The Snow Child
Summary of the story:One afternoon of a cold winter day, two children asked their mother if they run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful, her parents used to call Violet. But her brother was known by the style and title of Peony because his cheeks were like two red peony roses. The mother’s character had a strain of poetry in it—a delicate and dewy flower that had survived out of her imaginative youth and still kept itself alive amid the dusty realities of matrimony and motherhood. The father of these two children, a certain Mr. Lindsey was an excellent but exceedingly matter-of-fact sort of man, a dealer in hardware, and was sturdily accustomed to take what is called the common-sense view of all matters that came under his consideration. Violet and Peony made an image of a little girl and which will be their sister and shall run about and play with them all winter long. From the door, the children's mother saw the snow image, but couldn't decide if it was, indeed, a real child, or simply a light wreath of the new-fallen snow. Their matter‐of‐fact father refused to believe that she was made of snow, and, tried to warm her and last destroyed her.
Critical Analysis: The Snow Child is the story of a snowy figure that became warm, living and companionable to some children until it was spoiled by a hard-headed person, without imagination or real sense, who forgot that he was ever a child himself or that there is such a beautiful and precious thing as a child-view of the universe. But the common-sensible man saw nothing amiss. One of its lessons, for instance, might be that it behooves men, and especially men of benevolence, to consider well what they are about, and, before acting on their philanthropic purposes, to be quite sure that they comprehend the nature and all the relations of the business in hand. What has been established as an element of good to one being may prove absolute mischief to another; even as the warmth of the parlor was proper enough for children of flesh and blood, like Violet and Peony, though by no means very wholesome, even for them, but involved nothing short of annihilation to the unfortunate snow-image. Their heart is full of simplicity and faith, which is as pure and clear as crystal and for that looking at all matters through this transparent medium, they sometimes see truths so profound that other people laugh at them as nonsense and absurdity.
Moral of the story: The account of a childish miracle is of course intended to be taken as an allegorical expressing of the difference between the realities seen by idealist and materialistic. And another important moral is- the simplicity and innocence of a child can
creates (creat)any conceivable thing that produces a state of wonder.
Submitted by:
Eshita Iman
ID: 101-22-142
Dear Eshita,
It's very good. But i suggest you to use small sentences. Long sentences make your sentence structure loose.It also muddles ideas.
Plz keep writing more.
UK madam
