I really loved part
one of the Little Mermaid story. The
word choice and language in these stories is so fun and vibrant and really
descriptive. I also like how positive
and bright the story is at the beginning.
The descriptions of the scenery made it really easy to imagine what the
sea must have looked like and the types of creatures and nature you would see
under the sea like the flowers being as red as the sunset and the marble statue
that was carved out of white stone and the blue sands.
One of my favorite parts of the second story was the
paragraph about the large ship. It was
easy to imagine what was going on and even easier to imagine the young
prince. He was described as the most
beautiful of all, with large black eyes and sixteen years old.
Even though this story was turned into a Disney movie, the
writing is very mature. I think that
sometimes people underestimate the writing of a children’s story because of the
content, not because of the actual writing itself.
I think if I were to retell this story I would focus on the
first one and include even more detail about what under the sea looked
like. It would be interesting to use the
kind of descriptions the author used in these stories and make it a little
darker instead. Though I usually don’t
like to turn my stories darker than the original, I think it would make for an
interesting story and the way the scenery would be described would be really
different.
Overall, I really liked the Little Mermaid and the entire
unit as a whole. The story was just how
I imagined and remembered from the movie as a little kid. I had never read the stories until now; I had
only seen the movie. I’m glad I was able
to know the story from the writing, not just the movie.
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