Questions
I tried to think of what "real" book clubs do ... read the same book and discuss it, sure, but also I think they try to discuss questions or topics. So, I'm making up a list - feel free to respond and/or make up your own questions. Click here for the rest of the post.
1. How many Cinderella stories have you read or watched or heard?
2. Why do fairytales make good people beautiful and bad people ugly?
3. What other awful fairy gifts could Lucinda have given? Why would they be awful?
4. Were your favorite fairy creatures in the story?
5. Why would Ella's mother ever take the unicorn hair out of her soup if she knew Mandy was a fairy?
6. What parts of Ella do you most empathize with?
7. What would you pack for a trip to giant country?
Well, that's all I can think of for now.
1. How many Cinderella stories have you read or watched or heard?
2. Why do fairytales make good people beautiful and bad people ugly?
3. What other awful fairy gifts could Lucinda have given? Why would they be awful?
4. Were your favorite fairy creatures in the story?
5. Why would Ella's mother ever take the unicorn hair out of her soup if she knew Mandy was a fairy?
6. What parts of Ella do you most empathize with?
7. What would you pack for a trip to giant country?
Well, that's all I can think of for now.
posted by Julie C | 6:38 PM
2 Comments:
1. not very many.
2. perhaps because it is our idea of perfect.
3. too late to think.
4. the centaurs? i haven't read it recently. whatever evil creature recognized her curse.
5. to make the story interesting...to make us sad..
6. she's normal. she's strong. she's enduring.
7. a folding chair, a fork, knife, spoon and plate, a megaphone.
1. Rodgers & Hammerstein with Brandi and one production with men as the ugly stepsisters, Ella Enchanted, Disney, the one with Hillary Duff, The Fairy Godmother (by Mercedes Lackey)
2. It's kind of like saying "you are what you eat" except you are what you are?
3. (a) To be loved - how would you know if people loved you for yourself if they all had to love you? (b) Just about anything that took away freedom of choice (c) to always tell the truth - you would feel compelled to tell everyone what other people said about them, to explain everything with the truth as you saw it which might not even be correct and then no one would want to be around you and you would get annoyed when you could tell they pitied you and then you would always have to tell them if they annoyed you instead of being able to accept some things as okay
4. Centaurs - just because I thought it was nice to have a stupid pretty creature - they were less perfect that way
5. I don't get it - maybe she didn't really think she was sick enough to die?
6. Hiding in the library
7. dishes, a bright colored umbrella so they could see me, plants from far away cuz the giants would enjoy them
8. New thought - I'm trying to figure out what fairy tales Gail Carson Levine's books match up with (Ella Enchanted - Cinderella) (For Biddle's Sake - The Frog Princess) (The Fairy's Mistake - a Perrault tale?) (The Princess Test - The Princess & the Pea) (Cinderellis & the Glass Hill - a Perrault tale?) (The Fairy's Return - ?) (Two Princesses of Bamarre - ?) (Fairest - I haven't read it, but I have a sneaking suspicion about Snow White)
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