I would listen to this story every Christmas Eve with my mom on a record. It was always a sad story to me about the poor little match girl, but such a fond memory with my Mom.
@@Rabid_Nationalist Why fake tears? I think the story is worth real tears. :-) Is it just because kids don't want to cry around each other? Or did the teacher read it poorly and it didn't feel sad, or what?
Hans Christian Andersen is well known for writing sad stories(The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid to name a few)... but The Little Match Girl is by far and wide the saddest one, maybe even one of the saddest stories ever written. And the reason it is so sad it's because it's extremely realistic; the story could very well be a relatation of a dying child in our days.
Same here... after so many years i started searching for this book all over google i could not remember the name of the book but i remembered the pictures from the book... i somehow found out with keyword remember the scenes from the book... it brings back childhood memories... feels nostalgic... rainy days have started and i suddenly felt the urge to look out for this story... i am 30 now too
This story will always haunt my soul. I read it to myself as a kid and sobbed, then I got depressed for days. It's the only story that makes me instantly cry 30+ years later.
_Robin Hood_ By Henry Gilbert made me cry, simply because of the ending where he was poisoned by one of his old enemies too cowardly to fight him face-to-face and his Merry Men had to bury him in the green pastures where he once enjoyed hunting during life. they did a really good job building up the friendships and love story between him and Maid Marian, I've never cried from any book before except for that one.
But she didn’t die alone. First she didn’t die, her body suit did, she simply crossed over to a much better place. She went home and she made that crossing with her grandmother, not alone. And forgotten by whom? She mattered to those who loved her, namely again: her grandmother.
My grandmother read this to me, my brother and sister every Christmas. I tried to read it to my granddaughter and couldn’t get through it for remembering my grandmother. I will keep trying...maybe one day I will be able to get through it without crying.
It’s ok if you cry a little. It’s a sad and touching story and your grandchildren may even cry too, but that’s ok, because you’re there to love them like the grandmother loved the Little Match Girl
Lori Joyner I understand how you feel. For DECADES I could neither listen to nor sing Little Drummer Boy. Just too emotional. Ripped me apart inside. Somehow, now, I can. Not sure why.
It's really sad she was basically tortured at home, really abused, and they were so poor they could barely afford shoes for her. Her grandma the only one who cared for her died. She tried fighting off hypothermia with a few measly matches but in the end she hallucinated for something she wish she had. She had caught hypothermia and god knows what other diseases she could've caught back then. When she saw that falling star it was her. Her last dying words were to a hallucination, and everyone just passed it off as one little girl who couldn't keep warm. It's really sad.
It's not in the anime world but in the real life their are a lot of poor people I wish that the future hold happiness to them ..thank u for making us remember them
In the 1800s the reality of life was if you were very poor , life could be very cruel. It was a reality that if you were very poor as it seems from her story that they were, beatings were not uncommon, if she didnt bring home money for food. It was not uncommon for beggar children to be out on the street trying to get money for food. At age 9 or 10 kids were out pedaling in the street having to pay their way to eat. This was in very poor families .
I finally found this story after it has haunted me all my life. My wonderful grandma used to read it from an ancient book to my sister and I when we’d stay with her. It was such a vivid memory. Then she’d comfort us and tell us about how the girl was with god. My grandma grew up incredibly poor with many siblings and a drunkard father who left. She could really rely this story because she lived it in so many ways. I miss you Nan. ❤️
to me it's not about religion or compassion to the poor. it's about life being unbearable when you're alone and all the loved ones are dead, the ending is so ambiguous and so relatable, unfortunatelly
it is supposed to be beautiful and lead somewhere, it wouldn't be artistic.. it is part of the story. you can ignore the part about God if you don't like it.. like the words god.. you can say she was together with her grandma again, in her mind.
Hi - Little match girl. I believe it is how god never leaves us, but our hardships are what they will be, but in the end our souls are held in his hands. Are only cost to enter the kingdom of god is death. His son paid the price for all of us to enter the kingdom by his own death.
@@wjb8855 hi. Thank you for your comments regarding The Little Match Girl Story. Actually, the cost of going into heaven is obeying God's Commandments. And the most important commandment of all this.. well you tell me.. are you Christian? Hint: it's the ELEVENTH commandment.
This story explains about the hallucination most people would have during their near death moment. The little girl had never tasted those mundane delights she saw in her matches' light. While in the midst of cruel cold night, freezing, she met every wish she ever yearns during her lifetime. Finally she earned her turn to be the happiest person on earth, although it should be done in her very last breath.
Peeking Asian I think you misinterpreted the story. This story is about God taking his people up into his kingdom. The little Match girl was not hallucinating, she was taken up into heaven.
@@californiadreaming9216 Ah, that merciful Christian "god", who allows little girls to freeze to death so he can "save " them. If you knew how ridiculous and heartless you sounded, you would kill yourself.
@@GunRecon perhaps. But these medical facts were little-known in the 1800s when this story was written. As such, it is unlikely that either the author or the reader would be bearing these facts in mind when writing/reading this wonderful story.
@@californiadreaming9216 Hallucination before death is fairly common in general. And many people likely got to the point of near death before finding a source of actual heat in the cold. A lot more than do today, anyways.
When I was a child, this story would always be shown on tv during Christmas time. I always looked forward to this and even though I cried everytime I still looked forward to it. I Guess even as a child I understood compassion.
Miradae Whitespell but the ending ISN'T sad. The little match girl went to heaven, accompanied by her grandmother, leaving only her body behind. Our bodies are just vessels, loaned to us by God. In which we spend perhaps 80-odd years. These bodies are left here, but all that we truly are leaves them and goes to God when our time is up. For me there is a happy ending here. Abar shalom.
