The Little Match Girl

Title: The Little Match Girl II.Playwright: Hans Christian Anderson III.Theme: “The soul of the kind hearted person is like a match that enlighten and touches the heart of the people” IV.Message of the play: We should not fear death and live happily and thankfull A.Introduction: One night, there’s a husband and his wife is pregnant. The wife in pain, the man called for a help. He feels so uncomfortable. He saw a little girl passed by. The little girl asked, “What is your name?” William, he answered. Then he asked the little girl to have a seat. They have a conversation together. He asked the girl if she received a gift from her parents. But unfortunately she said that her parents died already. William felt sorry for asking…

“The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Anderson is a short fairytale of hope in the darkest of times for a poor little girl. Written in December 1845, The Little Match Girl tells the tale of a young child, trying to sell matches on the cold night of December 31st to avoid being beaten by her father at home. To prolong her inevitable freezing to death by she lights matches to try to keep herself warm, to distract herself dreadful conditions and to try to keep warm. The matches she lit…

“Barbie Doll”—a poem by Marge Peircy—the main character is a young girl whose life is ultimately destroyed by the words of a junior-high classmate. According to an article by Parveen and Wasal Kahn, victims of verbal abuse slowly lose themselves and grow hollow before…

Before the story I…. (what you did to prepare the children for the story): I read the title of the book and author then I asked them what they think the book or story was going to be about. The one little girl in the group answered that she thinks it was about dogs. Then I turned to a random page with a scared dog on it and ask them why they think the dog is scared and they answer with they don’t know. So I said why don’t we find out. During the story I…… (how did you engage/keep their…

In the second stanza the narrator witnesses Tom’s loss of innocence: “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved:” (Stanza 2). The image of Tom crying because he was losing his hair is so vivid. We often take little things like that for granted. Losing his hair wasn’t about vanity; it was a choice being taken away from Tom. The word ‘independence’ is very interesting because it seems like something to look forward to. What ends up happening to…

Meanwhile, Douglas is a past romantic interest of the speaker. Furthermore, even as the story is told by a female, and the setting is a mostly feminine populated country estate the male characters are ever present and oppressive! The Governess’s choices and actions are dictated by her desire to honor her responsibility to the Master. Even little Miles grows increasingly demanding and even bossy. Finally, this is a woman’s account written by a man, so is there even a female voice here at all? How…

their world. Yet in a land choking with poisonous lotus and blood red skies, she is impure. The girl is a dense shadowy ball of tension and hate and secrets. She is wrong, broken - a wild thing that musts be crushed. She held in all her power, her strength and passion, and it ate away at her insides. Eroded her bones and poisoned her bloodstream. When she flings herself off a burning ship and crashes into the haunted mountains, she is reborn. The brittle shell that meagerly protected her against…

Life can change so much in such a little time. We see video’s on how much we move and how much activities we did. Now we can remember it and not have to watch videos so there we can see how much we can change in just a little bit. Now this paper will be telling all the research and experiment test we did. Infants have a lot of reflexes when they are born, but we only did a couple with the baby Rylie. Infants usually out grow all the reflexes in a little over a year. The reflexes that were the…

The Flowers Analysis Question 5and 3: What do you think is the central point of this story? How might paragraph 5 be described as an example of foreshadowing? The main purpose of this story is to basically tell how the little girl Myop wondered off and saw her too far away from home. When she realize she was too far she began to walk back towards her house then she steps on a dead man face on a mistake. She later then realize that the man got hung by the tree she was around because his head…

Too Many Tamales Soto, G., & Martinez, E. (1993). Too Many Tamales. New York: Putnam. Book Summary: This book is about a little girl named Maria who was assisting her mother while making tamales for Christmas. With the excitement of getting to feel like an adult, Maria decided to borrow her mother’s ring without permission while they cooked the tamales. Her family began to arrive and Maria soon realized that the ring that she borrowed was missing. She soon turned to her cousins for help to find…