The Wedding Ship 24. “She wanted to warm herself,” people said. She crept along trembling with cold and hunger–a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing! And so the little girl walked on her naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor Although this story has been rewritten many times, often with the ending changed so that the Little Match Girl ends up safe and happy ever after in a warm house, this story was a critique on economic inequalities. Published on Feb23, 2015. Andersen plays with the interaction between violence and love, poverty and wealth, struggle and redemption, life and death. My wife, of course, had no idea what I was going on about. Hello fellow Wikipedians, I have just modified 2 external links on The Little Match Girl. The next day, the townsfolk, who had ignored her the day before, find the body of the girl frozen in the snow and feel bad. An innocent child who wanted nothing more to be warm froze to death. Summary: This is a happy alternate ending to The Little Match Girl where she doesn't die. No one cared. In the middle of the room there was a huge roasted goose and she droolled. We hope this study guide will help both teachers and students better appreciate the nuances of Andersen's poignant story. It's one of the saddest stories I know, and to me the fact that death was her only "escape" from the cruel world she lived in makes it even sadder. She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room. "The Little Match Girl" (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The Little Girl with the Matchsticks") is Hans Christian Andersen's Short Story about a dying child's hallucinations on New Year's Eve. Ursula Takes Charge 23. I have the same question about the ending of pans labyrinth. Tell this story to your children, so they have deep sympathy for poor people and understand how it’s like to live in poverty. It was a very cold winter evening with snow and frost. She helped the poor mother with ruby from the top of Happy Prince’s sword. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire. In the story, the little girl would get beaten up by his father if she did not bring money home. The Little Match Girl is a widely read story by Andersen which focuses on the plight of the poor children who suffer undeserved hardships just because they were born in the wrong socio-economic strata. The soul of her grandmother comes to take the little girl with her to heaven. "The Little Match Girl" (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The Little Girl with the Matchsticks") is Hans Christian Andersen's Short Story about a dying child's hallucinations on New Year's Eve. Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing. My friend thought the girl didn't have a happy ending simply because she died in the end. I keep on reading this story because of eSpark, but I actually don’t care. “Oh, take me with you! I remember I wanted to watch Mickey's Christmas Carol, and it had that along with several other videos. I was thinking more about whether it was a happier ending for the girl, since her story and circumstances were so sad, that she is now "at a happier place" without her abusive father and a world that didn't care about her. 'Someone is just dead!' From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year’s Eve; yes, of that she thought. One may guess the age of the girl by the slippers she was wearing as they were of her mother and too big for her, thus she might not be more than nine or ten years. I narrate a holiday classic about a young child from a poor family who is sent on the streets to sell matches. A young police officer, under the name of Darius MacManic, was out on patrol. Isabella continues to light the matches to keep her memory alive for as long as she can before she is out of matches, dying with the vision that she and her grandmother are celebrating the New Year in Heaven. EXPOSITION The story starts in the exposition where the scene is set … However, I consider it as a happy ending. One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. The little match girl is frequently classed among Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy stories; but it does not really fall comfortably into that category, containing as it does no supernatural elements apart from the rather sentimental religious gloss at the end. Match girl turned to the wall because the wind was blowing. It was so terribly cold. Her hands were nearly dead with cold; one little match from her bundle would warm them, perhaps, if she dare light it. “Rischt!” how it blazed, how it burnt! It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love. The only sign of her refuge from the cold a black patch of snow left by the ashes of a burnt out bundle of matches. As the street clears, she takes shelter in an alley, and one by one lights her matches. You go away when the match burns out; you vanish like the warm stove, like the delicious roast goose, and like the magnificent Christmas tree!” And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her. It tells the story of, on a cold New Year's Eve, a young, poor girl trying to sell matches in the street. It's so easy to watch and you'll get a warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of your stomach... which is always a good thing! “Once, “Once, she was sent out of the house to beg and, when she could not do it, she sat for a whole day under a bridge and cried (Marley 2). The little girl's hands began to get cold again and lit another match . What the little girl did not know, as she struck her first match, is that there was another soul nearby. c She doesn't want to lose / see her grandmother again d The old woman takes the gtrl home / up into the sky. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. “Grandmother!” cried the little one. She never stood a chance. Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. This story is part of '25 days of Drarry 2018'. Edit: Just to clarify, the story itself is of course very sad, no matter how you look at it. It was early afternoon on Christmas Eve, and it was bitterly cold. a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it. From the little match girl. 22 reviews A heartwarming saga, from the ebook bestselling author of THE WORKHOUSE WAIF. Then helped the young fellow completing his play for the theatre with the valuable sapphire, that was, Happy Prince’s eye and after this, he provided the little match girl with another sapphire from his second eye. The story was written at a time when Denmark was doing pretty well, despite some social unrest. I thought it was interesting that my more optimistic friends found the ending happy and my more pessimistic friends found it sad. I thought it was very sad how so many people walked past her not caring. PLOT A plot is a series of events and character’s actions that relate to the central conflict. A young police officer, under the name of Darius MacManic, was out on patrol. This time with wild red hair and threadbare clothes which did nothing to Jered 07:33, 5 June 2016 (UTC) External links modified. The moment presents an instance of dramatic irony, because the reader knows the little didn't light the matches solely for warmth. Are these sentences true or false? The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire. All copy rights reserved to Venessa Dance Theatre 2015. Hence, the falling star signifies the death of the little match girl. “The Little Match Girl” is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen which given a lovely ending in this charming adaptation by Tony Dalton. Although this story has been rewritten many times, often with the ending changed so that the Little Match Girl ends up safe and happy ever after in a warm house, this story was a critique on economic inequalities. Plot Summary: Isabella is a poor, sick Danish girl who has left home and is alone in a … It was a tragedy after she was gone, then everyone felt sang, and wrung their hands, but it was a tragedy when she was alive too. To keep her in visualization she lighted all the matches she had and died out of the cold. The little swallow could not perform such work anymore as Happy Prince has turned absolutely blind. The Little Match Girl was put on for me each and every Christmas as a child and I will be doing the same for my children when the time comes. Illustration by Hans Christian Andersen's original illustrator, Vilhelm Pedersen The story starts on a bitterly cold New Year's Eve, as a poor little girl wanders the streets barefoot, trying to sell matches. 21. And if they think a little bit further, they would also realise that while there are many tragic events that occurs around the world, there is also many opportunities for us as individuals and societies to turn such stories around in the real world. Although the fate of the little girl is morbid, it is portrayed as a happy ending, befitting the tone of a fairy tale because the little girl is finally free of the suffering that she has lived with for her entire life as … There's no happily ever after in Andersens Tales. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when–the match went out. ( Log Out /  Oh! Happy Ending 27. I had this discussion with a friend of mine recently, I thought the little girl was happy in the end, finally free from the cruelty of this world, living happily ever after with her grandma. But as the New Year began, the little match girl of blonde hair and bare feet was nowhere to be found. Andersen plays with the interaction between violence and love, poverty and wealth, struggle and redemption, life and death. I had this discussion with a friend of mine recently, I thought the little girl was happy in the end, finally free from the cruelty of this world, living happily ever after with her grandma. The little match girl’s poverty is so dire that attempting to endure it doesn’t make sense—she needs not simple escapism, but rather real escape that can only come in the form of death. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. The little girl was very attached to her grandmother as she was very kind and loving towards her. Fascinating story The Bryant and may match factory in bow London that tells the story of lottie Perkins and her family and friends during the big strike for better working environment is an astonishing story. It was so thoughtful. The Little Match Girl (Happy Readers Book 4) - Kindle edition by Christian Andersen, Hans, Kim, Hyeon-Jeong, Lee, Dongho. My own slant on the classic tale of The Little Matchstick Girl. The word ‘match’ in the title not only refers to the act of selling matches by the little girl to earn money but also is symbolic of warmth and hope. This is a happy alternate ending to The Little Match Girl where she doesn't die. Sad. In the end the little match girl escaped from his father brutality and abused. In a corner formed by two houses, of which one advanced more than the other, she seated herself down and cowered together. Published on Feb23, 2015. It's a fantastic read that's truly Heartbreaking in places but also full of joys, smiles, as everyone United together. The little girl had lost them running across the road, where two carriages had rattled by terribly fast. The little girl strikes another match, and when the flame hits the wall of the building, the wall becomes “transparent as a veil” and the girl can “see right into the house.” Inside, there is a table set with “finest porcelain” featuring a roast goose that leaps up from its dish and waddles towards the girl. I remember being read this story every December in school. ( Log Out /  Yet there were still abandoned children walking around the streets, as there … I don’t care that it keeps on giving me this story because I love how the little match girl was able to … Ans. The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought. It came to the end so match lit her fingers. The short story opens with a little girl attempting to sell matches so that her father won't beat her. A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. On the table was spread a snow-white tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums. THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL is walking through Europe right now and we have the power to change the ending of her story. The Little Match Girl or in a literal translation "The little girl with the matchsticks", is a short story by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, which was first published in 1845. In some ways, it shares something with Charles Dickens’s stories highlighting the plight of the poor, and indeed, we might draw a (tenuous) link between Dickens’s famous story A Christmas Carol from two years earlier and this story. I'm interested in more opinions, so let me hear your answers! The stoy can be set to have a happy ending and a sad one. A Drarry advent fairy tale inspired by "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen, but with lots of fluff, hot chocolate, unusual pets and - of course - a happy ending! It was amazing because she was able to see her grandmother, even though she was gone. