Fullfilled Life or Circumstance
In the short story "The Little Match-Seller" by Hans Christian Anderson we read about a young girl who is selling matches on the streets, last day of the year. New years Eve. She walks around the winter cold streets no shoes, no jacket just a box of matches. This story highlights the idea/theory that society makes a very bad situation and death as an escape or finding opportunity in a bad situation. Making death seem like it's better than living your life to your full extent, falling into major issues. Poverty, finding business oppurtuity in your hardships. Abuse of any sort because your needs/wants are being satisfied or paid for by your partner. Lastly being a single parent due to it being glorified by being reselient. And there are many more. The girl in the poem illustrates/shows the raw and real truth of society. Society shys away and covers up the raw reality of child poverty and abuse. A late 2025 UNICEF report indicates that over 19% of children worldwide live in...