Cinderella Research Paper

One of the most common stories in many cultures would be Cinderella. Cinderella is the most popular Disney Princesses among children. The Grant version of “Cinderella” and the “Persian Cinderella” by Climo S. uses the strategy plot call “rags to riches”. Both these books were published in the same century. Even though they use the same strategy, their culture had an overwhelming influence over the characters, the setting, and curved the plot. The characters chosen in Grant’s “Cinderella” was heavy based by the American culture. The Cinderella seems more of an English name. The characters in the story had only one race which was Caucasian. The hairstyles also resemble the American culture with the big bows and have the hair tie into buns for special occasions. The clothing in this was very relevant at the times during the late 1940’s and 1950s in America. They wore skirts and a handkerchief in their hair while doing chores, or at work. The clothes of the Prince resemble a lot of how we see what a prince would wear during a special occasion. In the “Persian Cinderella”, Settareh was the name of the orphan in the story. All the characters in the story wore robes, and had no European, or American influence to the clothing. Settareh also had very black soft hair, and a polished ebony skin color. That makes sense the

In Grant’s story it seems like it was based in a 1st world country with how the buildings are formed in the movie such as the European castle, but in Climos’s the kingdom had a mosque looking castle. Climo’s story had pomegranate trees ,and it even name a mountain range call the Alborz which makes this story more believable verses Grant’s story, because that is a real mountain range in Iran. Pomegranate trees originated there, and many Iranians praise this tree. The culture in Climo does also affect the setting, by the foods that were served during the celebration with only lamb and produce to