Book Review 5

I read "The Little Mermaid" written by Hans Andersen this week. I like his books so much. It's called "Ningyohime" in Japanese, and very famous story in Japan, too.

Once there was the very beautiful sea the water is very blue. And the sea king and his six children, and thier grandmother lived there. These six children were beautiful mermail princesses, so they had no feet. The top of their body was like a girls body, but the rest of it was like the body of a fish. Above all, the youngest princess was the most beautiful. They can go to the top of the sea when they become fifteen. The little mermaid who is the most youngest, really wanted to go to the land, and want to see many things. At last she became fifteen, so she can go there now. Then she saw a lot of richly-dressed men, and she fell in love with young prince with big blue eyes on the ship. She stayed looking through the window of the ship, then suddenly, the storm hit to ship, and it began to go down in the sea. The little mermaid looked for the young prince, and she quickly to his head out of the water. So he was alive. But he didn't know who helped him, but the little mermaid wanted to see him again, so she looked him out of the ship many times. And she hoped she want to be the people on land, so she visited the old woman who like witch. If she take the magic drink, she can become the people on land. But if she drink it, she won't be able to speak and sing, and when she walk, she will have a lot of pain. Even so, she said she want to become the people on land. Then she could become the people on land, and the young prince loved her so much. But he married the beautiful princess who lives in the next country. The little mermaid still loved him, so she was very sad. She came back to the sea, and her body was changing into water, so now she is mermaid, not human. She felt pain of parting, but I think she could have nice time with him, even it was very short time and couldn't marry with him. It was very good story, but little feel sad.