B.R-7 Tales from Hans Andersen

I chose this book to read because it has many famous stories that I know, so I thought it would be easy to understand.


The Ugly duckling
The main Characters are ducks! There was a mother duck sitting on some eggs, and the ducklings come out. However, the biggest egg is not open, yet. About one hour later it opened, but the duckling was very big and ugly. Everyday the mother duck and ducklings stayed all together, but the ducklings don’t take the ugly duckling into their circle. They were very mean to him, and he left them. Then the biggest ugly duckling meats many animals, but they are mean to him, too. One day, the ugly duckling seas swans swimming. He wished that he could be beautiful like them. Sometimes he felt like he wants to die. He was alone long, long time. Another day, he seas swans, again, and he went to talk to them. He thought they might kill him because he is ugly, but he didn’t care. He just tried to swim them to talk. The ugly duck says, “kill me”, and lowered his head. Then what he seas? He saw a very beautiful swan on the surface. He was a swan! That was why he was different from other ducklings. The other swans gave a welcome to him. This story was little bit different from a story that I know. Half way of the story, I felt so sorry for the ugly duckling.


Little Mermaid
There is a Sea King living under the sea, and he has six children. After his wife’s death, his grandma took care of the children, and they really liked their grandma. The children were very beautiful mermaid princesses, specially the youngest one. Some times grandmother tells them that there is another world out side of the water, and youngest princess is really interested in the people lives on the land. Every little thing was unbelievable to them. One day, the little princess was looking at a ship, and the ship broke. A young prince was drowning, so she saved his life. He doesn’t remember her, but she loves him. She goes to an old woman who can use magic, and the old woman gives a magic drink to the little princess. She drinks it, and she gets two feet, then she lot voice instead of the feet. There was one more thing she had to do. She must marry him! If she couldn’t she would die. At the end of the story, she couldn’t marry him or stay together, but she didn’t die because she was very nice and she had helped people. The little mermaid was happy with that, but I wasn’t. I wanted the little princess to marry him.　(463/3670 words)