Today in class we have been working in Cinderells Tslr. We have started with a funny activity created by our classmates the week before.

This activity consist on tell the Cinderella tale but they told us the story in a visual way. They drew some simple figures or drawings that were in a cronological lines so we had to interpret the drawings and tell the story. It was a funny activity to do with children in class because is more motivating for them see pictures that see an extend text to read. Also, they can develop their imagination to draw or to interprt the story.

Then, we have recibed the Cinderella tale but it was not the Disney version that all of us know it, there were two different versions , Grimms´version and Charles Perrault´s version. I am going to tell you the Grimms´one that it isn´t created for children.

The Grimms´version is so different. The firt thing that caught my attention was the name or the tittle of the tale, it isn´t Cinderella, it´s Aschenputtel.

This version is more based on religiuos than in magical action, I mean, at the beginning of the story, Ascehnputtel´s mother appear to say her that she has to be a good person to have the God always with her. Also there are other religious simbols like the mother´s grave, doves or that Cinderella prays three times a day.

Other interesting point is that Cinderella´s father has a significant role.

In this version, the Palace send a letter to assist to three festival days in the palace. In this moment, when Cinderella wants to assist to the festival, the famous godmother of the tale doesn´t appear, Cinderella cries in her mother´s grave and a dove gives her the three different dresses and the three different slippers that in this case are not glass slippers , are gold slippers.

Like in the Disney or famous version, Cinderella arrives ti the palace and everyone is impress for her beauty. As you know, Cinderella lose a slipper but in this version she doesn´t run because she has time limits, she escapes because the prince wants to know where she lives and she doesn´t want to show him her house.

In the moment where the prince goes house by house trying on the gold slipper, the two stepsisters do a horrible actions. One of them cut her toes to have a smaller foot and the other one cut their heels but the prince becomes aware of this and finally, Cinderella trys on the slippers and they get married.

For the stepsisters, these authors give them an horrible destine, they were condemned to be blind.

I hope that you like this version of Cinderella for adults and I encourage you to know more versions of different fairy tales.