Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales: The Little Sea Maid:

As I said in my last post if you want to read your childhood films then don't. Again, just a pre-warning because they don't end the same way. You will probably tell that this story was made into the Little Mermaid by Disney. When I was a kid I was raised on Disney films and this was my favourite one. So you could say I was a bit nervous to start reading it as I heard about the not so happy ever afters of Disney's films. However, I read it anyway and I don't think I realised as a kid how strange it was for a teenage girl to just leave her home to meet a man she has never spoke to. Now that I have read the story I've realised how weird it actually is.

There are so many things that were in the story that they could have put in the film. For instance, the description of the palace sounds so much more beautiful then it is in the film. I also really like the idea that the windows open and close with the way the water flows. In the film the palace is made out of gold and has no windows. However in the book the walls are made of coral, the windows are made of amber and the roof made of shell. This makes more sense to me then a undersea palace made of gold also to it sounds so much better. Another thing that they didn't include is that the Princesses have a grandma that's still alive and looks after the palace since there mum has died. Their grandma is a really proud woman and shows her rank in society by wearing 12 oysters on her tail while others wear six. This seemed funny to me until I realised that we do the same sort of thing in real life. We show how much money we have by wearing or owning expensive things and showing them off to the world. Anyway, their grandma is really proud of her granddaughters as well as her rank and is really fond of them too. Sorry is I over analyse things in this post in my english class we're looking at what deeper meanings there are in Charles Dicken's books. So I tend to look at meanings now and not the actual story (Hope I'm not the only one to do that).
    As I said in my past posts I will put the images at the start of every story up:

I won't tell you anything else about the story because the little details that the movie missed are so good to read and paint a really good picture in your head. So I'l leave that for you to find out. Also, I might start doing a new thing on my blog where I find a well know website where you can buy the book I'm talking about and the story by itself. I'll put the link to this book here and so you know this is the same copy as mine which I didn't expect to find so easily.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time. 

xxx