Article 3 : ThE ReD ShoEs

The Red Shoes is the first books that I have read since I know to read at 6 years old. The book was given by my mother as award for my success know to read. I still keep it that story book as memory because that book full of sentimental value for me.


Today I want to share with all my friends about the story “The Red Shoes”. This book was written by Hans Christian Anderson at 1845. The synopsis of the story is a peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother's death. She grows up vain. She tricks her adoptive mother into buying her a pair of red shoes and repeatedly wears them to church, without paying attention to the service. Her adoptive mother becomes ill, but Karen deserts her, preferring to attend a party in her red shoes. Once she begins dancing, she can't stop. The shoes take over. She cannot control them and they are stuck to her feet. The shoes continue to dance, through fields and meadows, rain or shine, night and day. She can't even attend her adoptive mother's funeral. An angel appears to her, condemning her to dance even after she dies, as a warning to vain children everywhere. Karen finds an executioner and asks him to chop off her feet. He does so and gives her a pair of wooden feet and crutches. Thinking that she has suffered enough for the red shoes Karen decides to go to church in order for the people to see her, but the chopped-off feet with the red shoes dance before her, barring the way. The following Sunday she tries again, thinking of herself at least as good as the others in church, but again the dancing red shoes bar the way. Karen gets a job as a maid in the parsonage, but when Sunday comes she dares not go to church. Instead she sits alone at home and prays to God. Then, it is as though the church comes home to her and her heart becomes so filled with sunshine, peace, and joy that it bursts. Her soul flies on sunshine to heaven, and no one there asks her about the red shoes.

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The Red Shoes fairytale story is the best story book that I have read. Every story includes moral story that the writer want to share with his readers. For example story of Cinderella, Snow White and others. Every story have their moral story it self.
In this story Karen tricks her adoptive mother to buy her a pair of red shoes and repeatedly wears them to church. While her adoptive mother becomes ill, Karen more prefer goes to party with her red shoes. Once she begins dancing, she can’t stop. From this story, Karen should take care of her mother because her mother not feeling well. Because of the red shoes she always and repeatedly use to the church, when she use to dance it cannot stop and because of that she can’t attend her adoptive mother’s funeral. Maybe God want to give her some knowledge for her act. So that, Karen should give her mother priority because her adoptive mother is guard her after her mother’s death. Even she only adoptive mother, mother is everything. We are here, exit in the world because of her.