I am 63. I have known this story probably 60 years. It moves me today, as I am sure it did then, and is probably part of the reason I DO try to help.... animals and people. Grandmother comes, I am crying.
Denise Stephens thank God for the fact that you feel compassion for this little girl (although fictional). It is a gift from God. Not all are blessed with it. Merry Christmas. Abar shalom.
when we went to Denmark we whent to H.C.'s house and we decided to read some of his stories and my dad read this one and by the end of it we were all crying including my dad whom i had never seen cry before
This one isn't really messed up. But let me tell you... it is by far the saddest one because it's so realistic and it still apllies to this day. Thousands of children suffer and die each day due to malnutrition and abuse. I like to think that The Little Match Girl is not a fairy tale at all, but a direct representation of our sick world.
had this book as a kid, and never forgot about it, even made an illustrated story of it when i was in 8th grade. unfortunately i lost both the illustration and the book itself. idk why i suddenly thought about this story tho :((( still makes me sad, and wonder why it stuck to me after all these years.
I recently found some artwork and fanfiction retellings of this powerful story. The fans for the most part stayed true to the original often only changing names or certain physical features of the little girl. It might not end up being your cup of tea but if a person can get into classical music through a smart-alek rabbit, I try to have a pretty open mind about these things.
I'm actually happy that she's finally in the presence of God now. I can't imagine how sad her life has been, especially if she didn't die at that day and her father found her
Uhm... no? The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Princess and the Pea... all these stories(which most are also sad, by the way) lack a grandmother.
This really speaks to me, my grandmother showed this to me. I'm a proud Christian... And I'm so mad because they found over 600 kid alive and dead in an underground tunnel..
this story still touches my soul even after all these years... this was my favorite book when I was a child, it still is in my heart and it will always be.
My father gave me the collected fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen before I started grade school, and I read it cover to cover. It was my first encounter with great literature. If "The Little Match Girl" doesn't stay with you forever, something is wrong with your emotional life.
@@niculaelaurentiu1201Pretty much all HCA stories are a worthwhile read, but "The Little Match Girl" is one of the saddest and most moving stories ever written.
Bless you, I would too, so very sad but a harsh reality if times gone by, let's hope it's not repeated now times are getting harder, but it reminds me of last year and the Ukrainians...I can't imagine what they must have endured in the cold with no supplies coming in 💔
@@angelitasinurat6316 Me three, because if I were as rich as a radiant little princess myself, me and my beautiful mother, the Queen, will buy just one match from the little match girl, Marianne, with my mother’s quarter while we both wear our fancy, warm clothes, and walk around the street together on New Year’s Eve before we go back to our home, the palace, by curfew, but if I was a beggar who lived in the attic, I’ll grab Marianne, by the hand, and take her to one of the six, sympathetic families that I’ve pegged them, and they’ll welcome her in their home to celebrate New Year’s Eve, for they don’t need to be scared of me and Marianne, because both of us are God’s children no matter what.
My son just told me about the story and it really really made me sad although I am thankful that she was able to go to glory with the Lord and see her grandmother it saddens me so much that her real life and her home life was so bad my son is only in the third grade and they have the kids at the age reading about this this is a great way to teach children about death
While I may be Agnostic. This story I read as a Child stuck with me. I would never wish this fate on even my worst enemy as even they don't deserve to die cold and alone
Lol, traumatized? Try INSPIRED. It inspired me for life, I saw it at 6, some saw it at 5. It taught me - or rather reminded me at that age that death is waiting for everyone. But that there is a way out.
I know, right? I also read it to myself as a child, and it traumatized me for life as well. It always stuck with me. I couldn't even read it again for like 20 years.
When I was little my Mom bought me a fairytale story book that had this particular story in it. I skipped through the pages as I decided which one of the stories I wanted to read and I remember being draw to this one because of the illustration of a little girl that it had. I read it alone in my Moms room and I sobbed for her. I couldn’t have been more then 7yrs old but this tale has stuck with me so deeply that now, a whole vicennial later.. I’m ordering the same Fairytale Story Book so that my kids could grow up knowing about the Little Match Girl too 🥺 I just feel that it had such a huge impact on me as a little kid and I really want them to experience that too… to this day, I still cry for her.
I read this story as a kid and thought it was a fairy tale. But it is very real for someone who undergoes hypothermia to have delusions before death. Just like how a person in the dessert would see a mirage of an oasis when very dehydrated. This may just be a story but it is real for a lot of people who dies in the streets during winter, then and now.
The story is a kind of fairy tale, as it's known to be fiction in that it was never about any particular little girl, but it's almost certain that many children have died in similar circumstances in the past, are dying, and will die in the future, unless someone helps them. I do what I can to help a particular person who needs it. People ask "Why does God allow things like this to happen?" God then replies "I put YOU in charge of this world. Why do YOU allow things like this to happen?"
