The little mermaid

Book 10
1 - Introduction The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale about a young mermaid who is fascinated by the things of the world above the sea. I have read the book and have seen the film in order to compare them. I noticed that the two stories are very different. The story of the book is more dramatic and the story of the film is more romantic, more appropriate for children and has a happy ending.
2 – The book’s story The Little Mermaid lived in an underwater kingdom with her father who was the Sea King, her grandmother and her five elder sisters. Each of the daughters of the Sea King was born one year apart. The little mermaid was the prettiest of them all, her skin was as clean and delicate as a rose-leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea, but, like all the others, she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish’s tail. Her voice was the sweetest in the world. She was a strange child. While her sisters were delighted with the wonderful things which they obtained from the wrecks of vessels, she cared for nothing but her pretty red flowers, like the sun, excepting a beautiful marble statue representing a handsome boy. Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea. When a mermaid was 15, she was allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above. When the sisters became old enough, one of them visited the surface every year. Then when they returned, the Little Mermaid listened eagerly to their various descriptions of the surface and of human beings.
When the Little Mermaid turned 15, she swam to the surface. She saw a ship with a handsome prince and fell in love with him. Suddenly a storm began and destroyed the boat where the prince was. The prince fell into the water and she saved him from a near-drowning. So, she kissed his high, smooth forehead, and stroked back his wet hair. He seemed to her like the marble statue in her little garden. She swam with the handsome prince to the beach near a temple. She stayed there