The+Hearth+Cat

 The Hearth Cat Summary 

= The Hearth Cat is about a Cinderella story from Portugal. In this story Cinderella is an overworked child because her step mother knows that she is beautiful girl but her own daughter in ugly. She has one friend that is a fish that she would visit and feed every day. The fish was in a well outside her house. But this was no ordinary fish, it was a magical fish. =


=Their was a festival where boys and girls would go to see who they would marry they told Cinderella that she could not go, so when Cinderella went to see her fish the fish told her to jump in and she would breathe. As they were swimming down they entered a beautiful cave and in there was a beautiful gown and golden shoes, the fish said have them back by midnight or else your cloths would change back to her ragged cloths. When she arrived at the festival everyone was amazed at how beautiful she looked. When it was 11:59 she ran back and fell down the hill and loss her shoe and her dress turned back to ragged cloths. =


=As she was running back the King caught a glimpse of her beautiful face and sent 2 guards to follow her home. When she got home she went in the well and the fish was really the Kings son. He was a fish because he was put under a spell. Right before she left the kings son asked her to marry her and she said yes and then he turned into a man. When the guards knocked on the door Cinderella answered and the king was there and he asked her to try on the golden slipper. The golden slipper fit and the king asked her to marry him, but she said no and told him that she was married to his son. =

 = =Culture-  An early celtic tribe called the lusitanians where said to be the first inhabitants of portugal. The Roman empire took over portugal in 140 B.C. Portugal won there independence from moorish spain in 1143. In the middle of the 16 century the Portugese empire extended to west and east Africa,Brazil,Persia,Indochina, and the malayan peninsula. In 1581 Spain invaded Portugal and held it captive for 60 years. By the time portugese monarchy was restored in 1640, Dutch,English, and French competitors had began to seize the worlds colonies and commerce. The population of Portugal is 10,676,910. The most commonly spoken language is Portugese. =



=Food In Portugal =

=In Portugal there is a very wide variety of different foods.Portugal has a wide variety of fish because it borders the North Alantic Ocean.The capital of portugal, Lisbon is known for its seafood. In most foods in Portugal are mad from simple igredients, for example olive oil.=

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