That's amazing, yes it is my responsibility! I have spent this past two months working with a family that faces homelessness, they have already been at the shelter and now the shelter is full and because they have worked they are not as high of priority over those who have made zero income. It's getting cold. I am going to bring the kids into my home as a last resort if needed but the goal isn't temporary solutions on how to stay poor and survive but how to get to a place where they can start working on their long term goals that they do have. Honestly, I have tried getting them help with "all the resources out there," it's not always easy especially when your dealing with hopeless people used to generational poverty that sell themselves short. This mom is one of the best moms I have ever met. When we are together we are together for about 10 hours at a time. She is trying her hardest. There are situations where a person is so deeply in over their heads that they don't even know how to start to get out of it. How do you go to work if you have no car or money for the bus? How do you get a good reference if you lost your last job because you could never get your car to start? How do you get on food stamps if your moving from place to place looking for shelter and work and have no established "home?" What if you can't get help from family because your homeless self is actually doing best because your at least not on drugs? Yes, it's not everyone's responsibility but it is all "Christ followers" responsibility to simply follow Christ and even care for those who don't diverse it. Christians don't deserve heaven, that's called grace, God doesn't give heaven as a reward but a mercy we don't deserve if we surrender to him. Through surrendering that's how it's possible to be better, it's not by our works, but his. Many Christians try by their own means to help the poor, they just don't know how to think outside the box and prayerfully get relational and be lead by the Holy Spirit of God as to what is needed of them. This family I am helping has no want for cloths but they need someone to give them a chance and hire them. They also need to find places to work where it doesn't take two weeks to get a pay check. In the future they need to know to have a back up plan to fall back on. We take so much for granted but a few bad choices as a teen can give way to a life that requires people to step up and guide them. It's not always money, sometimes it's simply pulling them out of depression and encouraging them to fill out the right paperwork or have a little more confidence when they ask if their is work available. Sometimes it's defending a person who wants to detox at the hospital but the hospital workers have already given up on them and decided to treat them horribly when it's THAT treatment that will cause relapse. Most of the poor I see are near tears with no tears left. That hopelessness is the biggest thing holding them back from their dreams. They need hope, prayer, and friends that are going to pull them up instead of bring them down. If your a Christian pray that God blesses you with a friend that needs you as much as you need them. Every person has value. Sometimes we just need to remember to treat them that way.
I loved this story when I was little. I’m 65 now and happy I found this! Such a sad story! The book is now out of print! And I’ve tried looking for it. Libraries don’t even have it. My Grammy used to read it to my sister and me when we’d go n visit her…… I loved her so much….
I wish I had read the version on this story's ending in "Hogfather" when I was 7. I remember being so sad for this girl, how can some people see _this_ as a good ending!?
Think I was about 5 or 6yrs old when I first seen another version of this story. Guess that's when I learned how much I actually care about ppl, in general & now I've got grandkids of my own. My grandmother was a Very important part of my life so this story really gets to me. When will "most" care about ppl they don't know who have much less than most 🙏. Hope everyone has a safe & blessed holidays 🙏 🙏
When I read this story as a little boy, I didn’t think of it much more than a sad story. But it stuck with me. Now that I’ve heard many Near Death Experience, I see how realistic and relevant this story is. Or better yet this could be anyone out there alone in the cold.
This video is by far the most beautiful thing i saw today, because i hate reading, i'm not sure that this is the original text, but it's awesome. And, yes, heartbreaking.
What is striking is how the author portrey death and the passing of that little girl. Why today's authors can't write this kind of stories?? Poor dying out of hunger and cold is still a phenomenon today. But we lack beautiful mind which could portrey death so beautifully
Holding on to her light to the very end, although living in such darkness. You’d think someone would notice her light and hold her. But they were too consumed by the darkness around them. She was saved and they were lost. She could have taught them love and compassion if they’d let her into their heart. Instead they let her die.
This is such a poingnly sad story I relate to my own childhood, and in particular my older sister who suffered terribly from my father's beatings. She's 71 now and always recalls this story with such sadness still. 😑
amanda Johnson-Williams thanks for sharing your sad, yet stirring story. I got beaten a little as a kid, mostly by my Mom, not so much by Dad. And I'm proud of the fact that I have not ONCE lifted a hand against my 17-year-old. I think I would rather die than do that. Merry Christmas. Abar shalom.
Indeed, religion is used as the escape route of the theist from this cruel world... That is why, I don't have any reason to be mad or insult a religious person, despite me being an atheist.
There is no escape from God. For what can be known about God is plain, because God has shown it to them. His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. People know God, but they won't honor him as God or give thanks to him and do his will that you know. People have became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts are darkened and try to make excuses. Claiming to be wise, doubters became foolish. How can a person exchanged the glory of the immortal God for a life of mortal idols and purposeless selfish living? Jesus told His followers, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" The thing is God choose you but respects you enough to allow you to reject him. God is not religion, he calls himself, "I AM," he always was and always will be, he is more than the creator who have you permission to reject you he is a father you loves you regardless of your rejecting. His will is that you follow Christ and feed and care for the poor but even if you don't those who are least on Earth will not be least in Heaven. Hell is a choice, you must choose to reject God. I reject religion, so many of the teachings are not what the Bible actually says in context but I do not reject God and to says his invisible attributes are clearly perceived is putting it lightly. Literally seek God and you will find him, just don't let idols of your own will get in the way. That's where faith comes in. You will start to know God but you only understand his ways as you seek his ways. You surrender first and understanding follows. That said, if you really study the Bible history and science are simply trying to keep up with it. Each day more and more findings prove God, but looking at those facts won't save you, you need to choose for you this day who you will serve.
Got the book for this in Elementary School at a used book sale, was very young so I didn't really understand what was happening. Suddenly remembered it today, it's a very interesting, yet sad, story now that I'm older.
I was actually an investigative field reporter in another version the story. I was out documenting the roadside disasters and spotting her in the snow with a bundle of burnt out matches was something that I had to document.
Meme: And that was after you took the poor little girl, Anne-Marie (nicknamed “Mary”), to a kind, wealthy family nearby, and you guys worked together as a patchwork family to recover her from the outside world’s terrible cold by placing her in a couch that stood by a fireplace with a Christmas tree adjacent.
I remember in third grade my teacher read this to us, once she got to the part she was hallucinating. My trached quickly ended the book, we asked what happened. All she said was the little reunited with her grandmother. Then once i reached to 6th grade, i investigate what really happened, that was when i realized it was a depressing story.
