Week 14 Reading Notes: Andersen Fairy Tales Unit Part B
This part of the reading is entirely the original Little Mermaid story and I am so excited! Especially since it relates back to my storybook project over hybrid creatures. The trees and the birds of the Sea. Shifaz Abdul Hakkim on Unsplash The Little Mermaid: Okay, the first thing I am taking from this story is how descriptive the wording is. Here is a quote I really like that is describing the fish in the ocean: "Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees here upon land." There is a grandmother in this. She is the Sea King's mother, and the Sea King is a widower. The grandmother helps take care of the 6 granddaughters, the youngest of them said to be the prettiest. Another really good descriptive quote: "The whole sky looked like gold, while violet and rose-colored clouds, which she could not describe, floated over her, and, still more rapidly than the clouds, flew a large flock of wild swans towards the setting sun, l
