Honestly, why do all fairy tale parents suck, huh? I didn’t want a sad tale, but guys, this is sad. Even the mother has by now changed her mind and says she’d rather he had never been born. Poor, ugly duckling even gets bullied by his brothers and sisters who say that they wish the cat would get him. Still, all the others (even the turkey) pick on him and make fun of him, so the ugly duckling turns very sad, because he’s – well – ugly. The mother is quick to jump to his defence, and refuses to get rid of the ugly duckling. One of the other ducks finds the ugly duckling – well – ugly, so she decides that she doesn’t want it there and bites the poor thing in the neck. It’s a duck of Spanish blood, you see, so – I don’t know anything about ducks and I don’t understand much, but meh. She leads them through the water and warns them of the cat.
The next day, though, they go to the lake to swim and she finds that the ugly duckling does swim quite well, so she figures he can’t be a turkey. The mother wonders if it is, in fact, a turkey. Yet the mother won’t do so and waits for the egg to hatch.Īt last, it does break, and out comes a large and ugly duckling. The duck gets visited by another, older duck, who claims that the larger egg is a turkey egg and that the mother should just abandon it. The mother is all, “Yeah, wait until you see the garden!” Then she looks around and finds that the largest egg, the seventh, is still intact and she goes back to sitting on the nest, though she’s already rather tired of it. They are amazed by how large the world is now that they are out of the egg. One by one, the first six ducklings hatch. In a lovely summer, a duck has seven eggs. So, I went through the list and found the Ugly Duckling! Never knew that was an Andersen one, but there you go. I wanted to go for Hans Christian Andersen again and I thought about the Little Match-Seller but then decided that story is far too sad for my taste.
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