The Little Mermaid

One of the most read stories by Hans Christian Andersen is about a little mermaid who lived with her father, grandmother, and five elder sisters in the sea. She was the youngest among her sisters. Every year, one of her sisters went to see the world outside the sea and had different stories to tell, which aroused curiosity in the little mermaid. On her fifteenth birthday, she finally got permission to rise up out of the sea. How did she find the outside world? Was the outside world the same as she had imagined or seen in her dreams? What sacrifices did the little mermaid have to make in the human world? Did she get the reward for these sacrifices? Read this heart-touching fairytale to discover the hardships faced by the little mermaid.