I live in the city where that real story had happened. Now its name is Bratislava. When Andersen visited that place it was called Pressburg. I feel like crying when I think how many children suffered and suffer all around the world. God save all children 🙏🙏🙏
I must be down bad because I saw the ending as a good one due to her peace warmth and joy she finally had a chance to feel, and topped off with the best joy of all being reunited with her grandmother. Her physical body was left with the coldness of the real world while she transitioned smoothly into the realm world.
H.C. Andersen wrote more than a few stories like this. All of them fairy tales, many of them just as miserable as this one. Some, happy ending after much hardship.
This is sad that she never got to grow up and be a mom and grandma but at the same time Heaven is a real place with no more dying and pain. Still, the calling of Christians is to make sure this never happens and with the Christians I know they work very hard to care for the poor and prevent this. The problem is for every Christian who helps the poor still others are stuck focusing on overcoming their own issues refusing to surrender their own issues of overspending, drinking, or wasting their time not following the Holy Spirit when it comes to what to do.
0:46: Meme: And he said to Anne-Marie (nicknamed “Mary”) that he can use it as a cradle when he had children of his own. 1:33: Meme: And one of the two houses were projected by the other. 1:59: Meme:
This is so absolutely said! There is a Colombian movie called La Vendedora De Rosas. It’s a raw movie about girls living on the street. It’s based on this story🌹
This story didn't need its religous undertones. It did a well enough job of portraying hope in the eyes of a dying child without making reference to the dogma of an establishment which has been a major cause of poverty for common folk. Not saying the story is bad in fact its one of my favorites of HC Anderson's stories. But this is my opinion. Take it or leave and above all; respect it. Blessed be.
It upset you that she went to Heaven? You feel hope in the cold would still have been there without visions from a loving God? Established dogma is an issues. The greatest enemy of God has those not following him in the church however the word of God will always bless and enlighten. The truth of God is scary to some but still others see their is nothing to fear. Evil loses, those who seek it seek separation from God and that is hell. It may seem that you can server yourself and be fine but that's simply a lie. I care for the poor as if I am caring for my Lord just like the ending of this video says. You may not understand that but please respect that. Respect the billions of dollars churches give to the poor.
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When I was little I heard this story. I remember crying, but the story stays with me to this day.
I would listen to this story every Christmas Eve with my mom on a record. It was always a sad story to me about the poor little match girl, but such a fond memory with my Mom.
I acctually read it at school... half of the class shed crocodile tears...(including me)
@@Rabid_Nationalist Why fake tears? I think the story is worth real tears. :-) Is it just because kids don't want to cry around each other? Or did the teacher read it poorly and it didn't feel sad, or what?
Same... I heard this for the first time in school ten years ago, it's the only thing that makes me cry today.
@@Rabid_Nationalist crocodile tears? Fake tears? Why?
Hans Christian Andersen is well known for writing sad stories(The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid to name a few)... but The Little Match Girl is by far and wide the saddest one, maybe even one of the saddest stories ever written.
And the reason it is so sad it's because it's extremely realistic; the story could very well be a relatation of a dying child in our days.
Many poor kids probably died this way too back in the day. Even now, poberty is a huge problem is many countries.
It is "the" saddest story ever written.
Indeed.....
So true
I'm pretty sure this story takes place in England in the 18 hundreds
I read this story when I was a teenager I'm 30 now.. this story stayed with me all those years,
Same.. I read it when my age was in single digits. Still stayed with me in my 30s.
Same here... after so many years i started searching for this book all over google i could not remember the name of the book but i remembered the pictures from the book... i somehow found out with keyword remember the scenes from the book... it brings back childhood memories... feels nostalgic... rainy days have started and i suddenly felt the urge to look out for this story... i am 30 now too
Nutcracker sucks compared to this. I was 5 and it made an everlasting impression in my mind.
I was seven or eight years old when my father took me to the ballet and I cried. I understand.
I'm 57 now.
This story will always haunt my soul. I read it to myself as a kid and sobbed, then I got depressed for days. It's the only story that makes me instantly cry 30+ years later.
The book was written in 2001???
@@myralyra5978 naw, it's a very old story, from the 19th century or earlier.
_Robin Hood_ By Henry Gilbert made me cry, simply because of the ending where he was poisoned by one of his old enemies too cowardly to fight him face-to-face and his Merry Men had to bury him in the green pastures where he once enjoyed hunting during life.
they did a really good job building up the friendships and love story between him and Maid Marian, I've never cried from any book before except for that one.
The worst part? Back in these days, the parents wouldn't even care or notice. She died alone, and forgotten.
Thomas Smith I respectfully disagree with your observations re: The Little Match Girl. She neither died nor did she leave this world alone. Peace.
@@californiadreaming9216 So?.
@@MiyakoPisces2_0 wym so?
Lol
But she didn’t die alone. First she didn’t die, her body suit did, she simply crossed over to a much better place. She went home and she made that crossing with her grandmother, not alone. And forgotten by whom? She mattered to those who loved her, namely again: her grandmother.
My grandmother read this to me, my brother and sister every Christmas. I tried to read it to my granddaughter and couldn’t get through it for remembering my grandmother. I will keep trying...maybe one day I will be able to get through it without crying.
It’s ok if you cry a little. It’s a sad and touching story and your grandchildren may even cry too, but that’s ok, because you’re there to love them like the grandmother loved the Little Match Girl
No chance whatsoever. You'll just have to sob your way through it. I don't see any other way.
