"The Selfish Giant" by English Wilde Reading Experience

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Protagonist: A giant with a beautiful garden.

Conflict: The giant returns seven years after leaving home, finds the garden full of other people's children, gets angry, and throws them all out.

Background: The beautiful garden of giants, because no longer let the arrival of children, has always been winter.

Plot: Seven years ago, children played in the giant's garden after school.

Seven years later, the giant returned, erected a high wall in the garden, and hung up the phrase "Idle people are not allowed to enter, and violators are punished." "The brand. The kids can't play there anymore.

This act of the giant angered the spring, and the spring no longer patronized his garden, and the north wind, frost, snow, and hail became the guests of the garden, and the winter refused to leave, and the giant was very distressed.

One morning, the giant was touched by the song of a little cardinal, and he could not wait to open the window to find that spring had come. On the branches of each tree sits a child. One of the youngest children, weeping because he could not go up to the tree, the giant lovingly carried him up to the tree, and the tree blossomed in an instant.

The children resumed the routine they used to play in the garden. The giant never saw the little boy he had held again, and his heart was always on it.

Many years have passed, and the giants are old.

Climax: One winter morning, the giant was surprised to see a tree in the farthest corner of the garden full of white flowers. Under the tree stood the little boy he loved. They met. The boy invited the giant to his garden.

Ending: When the children see the giant, they find him dead, covered with strange white flowers.

Theme: As long as the love in a person's heart is remembered, it will eventually be echoed.