Reading Notes: Hans Christian Andersen unit Part A

For this week’s story, I chose to do a section from the story from the Andersen Fairy Tales unit: The Princess and the Pea. This story is about a prince that was wanting to find a real Princess, but anywhere he traveled, he could not find the one he wanted to marry, or truly thought was a real Princess. After one rainy night, a Princess came knocking at the gate of the castle who did not have the characteristics of what a real Princess looked like, although she claimed she was one. Then the Queen did not fully believe she was a real Princess who was fit for her son, so she put a pea in the bottom of a twenty mattress bed to see if she could feel the pea the next morning after her sleep. The next morning, the princess did feel the pea, which meant she was a real princess. I would change this story to where the Princess came to the castle after a storm still, and slept in the bed where the pea was hidden. Except in the morning, she would wake up and not have felt anything. So the queen and her son, the Prince, would be very sad to know she was not a true Princess. But the Prince would be so infatuated with this fake princess, and would not want to get rid of her quite yet, so he would ask the Queen if they would be able to do anymore challenges to see what she truly would be…

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This story is part of the Andersen Fairy Tales unit. Story source: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H. P. Paull (1872).