Lori Joyner I understand how you feel. For DECADES I could neither listen to nor sing Little Drummer Boy. Just too emotional. Ripped me apart inside. Somehow, now, I can. Not sure why.
@@X-Prime123 Anyone with any compassion left in them will be sobbing at the end.
It's really sad she was basically tortured at home, really abused, and they were so poor they could barely afford shoes for her. Her grandma the only one who cared for her died.
She tried fighting off hypothermia with a few measly matches but in the end she hallucinated for something she wish she had. She had caught hypothermia and god knows what other diseases she could've caught back then.
When she saw that falling star it was her. Her last dying words were to a hallucination, and everyone just passed it off as one little girl who couldn't keep warm. It's really sad.
it made me cry
It's not in the anime world but in the real life their are a lot of poor people I wish that the future hold happiness to them ..thank u for making us remember them
me too the version on vimeo was so sad too'
i totally agree
In the 1800s the reality of life was if you were very poor , life could be very cruel. It was a reality that if you were very poor as it seems from her story that they were, beatings were not uncommon, if she didnt bring home money for food. It was not uncommon for beggar children to be out on the street trying to get money for food. At age 9 or 10 kids were out pedaling in the street having to pay their way to eat. This was in very poor families .
I finally found this story after it has haunted me all my life. My wonderful grandma used to read it from an ancient book to my sister and I when we’d stay with her. It was such a vivid memory. Then she’d comfort us and tell us about how the girl was with god. My grandma grew up incredibly poor with many siblings and a drunkard father who left. She could really rely this story because she lived it in so many ways. I miss you Nan. ❤️
@armouredghoul8279satan?
@armouredghoul8279 asnt no way satan 💀
to me it's not about religion or compassion to the poor. it's about life being unbearable when you're alone and all the loved ones are dead, the ending is so ambiguous and so relatable, unfortunatelly
i don't think all of her loved ones is dead
isn't her father still alive ?
it is supposed to be beautiful and lead somewhere, it wouldn't be artistic.. it is part of the story. you can ignore the part about God if you don't like it.. like the words god.. you can say she was together with her grandma again, in her mind.
Hi - Little match girl.
I believe it is how god never leaves us, but our hardships are what they will be, but in the end our souls are held in his hands.
Are only cost to enter the kingdom of god is death.
His son paid the price for all of us to enter the kingdom by his own death.
@RanStuff It doesn't state that _she_ doesn't love her father, it states that nobody but her grandmother ever loved _her_
@@wjb8855 hi. Thank you for your comments regarding The Little Match Girl Story. Actually, the cost of going into heaven is obeying God's Commandments. And the most important commandment of all this.. well you tell me.. are you Christian?
Hint: it's the ELEVENTH commandment.
This story explains about the hallucination most people would have during their near death moment. The little girl had never tasted those mundane delights she saw in her matches' light. While in the midst of cruel cold night, freezing, she met every wish she ever yearns during her lifetime. Finally she earned her turn to be the happiest person on earth, although it should be done in her very last breath.
Peeking Asian I think you misinterpreted the story. This story is about God taking his people up into his kingdom. The little Match girl was not hallucinating, she was taken up into heaven.
@@californiadreaming9216 Ah, that merciful Christian "god", who allows little girls to freeze to death so he can "save " them. If you knew how ridiculous and heartless you sounded, you would kill yourself.
@@californiadreaming9216
Well the girl froze to death. Delusions and halucinations are a pretty common symptom of end-stage hypothermia.
@@GunRecon perhaps. But these medical facts were little-known in the 1800s when this story was written. As such, it is unlikely that either the author or the reader would be bearing these facts in mind when writing/reading this wonderful story.
@@californiadreaming9216 Hallucination before death is fairly common in general. And many people likely got to the point of near death before finding a source of actual heat in the cold. A lot more than do today, anyways.
I cried when I was a kid reading this .... I cried now .
When I was a child, this story would always be shown on tv during Christmas time. I always looked forward to this and even though I cried everytime I still looked forward to it. I Guess even as a child I understood compassion.
Me too...
But in arabic haha ..th-cam.com/video/3D9JebjWJf0/w-d-xo.html
The fact that I can still watch this with full engagement when I am an adult shows how well written and tragic this story is
I cried 29 years ago at this at school. And again today when my son told me he watched in in class 😔
This is probably the story that sparked my interest in tragic endings. Sad endings felt more real; better than false positivity, I believe.
Periodt
Game of thrones...
you must enjoy shakespeare then
Good endings are nice, but there's always the morning after
Miradae Whitespell but the ending ISN'T sad. The little match girl went to heaven, accompanied by her grandmother, leaving only her body behind. Our bodies are just vessels, loaned to us by God. In which we spend perhaps 80-odd years. These bodies are left here, but all that we truly are leaves them and goes to God when our time is up.
For me there is a happy ending here.
Abar shalom.
I am 63. I have known this story probably 60 years. It moves me today, as I am sure it did then, and is probably part of the reason I DO try to help.... animals and people. Grandmother comes, I am crying.
Denise Stephens thank God for the fact that you feel compassion for this little girl (although fictional). It is a gift from God. Not all are blessed with it.
Merry Christmas. Abar shalom.
When a star falls, a soul goes up to God, she died there and then.
You mean C.stars? Nah they go to the heroic spirits.
That is an interesting take on this story, I like it. Thanks for posting. It makes sense that it could be that way.
when we went to Denmark we whent to H.C.'s house and we decided to read some of his stories and my dad read this one and by the end of it we were all crying including my dad whom i had never seen cry before
Hans Christian's stories are so messed up yet, it so good at the same time.
This one isn't really messed up. But let me tell you... it is by far the saddest one because it's so realistic and it still apllies to this day. Thousands of children suffer and die each day due to malnutrition and abuse.
