1805 In April, a baby was born in a bed made of coffin boards. He cried loudly, as if to protest against God's demotion of angels to earth. The priest comforted his frightened mother and said, "The louder you cry when you are young, the smarter you will be when you grow up." Sure enough, many years later, this angel showed his intelligence to the whole world. Even Santa Claus won't be more famous than him. His name is hans christian andersen.
Andersen's father was a poor shoemaker in odense. He has read many books, has a rich imagination and a little romantic temperament, but these are not blessings for him. His wife is a simple woman-not beautiful, but hardworking and easy to believe in everything, including God.
This spring, the stork flew again, and the gooseberry tree in the yard grew new leaves. Little Andersen knew he was six years old. Pretending to be serious, he went to his father's side and pointed out how to clean up the storks in the old nest. When he heard that after summer, the weak young storks would be pecked to death because they could not fly to Egypt for the winter, he became sad: "Let them come to our attic, and I will definitely give them something to eat in winter."
Odense is a closed town, where people believe in God and witches. Many mysterious legends ripple in the air. The grandmothers in the spinning room sometimes tell the strange stories in The Arabian Nights to the little Andersen who came to play, enriching this originally dreamy brain. How strange the little guy is: many people will sigh and feel scared after hearing these terrible stories, but then they seem to be fine. For him, everything he heard was full of bright magic colors, as if it were true. Sometimes, he will be frightened by the imaginary elves in the forest and run home out of his wits. Years later, these ancient legends and childhood fantasies became the source of his creation.
The mother is very sympathetic to her weak only son. Six-year-old Andersen was sent to the young Kathy to study in order to escape the physical abuse of his grumpy old aunt at school, and became the youngest student. This teacher, who is respected for her fairness and gentleness, likes her quiet new classmates who like girls very much. He often walks around the campus holding his hand between classes, and shouts at frolicking students from time to time. "Be quiet, naughty children, don't push the child over."
Andersen often peeks at Sarah, the only girl in school. He imagined her as a princess in a fairy tale, eager to get close to the little girl with black eyes. Once, they went home together. In fact, his home has already passed, but he didn't say a word. Sarah, who was also born in poverty, vowed to be a farm housekeeper in the future. Andersen opened his eyes wide: "How boring that is!" How can a princess make decisions? "When I grow up, I will take you to my castle." He told the girl that his family used to be a branch of the nobility, but for some reason ... one day ... Sarah smiled, and the little guy must be crazy. The next day, Ollie, the miller's son, grabbed Andersen's hair and shouted, "Hello, Duke! Where is your beautiful castle? " The people around you burst into laughter.
Andersen's love suddenly retreated. But in his fantasy, he let himself save Sarah from the fire and accepted her apology. He even forgave Ole for bullying and mocking him. When the urchin was punished for standing on the table, little Andersen put himself in the position of imagining Ole's humiliating situation, so that he cried before the punished person cried and begged the teacher to forgive his "hostile actor". After this incident, the son of the workshop owner became the patron saint of little Andersen.
Time flies and Andersen is very happy at school. However, the difficult times closed the school and he had to go home. The puppet made by his father brought great satisfaction to his son. He sewed beautiful clothes for young people and let the puppet give full play to his fantasy on the "stage".
Soon, something better came into his life-he read william shakespeare's works, and the magical and magnificent plot deeply attracted him. Soon, he can recite the whole paragraph of King Lear; His puppets are also immersed in the ocean of william shakespeare's passion.
He began to want to make up a play by himself-he told the puppet a few words of German that his father taught him. Listen, "Besson!" How loud this word is, but you can't imagine it anyway. The puppet's favorite word actually means "broom".
18 13 years, Napoléon Bonaparte launched a war, and the shoemaker was pushed to the battlefield by the embarrassed family and the desire for adventure. Two years later, he returned home and never recovered. When the snow was falling, the ice girl in little Andersen's fantasy took away his father, leaving his helpless wife and children and biting cold.
