The story of the ugly duckling should be brief

Once upon a time, there was a mother duck who laid many eggs, and soon all the eggs gave birth to ducklings. One of the ducklings was particularly ugly and gray. The mother duck and her brothers and sisters were very ugly. Hate it.

The little duck left them in frustration. He was bullied by the children outside and everyone said he was ugly. One winter, it saw many swans flying south. The ugly duckling thought: How beautiful they are, but I am so ugly.

Due to the cold weather, the ugly duckling was frozen on the frozen river. In the second spring, the swans came back. The ugly duckling thought that he was so ugly and immediately hid, while the children playing beside him But cheering for it, the ugly duckling looked down at the river and found that his reflection was a beautiful swan!

Extended information:

1. Creative background

This fairy tale is collected in "Andersen's Fairy Tales". It was written when Hans Christian Andersen was not in a good mood. At that time he had a play "Sparrows in the Pear Tree" being performed, which, like many other works he wrote at the time, was unfairly criticized. He said in his diary: "Writing this story can make me feel better."

(There is also another saying: In 1835, when he was 30 years old, he started writing fairy tales and published his first fairy tale collection. The 61-page booklet contains four works: "The Tinder Box", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess on the Pea", and "Little Ida's Flowers". It did not receive unanimous praise. Some people even thought that he did not have the talent to write fairy tales and suggested that he give up. But Andersen said: "This is my immortal work!")

2. Introduction to the Ugly Duckling Character

Standing to yourself is a rare and valuable thing for an ugly duckling. And this kind of persistence was not there from the beginning. The duckling that escaped from the chickens and ducks was initially pessimistic and evasive, even humble. When it just escaped, it saw the birds in the bush flying into the air, thinking that it was "very ugly" and frightened them.

But anyone with common sense should know that this is a normal thing. The bird's "fear" is just what the duck thinks. When the male goose asked the duckling proudly, the duckling "fluttered this way, then fell that way, and saluted as respectfully as possible."

When the hound ran away because it was too small to hunt, it thought it was because it was "so ugly that even the hound wouldn't bite me." Its inner inferiority made it so humble in its attitude towards foreign objects. .

It was in the farmyard that the duckling really developed self-awareness and began to insist on himself. In this simple farmyard, he began to have a place to "settle down and live". After having enough food and clothing, he began to think about himself, began to have different opinions from others, and could have his own desires.

When his views and desires were not recognized, he decided to search in a wider world. At this time, the duckling did not feel inferior or humble, and began to control his own destiny (the previous wandering and escape were all situations) forced). It took the initiative to leave the small courtyard, and saw the swans, feeling that they were so close - it finally saw the same kind.

It keeps swimming on the winter lake because he does not want to live humbly in a place where he is not recognized, even though he may face death. In other words, his insistence on self and independent personality are better than death.

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