I like to think that The Little Match Girl is not a fairy tale at all, but a direct representation of our sick world.
The first story to teach me that not everyone gets a happy ending.
Thats the most sad thing i have ever seen. Many poor children end up getting beaten when they got no money when they get home.
had this book as a kid, and never forgot about it, even made an illustrated story of it when i was in 8th grade. unfortunately i lost both the illustration and the book itself. idk why i suddenly thought about this story tho :((( still makes me sad, and wonder why it stuck to me after all these years.
I recently found some artwork and fanfiction retellings of this powerful story. The fans for the most part stayed true to the original often only changing names or certain physical features of the little girl.
It might not end up being your cup of tea but if a person can get into classical music through a smart-alek rabbit, I try to have a pretty open mind about these things.
I'm actually happy that she's finally in the presence of God now. I can't imagine how sad her life has been, especially if she didn't die at that day and her father found her
andersen's stories always have a loving grandma
Uhm... no?
The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Princess and the Pea... all these stories(which most are also sad, by the way) lack a grandmother.
45 years since i heard this story, and it still punches the ol soul and brings a tear or two enough to fill the Hoover not once but twice😢😢
This is the best and the saddest bed time story ever created...
This really speaks to me, my grandmother showed this to me. I'm a proud Christian... And I'm so mad because they found over 600 kid alive and dead in an underground tunnel..
I ments 6000
this story still touches my soul even after all these years... this was my favorite book when I was a child, it still is in my heart and it will always be.
My father gave me the collected fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen before I started grade school, and I read it cover to cover. It was my first encounter with great literature. If "The Little Match Girl" doesn't stay with you forever, something is wrong with your emotional life.
What other stories do you recommend M
@@niculaelaurentiu1201Pretty much all HCA stories are a worthwhile read, but "The Little Match Girl" is one of the saddest and most moving stories ever written.
I watched this years ago when I was little I remember balling my eyes out to it it still stays with me today
I cry like I've lost a loved one when I hear or think about this story. Just so so sad.
I remember when I was a little boy, my mother read this to me. I cried and hugged her while she stroked my hair and comforted me.
I will buy all your matches little girl😭😭
I know...Me too😭😭😭
Bless you, I would too, so very sad but a harsh reality if times gone by, let's hope it's not repeated now times are getting harder, but it reminds me of last year and the Ukrainians...I can't imagine what they must have endured in the cold with no supplies coming in 💔
Imagine being able to adopt her and giving her a good life... so much suffering could be prevented if we all were better people
Meme: Me three, because I have a middle-class family who are royal on the outside in.
@@angelitasinurat6316 Me three, because if I were as rich as a radiant little princess myself, me and my beautiful mother, the Queen, will buy just one match from the little match girl, Marianne, with my mother’s quarter while we both wear our fancy, warm clothes, and walk around the street together on New Year’s Eve before we go back to our home, the palace, by curfew, but if I was a beggar who lived in the attic, I’ll grab Marianne, by the hand, and take her to one of the six, sympathetic families that I’ve pegged them, and they’ll welcome her in their home to celebrate New Year’s Eve, for they don’t need to be scared of me and Marianne, because both of us are God’s children no matter what.
My son just told me about the story and it really really made me sad although I am thankful that she was able to go to glory with the Lord and see her grandmother it saddens me so much that her real life and her home life was so bad my son is only in the third grade and they have the kids at the age reading about this this is a great way to teach children about death
This story stayed n me untill now.
It made me cry
What a beautiful beautiful story. God bless the little girl.
When I grandmother told me with story when I was only about 7, I cried. 4 years later and I still cried. This sorry if so sad.
heart wrenching
+Carlys Indeed
While I may be Agnostic. This story I read as a Child stuck with me. I would never wish this fate on even my worst enemy as even they don't deserve to die cold and alone
This is not a story for kids. I read it when i was five… It traumatised me for life. Thanks Hans…
Lol, traumatized? Try INSPIRED. It inspired me for life, I saw it at 6, some saw it at 5. It taught me - or rather reminded me at that age that death is waiting for everyone. But that there is a way out.
@@lovesandservesjesuschrist6752 I bet you’re the kind of person who doesn’t understand sarcasm, irony and sense of humor! So bye bye
I know, right? I also read it to myself as a child, and it traumatized me for life as well. It always stuck with me. I couldn't even read it again for like 20 years.
I had the book and would read it and cry as a young boy ❤️
When I was little my Mom bought me a fairytale story book that had this particular story in it. I skipped through the pages as I decided which one of the stories I wanted to read and I remember being draw to this one because of the illustration of a little girl that it had. I read it alone in my Moms room and I sobbed for her. I couldn’t have been more then 7yrs old but this tale has stuck with me so deeply that now, a whole vicennial later.. I’m ordering the same Fairytale Story Book so that my kids could grow up knowing about the Little Match Girl too 🥺 I just feel that it had such a huge impact on me as a little kid and I really want them to experience that too… to this day, I still cry for her.
I read this story as a kid and thought it was a fairy tale. But it is very real for someone who undergoes hypothermia to have delusions before death. Just like how a person in the dessert would see a mirage of an oasis when very dehydrated. This may just be a story but it is real for a lot of people who dies in the streets during winter, then and now.
If hc anderson made it you know its sad as hell
i agree
Why is this my favorite Christmas
story
If I found a child like her on the streets, I’d adopt her and give her a place to stay with me and my parents.
My favourite childhood memory.
