it is a bitterly cold Hearth Warmings Eve. Horse-drawn carriages rumble past, carrying ponies home to warm fires and roast suppers. But one little foal cannot go home, not until she has sold her bundle of matches. The wares of the poor little match filly illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her tragic life.
Based on the little matchstick girl by Hans Christian Andersen
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sweet
Does it end the same way.
Having read that story, I have to ask why there isn't a tragedy tag.
9365703
No in the original story she freezes to death and goes to heaven with her grandma. The seemed a little tragic for a Christmas story so I went with magical carriage ride to her last remain relative who loved her
9365839
Ok that's fine.
I only asked if it ended the same because I know the original story and it's heartbreaking.
Not really what I wanted to read about for Christmas.
9365859
Yeah, it's a case of Values Dissonance there. At the time it was written, it was a happy ending for a homeless girl to die while her soul was still pure and unsullied by the corrupt world, as opposed to eventually growing up on the streets and very likely turning to the darker side of life just to survive.
9365998
Ah, no, even at the time it was not a happy ending. A good end, perhaps, in the sense that it was the best of a bad situation, but not happy.
Hans Christian Andersen struggled with what today we’d call clinical depression during his lifetime, and this story was a product of that depression.
The Disc’s version is much better.
(Sir Terry wrote the above specifically because he hated how people thought the Little Match Girl was supposed to be “happy”, and he wanted to give it a genuinely happy ending).