The Princess and the Pea By: Hans Christian Andsersen

Exposition “There once was a prince, and he wanted a princess, but then she must be a real princess. He traveled all around the world to find one, but there was always something wrong.”

Complication The prince could never discover if the so called princesses he found were real or not. There was always something odd about the princesses, so the prince finally gave up and returned home.

Rising Action A terrible storm arose into a fearful night During the worst part of the storm the kind heard a knock at his castle gate. A girl stood before him looking quite drenched and forlorn from the storm The girl told the king that she was a princess

Climax The queen wanted to find out if the girl was a real princess or not, so before the queen showed the girl her rooms he took all the mattresses off the bed and placed a single pea on the bed then piled back on the mattresses In the morning to queen asked if the girl had slept ok. “oh terribly bad! I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heavens knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying on some hard thing, and my while body is black and blue this morning, it is terrible!”

Falling Action The king and Queen realized at once that the girl was indeed a real princess after hearing that she had felt the tiny pea through the 20 mattresses.

Denouement The prince took the princess to be his wife. The pea was put into a museum where people could look a it if it hasn’t been stolen.