I remember watching this when I was 5 😞 and I remember the whole story EXACT 🙂
The story is a kind of fairy tale, as it's known to be fiction in that it was never about any particular little girl, but it's almost certain that many children have died in similar circumstances in the past, are dying, and will die in the future, unless someone helps them. I do what I can to help a particular person who needs it.
People ask "Why does God allow things like this to happen?" God then replies "I put YOU in charge of this world. Why do YOU allow things like this to happen?"
Oh great! so now it’s our fault?
That's amazing, yes it is my responsibility! I have spent this past two months working with a family that faces homelessness, they have already been at the shelter and now the shelter is full and because they have worked they are not as high of priority over those who have made zero income. It's getting cold. I am going to bring the kids into my home as a last resort if needed but the goal isn't temporary solutions on how to stay poor and survive but how to get to a place where they can start working on their long term goals that they do have. Honestly, I have tried getting them help with "all the resources out there," it's not always easy especially when your dealing with hopeless people used to generational poverty that sell themselves short. This mom is one of the best moms I have ever met. When we are together we are together for about 10 hours at a time. She is trying her hardest. There are situations where a person is so deeply in over their heads that they don't even know how to start to get out of it. How do you go to work if you have no car or money for the bus? How do you get a good reference if you lost your last job because you could never get your car to start? How do you get on food stamps if your moving from place to place looking for shelter and work and have no established "home?" What if you can't get help from family because your homeless self is actually doing best because your at least not on drugs? Yes, it's not everyone's responsibility but it is all "Christ followers" responsibility to simply follow Christ and even care for those who don't diverse it. Christians don't deserve heaven, that's called grace, God doesn't give heaven as a reward but a mercy we don't deserve if we surrender to him. Through surrendering that's how it's possible to be better, it's not by our works, but his. Many Christians try by their own means to help the poor, they just don't know how to think outside the box and prayerfully get relational and be lead by the Holy Spirit of God as to what is needed of them. This family I am helping has no want for cloths but they need someone to give them a chance and hire them. They also need to find places to work where it doesn't take two weeks to get a pay check. In the future they need to know to have a back up plan to fall back on. We take so much for granted but a few bad choices as a teen can give way to a life that requires people to step up and guide them. It's not always money, sometimes it's simply pulling them out of depression and encouraging them to fill out the right paperwork or have a little more confidence when they ask if their is work available. Sometimes it's defending a person who wants to detox at the hospital but the hospital workers have already given up on them and decided to treat them horribly when it's THAT treatment that will cause relapse. Most of the poor I see are near tears with no tears left. That hopelessness is the biggest thing holding them back from their dreams. They need hope, prayer, and friends that are going to pull them up instead of bring them down. If your a Christian pray that God blesses you with a friend that needs you as much as you need them. Every person has value. Sometimes we just need to remember to treat them that way.
sounds like he's dodging the question
I've always found this story oddly comforting
Was and still is one of my favourite stories
Who came here after watching the MSA about it
I did! My first time seeing this story despite having a couple of Handerson's other stories.
So, so sad to watch! 😩🤦🏾♂️
I literally cried
I loved this story when I was little. I’m 65 now and happy I found this! Such a sad story! The book is now out of print! And I’ve tried looking for it. Libraries don’t even have it. My Grammy used to read it to my sister and me when we’d go n visit her…… I loved her so much….
I wish I had read the version on this story's ending in "Hogfather" when I was 7. I remember being so sad for this girl, how can some people see _this_ as a good ending!?
I remember being read this story at school when I was 6 years old, it has always stuck in my head
Think I was about 5 or 6yrs old when I first seen another version of this story. Guess that's when I learned how much I actually care about ppl, in general & now I've got grandkids of my own. My grandmother was a Very important part of my life so this story really gets to me. When will "most" care about ppl they don't know who have much less than most 🙏. Hope everyone has a safe & blessed holidays 🙏 🙏
I watched this in the 70’s
When I read this story as a little boy, I didn’t think of it much more than a sad story. But it stuck with me. Now that I’ve heard many Near Death Experience, I see how realistic and relevant this story is. Or better yet this could be anyone out there alone in the cold.
I have never heard of this tale until today. I like it.
I remember seeing this before Christmas as a child..it traumatized me.
This video is by far the most beautiful thing i saw today, because i hate reading, i'm not sure that this is the original text, but it's awesome. And, yes, heartbreaking.
Honestly, the fact that this kind of stuff actually happens to children in the real world just adds insult to injury.
my teacher cried watching this
One of the saddest stories
What is striking is how the author portrey death and the passing of that little girl.
Why today's authors can't write this kind of stories??
Poor dying out of hunger and cold is still a phenomenon today. But we lack beautiful mind which could portrey death so beautifully
Holding on to her light to the very end, although living in such darkness. You’d think someone would notice her light and hold her. But they were too consumed by the darkness around them. She was saved and they were lost. She could have taught them love and compassion if they’d let her into their heart. Instead they let her die.
A very touching Christmas Story that I taught my students ❤️ Beautiful 😀
This is such a poingnly sad story I relate to my own childhood, and in particular my older sister who suffered terribly from my father's beatings. She's 71 now and always recalls this story with such sadness still. 😑
amanda Johnson-Williams thanks for sharing your sad, yet stirring story. I got beaten a little as a kid, mostly by my Mom, not so much by Dad. And I'm proud of the fact that I have not ONCE lifted a hand against my 17-year-old.
I think I would rather die than do that.
Merry Christmas. Abar shalom.
Indeed, religion is used as the escape route of the theist from this cruel world...
That is why, I don't have any reason to be mad or insult a religious person, despite me being an atheist.
