Most of all he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite her excruciating pain.

May 30, 2009 16:21

I remember watching the little mermaid at my cousins house, the Hans Christian Anderson version. In it the little mermaid saves the prince and leaves him on shore. Another women finds him on shore and he awakes thinking that she has saved him and falls in love with her.
The bones of the story are pretty much the same, the lil m exchanges the tail, her voice, and risk's dying for a pair of legs and the hope that the prince will fall in love with her. In the end the prince falls in love with the women from the shore, a princess, and marries her. The little mermaid returns to the sea and her body dissolves into foam. THE END! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

I'd like to think I'm a realist. Still though my head is filled with fairy tales, I live inside my head. I enjoy my little fairy tale land. I always have, my favorite story when I was younger was about a girl who was stow away on a ship. She ended up becoming a crew member. They tried to return her to her home, but she ran away and returned to the ship. She wanted to be at sea forever. I wanted to be her, to run away from home and live at sea.

After I watched the HCA version of the Little Mermaid, I went to the library and got a book of his fairy tales. There isn't always a happy ending, it's a good lesson to learn young.
Sometimes you dissolve into foam, such is life.
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