Monday, July 6, 2009

The little Match Girl: Reflection

Alex ASKED:
Is there any reason you may be aware of, for your choice of this particular story?
Was there any specific aspects of the story that stood out for you?
Which character in the story did you fell most drawn to?
If there was a moral or message in the story what would that be?
If you could change any element in the story, what would you change?
What would you like to happen next in the story?

Ya. i do have my own reason to choose the little match girl for the story telling mode.

it make me think of the world, now adays, there is much more little girl/ or little boy like little match girl who is sufering , but no one willing to give a hand to help, and people are inexorability, not helpful, and selfish

if there is any human being in the world, at the space, willing to give a hands, then the little match girl, wont' dyieng in the little corner, and starving...

she only have 3 little wishes to be fulfill,
eat a good meal,
enjoy the new years with loves one
and hafing attention and love from loves' one

when i reading this story, it's remind me of a sad experience... when some one significant sick, and nobody woulod help u, the feelings is really helpless, and lonely...
the little match girl is so poor, and yet, the little boy still took away her shoes. and she have to walk in the cool snowing night. So bad lah the boy
kicking the little match girl's shoes as football,
if i am having the power, i wish i can give a lesson for the boy, take him away and punish him, so that he will not do this to the little match girl

i know, in the end, the
little match girl die i at a corner. but she is smiling happily. Author didn't used the words, little match girl had "DIE", but just closed the eyes and sleep happily. As the little match girl is with Nanny, at the side of GOD. when i was young, i am not understand, why the little never wake up.
now i understand... the little girls have been suffer for whole life, and she is having fantasy of the own world, experienced the hallucination to avoid the suffering
she is DIE. but she die happily, without pain

If I could change any element in the story,
i will make the little girl meet with an auntie Priscilla or Uncle Alex, who is kind and be nice to little girl, give her a shelter and she can be somebody. At least, if not encounter with someone is kind, just able to sell the matches and get some food, hot soup, bread and a place to overnight, but not dying at the corner. it's really so up sad.

WHY, human just can't show a little compassion? though this is a stranger??
what you do now, might change the person whole life.
WHY people must be so ignorant, and selfish to give? life is not always about take, sharing and give is the most felicity

when i think back, and looking the stories and my stories,
sometimes, i will asked my self... and question about LIFE

and, it also remind me of Forrest Gump movie
Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Forrest Gump is an endearing story of a man who despite having an I.Q that is lower than an average person still had the courage to do great things and lived a noble humbled life. I’m sure the reason why he had the courage to do some of the things he did is because he never understood fully the possible consequences to his actions…thus he has no fear. Like when he went back into the jungle during the Vietnam War to save his platoon … he probably doesn’t realise what could happen if the enemy caught him.

i want to make my life, something different

and i wish to make other's people life different...
and i know, it's hard to not let the tragedy like the Little Match Girls Repeat.
but, i remind myself,
Lend a hand, YOU can make a different!

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for your sharing. It would be good to read what you have written again sometime in the future and ask yourself did it give me any further insights about myself as a result of the distancing of time.

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  2. Hi I-ling, m touched by your story... and u wished that little match girl will meet aunty priscilla to fulfill her 3 wishes... want to let her know KakaK i-ling will love her too to fulfill her 3 wishes...

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