Cinderella was so sad that she would sit at her mothers grave where a beautiful tree grew. Without out quoting it word for word because I'm not sure of it exactly, but her mothers dying words were stay kind and God will give you and help you with what you need. Her father later remarried, to the same nasty lady and had two beautiful girls with ugly souls like their mother. The girls and she were greedy, and were never kind to Cinderella, which is why she was called what she was. Ella was her given name, but with all the cleaning she did, she was rather filthy coated with cinder, so the lovely girls decided to nickname her 'cinder-ella'. When it came time for the ball, her stepmother told her she had two hours I believe to clean up small lentils from around the fire place, and if she got them done then and only then could she go to the ball. Ella called on her bird friends to help her sort the good ones from then bad so she could get done on time. As you can imagine she got done, left to the masquerade type of ball wearing golden attire that her mothers tree and birds supplied, which was how she went unrecognized, and danced with the prince leaving in hurry just like Disney's version. The prince then help another ball trying to catch the girl he had danced with last time, so he put something syrupy on the steps to catch her when she ran, causing her to take her foot out of the shoe and leave it. As the princes people came around, Ella's stepmother and sisters knew they would not be able to fit their gargantuous feet into the shoe, so naturally they cut their big toes and or heels off in hopes that would help, which it would've if the princes helpers wouldn't have noticed the blood and then figured that this was not the right girl. The prince saw Cinderella and insisted that she try on the shoe even though her step mom tried to say she is much too dirty, she tried on the shoe and it fit for obvious reasons, and they got married. Everyone in the kingdom went to the ceremony including the nasty sisters, but they were blinded because birds had pecked their eyes out probably for revenge in the name of sweet 'Cinder-Ella'. 

The End

This is not quite word for word, but this is more or less the original story. Nice try Disney;)

"...it all started because of a mouse." -Walt Disney