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. However, unlike those fables, the moral of The Little Match Girl was not found directly within its storyline. The story tells us of how the night is freezing cold and the little girl has lost her shoes and so she is forced to wander in the cold. 3. The Little Match Girl, (2015), a visual novel for web browsers and Android that tells the story. The film is very short, 11 min or so, but it is a simple plot with only one main character (the match girl), and by the end of the picture you are totally engaged in the girls plight. It encourage people to put themselves in the shoes of the less fortunate. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. State one reason for both. Little Match Girl Alternate Ending EzraTheAlbino. When Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Match Girl almost 160 years ago it was at a time in his career when he was well past adapting spoken fairy-tales for the printed page. So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were quite red and blue from cold. 32. Even so, the story implanted a feeling of deep sorrow in my heart because she never gets the chance to experience joy in her childhood life. Alejandra August 3, 2020 at 4:06 pm. Her hands and feet were tiny. At the end of the story, the little girl's stiff, frozen body is surrounded by spent matches. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. She's an orphan who is exploited, forced to sell matches (which people don'ts use much anymore, and did'nt buy much then) on Christmas, burns her inventory in a vain attempt to stay warm. In the cold and gloom a poor little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. The grandmother coming for her was nice but she should have had a longer life and would have if just one person had stopped and helped her. Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant’s house. And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when–the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind. Our imagination (and literature) can give us comfort, solace, and reprieve from so many of life's hardships. All copy rights reserved to Venessa Dance Theatre 2015. The Little Match Girl. “The Little Match Girl” is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen which given a lovely ending in this charming adaptation by Tony Dalton. Why was the last vision important for the little girl? ~ The story ‘The little match girl’ shows … My friend thought the girl didn't have a happy ending simply because she died in the end. Circle the words to complete the sentences. Yet both he and Dickens appear to have wished to highlight the plight of the poor and needy to their middle-class readers. The story begins on a cold winter night in which the snow never stopped. I had forgotten about The Little Match Girl. But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall–frozen to death on the last evening of the old year. If I could rate this from 1 to infinity, I would rate it infinity. Analyzing the Plot of The Little Match Girl 1. I've asked a few more friends about this and got different answers and reasonings. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions. The narrator describes her as poorly equipped to fight off the snowy night she treks through: her head is uncovered, revealing her long fair (i.e. It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top. Work Text: What the little girl did not know, as she struck her first match, is that there was another soul nearby. Strangely, the little girl dies in the end. Sad. “Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. "Kiss the Girl" 22. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. 33. She drew one out. Though many suffer the same fate today as well, the living conditions for the children of the poor was particularly miserable back in Andersen’s time . Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. And to make the connection that it only takes one person in that story to change that girl life around, even if only for a single extra day. People who see her assume she lit them to keep warm. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. My friend thought the girl didn't have a happy ending simply because she died in the end. ( Log Out /  I'm very passionate about this topic, and so I hope it added a little feeling in to the topic of homelessness and loneliness in general. Had traumatic stress about that. The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but–the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Change ), Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen @ Classic Reader, Illustration – Kinderbuchillustration – Illustrator Portfolio, The art of Anton Pieck pictures from art photos on webshots. She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room. ; Glurge: Most people tend to call it "tragedy porn" for this exact reason. The Little Match Girl was always my favourite story, so I have done an alternate ending to the series I was starting for this competition so that it is similar to the first one. Our imagination (and literature) can give us comfort, solace, and reprieve from so many of life's hardships. So I loved this story. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety–they were with God. “The Little Match Girl” is a sad story about a miserable young girl that touched the heart of many readers. The Little Match Girl : About the Story. But the saddest, starkest holiday child, the strangest 19th-century combination of sentiment and social realism and holiday imagery, is without doubt Hans Christian Andersen's Little Match Girl. Explanation: I thought it was going to have a happy ending but it had a sad ending where the little match girl died. The little girl had a happy ending as her sufferings finally come to an end and she was able to join her grandmother. The story “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Anderson is set against the backdrop of a New Year’s Eve. I also love how the little match girl passed away smiling because she saw her grandmother. 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