Diary Of A Mermaid

Richard Van Camp shares the story of Torchy and his series of events that takes the reader along to see and feel the tragedies of Torchy with his past and current experiences. In the short story “Mermaid” by Richard Van Camp, the author explores the realm of a true tragedy in this story through the use of the Aristotle style of the elements of tragedy displayed by the means of Torchy’s series of unfortunate events through willing blindness, dramatized actions and pity developed for the character throughout the novel. With a closer look one can identify Peripeteia among many elements of tragedy found within this novel.

Tragedy is defined as an event that causes suffering, destruction and death. When one is not fully aware of their knowledge, terrible events will correspond to what one has done. In the short story Mermaids by Richard Van Camp, the human suffering of Torchy resembles an Aristotle tragedy. Firstly, Torchy demonstrates hamartia when he is gambling. Additionally, the outcome of Torchy’s hamartia leads him to peripeteia which Torchy runs out of medicine. Lastly, Torchy wonders if he is a villain and this shows anagnorisis. Torchy’s actions ultimately lead his life to a downfall that is caused through accidental events, and this overall demonstrates the concept of an Aristotle tragedy.

Mariana, the beautiful mermaid, wanted a tuna salad, but she had a small problem since she was allergic to celery. At Sammy’s Sub Shop, Marina hoped to find tuna salad free of this dangerous vegetable. Flopping across the tiled floor to the counter, Marina placed her order and then checked her sandwich for celery, not noticing, however, the spoiled mayonnaise. At five o'clock that evening, Marina became violently ill with food poisoning. When a lifeguard at the beach discovered the problem, he called 911. Even though the mermaid had fishy breath. A handsome paramedic gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Wailing like a sick dog, the ambulance sped off to the hospital where the doctor on call refused to treat a sea creature with a scaly tail.

“Thanks a lot for the help, we’ve been stuck here for a while.” Peyton said. They proceeded to tell the fisherman about their erratic adventure.

Since Disney has been known to alter stories to have cheerful endings, it’s no surprise that the little mermaid is depressing. While Disney does have creative license to alter tales to create good productions, I am troubled by the rate at which stories are changed.

Within Andersen’s fairy-tale ‘The Little Mermaid’, the aforementioned themes are presented through the mermaid’s transformation into becoming a human. For example, she sacrifices her tail despite the warning from the Sea Witch that ‘every step you take will feel like you’re treading

“I’m not leaving you,” Amanda repeated. With a sigh, Queen Mermaid raised her hand and flicked it. Amanda gasped as a wave pushed her away from Queen Mermaid. As she went further and further from Queen Mermaid, Amanda saw more and more sharks swimming towards Queen Mermaid. Amanda screamed as she saw all of them surrounding Queen Mermaid and she was lost from view. Soon, Amanda found herself next to the line of buoys. She looked around and saw Fishboy looking around.

Ever since Prince Eric severely stabbed Ursula with his ship, everyone thought she died. However, he managed to summon enough energy to return to her lair and leave Atlantica. Since she was so sickly, she needed a new henchman to help her become who she was before. Or in this case, a henchwoman; me.

Many hundred years ago in the seas across from a great kingdom, there lived a little mermaid named Camilla. She was the daughter of a great sea king and queen and she also happened to be my younger sister. While I was only four years old when she was born, I remember the day very vividly as it was a day of great rejoice but also of great sorrow for my family. On that day we gained another sister, but we also lost our mother. I will always remember my mother’s loving and rebellious spirit and am often told by my older sisters that I share many of these qualities with her. After our mother passed away, our grandmother moved into the palace to take care of my father’s needs as well as to raise all six of us. While our grandmother was very wonderful to us and helped us become the mermaids we are today, some of the values she instilled in us didn’t sit well with my sisters and I. Since grandmother raised Camilla from birth, many of grandmother’s values and opinions were very prominent in her. Grandmother often stressed vanity, meekness and subservience to all elders. Those qualities began to show up in Camilla the most as we aged. Camilla was often worried about her appearance so much that she had trouble having fun during our sisterly outings to the reef. She was often insecure and worst of all, had lost her sense of wonder and adventure.

“Thank you, Ava, I am also thrilled to be here, thank for this amazing opportunity! Hello, Luka Brenda, and Laila I’m excited for what the future holds for us three.” I respond eagerly.

My thought wandered as I imagined myself to be a mermaid. I wanted to block out the creatures in the land above and just swim, escape everything and have a thrill of an unplanned adventure. I would seduces handsome princes with my mesmerizing voices before let them drown in their self-pity. Maybe I’ll befriend the most dangerous creatures of the sea and we will hold a competition to see who could draw blood first.

“Ursula”, Ariel yelled, ¨come out I need your help.¨ Ursula came out and cackled. Ariel explained everything that had happened and how she wishes to be a mermaid. They make an agreement that Ariel has to be back in a day or else she will become a worm like many others. She felt the butterflies in her stomach, but she knew she wanted to be with the prince. Ariel zoned out as Ursula was talking, but she heard her say you will can not talk till you kiss him. Seconds later Ariel was in the water with a tail. She tried screaming even though it wouldn’t help. She thought she would have time. No one was with her, she wanted Flounder with her. She had left everything at home, and she never even got the time to call her father. Ariel even realised she would miss an episode of her favorite TV show. There was nothing else she could do, so she continued to swim

It’s Friday night, and Olivia and Mia are having a sleepover together. They have spent the night watching film after film. The movie credits are now rolling as they finished watching their favorite Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.

Honourable judges, teaches and my fellow friends, good morning to all of you. Today I’am going to tell a story about “Little Mermaid with Soul”. Long long time ago...

I am new to the hobby of keeping and maintaining an aquarium. My boyfriend, Andrew, gave me an aquarium for my birthday two months ago. I was very excited. When I was little, my family had two goldfish in a small, round bowl. Watching my mother clean out the tank was the extent to which I knew how to care for fish. The aquarium that Andrew gave me is an Eclipse 6; a six-gallon aquarium equipped with a bio-wheel filtration system. The bio-wheel system is a three-step filtration system: the water is sucked out of the aquarium into a tube, passed along a carbon filter, and then into a chamber that houses a bio-wheel-a small rotating filter that absorbs impurities from the water. Finally, the water is dropped back