Cinderella By Walt Disney

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Everyone in the world knows that life isn’t all rainbows and sunshine because they’ve seen and felt the harshness and cruelty of life;therefore, they know that happiness is sometimes hard to come by. To be able to read fictional stories about happily ever afters, adventures, and spooky journeys, is certainly not a waste of time. When I read the book, “Cinderella” by Walt Disney, as an adolescent kid, it was a magical escape into Cinderella’s world. I enjoyed every minute of it because she was enough to make me forget the troubles that went on at home. I knew she had it rough too, but at the very end she lived happily ever after, and i had hoped that part happened to anyone in despair. Her happily ever after gave my little soul hope that

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