Reading Journal 1

Reading Journal Week 1.

Book: Grimm Fairy Tales Volume One (Red Riding Hood - Cinderella

Author: Joe Tyler & Ralph Tedesco

Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment

Compare/Contrast:

The stories that will be compared are Grimm Fairy Tales's versions of Red Riding Hood and Cinderella to the children versions of these.

Red Riding Hood
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LittRed.shtml

Same:

- Red Riding Hood had to take a basket to her grandmother

- There was a wolf who had beat Red Riding Hood to her grandmothers house and devoured the grandmother.

- Both had a death of a wolf.

- There was danger to both Riding Hoods

Different:

- A girl opened a book and was basically put into it.

- There was a man who was a Werewolf in the Zenescope version.

- Grimm Brothers specified what was in the basket.

- In the Grimm Brothers version there was a huntsman while in Zenescope there was a lumberjack.

- Red Riding Hood got a weapon from the lumberjack in Zenescope's version while in the other she traveled with no weapon.

- The wolf killed Red's grandma in Zenescope's while in the other she was trapped inside the stomach.

- Red was swallowed in Grimm Bros. and in the other she fought against the wolf and the wolf was killed by the lumberjack.

Cinderella

http://shortstoriesshort.com/story/cinderella/

Same:

- Cinderella was treated horribly by her god mother and sisters.

- Family went to a ball where the prince would be who would choose who to marry.

- Cinderella was visited by a fairy mother that made her pretty.

- There was an afternoon time limit to her prettiness.

- Prince went around with a glass slipper to try to fit on an unknown girl who turned out to be Cinderella.

Different:

- When Cinderella was thrown down into a basement in Zenescope's version she was haunted by voices until she made a bargain to do anything for a new life. The fairy god mother then came and took Cinderella's soul so Cinderella could live a new life.
- At the end of Zenescope's version, Cinderella casted a curse upon her sisters and god mother in which crows tear their skin until they die, then the prince shows up. In the other, the prince shows up and the sisters keep on living with extreme jealousy.