{"id":2996,"date":"2018-04-25T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=2996"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:22:04","slug":"the-little-match-girl","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/the-little-match-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Match Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What makes someone poor? Why is the little girl so poor?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the girl\u2019s responsibility to provide money for her family? Whose responsibility is it?<\/li>\n<li>Did the little girl choose to dream about the large iron stove? Do we choose what we dream about?<\/li>\n<li>Is she dreaming of the stove and dinner or is she imagining? Are dreaming and imagining different?<\/li>\n<li>The little girl says someone is dying because the star is falling. Do we know when someone is dying?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you think her grandmother was the only person who had been good to her?<\/li>\n<li>If the images kept disappearing, why did the little girl keep striking the matches?<\/li>\n<li>Why didn\u2019t anyone help her? Should someone have helped her?<\/li>\n<li>Is someone responsible for the little girl\u2019s death? If so, who?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contributed by Natalie Janson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2997,"template":"","dqcategories":[373,374],"class_list":["post-2996","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-ethics","dqcategories-metaphysics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Little Match Girl - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Little Match Girl - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What makes someone poor? Why is the little girl so poor? Is it the girl\u2019s responsibility to provide money for her family? Whose responsibility is it? Did the little girl choose to dream about the large iron stove? 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