^^ 안녕하세요. 앤더슨이 어쩌구 저쩌구......  네오는 어디갔을까요 ㅠ.ㅠ A LIFE THAT CHANGED In Hans Christian Andersen's famous story, "The Ugly Duckling," a little duckling who looks different from the other ducks changes magically into a beautiful swan. From a brief glimpse into the life of the auther, we learn that Andersen, himself, changed dramatically, but not through magic. Hans Christian Andersen was born in Denmark in 1805. His father was a shoemaker who struggled to make a living. Hans always felt loved by his parents, and had a happy childhood. He had no brother or sister, and he was a sensitive child who lived in a private world of his own. His greatest joy was a toy theater his father made for him. The little boy entertained his parents by putting on plays, dressing the people of his little toy theater in quaint clothes that he made himself. When Hans was eleven his father died, and the young boy's life changed abruptly. He had to go to work, but he failed at every job he attempted. His fellow workers could not understand the strange boy who spent all his time daydreaming, and they treated him with contempt, mocking him and making his life miserable. When he was fourteen, Hans persuade his mother to let him go to the big city of Copenhagen, where he tried to get work as an actor, but was unsuccessful. He also tried dancing and singing, but he was not very good at these either. He tried  writing plays, but they were rejected by theater owners. In this phase of his life, he didn't seem to fit in anywhere. But Hans Christian Andersen persisted in his efforts to be a writer. Over the next fifteen years he worte poems, travel articles, and novels, as well as plays. He worked very hard, taking care to revise each sentence carefully until he got the words just right. No one paid much attention to his work, however, until he began writing fairy tales. He did not have to search for ideas for these; all he had to do was recall the stories his father had told him when he was a little boy. He wrote more than a hundred and fifty wonderful fairy taled, at last achieving fame and becoming one of the best loved writers in the world. You will read one of his stories in the next lesson.