This I believe the fairytale version

Monique Tapp
Writing Workshop R11
Ms. Amy D
07/06-09
This I believe the fairytale version
Once upon a time in the kingdom of Pupununu, lived a young servant girl named Maxine. The young mademoiselle was beautiful, kind of heart, and loved by all. She had only one fault; she never loved herself as much as everyone else, she thought because she was only a servant she deserved less. Unfortunately, she worked for the prince, Wendell; he was very self-centered and cared for no one. Maxine was the only one in the whole Kingdom who believed Wendell was a good person. In other words, she believed she was the Beauty to his Beast, and just as the Beauty and the Beast he treated her poorly. He would overwork her and cheat her on her payments, but because she believed that he loved her and that she deserved it, she let it happen. Her best friends, Ursula and Aurora, told her multiple times she was amazing and beautiful, but she never listened. One day the prince asked for her hand in marriage, this was so sudden and unexpected that her friends did not trust the offer. They tried with all their might to convince her that she should reject the offer, but again she would not listen. Just as her friends predicted Wendell was very cruel to her and overworked her. She ran away but was caught by the head servant. Brontë, the head servant, was a dear friend of Maxine's, and when Maxine turned her back on Brontë for Wendell, she did not take the rejection well. Therefore, when Brontë caught her she immediately turned her in and Maxine was sentenced to the dungeon for treason. All the time spent in the dungeon really messed with her thinking; she began to believe that she deserved all that has happen to her. Aurora and Ursula constantly reminded her that she did not deserve it and she was an amazing person but as usual she would not listen. Eventually her friends stop trying to help this person who did not want to be help and since Wendell and Brontë would have nothing to do with her she was left alone. For twenty years she stayed in the dungeon, with no-one and in that time she realized that her friends were right the whole time. Suddenly she had an epiphany; she finally remembered all that her friends had told her and listened. When she was set free she searched for all the people she hurt and was hurt by and shared her epiphany. Once she learned to love herself her life changed for the better, her friends came back, she told the prince to go fall down a well and her job title was upgraded to the king’s personal adviser. The moral of this tale; to remind people; that if one loves them self, their life will most likely be better off than if they did not love them self.