THE SELFISH GIANT

                    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.