Снежная королева / The Snow Queen

«Снежная королева» – знаменитая сказка Ганса Христиана Андерсена о настоящей дружбе, преданности и нежной любви. Маленькой Герде предстоит спасти своего друга Кая из плена Снежной королевы.

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Жанры:	Сказки, Зарубежная классика
Цикл:	Легко читаем по-английски
Год публикации:	2018

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Story the First

Which Tells of the Looking-Glass and the Bits of It

Attention, please, we’re going to begin. When we’ve got to the end of the story we shall know more than we do now. Once there was a wicked troll. He had made a looking-glass which had this property: everything good and pretty that was reflected in it became bad and ugly. And everything that was no good came out even worse[1]. The most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best of men grew hideous. Their faces were so distorted that they couldn’t be recognized. It was very funny, the troll said. He couldn’t help but laugh at his clever invention. Everyone who attended the troll school (for he kept a troll school) spread the news all about that miracle looking-glass: you could now see, they said, what the world and mankind really looked like. They ran about everywhere with the glass, and at last there wasn’t a country or a person left who hadn’t been distorted in it. After that they decided to fly up to heaven itself and make fun of the angels. The higher they flew with the glass, the more it grimaced. Up and up they flew, and then the glass grimaced so hard that it fell out of their hands and to the ground. It broke into millions of tiny pieces. Some of them were as big as a grain of sand. They flew around the wide world, and when they got into peoples’ eyes, they stuck there, and from that moment the people saw everything crooked and only looked for the bad things[2]. Every little splinter of the glass had kept the same power that the whole glass had. Some people got a little bit of the glass into their hearts, and that was horrible, for their hearts became just like a lump of ice. Some of the pieces were so big that they were used for window glass. Other pieces were made into glasses, and that was a bad thing, if people put them on in order to see correctly and judge rightly. The evil troll laughed at this, for it was very amusing to him. And out in the world little bits of glass were still flying in the air.

Now you shall hear what happened with some of them.

Story the Second

A Little Boy and a Little Girl

In the big town, where there are so many houses and people that there isn’t enough room for everybody to have a little garden, and where most people have to grow flowers in pots, there were two poor children. They weren’t brother and sister, but they were as fond of each other as if they had been[3]. Their parents were near neighbours, living in two attics, where the roof of the one house touched the other: a small window in each house faced the other; you could get from one window to the other in one step.

The parents had, each of them, a large wooden box outside the window, and in it grew kitchen herbs which they used, and also a little rose tree; there was one in each box, and they flourished wonderfully[4]. Then the parents thought of putting the boxes across the gutter[5] in such a way that they reached almost from the one window to the other and really looked like two bunches of flowers. The pea plants hung down over the boxes, and the rose trees twined about the windows and bent over to meet each other, and made almost an arch of leaves and blossoms. The boxes were very high up, and the children knew they must not climb up into them, but they were often allowed to get out to meet each other and sit on their little stools beneath the roses, and there they used to play very happily.

In winter, of course, that pleasure was gone. The windows were often quite frozen over; but then they would heat copper pennies on the stove, and then put the hot pennies on the frosty window, and this made a small peep-hole, one out of each window; the little boy’s and the little girl’s. The boy’s name was Kay and the girl’s name was Gerda.

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Отзывы

Каждая хорошая сказка не служит просто развлечением,- она учит добру, любви, состраданию, честности - всему самому лучшему, что есть у человека на земле. Даже "Курочка Ряба" чему-то учит. Великий сказочник Андерсен так и начинает свою сказку "Снежная Королева"- все плохое - от дьявола, а светлое- от Бога, от света души. И страшнее всего, если осколок дьявольского зеркала попадает в сердце человека, - оно леденеет, становится злым, бесчувственным. Мы попадаем в маленькую Данию, где кровли домов соприкасаются друг с другом и дети свободно могут ходить в гости друг к другу, не спускаясь по лестнице. Они так любят солнце, цветы, у них богатое воображение, для них снежинки- белые пчелы, а морозные узоры на окнах- цветы. Они воспринимают мир как большой ,добрый цветник. Кай видит в рое снежинок прекрасную женщину из льда и снежинок, он под впечатлением бабушкиной сказки о Снежной Королеве. А летом в глаз Кая попадает осколок дьявольского зеркала и он меняется на глазах- ему всё кажется безобразным, гадким- и цветы, и книжки, и старая бабушка. Он всех передразнивает, и Герду, с которой всегда дружил. Мальчик даже " Отче наш" забыл, помнил только таблицу умножения. Зимой, попав к Снежной Королеве, Кай восхищался ею как совершенством. А Герда не забыла Кая, искала его всюду, распрашивала речку, цветы, растущие на пути. Прошла осень, наступила студёная зима. После долгих странствий Герда встретила разбойников. Маленькая разбойница с добрым сердцем помогла Герде добраться на северном олене в Лапландию, где жила Снежная королева и где она держала Кая. Слёзы любви растопили ледяное сердце Кая и он стал прежним, добрым, любящим. О чем эта сказка? О силе любви? -Да. О большой вере? - Да, конечно. Много смысла в одной маленькой сказке. Как всегда у великого Ганса Христиана Андерсена.

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