Cinderella And The Golden Clog Summary

To begin the German and Iraqi versions of the story share similarities and differences. In both versions there is a beautiful young lady who was mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. The stepsisters did not clearly state why they treated Cinderella the way they did but it’s pretty obvious that they treated her that way because Cinderella isn’t as wealthy as them but she is still more beautiful than them. Although the “Cinderella” (Germany) and “The little red fish and the golden clog” (Iraqi) are two different stories they share similar traits; such as they were both raised by their fathers after their mothers passed, both was mistreated by their stepmother and stepsisters, and both had a godmother figure who helped them find love.

Incidentally when both Cinderella’s were young they lost someone very special to them.

The young girl from the “Cinderella” story lost her mother to sickness. Cinderella was then raised and taken care of by her father. The young girl from “The little red fish and the golden clog” lost her mother to her drowning in a lake. Cinderella wanted her father to be happy and still needed and wanted a motherly figure so she told her dad to find new love. “Why don’t you marry our neighbor, father?” said Cinderella. After the young girl’s mother passed away and was given a stepmother and stepsisters was soon regretted when the new family members began being rude towards Cinderella. Both young ladies wanted their father to be happy and didn’t want to complain about the new members so they just allowed this to go on for several

years.
To illustrate the Cinderella’s mistreatment imagine a young girl completing manual labor
In rags as clothes. For example, in the story “Cinderella” she would be at home working very hard so make them satisfied, because if she didn’t do right Cinderella wouldn’t be fed. Cinderella’s stepmother took all of her beautiful clothes away giving them to her daughters and gave Cinderella rags as dress wear. Cinderella had to cook, clean, make fire, and carry water. (Grimm) In “The little red fish and the golden clogs”, Cinderella would not be given soap to wash herself and was barely being fed. “I picked up the scorpion with my own hand so I’ll give myself my own mind”, Cinderella said. Thinking that would make the pain go away. The responsibility these young females were given was not fair nor was it right. Resulting in how wrong they treated Cinderella, she did not ever be rude to them or treat them wrong all she wanted was to be liked and when Cinderella had a godmother to comfort her when she was down everything changed.
Another way the two versions are similar is both have godmother figures who help them find love.

The young girl in the story “Cinderella” cried out to her stepmother to be able to attend the festival with them but he stepmothers said “it’s no use. You are not coming with us, for you have no clothes, and you don’t know how to dance. We would be ashamed of you.”(Grimm) Cinderella went to her mother’s grave in shame calling out for help. When she was then helped by a mysterious bird who gave her beautiful clothing made of gold silver allowing her to attend to the festival allowing her to fall in love with a handsome prince. The young female in “the little red fish and the golden clogs” was given a beautiful dress from her godmother to wear that included golden clogs. Cinderella went to a bride’s day party and got married to a prince. After her stepmother tried to ruin everything including her marriage. Cinderella was helped by someone who dearly loved her and helped her be successful at the

end.
Although “Cinderella” and “The little red fish and the golden clog” are two different stories they are similar in there ways, both raised by fathers after losing their mothers, both was mistreated by their stepmother and stepsisters, and both had godmother figures who helped them find love. Even though Cinderella was mistreated by those who were supposed to be nice to her Cinderella still kept a positive attitude and never held a grudge towards anyone. The moral of the story is always be nice to people because you never know what will happen at the end.