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"The Little Match-Girl" Treasure Trove Workbook Solutions/Notes

The Little Match-Girl Solutions/Notes, story written by Hans Christian Andersen

Post  By Abhinav Abhijeet

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PASSAGE-1

(i) The little girl began to light the matches from the match box, that she was unable to sell, one by one, to keep herself warm in the cold night, since she was bare feet, and was shivering from the cold. She also sat between, in a corner formed by two houses.

(ii) She was scared of her father, since he would beat her, and did not took care of her. Instead of going to work to earn money for his family, he sent his daughter to do the work. He would beat her when she would come home, without money.

(iii) The largest cracks in the roof of the little girl's house was stuffed with straws, and rags, which were unable to keep the house warm, and the cold wind whistled through those openings. Moreover, the little girl also did not liked to go home, due to these reasons.

(iv) The little girl began to light the matches from the match box, meant for sale, and strikes them on the walls of the houses, in order to keep her fingers warm, because her fingers were starting to become numb from cold, and the cold was killing her.

(v) The fire produced by the lighting of a match gave the little girl beautiful, and wonderful imaginations that made her temporarily forget her discomfort from the cold, and she began to see the views of warm fire, delicious food, Christmas tree, and even her dead grandmother.

PASSAGE-2

(i) The image of the warm iron stove with polished brass knobs, and brass ornaments, instantly vanished the little girl's sight when the fire of the match, that she has lighted, had went out, leaving her in the cold darkness.

(ii) When she lit another match, she visualized the bricks of the walls becoming transparent, and she could see a table with a shining white cloth, which had a roast goose, stuffed with prunes, and apples, coming towards her with carving knife, and fork stuck in its back.

(iii) She visualized herself sitting under the most beautiful Christmas tree ever. It was huge, and had thousand candles lit on its branches, and was much bigger than the rich merchant's tree, which she saw through a glass door.

(iv) The candles on the Christmas tree that she imagined, began to rise higher, and higher in the air, and she saw them turn into bright stars. She also saw one of these 'stars', fall through the sky. 

(v) The little girl said so, because in her visualization, which lasted while the match was lit, she saw one of the stars fall through the sky, which were formed of the candles on the branch of the Christmas tree, which she imagined to rise brighter, and higher in the sky.

PASSAGE-3

(i) This Christmas tree that she imagined was far better than the one she had seen last year, through the glass door of rich merchant's house, since it was way bigger, and had thousands of candles on its branches. It was also more beautiful than the latter.

(ii) She observed that the candles on the Christmas tree, that she had imagined, became larger, and then rose high up in the air, and after some while, she saw them turn into very bright stars.

(iii) The little girl's grandmother told her that whenever a star fell from the sky, someone was dead, as her grandmother that, that star resembled the soul of that person.

(iv) When the little girl visualized her after lighting another match, she saw her almost like an angel. She saw her bright, and spinning, and she looked very gentle, kind, and loving. Her grandmother looked beautiful, and stately, when the little girl lit all the matches she had.

(v) The little girl told her grandmother to take her, with her to the heaven. She quickly stroked all the matches she had in the packet, since she knew that her grandmother would disappear, when the fire of the matches extinguishes, and she did not wanted that to happen.

PASSAGE-4

(i) Her grandmother looked even more beautiful, and stately when all the matches flared up with a blaze. She was looking almost like an angel, and the little girl wanted her, to take her to heaven, where she would be happy forever.

(ii) The grandmother took the little girl to heaven, where she would remain happy, and will be fed all the time, and also be with her loving grandmother. She would never be cold, and worried about selling matches. 

(iii) Cold, hunger, and fear had no effect on the grandmother, and the little girl, since the little girl was dreaming all this, and nothing was real, but since she was so lost in that dream, she thought that it was the reality, and thus, forest of all these factors affecting her.

(iv) The little girl, who was unable to sell her matches, who was dying of cold, and started to imagine things when she lit the matches, died on the last evening of the year with a smile on her face.

(v) The people said that the little girl was trying to warm herself. They did not knew the fact that she was having beautiful imaginations, whilst suffering in the cold, dying, while they all were enjoyed their evenings in their warm houses, and enjoyed delicious food.