a letter to a little girl selling matches

Dear little girl selling matches:

Hello there!

On a snowy evening, you are wearing long blond hair and tattered clothes. You are naked, barefoot, holding a match in your hand and walking on the street. You have been shivering in the cold, but for a whole day, no one has bought you a match, no one has given you a coin. Even when you die, people just say something lightly: "She wants to give herself a little warmth."

Why, are you wrong? Is poverty your fault? I feel unwilling to do it for you. Because of poverty, it is necessary to be discriminated against? Because of poverty, we must be bullied? You can only realize your good wishes in fantasy, and when the match is gone, everything will turn into nothing...

On the contrary, the more beautiful the fantasy, the more cruel the reality is.

Grandma, must be a very important person for you? With Grandma, you can see that you are very happy. In happiness, your body is gradually becoming numb, the skin is getting colder... Finally, finally letting go, everything follows the grandmother, flying to the place where there is no cold, no hunger, no pain...

I am very angry, because you are trembling cold on New Year's Eve, but no one cares about you, accepts you, and is bullied by others; I feel sorry, because you are so beautiful and lovely, but no one appreciates you, even your own I don't care; I am more sympathetic to you, so the little girl with pure heart is frozen in the streets...

But, although you are dead, are you happy? Yeah, stay away from this indifferent society, get rid of all the pain with your grandmother, it is a good thing for you.

In this now loving country, when dangers and disasters come, people will lend a helping hand and help each other to overcome difficulties. If all this, strong and kind, you can see how good it is! I hope that you can enjoy it all.

May our life be more and more harmonious and better and better!

Wish: Heaven is happy

Your friend: Zhang Xinru

2011.3.16

Anyang Experimental National Primary 6: Zhang Xinru