Compairing two Cinderellas

The Native American story “Cinderella” had some vast differences and similarities from the Walt Disney version” Cinderella.” The story starts out telling us about a poor girl who is deprived of so many things because she is thought of to be ugly. The one thing she longs to do more than anything is go to the Dance of the Sacred Bird. But she knows that she would never be able to go since she has been forbidden before every time. This presents the same problem that we see in the Disney’s Cinderella, where she wants to go to the ball but she is forbidden to go by her evil step mother and sisters. This problem is brought up earlier in the story in the Native American Cinderella but shares many of the same qualities. In the Native American story Cinderella’s job is to take care of her turkeys day and night, she talks to them about her wishes and of going to the Dance. She never thought that they could possibly be magical turkeys and help her be the prettiest maiden in the town. This happens in our Cinderella as well, when she thinks that all hope is lost her fairy godmother and her trusty mice come and by making her the prettiest lady there, allows her to arrive at the ball in the most beautiful dress anyone has ever seen. In the Native American story there is a scene when the turkeys are dressing Cinderella and singing that is a lot like the part in Disney’s Cinderella when the mice are dressing Cinderella and singing. In both of the Cinderella stories Cinderella has something she must do in order to go to the ball and dance, although they are very different tasks. In the Native American Story Cinderella must not forget the turkeys that made her so privileged or the turkey will run away. In the end of the story the girl ends up forgetting about the turkeys and does not want to come home, so the turkey leave and run away into the canyon never wanting to see her again. In the Walt Disney Version, Cinderella must be home at midnight or everything that the fairy godmother gives to her will disappear. Cinderella barley makes it home before everything disappears but looses her slipper, the prince that she dances with finds it and eventually finds her: everything ending happily ever after. In my opinion the Native American story had more of a moral. The story ended very sadly, but taught the girl a lesson. She learned not to take things for granted and lived alone for the rest of her life. (Obviously not as much of a kid story as Walt Disney’s version.)