"Andersen's fairy tales"--week5

Hello! Everyone!! In this week, I had many exams so I was very tired. However, I read four short stories in “ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES”. These titles are “The Sweethearts (The Top and The Ball)”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Daring Needle” and “The Red Shoes”. I think that these stories are famous in Japan. Specially, “The Ugly Duckling” is one of my favorite stories. I’ll introduce about the story of this story.

I think that many people know this story. In fact, I read this story in Japanese when I was a child. The main character is an ugly duckling. One day, a baby was born in the group of duckling. The baby was the ugly duckling. He was tormented by the other duckling because of his looks. His look was different from other duckling. Therefore, he ran away from the group, but he was bullied. Finally, he decided to go to a group of swan to be killed. And, he decided to the truth. He became an adult. In fact, he was a swan. This story gives us courage. If you can’t have courage, I recommended this story for you.

 

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"Andersen's fairy tales"--week4

Hello! Everyone!! How are you? This week was very hard, because I had to do many things. Also, I read five short stories in this week. These titles are “The Flying Trunk”, “The Rose Elf”, “The Evil Prince”, “The Swineherd” and “The Nightingale”. These stories were very interesting, but in these stories, I’ll introduce my favorite two stories. Of course, these stories were written by Hans Christian Andersen.

First, I’ll introduce about “Thee Flying Trunk”. The main character of this story is a wealthy merchant’s son. He is a profligate son and he used up all money he had inherited from his father. And his kind friend gave him a trunk. This trunk was magic trunk. Thank to this trunk, he met a princess of turkey. Next, he was admitted by her father and mother. And he congratulated to trunk filled with fireworks. Next day, when he tried to use the trunk to meet a princess, the trunk was burnt by fireworks. It was comical story, but I worry about him. Will he live alone?

Second, I’ll introduce about “The Nightingale”. This story was famous in his works. However, I read this story for the first time. This story’s stage was China. The emperor of China didn’t know the voice of nightingale, but the voice was admired by many people. Therefore, he got a nightingale and he satisfied this voice. One day, he got the fake nightingale (it is a handiwork.). Everyone wasn’t interest in real nightingale. After five years, the emperor became a sick. At the time, the real nightingale came back and he was encouraged by this voice. I have a bird, and she makes me happy. If you have an opportunity, plead these stories.

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"Andersen's fairy tales"--week3

Hello! Everyone!! In this week, I read “The Little Mermaid” by “ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES”. Do you know this story? I think I know this story. However, I didn’t know this. My thinking was wrong, and this story was beyond my imagination!!

This story’s main character was the youngest mermaid of the king of sea. She had four older sisters, and she was fairest of them all. When she was fifteen years old, she saw a prince of human. A stormy night, she rescued him from a wrecked ship. However, she must not be seen by human. So the prince didn’t notice this. She wanted to know him to help because she loved him. And, she got legs in exchange for her beautiful voice. She lived with the prince, but he didn’t notice the truth. Also, she couldn’t tell the truth without voice. And the truth was twisted, he thought that other woman rescued him when a stormy night. It was big problem, because if the prince and she were not finally joined in marriage, she must vanish. Her sister tried to help her. However, she couldn’t choose hurting him. Finally, she became a bubble of sea.

It was sad end of this story. Her boy fiend abandoned her. I don’t think that she was happy. What do you think about her? However, it was told that the sad main character’s model is Andersen who is this book’s writer, because, he lead a single life.

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"Andersen's fairy tales"--week2

Hello! Everyone!! In this month, I try to read “ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES”. This book wrote by Andersen. Do you know him? He was from Denmark. And he came from the house of a shoe shop. His story is interesting and imaginary. I think that his works is so cute.

In this week, I read four short stories. The titles are “The Fable Alludes to You”, “The Princess on the Pea”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and “The Garden of Paradise”. My favorite tales are “The princess on the Pea” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.

First, I’ll talk about “The princess on the Pea”. There was once a prince who wanted a princess. He couldn’t find good princess. One day, a woman who introduced herself as a princess came to his city. However, old queen and the prince didn’t believe her, so old queen tested her. She went into the bed room, took off all the bedding, and put a pea on the bottom of the bed. And she put twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns quits. Finally, the princess noticed the something usual, and she was admitted by a prince and old queen.

Next, The Emperor’s New Clothes” is famous in Japan. The story was two charlatans made cloths for an emperor who was so exceedingly fond of beautiful new cloths. However, these clothes had the singular quality of being invisible to every person who was unfit for his post or else was inadmissibly stupid. For this rule, emperor and other retainer pretended to see the clothes. Of course, the clothes didn’t exist. The emperor who put on the clothes walked, and a child said “heavens, listen to the innocent’s voice!”

This scene was very interesting. When you are tired, I recommend this story.

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