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However, Thumbelina does not want to live underground and when taking a last look at the sunshine above ground on the day of her wedding, she is rescued by the swallow who takes her...
Thumbelina understands that she does not want to live with an ugly toad, she is grateful to the fish, gnawing a leaf stalk. Thumbelina sympathizes with the moth, the culprit of misfortune and, possibly, the death of which became a girl, tying the moth with a belt to the sheet.
He was so glad to see Thumbelina although, when she told him how she hated to marry the mole and live deep underground where the sun never shone, she could not hold back her tears. “Now that the cold winter is coming,” the swallow told her, “I shall fly far, far away to the warm countries.
Eventually Thumbelina sees little choice but to agree, but cannot bear the thought of the mole keeping her underground and never seeing the sun. At the last minute, Thumbelina escapes the situation by fleeing to a far land with the swallow.
Thumbelina doesn't want to live in the mud, as decorated as it was. She's soon freed from the toads by some fishes, who see her crying on the lily pad the toads have left her on.
She didn’t want to live underground and give up nature and the sun. The swallow then told her that he was flying to warmer countries because winter is coming and invited her to go with him. He told her that the sun shines brighter there, it is always summer and the flowers are much more beautiful.
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Thumbelina, at a loss of what to do, agrees, but is desperately sad that she won’t see the sun again, as the mole lives underground in the earth. One day, the mole, the field mouse, and Thumbelina find a swallow in an underground tunnel, presumed dead from the cold of the winter.
