Today, let's review "The Little Match Girl".Re-reading this old text in this special year and special day has a special taste in my heart. The background of this fairy tale is Christmas. In recent years, there has been a growing voice on the Internet: Chinese want to celebrate their own traditional festivals and refuse to celebrate foreign festivals, the most excluded of which is, of course, Christmas. Christmas trees, Santa Claus, jingling bells, ......These words are far away from us, away from China, and no matter how young we are, our children reread "The Little Match Girl", and it is estimated that the following sentences will also be annotated: - She is sitting under the beautiful Christmas tree. This Christmas tree was bigger and more beautiful than what she saw through the glass door of a wealthy merchant last Christmas. —The matches were extinguished again. I saw the candlelight on the Christmas tree rising higher and higher, and finally becoming a star twinkling in the sky. When a star falls, a soul goes to God. "Christmas is gone, but this fairy tale must stay.
The little girl in this fairy tale is different from the protagonists in other fairy tales, she is too ordinary. She is not a princess, and there is no handsome prince to rescue her;She wasn't beautiful, she wasn't educated, she lost even a pair of slippers. Thankfully, she still has matches, which can emit faint light and heat on a cold, snowy night;Fortunately, she still has a humble wish, hoping to see her grandmother, hoping to be fed, clothed, and warm......She is a fairy tale character, but she is so real, as if there is such a barefoot little girl around our house, on a street corner in the middle of a cold night, who can only keep warm by striking matches, shivering, starving......In the past, we always felt that such a poor little girl was far away from us, but when we grew up, we realized that there was a girl in reality who was even more miserable than her. This year, what pictures will little girls from all over the world see when they polish matches?In this unstable year, there are such girls in many countries, some of them are freezing to death in the streets, some are dying in the shelling, when their souls fly into the sky, can they still have a smile on the corner of their mouths?Can they still find "a place where there is no cold, no hunger, and no pain" in this world?
In the fairy tale, what kind of environment does this well-behaved and beautiful little girl face in the so-called "Chinese New Year's Eve" in the West?First of all, the natural environment she faced was harsh, "it was very cold, it was snowing, and it was almost dark", "she was cold and hungry", "a pair of little feet were frozen red and blue", "a pair of small hands were almost frozen". It's so cold outside, why doesn't the little girl go home?Because the family environment she faced was just as bad. "It's as cold at home as it is on the street", not only is the temperature low, but there is no family affection. The text does not mention the little girl's mother, but only says that the slippers worn by the little girl "were worn by her mother", and it is estimated that her mother was gone when she was born;The text writes about Grandma, "so gentle, so loving", and is "the only one who loves her", but Grandma is dead;The article also writes about his father, but he has a rough temper and will beat her because "she didn't sell a match and didn't make a single profit". The little girl can't go back to her home, so is there any enthusiastic person in this society to help her?Nor did it. When she crossed the road, she "rushed over" the people in the two carriages, rich people who were in a hurry to go home for the New Year, and they did not help her;When she ran away with one of her lost shoes, a boy "picked it up and ran away" and said that "in the future he will have a child who can use it as a cradle";While she was living on the streets, people were celebrating the New Year in warm houses, "with lights shining through every window", and no one noticed that there was a girl on the street who was about to freeze to death;There are also passers-by who met a girl selling matches on Chinese New Year's Eve, "no one has ever bought her a match, no one has ever given her a coin." In such a winter night, in such a society, the little girl can't feel the warmth, the light, the happiness, the love, the hunger and cold, in the celebration of the reunion of thousands of families, silently fall to the corner of the snowflakes flying.
The little match seller lit the matches five times and saw five different scenes. These scenes are in stark contrast to her real-life situation. Before the first match was lit, the little girl experienced a fierce battle of ideas. "Do she dare to take one out of the handful of matches and burn it on the wall to warm her little hands?"This question in the article is distressing, do you sell matches, but you don't even dare to light a match?Yes, because the match is lit, you can't exchange money, and if you can't pay it back, you will be beaten and scolded by your father. However, "she finally pulled out one" because she "felt colder" and wanted to warm her little hands, which were almost frozen. So, it was out of control, and the girl struck the match five times, and each time in the firelight, she saw the beauty she had always dreamed of. In the cold, she lit her first match, and saw the stove "with shiny copper feet and copper handles", "burning vigorously, warm, how comfortable it feels!".Hungry, she lit a second match and saw the roast goose "bubbling with aroma," "jumping off the plate with a knife and fork in its back," and staggering toward her. In pain, she lit a third match and saw a "beautiful Christmas tree" with "thousands of bright candles lit on its branches". Alone, she lit the fourth match, and saw the long-lost "only grandmother who loved her", "so gentle, so loving". In pursuit of happiness, she hurriedly lit the match for the fifth time, and this time she directly lit "a large number of matches", and she no longer wanted to be so entangled when she wiped the first one. She wanted to keep her grandmother and let her take her to "a place where there is no cold, no hunger, and no pain." This is the climax of the story. This large handful of matches is clearly the girl's urgent call for the only love she has ever enjoyed in the world. It can be seen that every time she lights a match, she expresses her longing and yearning for happiness in her own unique way. Unfortunately, these beautiful scenery are not a pleasant imagination, but an illusion when she struggles on the verge of death, and a subconscious pursuit of her extreme desire for food, clothing, happiness, love, and happiness when she is on the verge of death. How beautiful the landscape the girl saw, how miserable her situation was. Reading such words, our hearts cannot be calm. In fact, isn't this fairy tale a match that Hans Christian Andersen polished for us?He wants to use this fairy tale to awaken the conscience of the world, has his goal been achieved?
Lu Xun said that tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for others to see. Hans Christian Andersen also deliberately wrote the little match girl as "well-behaved" and "beautiful", so that the tragedy of this girl can move readers even more. In the past, it was easy to focus more on the tragic plight of girls and ignore the well-behaved beauty of girls, which reduced the intensity of the tragedy. Today, read these beautiful sentences again: "On this cold and dark night, a well-behaved little girl, walking barefoot in the street" "Poor little girl!".She was cold and hungry, and shivered as she walked forward" "Snowflakes fell on her long golden hair, which was curly over her shoulders, and looked beautiful, but she didn't pay attention to it." Yes, girls are well-behaved. In order to share the financial pressure of the family, she took up the burden of life prematurely, and braved the cold and wind and snow on Chinese New Year's Eve to sell matches on the street, hoping to exchange some money to subsidize the family. Yes, girls are beautiful. She had long golden hair, which was curly over her shoulders, but she didn't pay attention to it, she was hungry and cold, and she didn't care about her beauty. But such a well-behaved and beautiful little girl "froze to death on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the old year." A beautiful flower withered forever. She's dead, but she's still beautiful. "The New Year's sun rises and shines on her little corpse" "She sat in the corner with her cheeks flushed and a smile on her lips". Even death is such a "well-behaved", which did not bring any disturbance to the people around him, and did not cause a trace of uneasiness to this society. If only there was a loved one who loved her, the girl would not die;If there was a passerby who cared about her, the girl would not have died. So, it's not the cold weather that kills girls, it's the loveless society that kills girls. Children are a vulnerable group, and without the care and help of the poor, children cannot survive in a harsh environment. No cold, no hunger, no pain, what should be every child's basic right to survival and living conditions, but it has become a fantasy of a little girl before she dies. What a sad picture!Hey, I can't go on. I hope that in the new year, every child can have a happy childhood, everyone can have ordinary happiness, on the way to make a living, occasionally stop to strike a match, and still see a beautiful scene in their hearts.
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