The Brave Tin Soldier Essay

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Hans Christian Andersen, a prolific writer, has woven for us the most momentous of fairy tales, but none quite brilliantly tragic, yet endearing, as The Brave Tin Soldier. The story is introduced in a family’s home--where children are often a presence throughout--and inside that family's home is a table full of “playthings”, or toys, and on that table full of toys is a present for the young boy of that family: a box full of five hundred and twenty tin soldiers, who are all brothers, magnificently crafted and garbed with glistening red and blue uniforms. The most magnificent tin man of the them all, is the one who stood at the far end, on only one leg. The brave one-legged tin soldier, notices another, the glorious paper ballerina who resided in the beautiful paper castle, who also stood on …show more content…

The challenging notion leaves the Tin Soldier feeling even more apt to win the affections of the Ballerina who stands on one leg, as he does. Following that incident, by some unknown violent force, the Tin Soldier is thrusted out the window into the cold cobble streets of Denmark! From there, the Tin Soldier endures a frightening odyssey back to his Ballerina’s side, and without warning, he arrives in the very home which he was unboxed in, and his gaze meets that of the perfect Dancer, as her eyes finally meet his. The resolution posed to the problem in the story was what defines, a tragic romance, as the fates of the Tin Soldier and Ballerina remain just that; they are able to remain closer within their agonizing distance, than they are within each other's

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