Book report
Santiago
Londoño Acevedo
English
Cindy
Buitrago
Grade
8°
Seminary
Minor of Medellin
Medellin
2013
Introduction
The aim of this work is to achieve that in the student
of the minor seminar it could develop a great aptitude to understand the things
and equally of developing the skills in the reading comprehension to be able to
understand still mas thoroughly the dimensions of the reading, and be able like
that to be every day more integrals at the moment of the learning
The text talks about one giant and he has a big and
lovely garden, full of beautiful flowers and peach trees. The children’s was so
happy and feel so good when they were in the garden, playing and amusing it. After
the giant return to his home when he see the children´s playing and laughing in
his garden, he scream to they and immediately they start to run, the giant,
furiously built a big wall and put up a notice board saying: “Trespassers will be prosecuted”.
The poor children´s hasn´t now any place to play, they
tried to play on the road but they don´t feel so good in this place. Then
the spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little
birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter. The birds
did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to
blossom. One day a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when
it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back
into the ground again, and went off to sleep.
"Spring has forgotten this garden," cried
all the grass, the trees, the birds and the flowers and the Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak and he and the
cold invite the wind to stay here with they and after the wind came, they
invite too the hail. When the giant see every day by the window all this things
it is said to if same: “I cannot understand why the spring is so late in
coming"
The spring never came and the autumn
gave golden fruits to every garden, except that of the giant and he say:
"He is too selfish," she said. So it was always winter there, and the
North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the
trees.
One day at the morning the giant heard a sweet melody,
he thinks the musicians of the king was passing by here, but no, was a bird and
the snow stop to fall and the wind stop to dance because the children´s made a
little hole in the wall to enter in the garden and immediately a lot of birds
come, the trees filled of flowers and the grass feel so good because the
children´s were here
But in one corner of the garden, still snowing because
a little and small children was so bad because he couldn´t reach up to the
branches of the tree and he was wandering all
round it, crying bitterly. The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and
snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it. "Climb up!
Little boy," said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it
could; but the boy was too tiny.
And the giant heart gets up, because he was really
very sorry for what he had done, and he said: How selfish I have been!" he
said; "now I know why the spring would not come here. I will put that poor
little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my
garden shall be the children's playground for ever and ever.
so he crept the downstairs, opened the front door and
take the little boy and put it on the top of the tree, and immediately stop to
wind and stop to snow and the birds came, the spring came and the child was so
happy because he reached up the tree, and immediately he kiss to the giant. The
other kids, when see that the giant aren´t now bad they came too and the giant said:
“It is your garden now, little children,"
and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall and when the people go to the
market, he see the giant playing with the children´s in the most beautiful
garden that they had ever seen.
they play all the day with the giant,
but in the night when they come to say good bye the giant ask for the little
children and the other kids said: we don´t meet him, he left the garden early. All the afternoons he
waits in the door to the school to come to his house to play with them, but the
little boy never came again. The years happened and the giant became old, he
couldn´t play but he sit in a chair to see how the kids play.
One winter morning he get up and see
the little boy in the same corner under a tree full of white flowers, the
branches were all golden and the boy was here. He down the downstairs so fast
and came to the little boy. And when he came quite close his face grew red with
anger, and he said, "Who hath dared to wound thee?" For on the palms
of the child's hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails
were on the little feet.
And the boy answers: no, these are the wounds of love.
immediately the giant down on the knees and the little children say to him: you
let me play in your garden, now you shall come with me to my garden, which is
my paradise and when the other children´s come to play with the giant in the
afternoon he found him dead in the floor, under the tree, all covered of white
flowers.
Characters:
Giant:
In the beginning
it was very embittered and selfish, but with the time it was changing up to
becoming good and friendly
Flowers: They were very happy when the children were going
and playing around it, but to the moment not to return they became sad and felt
desolate
Trees:
They were very
big and were becoming full of emotion when the children were coming, were
filling with flowers were very happy, but when the winter came his beauty was
ruined
Snow:
It was the first
climate that invaded the garden on having been desolated and boring
Children’s: They were those who from a beginning made annoy the
giant. After this the giant sees that thanks to them the spring, the happiness
and the pleasure was returning to his garden, they are accepted by the giant
and a few big friends turn
The
little boy: He was the
one who to the children to enter to the garden could rise to the top of the
tree. It was helped by the giant and later at the moment of the death of the
giant he was the one who offered to him his garden and his paradise to enormous
that one of good and great heart; And apparently it represents Jesus Christ in
this work, demonstrating that who it works well will reward him of equal way
Conclusions:
·
We
can conclude that the giant in spite of being a great quantity of muscular mass
possessed a great heart.
·
It
is an interesting history in which quantity of values is highlighted since are
the companionship, the solidarity, the friendship, the service, the help and
the affection.
·
We
can say that we all are like a giant, are embittered, rude and selfish with all
the excellent beings who surround us and who are to our scope. But with the
help of a child, a small and pure child who can illuminate our mind, soul and
be we can manage to change and it is the only one that can change our life, and
his name is Jesus.
