The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Anderson

Imagine yourself judged from birth, ugly. This is what happened to the ugly duckling in the famous short story, “The Ugly Duckling”. The little duck was judged and disliked by the other fellow ducklings but the story has a surprising end. The author Hans Christian Anderson helps to make this story one of a kind with his good vocabulary, plot line and symbolism, also the ending will be something to remember. Hans was a good man who writing career made him very famous. He was a man of Denmark who was well known for his good deeds around his town. His writing career took off in the early to mid eighteen hundreds around 1829 to be exact where he had the book, “A Travel Diary of a Walking Trip.” In his more famous story the “Ugly Duckling” he uses the swan to represent purity and hope and peace for everyone, it is also symbolic to his life and what he went through as a kid. After his writing career he died in 1875 of old age. This story is written in the romantic mode of literature. The story starts in a mild conflict of the duckling being born ugly, this is not too big of a deal but the other ducklings make him feel bad. Next the mild conflict continues by the ugly duckling being picked on and made fun of. The story ends in resolution, the duckling becomes a beautiful swan, more beautiful than all the other ducks and everyone who picked on him. Because Hans used suck a good mode line to express the story all of the other just happen to fall into place like the symbolism and the plot which is based off the mode. In this story bullying is a big concept for this little duckling. He is being accused of being ugly and not belonging as a duck, they tell him to go away by all the other ugly ducklings so he can maybe find a wife over there. He is disliked by all the ducks and excluded from al the event that happened and would have happened. Although bullying might be fun for the person who is doing it, it can seriously impact a person’s life and in some cases make them commit suicide. Bullying is a powerful thing and if not treated properly it can do some serious damage on a person’s life impacting them forever. In the short story the author Hans Christian Anderson used lots of good symbolism and has a good mode line with lots of good vocabulary which makes this author and story so good. In this story we learned that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. You may have heard this saying a couple of times before but this story really helps to bring it out and helps us readers really understand the meaning.