“The little match girl” is one of the most symbolic creatures of Anderson’s literary talent. To begin with, the whole plot remains the strict personal line of the poor girl that started her “adventures” from going home one cold and rainy day with only the huge mother’s shoes. After that, she entered the main room and made a fire with a match: the main symbol in the story. Along with her process of creating the home atmosphere, the second person was demonstrated to the readers—grandmother, who represented the total contrast of two people trying to realise the same dream (Andersen et al., 2020).
The girl glimpsed on her poor Christmas tree, directed her match on it, and realistically imagined how the fire came across and through the tree and peaked at the top as the brightest star in the sky. Consequently, the girl was attracted by the match, and the poor tree was glowing with different colors. She gathered all of her matches and made a genuine “star” that lit the whole room on the brightest day. By doing this, she looked at her grandmother, who was trying to escape to the sky. The older person took the younger ones, and they imagined flying to the sky: in God’s hands. Finally, the story ends when people coming across the girl’s apartment admitted her and thought that she was just trying to warm herself, without knowing what she felt at that moment.
Personal Story Creation
There was a cold rainy morning, as it usually occurs in Paris when autumn forces the summer to change much earlier, let us say, in august. Ron was trying to find the right way to the Charle de Gaulle bus station, which was situated at the first district, while he was standing at the twentieth – the last district in this huge city that reminded him of a clumsy snail. In fact, Paris is a huge clumsy snail as districts situated similarly to the snail’s shell shape. Ron Donalds decided to pass this shell for the last time in his life. Being only 18, he knew Paris better than his right-hand fingers. He passed 15 years here, lonely, without no one that could give him a hand at the right moment. His life “shell” began its spiral when his parents died in the auto-crash by leaving their three years old son here, in France.
Gradually, by going through his shell, he experienced everything: foster parenting, street crimes, empty stomach. However, everything is changing: he gained compensation from the government, twenty thousand euros that will change his life. His life shell is moving in the opposite direction by rising from the smallest dot, while he is walking from the twentieth district, the last district of Paris: clumsy and huge snail.
Reference
Andersen, H. C., & Hersholt, J. (2020). The Little Match Girl. SAGA Egmont.