A BOOK REPORT:

THE WILD SWANS

Angelo Tomboc

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II.AUTHOR:

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen was born on

April 2,1805 – August 4,1875.He was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems.

 Some of his most famous stories include “The Little Mermaid", “The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Nightingale", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and many more. His stories have inspired plays, ballets, and both live-action and animated films.

III.VOCABULARY: CLOAK ~ an outdoor over garment, typically

sleeveless, that hangs loosely from the shoulders.

WRETCH ~ an unfortunate or unhappy person. PEASANT ~ a poor farmer of low social status

who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation.

SUMMON ~ authoritatively or urgently call on someone.

SCARLET ~ a brilliant red color. SWOOP ~ move rapidly downward through the air. BANISH ~ send away from a country or place as

an official punishment.

FLAX ~ a blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed and for textile fiber made from its stalks.

GARMENT ~ an item of clothing. GAZE ~ look steadily and intently, especially in

admiration, surprise, or thought.

IV.CHARACTERS: Elise ~ the only one who save her 11 brothers

from wild swans turning into humans King ~ Elise’s father 1st Queen ~ Elise’s mother 2nd Queen ~ a witch who was fell in love by the

king ~ she turned the princes(11 Elise’s brothers) into wild swans

Group of Hunters ~ almost kidnapped to Elise Young King ~ saved Elise by kidnapping by the

group of hunters and married her Archbishop ~ The one who saw Elise when she

was picking nettles at graveyard for her brothers

V.PLOT:

EXPOSITIONIn a faraway kingdom, there lives a

widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans (they are allowed to become human by night) and forces them to fly away. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa, but Elisa's goodness is too strong for this, so she has Elisa banished.

RISING ACTIONThe brothers carry Elisa to safety in a

foreign land where she is out of harm's way of her stepmother. There, Elisa is guided by the queen of the fairies to gather stinging nettles in graveyards; she knits these into shirts that will eventually help her brothers regain their human shapes. Elisa endures painfully blistered hands from nettle stings, and she must also take a silence for the duration of her task, for speaking one word will kill her brothers. The king of another faraway land happens to come across the mute Elise and falls in love with her. He grants her a room in the castle where she continues her knitting.

CLIMAX The king of another faraway land happens to come

across the mute Elise and falls in love with her. He grants her a room in the castle where she continues her knitting. Eventually he proposes to crown her as his queen and wife, and she accepts. However, the Archbishop is chagrined because he thinks Elisa is herself a witch, but the king will not believe him. One night Elisa runs out of nettles and is forced to collect more in a nearby church graveyard where the Archbishop is watching. He reports the incident to the king as proof of witchcraft. The statues of the saints shake their heads in protest, but the Archbishop misinterprets this sign as confirmation of Elisa's guilt. The Archbishop orders to put Elisa on trial for witchcraft. She can speak no word in her defence and is sentenced to death by burning at the stake.

FALLING ACTIONThe brothers discover Elisa's plight

and try to speak to the king, but fail. Even as the tumbril bears Elisa away to execution, she continues knitting, determined to keep it up to the last moment of her life. This enrages the people, who are on the brink of snatching and destroying the shirts when the swans descend and rescue Elisa. The people (correctly) interpret this as a sign from Heaven that Elisa is innocent, but the executioner still makes ready for the burning.

RESOLUTIONWhen Elisa throws the shirts over

the swans, the brothers return to their human forms. Elisa is now free to speak and tell the truth, but she faints from exhaustion, so her brothers explain. As they do so, the firewood around Elisa's stake miraculously take root and burst into flowers. The king plucks the topmost flower and presents it to Elisa and they are married.

Our paths change as life goes along, but the bond between us remain ever strong.

~NGC.Universe Love is never to your brothers and

sisters. Like GOD never gave up on you!!! It’s like unconditional love. Love of GOD that has true holiness.

~JCTomboc

VI.LESSON LEARNED: