Seven Matches

 1. Why is something like a jar of matches so important to Chanie? What do matches represent or symbolize? 

Something like the jar of matches is important because to Chanie it could mean walking in the dark and possibly getting ambushed by some hungry wolves and or bears because wolves tend to avoid fire, I also think that the matches represent that there can be some light in the darkness of it all.

2. What do you notice about Chanie in this song? How is he changing? 

He is a little happier when he gets the matches from who is supposedly the other boys' mother and for the rest, he gets more anxious about how the amount of the matches is dwindling.

3. Chanie lights his final match. What do you think will happen?

That he will continue walking because in the first illustration he was walking on the railroad tracks still without the matches I don’t think he stops to have those night breaks anymore because there isn’t anything to light to keep him safe from mother nature's creatures.