People: little girl, grandma, mom, dad, passers-by. Time: Christmas Eve. Location: A city street in Denmark Cause: The little girl was born in poverty, her parents died, and she lived alone with her grandmother. However, grandma died and the little girl was forced to make a living by herself.
2. What happened: On a cold night, the little girl was wearing thin clothes and barefoot, selling a box of matches in the street. She lit a match to keep warm and imagined herself by a warm fire. With the match burning, she saw her dead grandmother, mother and father, and a big Christmas dinner. Finally, she was reunited with her relatives in her dream and died happily.
Results: The little girl's body was found the next morning. She froze to death in the snow. She was littered with burnt match stems and her shoes.
Relevant knowledge of the author of The Little Match Girl
1. The article "Little Match Girl" was written by Danish writer hans christian andersen (1April 2, 805-1August 4, 875).
2. Andersen was born in a poor shoemaker's family in odense, Denmark, and lived in poverty in his childhood, but he became interested in literature since he was a child and began to try to write. His early works were mainly poetry and drama, and later he gradually turned to fairy tale creation.
3. Andersen's fairy tales are widely spread and loved by people, among which the most famous ones are The Little Match Girl, The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes. These works have distinct personal style and unique artistic charm, which profoundly reveal the weakness of human nature and the dark side of society, and at the same time convey the yearning and pursuit of beauty.
Andersen won many honors and praises before his death, but his life was not very happy. He has experienced setbacks such as lovelorn love, creative difficulties and public pressure, as well as health problems. But he still insisted on writing and became one of the most important writers in the history of world literature.