There is no escape from God. For what can be known about God is plain, because God has shown it to them. His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. People know God, but they won't honor him as God or give thanks to him and do his will that you know. People have became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts are darkened and try to make excuses. Claiming to be wise, doubters became foolish. How can a person exchanged the glory of the immortal God for a life of mortal idols and purposeless selfish living?
Jesus told His followers, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"
The thing is God choose you but respects you enough to allow you to reject him. God is not religion, he calls himself, "I AM," he always was and always will be, he is more than the creator who have you permission to reject you he is a father you loves you regardless of your rejecting. His will is that you follow Christ and feed and care for the poor but even if you don't those who are least on Earth will not be least in Heaven. Hell is a choice, you must choose to reject God. I reject religion, so many of the teachings are not what the Bible actually says in context but I do not reject God and to says his invisible attributes are clearly perceived is putting it lightly. Literally seek God and you will find him, just don't let idols of your own will get in the way. That's where faith comes in. You will start to know God but you only understand his ways as you seek his ways. You surrender first and understanding follows. That said, if you really study the Bible history and science are simply trying to keep up with it. Each day more and more findings prove God, but looking at those facts won't save you, you need to choose for you this day who you will serve.
@S. Rose. Good point, God bless💗
@@SRose-vp6ew Excellently written Rose. You're like one of those people who are a joy to listen to.
This has so many memoties gor me but rgis year my heart breaks gor my mothet who died this year who lived for her grandchildren
3:57 "someone's dying!" It's so sad because she doesn't know that in fact she is the one who's dying
Got the book for this in Elementary School at a used book sale, was very young so I didn't really understand what was happening. Suddenly remembered it today, it's a very interesting, yet sad, story now that I'm older.
I had a book with this story in it when I was in high school.classic literature is so unique.
I don't know whether to be depressed or inspired by this story....I guess that's the point isn't ?
It has been 8 yrs, but both maybe?
@@wakeful5923 maybe...but inspired is more
As a kid this story depressed me, and it depresses me as adult.
The "someone is dying line" destroys me everytime
All of us are the least of these,we just don't know it or refuse to believe it or think it cannot happen to us.
I was actually an investigative field reporter in another version the story. I was out documenting the roadside disasters and spotting her in the snow with a bundle of burnt out matches was something that I had to document.
Meme: And that was after you took the poor little girl, Anne-Marie (nicknamed “Mary”), to a kind, wealthy family nearby, and you guys worked together as a patchwork family to recover her from the outside world’s terrible cold by placing her in a couch that stood by a fireplace with a Christmas tree adjacent.
I remember in third grade my teacher read this to us, once she got to the part she was hallucinating. My trached quickly ended the book, we asked what happened. All she said was the little reunited with her grandmother. Then once i reached to 6th grade, i investigate what really happened, that was when i realized it was a depressing story.
I live in the city where that real story had happened. Now its name is Bratislava. When Andersen visited that place it was called Pressburg. I feel like crying when I think how many children suffered and suffer all around the world. God save all children 🙏🙏🙏
I must be down bad because I saw the ending as a good one due to her peace warmth and joy she finally had a chance to feel, and topped off with the best joy of all being reunited with her grandmother. Her physical body was left with the coldness of the real world while she transitioned smoothly into the realm world.
I remember my Grandma telling this story to me at bed time when I was a little boy. I had forgotten what it was about.
so sad but its still fun to watch!!!!!!
I remember this story I've read on a book when I was young, the book looks old, canvass cover.
Saddest children story ever 😢
H.C. Andersen wrote more than a few stories like this. All of them fairy tales, many of them just as miserable as this one. Some, happy ending after much hardship.
This is sad that she never got to grow up and be a mom and grandma but at the same time Heaven is a real place with no more dying and pain. Still, the calling of Christians is to make sure this never happens and with the Christians I know they work very hard to care for the poor and prevent this. The problem is for every Christian who helps the poor still others are stuck focusing on overcoming their own issues refusing to surrender their own issues of overspending, drinking, or wasting their time not following the Holy Spirit when it comes to what to do.
0:46: Meme: And he said to Anne-Marie (nicknamed “Mary”) that he can use it as a cradle when he had children of his own.
1:33: Meme: And one of the two houses were projected by the other.
1:59: Meme:
This is the saddest f*cking story ever...No...I'm not crying...my eyes are just leaking...excessively...
Its a bittersweet ending
it makes me cry !
私は小さい時、この本を読んで涙が止まりませんでした。
This is so absolutely said! There is a Colombian movie called La Vendedora De Rosas. It’s a raw movie about girls living on the street. It’s based on this story🌹
Beautiful this story is so sad 😢
I m 15 and tomorrow is my exam of English literature and now i know this story with more clearance
The version i heard as a child doesn’r directly mention she died and just says she fell asleep
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If you need anyone to help out with art I’d happily help!! I love these stories and used to watch them animated on tv when I was little :)
This story didn't need its religous undertones. It did a well enough job of portraying hope in the eyes of a dying child without making reference to the dogma of an establishment which has been a major cause of poverty for common folk. Not saying the story is bad in fact its one of my favorites of HC Anderson's stories. But this is my opinion. Take it or leave and above all; respect it. Blessed be.
It upset you that she went to Heaven? You feel hope in the cold would still have been there without visions from a loving God? Established dogma is an issues. The greatest enemy of God has those not following him in the church however the word of God will always bless and enlighten. The truth of God is scary to some but still others see their is nothing to fear. Evil loses, those who seek it seek separation from God and that is hell. It may seem that you can server yourself and be fine but that's simply a lie. I care for the poor as if I am caring for my Lord just like the ending of this video says. You may not understand that but please respect that. Respect the billions of dollars churches give to the poor.
Legend says her spirit (ghost) still roams the streets
it's a beautiful story