The Meaning Of The Ugly Duckling

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

“Tell me sir, what brings you here?” the bartender asked, “I didn’t come here to chit chat buddy” Shrek said in his signature Scottish accent. “I was simply inquiring good sir,” the bartender replied, “I said, I DON’T WANT TO TALK” screamed Shrek. “Very well, lower your tone” the bartender said timidly. At about this moment the ugliest duckling walked in, also looking for a quiet place to escape. As the ugliest duckling sat he noticed the large green mass that was Shrek. The ugliest duckling asked, “Why are you here,” Shrek, angrily replied “Now is not the best time” The Ugliest Duckling replied persistently “Well if you aren’t going to tell me I’ll start,” His tragic tale went like this: The Ugliest Duckling was born to a long line of ducks including the most famous ugly duckling. Everybody in his entire family hated his ugliness even The Ugly Duckling. In fact, The Ugly Duckling hated him the most and when The Ugliest Duckling turned 18 his parents kicked him out with nothing more than his clothes and belongings. No matter how hard he tried his family simply would not accept him back, disheartened he set forth into the world. “Wow”

Children like Scout try to fit in at school or around their friends so they don’t get judged. Shortly after they planned to go look at Boo Radley, Scout tries to “fit in”. Scout was asking many questions so Jem orders her to go home. Scout begs

An example of the insecurity that is demonstrated in the story is mentioned when the narrator's teachers were of "no help, they looked [his] way and talked about how foolish [he] looked in [his] new jacket" (paragraph 7). The narrator feels insecure because of his assumptions that his teachers are making fun of him when in fact, they are not noticing him at all. Further more, he continues to say, "At lunchtime I stayed with the ugly boys leaned against the chain link fence… our mouths" (paragraph 9). This statement proves the narrator is having bad luck because of the jacket and is destroying his reputation at school. A third reason why the jacket symbolizes insecurity is because the fact that his classmates see him with the jacket, he feels that they "…say out loud "man that's ugly", I heard the buzz-buzz of gossip and even laughter"

Repeated onomatopoeic terms again set the scene. We are told that a hunt is in progress, and it is described in descriptive detail. Anderson does not romanticise the scene as the duckling cowers from a ‘fearfully big dog’.

his situation, she then helps Wart in his understanding of the goose. Wart learns that there is one

Pete the Cat leads five ducks outside to play. One by one they disappear while doing different activities throughout the area. Finally, on a rainy day, Pete the cat lost all his friends and had nobody to play with until he came across the five little ducks who surprised Pete with something they all could enjoy.

One of the women made the comment that Mrs. Wright used to be pretty and happy, when she was Minnie Foster not Minnie Wright. This is just the beginning of realizing that she was just pushed to far into depression and couldn't live up to John Wright's expectations anymore. The Wrights had no children and Mrs. Wright was alone in the house all day long. The women perceive John Wright to be a controlling husband who in fact probably wouldn't have children and this may have upset Mrs. Wright. They eventually find vacant bird cage and ponder upon what happened to the bird, realizing Mrs. Wright was lonely they figured she loved the bird and it kept her company. The women make reference to the fact that Mrs. Wright was kind of like a bird herself, and that she changed so much since she married John Wright. They begin looking for stuff to bring her and they find the bird dead and they realize someone had wrung its neck. This is when they realize Mrs. Wright was in fact pushed to far, John Wright had wrung her bird's neck and in return Minnie Wright wrung his.

Scout gets upset when Mrs.Dubose tells her she should wear a dress or at least dress nicer, but this was not the only time Mrs.Dubose was old fashioned. Scout was walking by Mrs.Dubose’s house and was being polite by saying hey, but instead of saying hey back, Mrs.Dubose reacts very rudely. “Don’t say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs.Dubose!” (Lee 133).

When Jem, Scout, and Dill plan on writing a letter to Boo Radley, Dill suggests that they ask him to sit a spell so he might feel better. Scout and Jem do not understand how he knows Boo does not feel good. Dill says “ well how'd you feel if you'd been shut up for a hundred years with nothin’ but cats to eat?”(37). Not only does Dill understand Boo better than Jem and Scout, he wants to reach out to him. During the Tom Robinson trial, Dill starts to cry.

When he went to this sad little hovel and sat there watching a family who seemed happy, it made him feel sad and left out. As the reader is reading the beginning of this excerpt he or she is going to feel saddened or heartfelt for the creature. While the creature is being pushed aside and not wanted by society, the readers will feel the pain with him. The readers might relate from an event that they went through or they might just

“’Don’t you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!’” (Lee 133). One day their relationship turned for the worst. Jem and Scout were heading to town for Jem’s 12th birthday.

Jem’s naivety is shown when he has preconceived opinions toward their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. Boo Radley is thought of as an eerie man by the children in the community due to Boo’s appearance in court when Boo was a teenager. Jem begins to understand why Boo is so reclusive after witnessing Tom Robinson's trial realizing what Boo went through when he was a teenager. While talking to Scout and Dill in front of the Finch’s house, Jem says he won't back out on a dare to go and touch the Radley's house, making a comparison of Boo coming out to making a turtle come out, “Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. ‘Ain’t hateful, just persuades him---‘s not like like you’d chunk him in the fire,’ Jem growled. ‘How do you know a match don't hurt him?’ ‘Turtles can’t feel stupid,’ said Jem. ‘Were you ever a turtle, huh?’ ” (Lee, 18). Jem’s naivety is shown by the insensitivity he displays towards Boo Radley after comparing him to a turtle, “Turtles can’t feel stupid”. Jem’s insensitivity is evident because he states that Boo cannot feel even though Jem has never met Boo. Jem compares Boo metaphorically to a turtle because Boo is hidden in his house, just as a turtle hides in its shell, and the only way to get him out is to present a threat. Jem has this preconceived opinion

The purpose of writing this essay is to show the real interactions of geese and how White dedicated his time to take care of his geese. He felt as if the geese were his acquaintances. After his female goose dies he feels the need to help the widow father. He observed the female’s egg as “not getting any younger, and I myself felt dazed-restless and unfulfilled." (77) This shows the concern White had for the goslings not having a mom. White decided to buy three goslings to keep the father company and to have a family again. This essay shows how kind hearted White was towards all his animals he took care of. He wanted to care and keep all his animals satisfied like they were family.

The tale of “The Ugly Duckling” has been told for many generations. It is the story of a little swan that is mistakenly hatched in a duck’s nest and because of his strange and different appearance he is teased and ridiculed. Even his mother can’t understand how this “ugly duckling” could be one of her own. The ugly duckling goes through many hardships and a long, lonely winter. Then upon seeing his reflection in the pond he realizes that he has become a beautiful swan and happily swims off, joining a group of nearby swans.