The Selfish Giant: Oscar Wilde
The author of this story is Oscar Wilde. The message of the story is the co-existence and the spread of love. It is a story of a young boy who was a messenger of God and a selfish giant. The story starts with the children playing in the garden of the Giant every afternoon after coming from school. The garden was lovely, large, with soft grass, and fruit trees. The trees bore rich fruits and birds sang sweetly sitting on them. One day after seven years the giant came back. He was staying with his friend, the Cornish Ogre. The children were scared to see him. He saw the children playing and scolded them that he would not allow anyone to play in his personal garden. He built a wall around it and also put a notice board. The notice board displayed a warning on it, ‘Trespassers will be prosecuted. The children became sad as they had no other place to play. They would wander around the high walls of the garden and remember the beautiful days they had spent in the garden. The spring the seaso...