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Princess Ariel and Prince Eric live in a small castle by 

the sea.   The front of the castle opens up to the village 

square with all its vendors and flowers.   The back of the 

castle opens up to the sea.   Ariel can sit on the balcony, 

look out at the sea and be sure she can see the castle of 

her father, King Triton.   She knows this is silly though. 

She now lives ten thousand leagues above her old 

home, and the water seems to be getting darker in color 

with each passing day.   Besides, who needs the salty 

sea water to only swim through, when you can have the 

seaside air to run, jump, walk, and skip through?

After saying good-bye to her father- and getting used to 

her new legs of course- Ariel opens up a music school 

for the children of the village.   Choir practice under the 

sea was boring, but above on land, there is much better 

instruments and the people can even dance to Princess 

Ariel’s music! With their feet!   Partners dance together 

for hours to her beautiful voice. Everything is better on 

land than under the sea.

In choosing to become a human and live in the village 

with Prince Eric, Princess Ariel has no choice but to 

leave her father forever.   He must stay below sea level 

to manage his kingdom because the sea and the village 

are not friends.   However, Scuttle, Princess Ariel’s 

seagull friend and expert on human objects, lets 

Princess Ariel know when Flounder wants to say hi or 

has made her a present.   Princess Ariel is usually much 

too busy to talk to Flounder but today Scuttle comes 

rushing up to Princess Ariel, telling her it is important 

and she must come right away.   Princess Ariel follows 

Scuttle to the rocks where Flounder is waiting.  

Flounder’s usual excitement to see his friend Princess 

Ariel is masked by a very unusual frown.   Wrapped 

around his tail is four plastic rings and a plastic bag is 

covering one of his fins.   “Ariel! Ariel! We can’t swim 

around anymore without getting caught in something 

and there’s nets being cast down every day! And what is 

this?” asks a panicked Flounder, looking down at the 

plastic bag on his fin.   “I can’t seem to shake it off.”  

Scuttle, the expert on human objects, expertly states: 

“Why that there is a whatado clinkerclacker. Humans 

wear them as masks. Isn’t that right Ariel?”

“Oh Flounder, it’s plastic,” says Princess Ariel.   “It must be 

blowing out of the village and into the sea.”

“That’s not all Ariel,” says Flounder, near tears. “The water 

is changing colors.   It’s so dark and dirty it’s hard to see 

where we are swimming down there and it’s getting hard to 

breathe.   And the ships! They look the same as Prince 

Eric’s did!”

“Two big ships leaving early every morning, Ariel,” says 

Scuttle.   “Two bigs ships coming back late every night.   I 

see them unloading their nets by the docks.”

“Oh no,” says Princess Ariel to Scuttle and Flounder.  

“Don’t worry.   I will fix this, somehow.”

Princess Ariel runs back into the village, searching for 

Prince Eric.   She finds him buying some fresh shrimp 

from a vendor at the market.   “Eric! You have to come 

quick! We need to tell the village to stay out of the sea! 

They are hurting my family and friends.   They are 

hurting the merpeople and fish of the sea!” cries 

Princess Ariel.

Prince Eric puts an arm around Princess Ariel and the 

vendor pushes his cart further into the market.  

“Ariel, it’s nothing to worry about.   You are a human now, 

remember? And the humans want to make a vacation 

island right in the middle of the sea.   This just requires a 

little changing of the landscape first.”

Ariel thinks about this for a moment.   She is a human 

now.   She does not have a tail anymore and can no 

longer breathe underwater.   But the humans are 

dumping oil and plastic into the sea.   They are fishing her 

friends out of their homes and hurting her old home.   The 

sea is still the home she came from.   The sea is more a 

part of her than the village she lives in now.   She just 

needs to make the village understand this. 

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