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“The Little Mermaid” is a fairy tale originally wrote by Hans Christian Anderson. Anderson was a Danish author best known for his books “The Little Mermaid” and “The Ugly Duckling”. Andersen has been success as a writer at this point of time, but he did not originally bring attention for his writing for the children. Over the years Anderson continue to write books for children and adults drafts serval autobiographies, travel narratives and poetry commend the virtues of the Scandinavian people. Meanwhile, authority and consumer forgotten volumes including the now-classic stories “The Little Mermaid”. In 1845, English translation of Andersen’s popular stories and his stories started to gain the attention of foreign audiences. Andersen formed …show more content…

The mermaid is overwhelmed with human worlds that often leads to the top of the sea she wishes that that she could go up there to how it is but her father tells her that she is too young to go up above the sea. One day the mermaid went up there without her father permission and she witnesses a shipwreck and rescues a prince whom she instantly fell in love. The furious father lack to understand her love for the prince, she runs away and made a deal with the evil witch of a sister to turn her life from living underwater to the reality life that she dreams to be on land. (Metaphrog and Andersen pg …show more content…

The sun just had set as she lifted her above the waves when a large ship with three poles lay calm on the ocean appear. On the ship there were singing and music and hundreds of lamps where lighted. The mermaid swam close to the cabin window where the waves was lifted up so she could see through the window and see well-dressed people. She noticed a young prince the most beautiful off all the people, the prince and his sailors were celebrating his sixteen birthday and his party kept going with exhilaration than hundreds of rockets light up the sky. The mermaid was surprise that she went back under water when she went back up it looked like the stars was falling around her head, she never seen fireworks before. The mermaid could not take her eyes off the ship or from the beautiful prince. The lamps had been put out, no more rockets , and the cannon had pause firing but the sea became uneasy and a groan softly whining sound could heard below the waves. The mermaid stayed by the window rocking back and forth on the water which she could not see the window. Suddenly

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