Leafie, A Hen into the Wild
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Leafie, A Hen into the Wild (hangul
: 마당을 나온 암탉) is a children's story written by Hwang Sunmi. The story depicts the freedom, will and instinctive motherly love of a hen
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The leading character Leafie exhibits strength. She doesn't settle for the fate she is given but accepts challenges and welcomes adventure. The story was made into a movie in 2011.
s even though they are her own. Dreaming of having her own young, she plans to escape the farm. While escaping, a weasel
threatens Leafie, but Nagnae (a mallard duck) helps her to escape. She arrives in the wild, and learns more about another mallard duck (Wanderer), and soon sees him lose a fight.
Finding an egg (which later turns out to be the mallard's) in the wild, she takes care of it until it hatches. When it hatches, it thinks Leafie is its mother. Leafie cares for the duckling and names him "Chorok head" or "Greenie" (hangul: 초록머리). Leafie and Greenie go through more trials as he grows up.
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Hangul
Hangul,Pronounced or ; Korean: 한글 Hangeul/Han'gŭl or 조선글 Chosŏn'gŭl/Joseongeul the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean...
: 마당을 나온 암탉) is a children's story written by Hwang Sunmi. The story depicts the freedom, will and instinctive motherly love of a hen
Hen
-Animals:*A female chicken or other poultry*Cornish game hen, a hybrid chicken sold whole*A female game bird*A female octopus*A female lobster-Places:*Hen, Buskerud, a village in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway...
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The leading character Leafie exhibits strength. She doesn't settle for the fate she is given but accepts challenges and welcomes adventure. The story was made into a movie in 2011.
Plot
Leafie lives on a chicken farm where she is in a cage with many other egg-laying hens. However, she can't incubate the eggEgg
-Biology/food:*Egg , an organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop*Ovum, a female egg cell*Egg , the egg of a fowl or fish consumed as food-Places:*Egg Island *Egg, Switzerland, a Swiss municipality...
s even though they are her own. Dreaming of having her own young, she plans to escape the farm. While escaping, a weasel
Weasel
Weasels are mammals forming the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. They are small, active predators, long and slender with short legs....
threatens Leafie, but Nagnae (a mallard duck) helps her to escape. She arrives in the wild, and learns more about another mallard duck (Wanderer), and soon sees him lose a fight.
Finding an egg (which later turns out to be the mallard's) in the wild, she takes care of it until it hatches. When it hatches, it thinks Leafie is its mother. Leafie cares for the duckling and names him "Chorok head" or "Greenie" (hangul: 초록머리). Leafie and Greenie go through more trials as he grows up.
Award
The movie version of Leafie, A Hen into the Wild received the the best animation award in the 5th Asia Pacific Screen AwardsAsia Pacific Screen Awards
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards is an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia, through Events Queensland, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO to...
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