Book Report

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.