For this new essay I have chosen a short story named The Little Match-Seller by Hans Christian Andersen, who is known for writing children’s stories. The story was first published in 1845. After having been looking for a short fiction story, I found an amazing website that contains hundreds of short stories in different genres. Then, I decided to choose something that I am already familiar (It does not mean I chose the easiest one, I read a lot of short stories today before choosing this one).The story is about a dying child's hallucinations. It says that the last night of the year was hard and cold, the streets of the city were covered with snow, and a girl walked barefoot without the comfort that the idea of turning one of the matches she had in a box to sell, but nobody had purchased. Sitting on the floor and curled, she dared to take one and light it. The heat was so nice that she kept imagining other beautiful places where she would want to be. And lit one after another until she saw in the sky a star falling, thought someone was dying, as well as she had told his grandmother, who both had wanted: “When a star falls, a soul up to God”. And the matches burned, she saw her grandmother coming. Together they went to heaven, where there is no cold, hungry or fear (Wikipedia). For this assignment, I will identify some archetypes and symbols because I am already familiar with this and I think this story shows a lot of symbolism and archetypes that I can talk about.
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