The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl by: Hans Christian Andersen                                   This story talks about a poor young girl that sold matches on the street. It was a cold New Year’s eve. On the streets, the little match girl walked in the cold with no extra clothes and she had no shoes to protect her feet from the cold air. She had slippers when she left home but sadly the slippers are too big for her. She sold matches every day to earn money to buy food. She was about to cross the street when a horse carriage ran straight towards her. She ran away as fast as she could to save herself from the horse carriage. While running she lost both her slippers. She was about to get the slippers but a boy came to grab them and the boy ran away with them so the little girl just decided to walk on the street on her bare feet. Her feet had turned blue because of how cold it was. She sat in a corner near the stre...

Comprehension Test 1.)  Who is the Danish master of literary fairy tales? a.Francis Bacon      b. Edgar Allan Poe      c.Hans Christian Andersen      d. O. Henry 2.) What is the first book of tales by Hans Christian Andersen? a.The little match girl    b. A poet’s Bazaar     c. The Improvisatore      d. Tales, Told for Children                        3.) What point of view is used by the short story  little match girl?  a. First person point of view    b. Omniscient Third person point of view c. Second Person point of view     d . Third person point of view 4.) Where is the setting of the little match girl?  a.In a town market during christmas   b. In a river bank during easter      c. On New years eve, in a corner of two hous...

  E l e m e n t s :      Conflict:              - Man vs Nature   Settings:   - New Year's Eve - The corner between two houses   Characters: 1. The Match Girl - She is the protagonist of the story. She was selling matches in the cold. 2. Grandmother - She was the only person who loved the little match girl, she appears in the little match girl’s hallucinations. 3. Father - The father was the one who told the little match girl to sell matches.   Point of View: - The short story, The Little Match Girl was told from a third-person point of view .         Theme: 1. Struggle : The Little Match Girl struggles to sell any matches and because of that, she would not go home, scared that her father would punish her. 2. Loneliness : The Little Match Girl was alone between two houses. 3. Hope : The Little Match Girl w...

Biography of Hans Christian Andersen        Hans Christian Andersen was born on the second day of April 1805. He is known as the Danish Master  of the literary fairy tale .  Aside from plays, novels, poems, travel books, and autobiographies, he has also authored several other works. His fairy tales have been translated to almost every language in literary history, though many of those works are virtually unknown outside Denmark.  Andersen’s first book of tales,  Eventyr, fortalte for børn   (1835; “Tales, Told for Children”), included stories such as “The Tinderbox,” “Little Claus and Big Claus,” “The Princess and the Pea,” and “Little Ida’s Flowers.” Two further installments of stories made up the first volume of   Eventyr   (1837); a second volume was completed in 1842, and to these was added   Billedbog uden billeder   (1840;   A Picture-book Without Pictures ). 1843, 1847, and 1852 brought new collections. The gen...