Reading Notes: Hans Christian Andersen (Part B)

So for this reading notes assignment I have decided to try a new style that I noticed from a classmate's reading notes. 

The little mermaid was an interesting read, though quite different from the movie. In summary: 

• The little mermaid knew from the time she was young that she was meant to live on land. 
• When she was finally allowed to rise to the top of the ocean she saved the prince's life and took him to shore.
• The prince didn't know it was the little mermaid who saved him, but perceived it to be a young girl at the religious school where he woke up. 
• The little mermaid watched the prince for a long time before inquiring about how to live on land.
• She ends up visiting a witch in the sea who agrees to give her a potion to grow legs if she will trade her voice.
• The little mermaid makes the deal and swims to the house of the prince where he finds her in human form. 
• They live together for some time where they both grow fond of each other, but the prince doesn't see her as a wife. He longs for the young girl who he though saved his life. 
• The prince's parents arrange for him to marry a young woman from an island a bit away. It is the girl who he thought saved his life.
• The little mermaid fears for her life because one of the contingencies of her deal with the witch is that if the prince ever marries another she will turn into sea foam. 
• They wind up getting married and her sisters make a deal with the witch to keep the mermaid alive if she will kill the prince with a knife. She starts to do it but remembers her love for him and instead throws herself into the sea. 
• To her surprise, she turns into sea foam but starts to float into the air. Because she tried so hard to do right, she had earned herself an immortal soul so she could enjoy the world of mankind forever. 

The Little Mermaid - DeviantAr

Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen