The best storybook I have read
It's a long time ago, when I was a child, I must have a bedtime story before I went to sleep. So my mum must have a collection of storybooks to read it for me. The storybooks are so good and interesting such as The frog and the toad, The dog and the bone and so on. So, with these stories, I can sleep soundly without a nightmare.
When I was a kid, I was so interested with this story that change my entire life, until now, I still read the books either originally from the book or using E-book. The title of the storybook is "The Ugly Duckling". Honestly, this book is very good and have a lot of moral values that you can learn.
The story was written by a well-known author from Denmark named Hans Christien Andersen (1805-1875). The original title is "Den Grimme aelling
The story follows about the different ducks, from his younger brother. When the story begins, a mother duck's egg hatches. One of the little birds is perceived by the other birds and animals on the farm as an ugly little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse from them.
CRACK!! CRACK!! CRACK!! CRACK!!
Filled with happiness, the mother duck watched as, one by one, her eggs hatched. She was so excited to lead her children to the pond and teach them all the ways of being a duck. Unfortunately for the mother duck, one egg was left to hatch. This egg was larger than the rest. This egg was browner than the rest. Her little ducks impatiently waited for two more days and nights.
“I want to go to the pond, Mother,” one baby duck quacked.
“Let’s go! Let’s go!” two more quacked excitedly.
But the mother duck made them all wait, for she promised herself that she would love all her children the same.
At the crack of dawn on the third day of waiting, the large brown egg began to vibrate. It shook and shook as all of the ducks watched in awe.
And finally, Craaack!!!
Finally, the duck's mother issuances works, strange looking head of a bird that didn’t look much like a duck. This baby’s beak was a little too long, his feathers were a little too scruffy, and his face was a little too ugly!
But she promised herself that she would love all her children the same.
After that, she led her children to the pond and taught them how to quack. "QUACK!". Each duckling quacked. The ugly duckling quacked.
"QRAOUAK!"
The whole farmyard laugh at him. The ugly duckling was very sad. "QUACK QUACK!" Come with me to the farmyard. Says mother duck to all her sons and all of them follow her mother.
The farmyard is very noisy. The ugly duckling was so u happy there. The hens peck at him. The rooster flies at him. And the farmers kick him. At last, one day he ran away.
He sees many beautiful big birds swimming there. Their feathers are so white, their necks so long and their wings so pretty. The ugly duckling looks and looks at them. He wants to be with them, he knows they are swan. He wants to join them.
It is winter. Everything is white with snow. The river is covered with ice. The ugly duckling is very cold. After the winter, spring comes again. The sun shines warmly. Everything is shiny and green. One day, the duckling saw a beautiful swan swimming in the pond and fell in love with her.
But then he remembered how everyone made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. When he saw his own reflection in the water, he was astonished. He was not an ugly duckling anymore, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings, but I was a baby swan!” he said to himself.
MORAL VALUES OF THE STORY
As is the case with almost all of Hans Christian Andersen’s literary fairy tales, “The Ugly Duckling” glorifies the little one who suffers. Andersen’s tales are fraught with Christian subtext, and suffering little ones are a recurring theme in his stories.
Life tells us that suffering is beautiful, because it is through suffering that one achieves spiritual fulfillment. Andersen’s tales really take this to heart, and the fact that he uses characters who are young and small (ducklings, little girls, little mermaids, etc.) emphasizes the suffering of the innocent. But he does this because his tales, attempt to teach children the virtue of suffering and delayed gratification.
In “The Ugly Duckling,” the titular baby bird feels alienated and miserable, but his endurance is rewarded in the end because he becomes a beautiful swan. Similarly, our life believe that although life sucks and the world sucks, if we endure it faithfully, we reach spiritual fulfillment in death.
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