Cinderella Retelling

Last week we did our first retelling of a fairytale which is Cinderella, since I didn't get to finish mine last week I finished it today. Here is my take on Cinderella.

In a small castle far far away with only one neighbouring kingdom lived a family of three. A Father named Francis, a Mother named Frida and a daughter named Ella. To the outside world, they looked like a picture-perfect family but inside the walls of their castle, their family was crumbling. As much as they try to make things work, day by day more strain is put on their relationship. It was especially hard for Ella to see her parents fight. A few mornings later Ella woke up and went down to the hall like usual but this time her mother wasn't there to greet her. Knowing something bad happened, she goes to look for her father. She finds him in the conservatory sobbing.  She had left. 

With no trace of her mother, her father had no choice but to accept it and move on. A year had passed and her father remarried a noble woman, Lady Tramaine. She has 2 daughters named Anastasia and Drizzella.  It was hard seeing her father with another woman who isn’t her mother but she is glad to see him happy.  At first Lady Tramaine was treating Ella like her own but when her father went away for a business trip she would make her clean the fireplace and do the chores. She would have cinder all over her clothes, getting the nickname Cinderella. 

It was an exciting day because a prince was looking for a wife in the neighbouring kingdom. They got an exquisite invitation to go to a ball to meet the prince. Thrilled, Cinderella started working on her dress. When lady Tramaine found out that Cinderella wanted to go, she goes up to Cinderella’s chamber and took the dress. When Cinderella woke up she was devastated to see the dress burning in the fireplace. Knowing that Lady Tramaine did it she chose not to tell her father since she didn’t want them to fight. When her father asked her what happened to the dress, she simply said that a little mishap had happened and not to worry because she was just going to make another one. On the day of the ball Cinderella still doesn’t have a dress to wear, she decided to help Anastasia and Drezzella get ready. As she was tightening their corset her father pulls her aside to show her a dress that her mother had worn before they got married. He had wanted her to wear it to the ball. One little thing he mentioned was not to tell Lady Tramaine that the dress was her mother so she wouldn’t get upset. 

When Lady Tramain and the girls had left, she puts on the dress and makes her way to the courtyard to see her father with a carriage so she would go to the ball. When she got there Lady Tramain was overwhelmed by her beauty not knowing it was her step-daughter. With everyone watching the prince asked her to dance. Looking at the clock she noticed that it was almost midnight and her father told her to go by then. She hurries to go outside but the prince stops her asking her to marry him. She explains that she had to go home but says yes anyway. The next day she heard people talking down the hall, it was the prince from last night asking her father if he could marry her, she gets ready and they make their way back to the castle. Lady Tramaine wasn’t very happy, she sadden that Francis didn’t tell her anything about the dress Cinderella had worn the other night. She packed her and her daughters’ bags and left. 

On the day of the wedding, Cinderella was shocked to see her mother amongst the crowd. At the reception, she makes her way to her father and mother. Her father explains that Lady Tramain had left and Her mother decided to come back to see Cinderella get married, after that day they lived happily ever after.