Description

Each year, NPR requires a writer to write an authentic story with a Christmas-Theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire re-invented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Small Match Girl" to get a new period and new viewers. When it had been first converted from Danish and printed in England in the mid-nineteenth-century, viewers probably construed the Small Fit Girl′s desperate thoughts of lamps and a grandma in paradise as metaphors of spiritual answer. Maguire′s fresh item, titled "Incomparable," reilluminates Andersen′s vintage, utilizing his storytelling magic to revive Andersen′s unique motives, and to recommend transcendence, the permanence of nature, and the continuity that links the living and the deceased.