Plot



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The plot of Just Ella is fairly simple. Ella is a maid for her evil stepmother and stepsisters, she hardly gets any food, and she works hard day and night. Her "Step-Evils," as she calls them, are absolutely horrible to Ella. But on the day of the royal ball, when the Step-Evils won't allow Ella to attend, she takes matters into her own hands. Obtaining her late mother's wedding gown and a pair of uncomfortable glass slippers to dress up her astonishing natural beauty, Ella heads to the ball. There, she sweeps the prince off his feet, but has to leave at midnight due to a previously scheduled carriage ride. On the way out, her glass slipper is left, and Prince Charming uses it to find Ella and take her back to the castle. So, now Ella is happily awaiting her marriage in the castle and enjoying her every day, growing to love the prince more and more, and finally marrying him and living happily ever after. NOT. Ella hates her life in the castle. There are so many RULES and ways she has to act. Madame Bisset, her etiquitte tutor, is snappy and rude and VERY dramatic whenever Ella does something wrong. Then, Ella's religion teacher falls ill. And a substitute comes in...JED. A very cute, kind, and smart young man, he falls in love with Ella the very moment he sees her. And Ella is having problems with the prince; he is boring as crap! All he ever says is "I love you," or "You are so beautiful." So one day, Ella lets Prince Charming know that she cannot marry him; she doesn't love him. Well, being as dumb as he is, the prince doesn't know what to do, so he ties Ella to a chair! Then he runs to go get some "help," i.e. Madame Bisset and a servant. Ella is astonished and her dislike for Charming grows even more when she realizes that the prince needs to be told what to do. Madame Bisset arrives and tries to force Ella to fall in love with the prince. But when Ella refuses, she is sent to the dungeons, where she must stay until, as Madame Bisset calls it, until her senses return or until the day of the wedding. Ella is determined not to get married to the prince. So, she comes up with a clever but quite dirty plan. She decides to dig her way out of the crap hole (they actually call it that it the book!) with a shovel. After many days and nights of sticking her head in the crap hole, young Ella is freed from her dank, stinky, boring prison. And this is the climax because throughout most of the story, Ella is trying to escape her terrible, etiquette life in the castle. She discovers that Jed is working to help refugees near the border of their country, so she decides to sneakily sneak her way to him. On the way, she stops at her old house and steals some things from Lucille. Lucille wakes up, but Ella stands up to her and tells her all the things she ever hated about living with her stepmother. Then she runs through the night. Ella travels for a very long time before she finds the place where Jed is helping refugees. When she gets there, Jed proposes, and Ella is shocked. She doesn't know what to say. So she tells Jed that she'll have to think about it for awhile. And there the story ends, leaving you hanging, but we know that she will say yes, which is the resolution. The rising actions are all things that happen to Ella before she escapes the castle. The falling actions are Ella taking a journey through the kingdom to find Jed.=====