FAVOURITE FAIRY TALE STORY

1) Orientation:
The story is about a lady, named Cinderella, who is poor and has a father who had just remarried to her step-mother. Her stepmother had two daughters which eventually became her sisters. It also involves a prince who is handsome and all the ladies in the village had fallen for him.

The family received an invitation for all young ladies of the family to go to the palace ball. It was for the prince to choose his future wife. So, the girls in the family was very excited and anticipating for the day to come.

2) Development
The family took out all their most valuable and most attractive jewelleries to match up with the gowns they were wearing. Cinderella was also going for the ball, but she did not have any good-looking dresses to wear so she had to borrow one from her sisters. Both of her sisters agreed to lend it to her but on the condition that Cinderella had to dress both of them up as pretty as possible.

3) Complication
The day came, the sisters realised how beautiful Cinderella looked even with the plain gown that they had lent her to wear. And because of jealousy and advice from their mother, they forbid Cinderella to go to the ball and even locked her up in the storage room.

But fortunately, she got help from her fairy god mother and she made it to the ball and left an impact on the prince. The prince fell in love with her at first sight and went searching for her with the glass slipper that she had left that day.

4) Resolution
The prince went to all the households in the village to find the woman that suits perfectly in the glass slipper that he was holding onto. But of course, he could not find any because it was Cinderella's. When he did reached Cinderella's house, her sisters tried to force their leg into the glass slipper. It did not fit. But Cinderella was warned by her sisters not to try to slipper no matter what. In the end, it was the prince personal request to ask her to try it on and she did. Cinderella admitted to going to the ball and then they were married to each other and lived happily ever after.

5) Coda
I learnt that even though there might be obstacles that obstruct your way to your happiness, there will still be a way to being happy, or maybe even happier than what you were supposed to be.