The little match girl

Hans Christian Andersen

Chapter 1: Her cold Little home
 The little girl lives with her mother
and father.
 The wind comes in through the
walls
 The mother tells the girl to go out
and sell matches
 The girl puts the matches in her old
apron and puts some shoes near the
door
 The father says not to come back
without money or I’ll take my belt
to your back
Chapter 2: Her Mother’s shoes
 The little girl goes out, it is
snowing
 The shoes are too big because they
are her mom’s shoes.
 The girl walks across the road, two
coaches go past, she runs and the
shoes fell.
 She couldn’t one shoe, a street boy
takes it.
 The girl now walks over the snow
in her bare feet.
 Nobody buys any matches from
her.
 It is the last night of the year, the
night of 31st December – New
Year’s Eve.
Chapter 3: A corner to sit in
 The girl is hungry and cold
 She walks through the streets, with
her bare head and bare feet!
 The snow falls on her beautiful,
long, yellow hair.
 There are lights in all the windows,
it smells like a roast goose.
 She sees a little house near a bigger
house in front of her. The walls of
the two houses make a corner in the
street, she sits there.
 She puts her little feet under her.
 She can’t come back because her
dad would beat her.
 Her hands are cold and white
 She thinks about light a match.
 Chapter 4: The stove and the goose
 The little girl strikes the match (#1)
and gives a light, the flame is
yellow and warm, she puts her
hands.
 In the light, she sees a hot stove, it
is beautiful, new, and big. She puts
her feet.
 The flame dies, the stove goes from
her eyes.
 She strikes another match (#2), it
makes the girl see into the room
behind. There is a table with a
snow-white cloth and beautiful
plates.
 A roast goose is sitting on the
biggest plate, it smells wonderful.
 The goose jumps down and walks
across the little girl, in its back
there are a fork and a knife.
Chapter 5: Candles and stars
 The flame of the second match
dies.
 She lights a third match (#3), now
she sees the most beautiful
Christmas tree.
 There are thousands of candles all
over the green tree and beautiful
pictures, she puts out her hands
for them.
 The flame of the match dies, but
the lights stay, they go up and
now the girl sees them in the sky:
they are stars.
 A star falls and makes a yellow
line across the sky. It makes her
remember her grandmother, she
says that “when a star falls, a soul
is going up with God”
Chapter 6: Happy little soul
 Again the girl strikes a match on
the wall (#4)
 In its light, she sees her
grandmother, she tells her
grandma not to go away.

 She quickly lights lots of matches,

(#5 en Adelante) she doesn’t want
to lose her grandmother
 All the matches make a big,
yellow flame, lighter than the day
 The grandma is now more
beautiful and taller than before
 The grandmother takes the girl in
her hands, they fly up happily into
the sky. They aren’t cold, or
 hungry, or afraid now because
they are with god.

 In the corner, the girl is dead and

cold, her mouth is smiling, she
dead frozen on the last night of
the year.

 In one of her hands, there are a lot

of burnt matches.

 No one knows about her beautiful

visions or her happy feelings with
her grandmother on that day.
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