After my father died, my mother's only way to make a living was to wash clothes for others every day. In the cold winter, the temperature of the river was unimaginable, so she had to drink a few drinks to drive away the cold. In the eyes of decent people, how rude this is! Bitter rumors are endless, and people in the city are whispering-"The shoemaker's wife Maria is a woman who is addicted to alcohol!" "Andersen felt infinite humiliation for his mother. Many years later, in the fairy tale "She is a Waste", he expressed his deep indignation.
Maria wanted to support her family independently, but the gossip in the town laughed at her son's idleness, so the mother had to reluctantly send her thin and shy son to the factory for child labor. Andersen, 1 1 years old, was dizzy by heavy work, but his singing saved him. He sang during the interval. The workers will never let him work again. As long as his crisp and loud singing can break the dullness of the construction site, what else do you ask this little guy to do? Little Andersen was very satisfied, because he always liked to perform in public, and he even played Macbeth in william shakespeare's plays alone.
A worker said to him, "Why don't you become an actor?"
Yes, that's perfect for him. If you can't direct fate, wouldn't it be nice to perform on the stage? What a great idea! So, when Andersen was confirmed at the age of 14, he showed amazing stubbornness about his mother's plan to arrange him as a tailor apprentice-"No, mom, I want to be an actor."
Although Andersen promised his mother that he would become famous, he begged and cried, but her mother never gave in. However, the fortune-telling witch helped him; "The flower of children's happiness is not here, we have to leave here and look far away!"
Carrying 30 silver coins and his beloved puppet, young Andersen looked back to his hometown in a carriage. He once wrote this sentence: "When I become great, I must sing praises to odense. Who knows, will I become a miracle of this noble city? At that time, in some geography books, under the name of odense, there would be such a line: A lanky Danish poet Andersen was born here! "
This is an accurate prediction. However, at this time, on September 6th, 2009, 18 14-year-old boy, with a schoolbag in his hand, looked at Copenhagen in front of him, but his hometown seemed out of reach. This huge and strange city made him feel small and lonely. But he immediately dried his tears and told himself that now is not the time to cry, to act, to act with confidence.
This boy from a small town, like Aladdin, a poor boy in The Arabian Nights, began to fight for his magic lamp.
He painstakingly asked for a letter of introduction from the famous ballerina Madame Schell, but it didn't achieve the effect of being an apprentice, so he went to see Holstein, the manager of the Royal Theatre, and asked to be an actor. The manager looked at the child as thin as a stork and said, you are too thin, and you will be booed off the stage by the audience. Still not disappointed, the teenager suggested, "It's easy. As long as you give me a monthly salary 100, I will get fat soon. " The manager was angry-if the poor boy was either an idiot or having fun, he immediately issued an eviction order, and frustrated Andersen had to leave.
The dance school didn't enroll students until May, and Andersen had little money left. Introduced by an acquaintance, he worked as a coolie for a few days, and had to leave the workshop angrily because the local accent was regarded as a joke. Wandering in the street, he was at a loss. It suddenly occurred to him that he saw in the newspaper that the Italian singer Professor Siboni was performing in Copenhagen and opened a singing school, so he broke into the professor's home at the wedding. Curious guests were attracted by the young man who struggled alone in Copenhagen. More importantly, his singing shows a heart that loves the muse. Everyone donated money in succession, and Andersen finally got his wish and entered the singing school in Siboni.
However, luck does not always follow a person. Although Andersen was diligent, a serious illness damaged his voice and there was no hope of learning vocal music. The next setback made him find that he also lacked the talent for dancing and acting. He finally realized that he didn't belong on the stage.
After four years' struggle away from home, Andersen deeply felt this broader society full of joys and sorrows. At school, he read Shakespeare, Goethe and other Danish classics, and deeply realized the charm of writing. He suddenly knew clearly what he wanted to pursue-literature. As long as you have indomitable courage and a sincere and susceptible heart, you will surely climb the peak of literature.