write a short essay on Thumbelina characters
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Do you remember being a little kid and feeling like you were smaller than everyone else? If so, you can probably imagine how the tiny title character in Hans Christian Andersen's ''Thumbelina'' often feels.Thumbelina is very small, but she is also kind and beautiful. Let's learn more about our tiny heroine and a few of the important characters in Andersen's fairy tale.
Little Leading Lady
Thumbelina wasn't born the way you and I were. Instead, she came from a flower. When a red and gold tulip grew and opened, there was a ''delicate and graceful little maiden'' sitting inside. Because she was ''scarcely half as long as a thumb,'' she was named Thumbelina. She is so small that she slept in half a walnut shell. For entertainment, she had her own private lake made from a plate filled with water and a canoe made out of a tulip petal.
Don't let Thumbelina's size fool you, though. She may be ''only an inch high,'' but that doesn't mean she is short on good qualities. She is very pretty and has a beautiful singing voice. She is also clever and compassionate. For example, when she has to sail downstream on a water-lily leaf, she is smart enough to find a way to go faster: tie a white butterfly to the leaf so the butterfly can help pull. When another bug carries her off the leaf against her will, she doesn't focus on her own bad luck. She feels worse for the butterfly who cannot untie himself and may now starve to death.
Thumbelina ties a butterfly to her water-lily leaf
Thumbelina has a keen appreciation of beauty and nature. She loves sunshine and beautiful flowers, and the lovely sound of birds singing makes her very happy. When she has the chance to help a bird dying of cold, she uses her skills to weave a blanket out of hay and spends the winter feeding it and nursing it back to health. Sometimes, though, Thumbelina's caring nature almost gets in her way. Like when she almost gets married because she doesn't want to disappoint the field mouse she has been living with.
Suitors
As often happens with pretty girls in fairy tales, there are several creatures interested in Thumbelina. Some of these creatures are an uglytoad, a mole, and a handsome tinyprince.Thieving Toads
Thumbelina's early life is pretty perfect until a ''large, ugly, wet toad'' creeps into her house and decides Thumbelina would be the perfect pretty wife for her even uglier son. Her son isn't very talkative, only managing to say ''croak, croak, croak.'' His mother is the brains behind the operation. Not only is it her idea in the first place, she is also the one to think of stranding Thumbelina on a water-lily leaf so she can't escape. She may decorate her son's future home to ''make it look pretty for her new daughter-in-law,'' but the mother toad's primary concern is her son's happiness
Do you remember being a little kid and feeling like you were smaller than everyone else? If so, you can probably imagine how the tiny title character in Hans Christian Andersen's ''Thumbelina'' often feels.Thumbelina is very small, but she is also kind and beautiful. Let's learn more about our tiny heroine and a few of the important characters in Andersen's fairy tale.
Little Leading Lady
Thumbelina wasn't born the way you and I were. Instead, she came from a flower. When a red and gold tulip grew and opened, there was a ''delicate and graceful little maiden'' sitting inside. Because she was ''scarcely half as long as a thumb,'' she was named Thumbelina. She is so small that she slept in half a walnut shell. For entertainment, she had her own private lake made from a plate filled with water and a canoe made out of a tulip petal.
Don't let Thumbelina's size fool you, though. She may be ''only an inch high,'' but that doesn't mean she is short on good qualities. She is very pretty and has a beautiful singing voice. She is also clever and compassionate. For example, when she has to sail downstream on a water-lily leaf, she is smart enough to find a way to go faster: tie a white butterfly to the leaf so the butterfly can help pull. When another bug carries her off the leaf against her will, she doesn't focus on her own bad luck. She feels worse for the butterfly who cannot untie himself and may now starve to death.
Thumbelina ties a butterfly to her water-lily leaf
Thumbelina has a keen appreciation of beauty and nature. She loves sunshine and beautiful flowers, and the lovely sound of birds singing makes her very happy. When she has the chance to help a bird dying of cold, she uses her skills to weave a blanket out of hay and spends the winter feeding it and nursing it back to health. Sometimes, though, Thumbelina's caring nature almost gets in her way. Like when she almost gets married because she doesn't want to disappoint the field mouse she has been living with.
Suitors
As often happens with pretty girls in fairy tales, there are several creatures interested in Thumbelina. Some of these creatures are an uglytoad, a mole, and a handsome tinyprince.Thieving Toads
Thumbelina's early life is pretty perfect until a ''large, ugly, wet toad'' creeps into her house and decides Thumbelina would be the perfect pretty wife for her even uglier son. Her son isn't very talkative, only managing to say ''croak, croak, croak.'' His mother is the brains behind the operation. Not only is it her idea in the first place, she is also the one to think of stranding Thumbelina on a water-lily leaf so she can't escape. She may decorate her son's future home to ''make it look pretty for her new daughter-in-law,'' but the mother toad's primary concern is her son's happiness
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Thumbelina wasn't born the way you and I were. Instead, she came from a flower. When a red and gold tulip grew and opened, there was a ''delicate and graceful little maiden'' sitting inside. Because she was ''scarcely half as long as a thumb,'' she was named Thumbelina. She is so small that she slept in half a walnut shell. For entertainment, she had her own private lake made from a plate filled with water and a canoe made out of a tulip petal.
Don't let Thumbelina's size fool you, though. She may be ''only an inch high,'' but that doesn't mean she is short on good qualities. She is very pretty and has a beautiful singing voice. She is also clever and compassionate. For example, when she has to sail downstream on a water-lily leaf, she is smart enough to find a way to go faster: tie a white butterfly to the leaf so the butterfly can help pull. When another bug carries her off the leaf against her will, she doesn't focus on her own bad luck. She feels worse for the butterfly who cannot untie himself and may now starve to death.
Thumbelina ties a butterfly to her water-lily leaf
Don't let Thumbelina's size fool you, though. She may be ''only an inch high,'' but that doesn't mean she is short on good qualities. She is very pretty and has a beautiful singing voice. She is also clever and compassionate. For example, when she has to sail downstream on a water-lily leaf, she is smart enough to find a way to go faster: tie a white butterfly to the leaf so the butterfly can help pull. When another bug carries her off the leaf against her will, she doesn't focus on her own bad luck. She feels worse for the butterfly who cannot untie himself and may now starve to death.
Thumbelina ties a butterfly to her water-lily leaf
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