Thursday, July 30, 2009

Had H.C. Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" been set in Australia, would it have a different ending?

Would she still freeze to death on New Year's eve? If you know what I mean...





She didn't die on Christmas eve btw, it was on New Year's eve, here's a quote:





"In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse!"

Had H.C. Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" been set in Australia, would it have a different ending?
Andersen just wanted her to die for poetic beauty, so he would have found some way to kill her. You can't really ask that question and get a decent answer though!


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