~The Princess and The Pea~

 

   This is one of my favorite short story by Hans Christian Andersen. This story tells us about a prince who wanted to marry a real princess. He kept on searching his true love. He travelled all over the world to find one but,nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough but, it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. Until the princess came to his castle on one evening where it was a terrible storm with thunder and lightning. The water ran down from her hair and clothes and yet she said that she was a real princess. The old queen wanted to find out. So, she went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. When she got up in the morning, she told that she was lying on something hard so she felt uncomfortable. So, all the people in the castle knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. Finally, the prince took her for his wife and the pea was put in the museum where it may still be seen.

    This short story has taught me not to believe something easily. I have to do something to prove it because not everything around me is a truth and I have to be sensitive about every changes in my life. There are some part that could make me comfort and some others are not and I have to be ready for something that might make me uncomfortable.

   In summary, not everything is all about a good thing in my life. There are so many lies to dismantled and many challenges to face. This story taught me to do something to prove even every little things that I believe and sooner or later, something bad will loose and something evil will be revealed.