Beauty's Story: The Yellow Cow

The story began with Beauty (the main character) wanting to go to the theaters with her stepmother and stepsister (Pock face). However, the step mother would not allow Beauty to tag along with then unless she accomplish the things her stepmother told her to do, such as straightening the hemp in her room and dividing the beans from the sesame seeds. The tormenting tasks that was given to her made Beauty frustrated. Luckily, the yellow cow in their garden (which turned out to be Beauty’s biological mother that is being treated harshly by her stepmother) helped in such an astonishing way. However, this did not last long. Once the stepmother found out that it was the yellow cow that was helping Beauty accomplish her tasks, she killed the cow and

One of the things she broke was the pot containing the bones of her mother. Magically, a new dress, a horse, and an embroidered new pair of shoes appeared. Without hesitance, Beauty put on her new garments and rode her horse out of their house. Along the way, Beauty encountered a problem, which she needed another person’s help to pick up her shoes that fell into a ditch. A few gentlemen (a fishmonger, a rice broker, and a scholar) came along her way who was willing to help her if she agrees to get married. The only one that she agreed to was the handsome scholar. When the stepmother and step sister found out that she was marrying a handsome scholar, they plotted Beauty’s death, which was to push her down to the well and drown. Since Beauty drowned, her sister, Pock face took her place to become the wife of the scholar. Little did Pock face know, Beauty was able to change her outside appearance multiple times just to be able to become the scholar’s wife. Beauty changed into a sparrow, a bamboo which was turned into a bed, because her evil step sister tried killing her every time she gets near the