The Wild Swan

Title: The Wild Swans
Author: Hans Cristian Anderson]
Place and Date of publications: New York, 1989
No. of Pages: 75
Setting: At the Forest

Characters:
Princess Elisa – the only girl among the twelve siblings and worked for shirts to broke the spell.
The Eleven Swans – the eleven brothers of Elisa whom made swans by their wicked step mother.
King – the husband of Elisa whom gave a great dinner party for her and the eleven princes after the spell has broken up.

Plot/Climax:
Soon people decided to kill Elisa because of misconception that she was a witch, she was carried out and lie to a post and ready to be punished, eventually the eleven swans dropped down beside her. Then Elisa broke the spell through them, catching up the eleven shirts, she threw them over the swans and her dear brothers stood beside her.



Brief Summary:
There once lived a king who had eleven sons and a beautiful daughter named Elisa. The Eleven Prince and Princess Elisa were very happy until their mother died. The king married a wicked woman who turned the eleven boys into wild swans.
Elisa did not know what had become of them, one day when she saw the eleven brothers. The eldest brother told Elisa that their stepmother had be witched them and they stay swans as long as the sun shines.
She dreamed that a fairy came into her and told her that she could break the spell if she made shirts of nettles and threw them over the swans. But she must not speech all the time if she is at work. When she awake, she remembered her dream and set to work.
The king saw Elisa and he fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. There was a splendid wedding. Still Elisa wondered into the woods and gathered nettles and worked upon the shirt.
Some of the people said she was a witch but she worked on until she had ten shirts finished and the eleventh almost completed. In those days the people believed in witches until they cried out that the girl must die so they carried her out and lies her to a post when the eleven swans dropped down besides her. Elisa broke through them, catching up the eleven shirts, she threw them over the swans, eventually her dear brothers stood beside her.
When the king came, Elisa told the story of why she had been silent so long. Then all of the people praised her and the king gave a great dinner party for her and the eleven princes.

Moral Lesson:
When there is suffering and hardships ate start, there is happiness and success at the end.

Reaction:
The story showed how perseverance and determination resulted to a blissful ending. It also showed that blood is thicker than water as what Princess Elisa portrayed for her eleven brothers.