卖火柴的小女孩英文赏析

The appreciation of The Little Match Girl

The little match girl is a classic masterpiece of fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen, was published in 1846. It tells a story about a little girl who was very poor selling matches with naked feet on New Year's Eve night.The warmth of the match gave her many beautiful illusions: such as warm stove, delicious roast goose, the beautiful Christmas tree and amiable grandmother .These phantasm made her feel very happy, but she dead because of cold weather and hunger in the end. This story reflects people’sindifference of the ruthless at that society.

The whole story is a piece of sad and soulful .The writer,Hans Christian Andersen,Revealed the darkness of capitalism, and expressedhis deep sympathy for the poor people. From the very beginning, in paragraph 1,Andersenbegan to shape the tragic image of the little girl by using a lot of adjectives to describe the time, place, weather, and the dress of the little girl, such as “cold”“darkness”“bareheaded”“naked feet”. Besides, one more detail is that the poor little girl came out wearing slippers, although very large, shehad lost one of them, and then was picked up another one .It was undoubtedly worsefor this little girlwho was already suffered from the cold.This specific description helps to arouse the readers' sympathy. Although the little girl had been so poor, “Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.”

The writer used repetition of “nobody”and “no one”here in order to emphasize that all the people are not willing to charity his compassion. Faced with such a poor thing, the world had reached a degree of indifference to incapable of further increase. Confronted with so many difficulties, this poor little girl couldn’t even go home because she was afraid of being hit by her father for didn't sell a match and didn't make money.The world had been very cold, but she still had such an indifferent father who never cared about her. This further raised the readers’ sympathy and hatred to the cold word. This is the first part of the story ,the main ideal is the girl sells the matches.

In the second part, this story is mainly described the little girl lights the matches. The little match girl rubbed five matches in all. She respectively saw the iron stove that can bring warm to her,thedelicious roast goose, the beautiful Christmas tree and her grandmother,the only person in the world who loves her.Four things appeared in the order is in accordance with the needs of the little girl in turn, so they can not change the location.The article followed with the same structureto describe the five rubbedmatches. The climax of the whole story was reached by describing from the illusion of iron stove to grandmother.Furnace, roast goose, Christmas tree, grandma these are the little girl's fantasy, these fantasies is beautiful for the little girl, but not belongs to the little girl in real life. She could only see these beautiful