The linguistic and textual features of The Little Match Girl

The language is concise, fairy tale text.

The Little Match Girl is a fairy tale by Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1846. It mainly tells the story of a little girl who sells matches and freezes to death on the street on Chinese New Year's Eve, where the rich family is happy and toasts together.

The little girl dies with a smile on her lips, and the beautiful fantasy of lighting a match is in stark contrast to her starving real life. Through this fairy tale, Andersen expressed his deep sympathy for the tragic plight of the poor people and his dissatisfaction with the society of the time, ruthlessly revealing the darkness and evils of capitalist society. <>

Synopsis: It tells the tragic fate of a little girl who sells matches on Christmas Eve. Because not a single match was sold, the little girl did not eat for a day.

She was cold and hungry, she polished the first match, and saw the warm stove; She lit the second match and saw the fragrant roast goose; She struck the third match and saw the beautiful Christmas tree; She polished the fourth match and saw her grandmother who had not been seen for a long time. She was afraid that if the match went out, her grandmother would disappear like the stove, the roast goose, and the Christmas tree, so she polished a whole match and wanted her to stay with her. In the end, the little girl died with a smile on her lips, and no one knew what she had seen in the last moments of her life.

The main content of "The Little Match Girl": On a snowy Christmas Eve, a little girl sells matches on the street, she doesn't sell a match, she hasn't eaten for a day, she is cold and hungry; She polished the matches, and saw the stove, the roast goose, the Christmas tree, and her long-lost grandmother; She was afraid that if the match went out, her grandmother would disappear, so she polished a whole match and wanted her to stay with her. Finally the match ran out and the little girl died.

The lesson "The Little Match Girl" is divided into three sections:

Paragraph 1 (verses 1-4): On Chinese New Year's Eve when it was snowing, a little girl was selling matches on the street.

Paragraph 2 (verses 5-11): The little match girl struck the match several times.

Paragraph 3 (verses 12-13): The little girl died.

The Little Match Girl is a famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the text first describes Chinese New Year's Eve, it is snowing, dark and cold, and the little girl is still selling matches on the street; Then the little girl burned matches again and again in order to warm herself, and saw all kinds of visions in the light of the matches; Finally, the little girl was frozen to death on the street. It shows the author's sympathy for the poor people and exposes the social phenomenon of disparity between the rich and the poor.

Extended Materials. Writing features:

Alternating between realism and fiction, beautiful fantasies and brutal realities highlight the tragic fate of the little girl.

1. The little girl who sells matches has wiped matches five times and has hallucinations four times. The author organically blends reality with illusion, and in stark contrasts make us understand the unfairness, corruption and ugliness of the old system.

2. The end of the text is meaningful. The little match girl froze to death at the happiest moment of the illusion. She became the object of discussion. This retrospective ending, with the words "beautiful" and "happy in the new year" at the end, highlights the tragic ending.

The background of the story is the happy and happy Chinese New Year's Eve, and this happy atmosphere contrasts with the tragedy of the little girl, which highlights the tragedy of the little girl's fate even more.

In the text, the little girl struck matches five times and had four visions.

The first time: a warm stove — a desire for warmth; The second time: fragrant roast goose – craving for food; The third time: the beautiful Christmas tree - the desire for joy; Fourth: Kind Grandma - longing for affection and love.

Sympathy for the suffering people at the bottom of capitalist society, control of capitalist society.

The writing method of "The Little Match Girl" is mainly a combination of fiction and reality, for example, the tragic and beautiful illusion of the little girl's reality, one real and one virtual; There are also many contrasting ways to write. The writing method of the lesson of "Vanka" is mainly the author's narration, and the content of the letter is interspersed with good memories, highlighting the tragedy of Vanka's fate; Then there's the contrast and contrast.

The little match seller mainly uses the combination of fiction and reality writing technique, polishing matches five times and hallucinating four times