Review of The Ugly Duckling

“THE UGLY DUCKLING”

            The Ugly Duckling is a story that was written by Hans Christian Andersen. It was published in Copenhagen, Denmark 11 November 1843.

            One beautiful summer on a rural, there was a duck mother that was waiting for her eggs to hatch. Then, one by one egg hatched, but there was one egg left. Patiently, the duck mother brooded that egg until it hatched. But, The duckling that hatched was so ugly. “I don’t know why my son can be so ugly” The duck mother said to herself. This gray duckling was so ugly, and he was also bigger than his brother and his sister with long neck and yellow beak. He always be mocked. Day by day passed, the ugly duckling more and more felt unhappy. His brother and his sister wouldn’t play with him, he was so awkward and all animals in this rural was laughing at him. He felt so sad and alone.

            One day, he decided to leave the rural. Then he stopped in the bank of the pond and asked to the duck there, “Do you know other duck that have gray feather like me?”. All of them shook their head sneeringly. So, he went to the other pond and asked to the other duck, but they gave same answer. He kept move until old lady caught him and thought that he is female duck. That lady put him on a cote and hoped she would get eggs. The han and the cat always frightened him. So, at one night he run away from the lady’s house, and on the morning, he saw a group of beautiful birds that fly over him. White, long neck, yellow beak, and wide wings. The duckling was so wonder and want to be one of them. Then he left and looked for meals in the middle of snow, and suddenly he fainted. A farmer found and brought him to his house and took care the duckling.

            At winter, he grew so big. So, the farmer loose him in a pond. Then, he saw his shadow on the water and realized that he was changed. A group of swan came to the pond, when he saw them he realized that he is one of them. The group of swan came to him and invited him to be the part of them. Suddenly, there is a child shouted “Look at that young swan, he is the most beautiful swan”, and he was really happy.

• The conflicts that exist in this movie are the ugly duckling that was mocked by the others, it shows that there is a conflict between the character and the other animal. Then, when the rural didn’t accept him as the part of them, it shows there is a conflict between the character and society. 
• Theme of this story is patience. The ugly duckling always accepts anything that the others did to him. He also keep be patient until he changes become a beautiful swan. 
• Moral values that we could find from this movie are : Don’t mock anything that was created, because it could be greater than us. Don’t give up easily.

This story is good for all age, and for children this can be an amazing story, because usually, the main figure of a story is beauty and handsome, but not in this story. It makes us be curious what happened next. So, don’t miss it.