The Ugly Duckling
The theme of The Ugly Duckling is that you belong somewhere. It doesn't matter if the crowd doesn't like you. Sooner or later you are going to come around people who accept you for who you are. I think that the author was trying to prove to us that there are going to be groups of friends that will laugh at you because you're different. That doesn't mean you should just give up and stop being yourself because of them. He used The Ugly Duckling as being the outsider. The baby duck went to different types of families, even a toy duck, to at least find someone who truly loves him. He just wanted someone to accept him. It came upon a point that he just wanted to give up. The baby duck thought that no one would ever bring him into their home. All that he could do was cry, until a group of ducks that looked just like him came floating by. They accepted him. When he swam with his new family, he saw the other ducks who wouldn't give him the love he wanted. Having his head up high he knew that he would never have to go through this again. Basically the ugly duckling turned out to be a beautiful swan.
