The Ugly Duckling Grow Into A Swan

1. The Ugly Duckling Grow Into A Swan Author：Jean Webster Lisa Lee

2. The ugly duckling can also grow into a swan. With willpower and courage, nothing can be impossible. Willpower and courage

3. Jerusha Abbott was a poor orphan who had grown up in a terrible orphanage. She couldn’t go to a college but went to work instead when she was eighteen.

4. But, luckily, a trustee of the orphanage who didn’t want to let Jerusha Abbott know who he is, decided to send her to college and educated her to become a writer. But she had to write him letters telling of the progress in her studies and the details of her daily life once a month.

5. Jerusha Abbott’s college life began. Because she didn’t know the trustee’s name and didn’t want to call him the fake name which the chief of the orphanage told her, she decided to call him “Daddy-Long-Legs”, as the figure of the trustee she had seen in the orphanage once.

6. She wrote over eighty letters to Daddy-Long-Legs during the four years in college. She told him all the things let her feel happy, let her feel melancholy, and let her feel angry, happening in her college life in the letters.

7. Such as she didn’t know who Michelangelo is and thought he was anangel, ahugespider“read”the letters for Daddy-Long-Legs, and baked strange cookiesfor teachers.

8. To merit Daddy-Long-Legs’ trust, Jerusha Abbott also wrote lots of novels, poems, and articles diligently and submit a piece of writing for publication. Although she facedlots of challenges, she still continued writing. At last, some of her works were published, and she also became a real writer.

9. Jerusha Abbott never gave up. She always faced all the things optimistically, no matter they are difficult or horrible. We must learn the willpower, courage, and optimism of Jerusha Abbott. She is a really fine example to us.

10. Daddy-Long-Legs is really a good book to read. It’s very funny and full of a girl’s childlike thinking. You can’t find any pessimistic thinking but optimistic thinking in the book. After reading, you will feel that you are full of courage, and can face everything bravely. It’s really an excellent work.