Mrs. Le Anna Ficks
Fairy Tales
Le Anna Ficks
Kaplan University
Professor Pyle HU300
August 11, 2014
The fairy tale that I have chosen for my essay is one that is about a duckling that wasn’t the prettiest thing ever. This poor duckling had people picking on him left and right and no one would even want anything to do with him, he was all alone and never knew what to do. This duckling thought that he was going to be like this forever and thought that he was always going to be all alone. Then one day he grew up and turned into the prettiest swan in the world. The other animals that use to pick on him no longer wanted to and were amazed at what had happened and were sorry they ever made fun of him.
There were some pretty good lessons in this story. This story was about an individual called, “The Ugly Duckling.”(Andersen, 1844). This story talks about how the duckling was once ugly and is now pretty. This being said gives us the lesson that you should never judge a book by its cover. Something like this should never be said to an individual for everyone is the same inside no matter what the person looks like on the outside. “It matters nothing if one is born in a duck-yard, if one has only lain in a swan`s egg.” (Anderson, 1844).
The reader should learn from the writer the importance of not only one’s self esteem but also others as well. Treating someone the way that you want to be treated is the best thing to do, because everything is observed by others, who are just as judgmental as you are being. Just because someone doesn’t look like you on the outside doesn’t mean that they aren’t the same as you in the inside and they have feelings as well, everyone is meant to be different apart from us in this world. People should also treat others with respect because there is no reason that you shouldn’t when they show you the same respect. The last thing I would think that people would take from this story is that no matter what a single person looks like, in life people and things
Le Anna Ficks
Kaplan University
Professor Pyle HU300
August 11, 2014
The fairy tale that I have chosen for my essay is one that is about a duckling that wasn’t the prettiest thing ever. This poor duckling had people picking on him left and right and no one would even want anything to do with him, he was all alone and never knew what to do. This duckling thought that he was going to be like this forever and thought that he was always going to be all alone. Then one day he grew up and turned into the prettiest swan in the world. The other animals that use to pick on him no longer wanted to and were amazed at what had happened and were sorry they ever made fun of him.
There were some pretty good lessons in this story. This story was about an individual called, “The Ugly Duckling.”(Andersen, 1844). This story talks about how the duckling was once ugly and is now pretty. This being said gives us the lesson that you should never judge a book by its cover. Something like this should never be said to an individual for everyone is the same inside no matter what the person looks like on the outside. “It matters nothing if one is born in a duck-yard, if one has only lain in a swan`s egg.” (Anderson, 1844).
The reader should learn from the writer the importance of not only one’s self esteem but also others as well. Treating someone the way that you want to be treated is the best thing to do, because everything is observed by others, who are just as judgmental as you are being. Just because someone doesn’t look like you on the outside doesn’t mean that they aren’t the same as you in the inside and they have feelings as well, everyone is meant to be different apart from us in this world. People should also treat others with respect because there is no reason that you shouldn’t when they show you the same respect. The last thing I would think that people would take from this story is that no matter what a single person looks like, in life people and things
References: 1. Hans Christian Anderson, (1844). The Ugly Duckling. Retrieved from: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hcanderson/bl-hcanderson-ugly.htm