Making Literature Matter: An Anthology of Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. Boston, 2000.

Response by Angela Fushtey
 

This was probably the most interesting piece of writing that I have read yet.  Not because it is a story I know of but the fact that I went into the story expecting it to be a certain thing and came out with a totally new view on the story.  The fairy tale that we all know is happy and full of ideas that are not gruesome yet thins story includes the mutilation of feet and eyeballs which I totally did not expect.  It is odd how most fairy tales are manipulated from past stories that are not fit for a child who is say three or four to read.

The story is written about a young girl whose mother dies and she is left to live with a wicked step mother and two nasty sisters who treat her like dirt.  She than gets a beautiful dress from her mothers grave that magically appears.  She does so so she can go to ball in which she meets the Prince who dances with only her.  She looses her shoe and well you can guesst he rest.  The part that I did not think fit in with the story is where her sisters mutilate their feet to fit into the shoe and when the prince sees that they have done so returns them to their mother.  In the end the shoe fits Cinderella and she gets the Prince.

This story is about five pages long and very fast going reading because of the fact it is written in a style even a child could understand.  There is no author stated but it is stated that the story was translated by Jack Zipes.
 
 
 

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