Cinder Versus Cinderella

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Cinderella vs. Cinder

Although, Cinder and Ella have many similarities, like they both are minors. They have a lot of differences, like they both aren’t named Cinderella it’s Ella’s nickname.

Cinderella is actually her nickname that her cruel step-sister’s gave her, because Ella had slept by the fireplace one night and had cinders all over her face. In the beginning, Ella has both of her parents. Ella’s mother dies first because of sickness. Then, her father left and died of sickness as well. Once she finds out what happened to her father her step mother starts treating her like a housemaid. Unlike Cinder, Ella is fully human(no cyborg parts). Ella’s stepmother is very cruel to her
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As Ella was strolling in the woods she came encountered with “Prince Charming”(also known as Kit), and from the very moment he saw her he fell in love with her. Love at first sight,was what they called it. From then on he was convinced at seeing her at the ball were he would dance with all the maidens in the land and find his one true love. But, when Ella’s step-sisters & stepmother found out about the ball they forbid her to go. Ella was determined to go to the ball so her and her mice friends Jaq and Gus sew Ella’s mother’s dress for the ball. But when her stepsisters and stepmother saw Ella in her mother’s dress they tore it up and ruined it leaving Ella alone in the house. Soon after her cruel step family left, Ella’s fairy godmother appears but not in her most beautiful self, she shows up like a homeless person and asks Ella for some water & as she drinks it she see’s Ella crying and asks and as she explains her fairy godmother reveals herself. She turns a pumpkin into a carriage, 4 mice into white horses,2 lizards into footmen, goose into the coachmen, & turns Ella’s ruined dress into a beautiful blue dress & gives her magical, sparkly slippers. She puts a spell on Ella so that her step family does

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