The Ugly Duckling
Character of the story:
The Ugly Duckling: He is the main character of this story. He looks difference from his sibling; he has grey feathers, while a normal duck has yellow one. Introduction
The Ugly Duckling is a fairy tales, which was written by a Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen in 1844. This story was popular when it was first published, and later on it was made into animated film. If you interesting with this story why not check this link and read it out http://www.walnet.org/stanley_woods/muteswanz/uglyduckling.html . And there is a story of The Ugly Duckling on my blog too, please enjoy reading it.
Here the story begin
Once upon a time there was a mother duck sitting on the eggs. Suddenly the 5 eggs hatched and 5 baby ducks came out from the eggs, and finally the last one came out too, but he looked difference from his siblings, he got grey feathers while his brothers got yellow feathers.
The mother duck was surprise by the ugly look of her last born child. But she looked as her child, and then she walked her new born to the pond and taught them how to swim. After that she walked them back home, on the way they met some farmyard folks, when they saw the Ugly Duckling, they laughed at him. The Ugly Duckling felt very unhappy because everyone looked down on him, and his brothers also didn’t play with him.
One day the mother duck felt very sorry for the sad life her child suffers. So she decided to ask her last born to leave their home and find better place. Tears run down on the Ugly Duckling cheek as he departed from his nest.
The adventure of the Ugly Duckling began, he was traveling near the pond and he saw some birds on the sky, he wanted to say hi to them, but the birds wanted the Ugly Duckling went away and threw some stones on him, suddenly there were some shooting sound from the gun, and the birds that talked with the Ugly Duckling fell from the sky in front of him. Then there was a hunting dog came to pick up the shot birds, the dog saw the Ugly Duckling, but he ignored him and picked up the birds and went away. The Ugly Duckling felt very down because even a hungry dog didn’t want to eat him.
His trip was continuing, until winter he was swimming in the pond, when he saw a group of beautiful swans departed from the winter cold. He wished that some day he will be beautiful as these birds, but then he felt sad again when he saw his reflection from the water. The Ugly Duckling continued swimming in the pond until he fought himself froze in the water. Then there was a farmer came passed by and saw the poor little bird and he saved him and took him back home.
The Ugly Duckling was having a good winter with the farmer, and then spring came, the farmer realized that there was no harm to the Ugly Duckling, so he released him. As he arrived at the pond he saw a reflection of himself with a difference look, he grew up to be a swan, he was very happy that his dream came true. After that there was a group of swans arrived at the pond and asked him to join them because he was very beautiful than all the member of the group.
There are some animation of this story too, you can see it as below
Part1
Part2
