{"id":355,"date":"2021-11-04T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/?p=355"},"modified":"2021-11-04T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:26:26","slug":"a-twisted-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/2021\/11\/04\/a-twisted-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twisted Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCinderella\u2019s Secret Dream\u201d by Ena Lucia Portela is based on the famous fairy tale, \u201cCinderella.\u201d There are many twists and differences from the original fairy tale. Where the original fairy tale is set in the medieval period, this version is set in more modern times (maybe the 1990\u2019s). Cleis (Cinderella) does not want to marry that multimillionaire (Prince Charming) due to him being more abusive. Cleis also dreams of being an actress in a soap opera instead. As a result of that and her taking one of her step-sisters\u2019, Lotta\u2019s shoes, Lotta gets the prince. Cleis\u2019 step-sister, Lotta, is murdered by the multimillionaire. The step-mother then goes insane after the loss of her daughter. The prince dies in a helicopter crash after getting away with murder, thanks to his many lawyers. The overall story is more shocking than the original.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do the twists affect the story? Everyone and their moms have already heard some form of the classic fairy tale many times before, so Portela had to try and make this version more original. Most of these twists don\u2019t happen until the end of the story, when the multimillionaire hosts the party. With these twists, Portela makes the story more engaging and provocative. These changes to the story makes Cleis seem more independent and relatable than Cinderella. They also make the ending quite bittersweet. Cleis gets her dream job, but Lotta and the prince die, while the step-mother is in an insane asylum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCinderella\u2019s Secret Dream\u201d by Ena Lucia Portela is based on the famous fairy tale, \u201cCinderella.\u201d There are many twists and differences from the original fairy tale. Where the original fairy tale is set in the medieval period, this version is set in more modern times (maybe the 1990\u2019s). Cleis (Cinderella) does not want to marry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,109],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span312","tag-portela","tag-week9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}