Ella+Enchanted.

The fantasy __Ella Enchanted__ by Gail Carson Levine takes you through Ella’s journey to break her curse of obedience given to her from a fairy named Lucinda. When Ella of Frell was born she was given a rare curse of obedience. The orders that are given to her can be very dangerous. For example, if she was ordered to cut off someone’s head, she would have to do it. Though, she doesn’t have to follow a wish or a request. She goes on adventures with different creatures, such as orges, and giants to find Lucinda, so she can break her spell. Ella never gives up through her adventure to break her spell. The main characters are Ella and Char. Ella is a only child and her mother just died. Mandy, Ella’s cook, watches out for Ella. Ella’s father also watches out for Ella. Although she is not very close to him, she had to go to their funeral with her father. Ella had to lower a basket into her mother’s coffin, and she saw her mother for that last time. Ella then began to cry uncontrollably, so her father ordered her to leave until she could be quiet. Ella was happy to follow that order that her father had just given her. Ella ran away then she eventually saw Prince Char out of the corner of her eye. Char was there to take Ella back to her father. I think that Ella is a very emotional girl. Though I understand that she has a difficult life. Char is the son of the King of Frell. Char is always a helpful person and ready to help Ella. Char would be a loyal and responsible king. Ella’s father eventually gets remarried, to a woman name Madame Olga who had two daughters named Hattie and Olive. They try to torture Ella once they find out about her curse. They make Ella give them her mom’s valuable necklace. Olive discovers that Ella has a necklace on, she forces Ella to show them her mother’s necklace. Then Hattie asks Ella if she can try it on. An order. “Do I have to?” Ella asked. “Yes, you have to. Give it over” Hattie ordered. They also make Ella tell her only friend from finishing school that they can’t be friends anymore. Ella and I were probably thinking the same thing at the time that Hattie and Olive are mean. I think that this book relates to the classic story Cinderella. In both stories the girls have a fairy godmother, and they make magic so they can go to a ball. They dress Cinderella, and Ella up magically, and they turn a pumpkin into a carriage. I liked the idea of someone having a curse and going on an adventure to break it because it’s not very realistic, so you are thinking in a different way; it allows you to stretch your imagination. I didn’t really like how the book ended “And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after”, because most fantasy stories end that way. It was a predictable ending, though the lead of the story really pulled me in, “That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.” I also saw the movie before I read the book, and I thought it was very different. If you read the book first you wouldn’t expect the movie to be the way that it was. I think that a lot of people would like this book if they like the fantasy genre.