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In the Disney film called “Little Mermaid” Ariel saves a prince from a shipwreck and ends up falling in love with him later in the movie. She makes a deal with the sea witch Ursula. The deal is that Ariel will be human for three days. During those three days, she has to get a kiss from the prince. If she doesn’t, she will turn back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula. She then gives her voice to Ursula and in return her tail gets replaced with a pair of legs. She goes on the land and meets the prince. At the end of the film, Ariel ends up marrying Eric, the prince she loves. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/the-little-mermaid-fairy-tale_n_6096200.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/synopsis In Hans Christian Andersen’s version of the story, a part of Ariel’s deal is that he legs will feel like she is walking on knives. They do and always will hurt. This story doesn’t have a happy ending like the other one. Ariel does not get to marry the prince because he marries someone else. Ariel then goes into the ocean and turns into sea foam. I think the changes were big enough to take away from the moral of the story. The ends are completely different. In Disney’s version, Ariel ends up marrying the love of her life and living happily ever after. In Hans’s version, Ariel basically gets so depressed that she …show more content…
The witch later took her and trapped her in a tower that only had a window. A prince hears her singing in the tower and he goes to the tower to see her. The next day he comes back and begins climbing up her hair. The witch is in the tower with Rapunzel and sees him, she throws him off, and he falls on spines that go through his eyes. He walks around the world blind trying to find Rapunzel. He hears her voice again and follows it. When he finds her, Rapunzel's magical tears heal his eyes. They get married and have

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