Discussion
In my opinion, Cinderella’s story emphasizes the
relationship of human beings, especially the relationship of them in family. It
relates for K2 students for their family is still become the center of their
world(Women’s and Children’s Health, 2008). Kinds of family will determine
kinds of their personality. Based on UNICEF’s report, one of the most causes of
misbehavior children is they have broken home family(Anthony K. Kimani, 2010).
In my first teaching practice in K3, there are several of my students who
misbehave comes from the family which their parents are busy to work so that
they lack of their parents’ attention. It makes them lacking of comprehension
in understanding the content of the lesson and in doing their responsibility.
There are several things that can be learned through
that story about the roles of family’s members. First, the story encourages all
of us to love and respect our mother in all kinds of situation. Even if our mother
in home is bad for she is our step mother like Cinderella’s step mother, we still
have to love and respect her as our parent who has authority over us. God has
given parents the authority over their children so that at five point of the
Ten Commandment written that children have to respect their father and mother.
We respect something not because we want to but because we recognize that we
have to respect it for we see the object clearly as it really is in its own
right(Robbin S.Dillon, 2010). It means that respect our parents requires us to
see our parents as a represent of God’s authority so that we have to show love
in our behavior to them even as we want to critique them. So do with our
siblings, we have to love and respect them. Like Cinderella, who gave her two
sisters home in the palace as the Prince married her. She shared her happiness
with her two sisters although they already enslave her in the past and could
make her become inferior(associatedcontent from yahoo, 2011).
Second, we learn through Cinderella’s characteristic
to redeem the evil that given by her step mother and two sisters with her
sincerity and kindness. Jesus has given us the example of being that kind of
person. He never curses the people who crucified Him, even He have pray for
them. So do we have to love our family although they have made us crying, pain,
wound, angry and disappoint because we are Jesus’ follower so that we have to follow
His way in forgiving people who betray Him.
Third, this story teaches us to be independent to do
our works unlike the two sisters of Cinderella who always command Cinderella to
fulfill their own need. God has given all of us the ability to fulfill our own
need, so that we can not burden others including our family’s members. In the
end, the persons like that will not get anything that meaning for their life, in
this story they were not got the Prince’s love. They could get home in a palace
and married with great Lords is only because of Cinderella’s kindness. So that we have to start become independent
persons through tidy up our own bedroom after get up, washing our own plate
after use it and tidy up our toys after play it.
The third points above are difficult to be
implemented, but it does not mean that we can not do that. There is still God
that will help us to give us strength to do that. There is a part in human
beings’ life that we can not do with our own strength for human beings have sin
nature so that we need God to save us(ChristianAnswer.net, 1997). On
Cinderella’s story, there is a part which shows the powerlessness of Cinderella
as a human being so that her Fairy mother came to help her. In the real life,
God is the only one who is love will powerful to help us to love, respect and
forgive each other and also He will give us strength in doing our own
responsibility through the process not in a click for it makes us glorify Him.
We need to pray to Him all the time for His hands uphold our life. If we can do
all of those things, actually we already have the real beauty for the beauty of
person should be appear not just at her/his physical but also in her/his nature
that showed through good relationship with her/his family.
References
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Dillon,
Robin S.(2010, September).Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Respect.
Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/respect/#EleRes
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