summary ENG1430 W10Jiale Shen

Settla(Jiale Shen)          
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Dr.Marquardt
 

ENG1430 W10
 

Due Date:March 6
 

Word Count#350

Summary

      Long long ago, there was a beautiful and kind girl. Unfortunately, her mother died of severe illness. Not long after her mother passed away, her father married a new wife. However, her stepmother was a selfish and cold-blooded woman. In addition, she brought with two beautiful but greedy daughters. The stepmother treated her badly, letting her wear worn-out clothes and eat remaining meals. Furthermore, the little girl had to do a great deal of housework, such as carrying water, washing clothes, setting fire and making meals. Thus, she covered with dust throughout the body.  Because of it, two vicious sisters made fun of her and called her “aschenputtel”.

     One day, the father went to the fair and brought her daughters what they wanted.  She planted the first branch which knocks against her father’s hat on her mother’s grave.  Her tear fell down on it and watered it, soon it became a handsome tree. It attracted the pigeons, which brought what she had wished for.

      The king invited beautiful young girls all over the world to join in a festival which lasted three days in order to choose a bride for his son. The aschenputtel looked forward to joining in, but the stepmother didn’t allow her to. The stepmother merely took part in the party bringing her two daughters who wear superb clothes. In the meanwhile, the stepmother prevented her from joining in the big festival. Then the aschenputtel went to her mother’s grave and prayed for a beautiful dress. The little tree helped her join in the festival. The first two days she succeeded in escaping, but on the third day, her left slipper remained stuck. The prince looked for her through looking for the owner of this slipper.  Her two sisters wanted to cut part of their foot off to wear this slipper so as to cheat the prince. Two pigeons reminded the prince and at the end of story, they pecked out one eye from each of two sisters.

Reference:

The Grimm brothers(April,1884) Household Tales

http://germanstories.vcu.edu/grimm/aschen_dual.html