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“The Little Mermaid” Analysis

The story “The Little Mermaid” by: Hans Christian Anderson is the real “The Little Mermaid” story and it’s a story about Sacrifice and love and bot of those things can be costly, even the price of death.

The little mermaid is the protagonist of the story. For example, The little mermaid is willing to do anything for love; she gave her voice, the chance to stay with her mermaid tail, and a chance to stay with her family just so she can attempt to make the prince love her, she wanted the prince to love her and marry her and then she would get an immortal soul, an immortal soul is if she dies she still gets to live on but like in a different world which is what she wanted. This shows that she would do anything for the prince to love her and I think that’s real sacrifice, sacrifice is not just simply giving up something little she gave up most importantly her family just for the love.

The cruel and jealous witch is the antagonist of the story. An example of her being cruel and is that she wanted to take the little mermaids voice because she told the little mermaid that if she wanted the witch to make her human so that she can get an immortal soul she had to give her something and the witch decided to take her tongue so that she wouldn’t be able to sing really beautiful anymore and so the witch decided to slice her tongue off. This shows she doesn’t just have cruel in her she also has jealousy and she is using her powerful magic and whenever someone wants her to do something for them she wants painful exchanges in return for her great magic. And as a result the witch doesn’t pay any kind of price for any of her cruelty and the one who is paying for the witches cruelty is the little mermaid does.

As a result you can tell that the evil cruel witch is not very nice and the little mermaid has to sacrifice a lot of things to become a human so that she can get the love of the prince and then she will get an immortal soul if the prince marries her. So, she basically gave up her mermaid life to get an immortal soul and as you can tell the other little mermaid story was all wrong because the real little mermaid is about love and sacrifice.

**//__ The battle of Gettysburg __//**

**__Notes on the battle of Gettysburg__**
 * July 1-3,1863
 * Thousands of men both union and confederate had been killed
 * The magnitude of the battles tamed the nation
 * A group of 20 units is a score
 * They were dedicating a new burial site
 * Now we r fighting with each other union versus confederate soldiers
 * Consecrated = blessed
 * Lincoln spoke for less than 2 min.
 * Only circa 270 words

The battle of Gettysburg was July 1-3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote a strong powerful speech about Gettysburg battle what was unexpected was that his speech was really short .His speech was about the war he said that thousands of men both union and confederate had been killed and that the magnitude of the battles tamed the nation. Lincoln only spoke about 269 or 270 words so it was really short. Unlike Edward Everett because he wrote a speech that was at least three hours long and Abraham Lincoln was expected to last longer. The Gettysburg address given by Abraham Lincoln; was dedicated to the thousands of soldiers who died during the Civil War. The speech was only 2 minutes long, that short compared to the 3 hour long speech by Edward Everett. What was so funny was that photographer expected Abraham Lincoln to take a long time so he was taking his time to set up his camera and apparently since Abraham only took two minutes when he snapped the picture he got him walking off the stage. And everything was unexpected for Abraham to only take two minutes when Edward took three hours. Even though this speech was short it was a really decent speech.

**__The Giving Tree__**


 * The story the giving tree is about unconditional love. The author is Shel Silverstein. This story is a story it’s about a little boy who loves a tree and always visited her when he’s little, but once the little boy gets older he doesn’t visit her. She gets sad and lonely when he’s not there. Once he gets older he only visits her to get stuff from the tree and the tree always gives even though the tree doesn’t get anything from him only visits for stuff he wants and he doesn’t visit her a lot. She gives her apples, leaves, trunk, and her branches.**


 * “The giving tree” is like a pharaoh and his people. The tree is the people and the little boy is the pharaoh. The tree is the people because he gives to the boy (pharaoh) her branches and apples. It’s sad because she ends up with nothing and the boy gets a lot of things because of the tree. The boy is the pharaoh because he wants a lot of things from the tree. The boy gets a house, boat, and he wants a wife and some kids. The Giving Tree is a sad story because the tree just wanted to be happy, but the way she got happy was when the boy visited her and took her apples and branches. The story is good and it’s about the unconditional love.**


 * This story isn’t just about unconditional love this story is also about the care that the tree has for the little boy of course the tree gives the little boy a lot of things without him returning something to her I mean that he doesn’t give anything to her even though she gives things to him, but she doesn’t care because all she wants is his love for her. This story taught me so many things such as: learning how much people care about you and when I read this book I thought to myself do I really of appreciate what some people do for me like my teachers help me learn like my parents and siblings, my mom and dad take good care of me you see a lot of people have to appreciate what other people do for them and the little boy waits until the end and when he’s old that’s when he realizes that what the tree gave him was more then he gave to the tree.**

**Hero essay**

**According to [|dictionary.com] a hero is a person of distinguished courageor ability, admired for his brave deeds and [|__noble__] qualities.** **An unsung hero is a person who maintains the qualities of a hero, but isn’t really recognized for their efforts and their contributions to helping others. Often times their good deeds go unnoticed although, many people may benefit from their kindness.** **Maria Nunez, my mom, shares many qualities of an unsung hero. For example, she’s is a reo ally kind person, she’s kind for many reasons such as; working a lot every day so she can get paid and that money would be used to buy things that we need like food and school supplies, and cooking for me every day because she doesn’t want us to starve. She’s also a caring person because no matter what she always cares a lot about her family and about my sisters and me. She wants us to know she cares a lot about our education and that means she wants us to be focused in school and finish she wants us to finish school because she didn’t get to finish school and she wants us to make her proud by getting good grades, paying attention in class, and most of all to finish school.**