The story is about a man who had a beautiful wife that he loved with all his heart, he had to leave his lover for a very important business trip for several days. Before he went to the business trip, he went to a place where all kinds of birds were sold. He bought a parrot that not only can speak fluently, but also has the talent to talk about things that had happened before. He bought it in a cage and asked his wife to put it in her room. Then he departed. After he returned home from the trip, he asked the parrot about what had happened in his house while he was away, but the answer that the parrot gave was not pleasing at all. It made the man disappointed. He scolded his wife and they quarreled.
The man's wife thought that one of their slaves had revealed her secret to her husband, but all of them told her it was the parrot's job. She became very mad and planned to revenge on the bird and gained her husband's trust back. The day when her husband were gone for a day, she commanded a slave to turn a hand-mill under the bird's cage, another slave to sprinkled water down to the cage to mimic the rain, and the third slave to hold a mirror and move it left and right against a candle. They did it great that night.
When the man arrived home, he asked the parrot how was his wife last night, the parrot answered that it was raining horribly that night that the parrot could not see anything. The husband knew that there was neither rain nor thunder that night. He became furious because he thought that the parrot was lying to him and grab the bird out from its cage and violently threw it to the floor. The parrot died. Yet afterwards, he knew that the parrot was telling the truth all the times because the neighbors had told him what his wife had been doing when he was away. He felt very regret for his action before.
This is a short fantasy story by the Irish author, Oscar Wilde. The story is about a giant who hates people that are playing in his garden. Usually, every noon after-school, the children will come to his beautiful garden that is full of singing birds, luscious crops and beautiful flowers to play. But one day, after seven years the giant disappeared, he came back to his house and saw some kids were playing in his garden happily. He then became furious and scolded those children for trespassing his garden. Then he shooed those kids out of his garden and started to build a wall around it. He put a warning sign in front of his wall.
Now the kids had no place to play. They had tried so many places to play but it was not as fun as playing in the giant's garden. When the Spring came, the country was blooming with flowers, but not in the giant's garden. Because of the wall that he had built, the Spring could not enter his garden. Neither fall nor Summer. Just cold and snowy Winter still covering his garden. He thought that Spring had forgotten his garden, because the season had never changed in his garden.
One morning, the giant was awakened by the wonderful sound of children playing. He woke up from his bed and believed that the Spring had come to his garden. He lurked into his window and he saw children were playing in his garden through the little hole in the wall that they made. Those kids were climbing a tree but only one boy could not climb the tree because he was too small to climb was left behind. The boy was shivering and the incident made the giant realized that he had been so selfish to those child. He came to those kids but they were frightened and ran away accept the little boy. He was to scared to run. The giant took him gently and put him on the tree. The boy realized that the giant was not wicked anymore and he gave him a hug. The other children who saw that ran back into the garden and brought the Spring with them. The giant was very happy and decided to change his attitude to not becoming selfish again. He gave the garden to the children to play and knocked down the wall that he had built before. The people of the country who saw the giant playing with the children was happy because things was getting better than before.
