The movie Ella Enchanted is similar to the story of Cinderella in some ways, but has different elements from your typical fairy tale. It is about a young girl named Ella who, when she is born, is given the “gift” of obedience from a fairy. The gift is actually more of a curse, but isn’t much of a problem when she is young until her mother dies and her father remarries an evil woman. Ella’s evil stepmother and two stepsisters find out about the curse and then use it to control her life. This is all Ella’s “Ordinary Life”, she is just living at home with her awful family. Then, Ella goes to a rally and runs at a full sprint into Prince Charmant (friends call him Char) on accident. He thinks she’s strange but asks her to go to the ball with him, she refuses because she hates what the King (Char’s evil uncle) is doing to the land. This refusal to go to the ball could be considered the refusal of the quest, but also her Hero’s Journey is about so much more than Char.