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Week 2 Extra Credit Reading Notes (Hans Christian Andersen Part A)

This extra credit reading assignment note is from the week 14-15 reading of fairytale anthologies by
Hans Christian Andersen Part A.

As I am thinking about doing a suitor test focused storybook, I decided to write these notes on The Princess and the Pea.

Plot:
  • A prince wants to marry a real princess
  • He has been going around meeting princesses, but something about them is always not quite right
  • A girl comes in during a stormy night drenched in rain and a mess but says she is a real princess
  • The old queen puts down a pea under twenty mattresses and tells the girl to sleep there as a test
  • The next day the queen asks her how she slept and she says terribly because she was bruised by something
  • The queen knows she is a real princess because she felt the pea through all those mattresses
  • The prince and princess are married
  • The pea is put in a museum

Characters:
  • The prince looking for a princess
  • The old queen who devises the test
  • The princess who comes in with the storm

Ideas:
  • A longer storybook focused on suitor tests kind of like this with a series of suitor tests, testing for various traits/virtues and eliminating a series of suitors rather than just the one test and the one suitor.
(Peas in a Pod from Wikipedia Commons)
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