I remember singing the song from Cinderella over and over again in elementary school. I even took time today to search for the lyrics of this song, and what I found brought a huge smile to my face. Even as a 23 year old woman I was singing the song with the wrong words, but it is not the words that I am getting at as much as the things going on during the words.
We all know that a pumpkin can not turn into a real carriage, maybe a carriage for a mouse but not for Cinderella. When I was 6 I would talk to my hamsters hoping that one day they would find their voices. When I would fall ( or be pushed) into a puddle, I would wonder where my new pair of clothes were going to pop up.
Magic. The church condemns that talk of words like that, and I have found a new reason why. Where did Disney get the idea that it was going to sell movies if we add magic to make everything better. I think that these movies should have encouraged hard work, dedication and the moral that we do not always get what we want. This is where my pessimism comes in again.
I think that the written ( and spoken) versions of these stories teach one lesson, and the Disney portrayals paint a totally different lesson. The problem is that the Disney story has magic, and the real world does not.
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