Reply to Books You Loved as a Child But Don't Want for Your Kids

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "Books You Loved as a Child But Don't Want for Your Kids"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The little match girl - I LOVED it.  An orphan survives by selling matches on the street corner. On Christmas Eve she’s very cold in a blizzard and sees a family in their home all warm and happy.  They welcome her in and she gets to enjoy this beautiful family scene. Except she didn’t really, that was a hallucination from hypothermia and she’s dead found dead on the street corner in the snow on Xmas morning.[/quote]

OMG I remember this book.  My mom brought it home for me to read and I felt so emotionally manipulated by it.  Much worse than Bambi's mom dying.[/quote]

That sounds very similar to a short story I read as an assignment in middle school- To Build A Fire, I think it was a Jack London short story.  A man was dying of hypothermia in Yukon Territory, and he had matches to light a fire but his hands were too cold to light the matches, he tried a few different things to warm his hands up including killing his dog and trying to warm his hands in the dog's guts, but nothing worked, and he wasn't ever able to make a fire with his matches, and he died.  The story also stuck with me a lot.  I'd let my kid read it though- Little Match Girl sounds a little more disturbing though[/quote]

I loved To Build a Fire and my kids have read it, too.  Awesome story.

I read Little Matchbook Girl as a kid and found it to be a moving and memorable story.  I don't think my own kids have read but I wouldn't be opposed to them reading it.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics