The Match Girl The story of The Match Girl is one of the short stories written by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen, and the events of this story revolve around the death of the dreams of a child selling matches as a result of being exposed to extreme cold. An animated movie. Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen is best known for writing imaginative, innovative, and poignant children's stories, including: The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, and The Match Girl. This writer attracts everyone's attention, including critics. He also wrote travel novels, poetry glorifying the Scandinavian people, as well as classic stories. In 1845, Andersen's stories began to be translated into English. The story of the Match Girl It is said that there was a beautiful poor girl with long blond hair who went out on New Year's Eve to sell matches, and the night was very cold, as snow was falling from the sky, and the girl was shivering from the cold, and she was not wearing anything above On her head, snowflakes were falling on him, and she had lost her shoes, and she was walking barefoot, and she was feeling very hungry, and she was afraid to go home for fear of her father, who asked her to sell matches. After the girl’s fatigue reached its climax, she sat in a corner to shelter herself, and began to warm herself by lighting the matches, and after the first match went out, she lit the second match, and dreamed of a large table of food in front of her filled with all kinds of delicious food, then the second match went out, and then Fireworks began to be lit to celebrate the New Year, and the Christmas tree sparkled with beautiful lights. Meanwhile, the match seller remembered her deceased grandmother, who was very attached to her, as she was treating her with love, kindness, and tenderness, and she imagined that the meteor related to the sky was a dying person, walking to the sky, and she wished to go there in order to see her grandmother, and she started lighting one match After another, to prevent her seeing her grandmother alive, after which she cried and said to her grandmother: Take me to you, grandmother, and I knew that the sticks would be extinguished, and all the dreams and hopes that had been emitted by the lights of the matches, and at the last light of the matches her grandmother approached her, then embraced her in her arms, and took her With her to heaven, she no longer felt hungry, thirsty, or cold, and the reason for that was that she died, and her grandmother carried her soul to heaven to live with her in happiness and love, and the next morning the child was found dead in a corner, so the passers-by felt pity and sadness for her. The goal of the end of the story is the writer's keenness to end the story a happy ending, for death is the way to meet the match seller with her grandmother who loves her, treats her well, and prefers to stay with her, with her she does not suffer from poverty, and the bad treatment she receives from her father, and there are recent versions of the story that changed its end By rescuing the match seller from the extreme cold of a generous family, and providing her with food and warm clothes.
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