Ugly Duckling

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He decides to throw himself at a flock of swans, feeling that it is better to be killed by such beautiful birds than to live a life of ugliness. Though, she attempts to protect the duckling but succumbs to constant critical remarks made by the community.

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But the mother duck made them all wait, for she promised herself that she would love all her children the same. Accidentally mixed with a duck's eggs, he (it is only now that I found out that the ugly duckling is male) is hatched and grows up with ducks. Although he had a beautiful singing voice and a passion for ballet and the theatre, all his life he was rejected and teased by other children. He didn't have the confidence to let their compliments go to his head, but truly appreciated the words.A story is an instrument that indulges the reader into a world of fantasy thereby granting insight into the roots of the real problems. Looking into the water, the Ugly Duckling saw the reflection of a flock of large white birds flying. The other component of the book is the illustrations, which were serene and can add a flavor to reading for children.

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One of the little birds is perceived by the other birds and animals on the farm as an ugly little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse from them. The lesson the ugly duckling learned is that he just has to embrace what he looks like and be confident. but few years later braces became a trend, even for people who didn’t need it (which is weird for me). The small cast of human characters is diverse, with both African and European figures - an innovation that works here, given the "everyman" feeling of this particular tale. If that title had not been a misnomer and the ugly duckling had just grown up to be an ugly and misshapen duck, no happy ending would have been possible.He wanders from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. But it does remind us that Andersen’s work is shot through with a melancholic streak which keeps in mind the misery the lies just under many people’s daily lives. The main difference between the Andersen story and the Disney version is that, in the latter, the little bird's ordeal lasts for only a few minutes, not for months.

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The tale has become a symbol and a shorthand for the spurned outsider whose virtues are ignored by the world, only for them to transform into a successful person at a later date. When they left the water and started to play, the Ugly Duckling tried to play with his brothers and sisters, too. One day, it was all he could do was to paddle the water to keep it from freezing around him, and trapping him in the lake. html which included the "The Ugly Duckling", (first 16 pages), originally published in 1843 in Denmark by Hans Christian Andersen.In my opinion this fairy story shows how society that live in small closed space hates anybody who is different from the members of this society. I feel that they would be jealous and sorry for the words they used to make the ugly ducking feel bad about himself.

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He used to boast that he was secretly a prince, and although this only led to further mockery, there is a real possibility that he was in fact the illegitimate son of Prince Christian Frederik, later to be King Christian VIII of Denmark. He ran away, and was mistreated and talked about not because of anything that he could prevent, but just because he was ugly. Yes, it's how things work in real life, people pick and laugh about you if you look differently, but not everyone and not always.I did feel like that because I had a very low self esteem but after years went by, I focused more on my schooling career. He later said his schooldays were the darkest of his entire life, and we can speculate (though it is only speculation) that Andersen’s own experiences as a boy fed into ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Originally published in 1843, it's hard to imagine that such a classic children's book is still so easily readable for today's kids; it's values are timeless. Running from a situation where his life was in peril, he ended up as a companion to an old lady and her cat. What I disliked in the story is that the tormented fellow kinda gives up when everyone is against him.