Reading Notes: Hans Christian Anderson, Part A

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A prince is looking for a princess, weird cause I feel a lot of the stories the girl is looking for a boy. A storm came and a beautiful princess stood at his gate. His mother put this princess to a test to see if she could sleep with a pea in her bed. Only a real princess is sensitive to that. She was real.

This emperor has a shopping problem, and so do I. Relatable. He spent endless amounts of money on high end clothes. He wants to look the freshest of fresh.

I feel like I’ve heard some sort of versions of these stories before. Not the exact same story, but definitely a form of it. All soldiers were alike, except one. He fell out a window. Rode a boat away. He melted away in a stove into the shape of a heart.

The prince was wicked. He thought he was all that and had a huge head. He wanted to conquer God. But he couldn’t even face gnats.

A little girl was cold and not covered up. She was hungry and poor. She thought burning a match would keep her warm. All the matches she lit brought up a new place or thing she imagined.


Bibliography: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen