The story of Thumbelina written by Hans Christian Andersen starts when a fair sex who longs for a child goes to see a fairy. She then buys a barleycorn from her which grows up to be a tulip. When she kissed the beautiful flower, it opens and at bottom it emerges a graceful little maiden. The girl is named Thumbelina, due to her sensitive size being as long as a thumb. One night, when Thumbelina is sleeping soundly in her walnut-shell bed, an horrifying gray toad comes and snatches her away. The toad wanted Thumbelina to be the bride for her son. So, Thumbelina is held captive on a lily pad until some fish and a dart helps to float her away. However, just as soon as Thumbelina gets to toy away from the ugly toad and her even uglier son, there comes a cockchafer that sees her as a potential wife as well. The cockchafer, which is smitten by Thumbelinas beauty, flew with her to a tree just now later discards her on a daisy when other cockchafers convince him how ugly Thumbelina is. Thumbelina is left alone till winter came and she is nearly snappy to death. Later, she finds the home of a field-mouse that lets her stay in the house with the motive of telling her stories and keeping the rooms clean.
Unfortunately, the field-mouse thinks highly of her blind elderly neighbour which is a mole, and thinks that Thumbelina is the perfect match for him. So, Thumbelina finds herself facing some other unwanted marriage.
However, Thumbelina escapes the situation by fleeing to a far belt down country with a bow out that she nursed back to wellness during the winter. When she arrives at the swallows house, she goes to a field of flowers where she meets a flower-fairy prince just her size and to her liking, and so they get married. She receives a mates of wings to travels from flower to flower and gets a new name, Maia. The brokenhearted swallow that has to part from her, bits farewell and flies back to Denmark. The swallow eventually arrives at a small...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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