The red shoes

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Q. 10 Narrate in your own words the story of Karen and her red shoes.
Answer: “The red shoes” is a story about sin and repentance? The story is effectively told but one feels that the punishment inflicted on the little girl Karen is rather more harsh than she deserved. Karen was a little orphan? Girl. Her mother could not even by her a pair of shoes. The village shoemaker’s widow gave Karen a pair of red shoes made of old cloth. The day she put on the red shoes, Karen’s mother died. She attended the funeral wearing those red shoes. A kind old took the little girl under her care. The old lady had the red shoes burnt. Karen was given new clothes and was taught to read and sew. All the people who saw Karen said that she was very pretty. But she thought that she was more than pretty; she was lovely. She would stand before the mirror and admire her beauty. One day the old lady took her to a shoe-maker’s shop. Karen selected a pair of red shoes. The old lady had poor eye-sight and could not see that the shoes were red. The next day Karen attended her confirmation ceremony wearing red shoes. In the church she could not pay attention to the priest’s sermon or the beautiful hymns sung by little children. She was all the time thinking had gone to church is red shoes were. The old lady came to know that Karen had gone to church in red shoes. She told Karen that it was not proper to go to the holy church wearing red shoes. Next Sunday Karen again put on red shoes and went to church. At the church door, an old soldier with a funny long beard stroked her red shoes and said, “What lovely dancing shoes! Stay on tight when you dance.” As Karen came out of the church, a sudden urge to dance possessed her and she began dancing. After a few days the old lady fell ill. Karen did not look after her properly. One night when the old lady was very ill. Karen put on her red shoes and went to a ball. Her red shoes had acquires a strange power over her. She could not stop dancing even when she wanted to do so. The red shoes took her out of the room, down the stairs and through the streets into a dark forest. She reached the churchyard where an angel with a stern face said to her, “Dance you shall…until you are cold and pale.” And she went on dancing till she reached a litter house in wilderness. There lived the executioner who cut off wicked people, s heads. Karen confessed all her sins-vanity, pride and ingratitude. He cut off her feet. He made wooden feet and crutches for her. Now she thought that she had paid for her sins. So she went to church but there she saw the red shoes dancing before her eyes. She was frightened and turned back. The parson, s wife took pity on her and took her into her service. Karen worked hard and repented over her sins. The next Sunday the family went to church but Karen did not with them. She went to her tiny room and began to read her prayer book with tears in her eyes. An angel appeared in her room. He touched the roof and the roof and the walls with a green bought. She found herself in the church. God had forgiven her. Her heart was so full of pace and joy peace and joy that it broke and her flew to heaven.
Q. 11 Does Andersen in his story “The red shoes” make effective use of the fantasy to teach a moral lesson?
Answer: Andersen relates an imaginary and unreal story to teach a moral lesson. He builds up the story in such a way that the reader does not care for the impossible things stated in it. The moral lesson that Andersen teaches in the story is that the proud and the disobedient must suffer. They are forgiven by God only when they repent their foolishness. Karen is a poor but beautiful girl. After the death of her mother, a rich old lady takes her to her home and brings her up. She is very kind to her BU Karen disobeys her. She tells Karen not to wear the red shoes. But Karen is proud of her beauty. She feels that by wearing the red shoes she will look more beautiful. Once Karen goes to the Church with the red shoes against the orders of the old lady. Once again she goes to a ball when the old lady is ill. While dancing, her red shoes take her far away, through the fields, into the jungle. She hears a horrible voice that she would die dancing in those shoes. The executioner cuts off her feet. Now she walks on crutches. At last she repents her foolishness. Now she is not proud of her beauty. She becomes a mind-servant in the house of the priest. She is forgive by God. In this way Andersen makes effective use of the fantasy to teach a moral lesson.

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