CLASS 9
THE LITTLE GIRL
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Each match represented the cold weather.
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The matches represented the fear she had going home without any money for her family.
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Each match is a vision of her hopes and dreams.
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Each match represents her family members,
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Detailed explanation-1: -The matches represented the fear she had going home without any money for her family. Each match is a vision of her hopes and dreams.
Detailed explanation-2: -Each vision disappears as its match burns out. In the sky she sees a shooting star, which her late grandmother had told her means someone is on their way to Heaven. In the flame of the next match she sees her late grandmother, the only person that ever treated her with love and kindness.
Detailed explanation-3: -As the girl lights her first match, she sees a vision of a large warm iron stove.
Detailed explanation-4: -All of the girl’s visions are hinted at her undying hope in one way or the other. The vision of the titular matches symbolize a ray of hope for the girl as she lights them to keep herself warm. The vision of her dead grandmother gives her hope for a peaceful life after death.
Detailed explanation-5: -In these sparse, unforgiving lines, Hans Christian Andersen packs so much simple beauty and hope: The girl is cold, barefoot, and poor-without a friend in the world (it seems)-but she is not without hope. She dreams of warmth and light, of a time when she will be surrounded by love, and filled with happiness.