If you’ve ever read the story “The Ugly Duckling”, which I’m assuming most people did as a child, you’d know that there is a wonderful moral to the story. The moral is: you should never be ashamed of who you naturally are, because whether it’s tomorrow or a year from now, you are going to be happy with what you become. Always keep dreaming of and trying to be the best version of yourself that you possibly can, and one day you will be in the exact spot you wanted to be in all along.
This tale taught me a very valuable lesson that I have carried with me throughout my life, and it will continue to help me through the rest of it. With that, I will say that it will be one of the first stories I read to my children when that part of my life comes around. I would hope that it ends up helping them like it did me. Because as it turns out, when I was little, I was teased a lot, put down, bullied, and that put my self-confidence level at an all time low.
I myself, felt like the “ugly” duckling, an outcast. When I was finally old enough to fully comprehend and use those important lessons I had learned to my advantage, it made a world of a difference. It showed me that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that people, or animals in this case, seem to always dislike what they don’t understand. The other ducklings in the story picked on the little gray duck because he was different from them, and they didn’t understand why.
People are the exact same way even at my age now, and it’s sad, but it’s something that becomes easier and easier to deal with as you age. In my opinion, this tale can only do good things for anyone who reads it. Whether it’s a child, a teenager, or even an adult. Anyone can take away some great values from it. Although, I think it can do especially great things for the children who read it. I know, from a personal experience standpoint, that it was a great influence on the way I thought about other people.
The Essay on The Story Teller Children Aunt Bachelor
Many parents with children know how hard it is to travel on long trips with them. In the short story "The Story Teller" by Saki, an aunt was traveling with 3 little children. When the tries to get the children's attention, the children don't respond to her and continue to disobey her. When a bachelor that was traveling in the same carriage as them starts to tell the offspring's a story, the ...
I never wanted anyone to ever feel that way, like the odd one out, so I made extra sure that I treated everyone as equally as possible, and with as much respect as I could. All in all, I’d have to say that “The Ugly Duckling” is actually one of my favorite stories I read as a child. It instilled values that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. And I hope that when I read it to my kids one day, they take away some of the same wonderful things as I did from it. I’d hope that they’d be as influenced by the tale as I was.
