Ugly duck essay

Jeffrey Josse
LA essay
Mrs. Johan
The Ugly Duckling
Imagine being a outcast among your own kind and your family, having no were to go, no dreams or future in the eyes of your peer’s. You are a for sure outcast you are nothing, your considered a freak. Your own parents hate you what would you do. In this sad tale of a baby swan whos casted as an ugly duck has to find his way through thick and rough patchs in his life. In this adventrerous story called “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Anderson.
I believe the mode of this story is a Romance, because first off it has plenty of symbols in it then there is the fact that it takes place in the winter and spring and shows the symbolizm of gold and beautiful shining colors and it has baby animals in it. It has a reason for this unkinness, it contains different types of escapism one is he just flies away from his flock, the other is he leaves behind the thought of being hated and ugly. He also is in a world of his own, he doesn’t care about the other people’s words or comments he minds his own he hasn’t hurt anyone but people harm him which is mean, but he still ignores.
The main reasons that make this story a romance is it’s pretty unrealistic, because there is no duck that can talk in the human tongue, and there are no ducks that beat up on another duck, they may fight, but not peck and beat up. Then finally there is the fact that a duck can’t or wouldn’t hatch a swan egg. Next of course if its unrealistic it will most likely have some type of fantasy vision, which was the duck wanted to become a swan, but thought he was a duck so he couldn’t. The duck is in control of what he was doing he ran away, he did nothing he just took whatever they threw at him. Even though everyone scolded him he still was fine and didn’t know of the good future that awaits him.
Then what the plotline of this fits romance perfectly there is a minor conflict, the duck is ugly even though it’s really a swan, then there life symbolism throughtout the story there’s rebirthing of the duck he turned into a beautiful swan and didn’t get made fun of, but was honored and cared for. He also did have a family he just didn’t have caring in the family which was a small problem in his life.
In the end I think that this story relates to everyday life, especially with kids and teen’s, because there are kids who are outcasted and shunned for wanting to be a part of a group which is just wrong because everyone should be treated fairly and evenly, but at the same time people cast them away even there own friends sometimes…