Reading Notes: Hans Christian Andersen unit Part B

To continue this week’s reading notes, I chose to do the Andersen Fairy Tales unit and choose a section from the Little Mermaid. I chose this story because I thought it would go great with my last story notes I did. So to finish my story, I would have the Queen and her son, the Prince go through many challenges and test to see if this Princess was actually a Princess. The Princess would be trying to convince the Queen and Prince she was in fact a real Princes, even though they knew she was not. The Queen and Prince would go through many challenges to realize that she was still not who she says she was. Each time there was a test, the supposed Princess would fail yet again. The Prince would be so infatuated that he did not care she failed all of them. Eventually after many trials, the Princess would be found to be a mermaid of the ocean. She would be a magical Princess who could form into a mermaid whenever she wanted something on land. After years of the Prince accepting his Princess being a mermaid, they would live happily ever after, until one day the mermaid would be missing… along with all of the Prince’s prized belongings.

Mermaid Princess

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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).

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…

Princess

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Bibliography:

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).