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The Wish by Roald Dahl
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The Wish by Roald Dahl
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The Wish by Roald Dahl
This short story is about a small boy's fantasy in which a huge red carpet is alive with snakes and fire. The writer of the story has presented an imaginative and curious small boy to reflect the delicacy of childhood imagination. The child wishes for a puppy as a reward for the completion of the tough imaginative carpet game. He struggles quite hard to achieve his birthday reward, but he fails to achieve it when he falls into the black patches of the carpet.
SHORT SUMMARY
The Wish by Roald Dahl
This is the story of a boy who looks at a very huge carpet with large black, red, and yellow patches of colour.
In his imagination, he imagines the red spots to be hot lumps of coal, which might burn him, and the black spots to be poisonous snakes, which might bite him. The only safe colour, as well as zone for him, is the yellow one.
He decides to walk across the carpet, only stepping on the yellow spots. He sets this as a challenge for himself. He even fixes a reward for himself too. If he walks across the huge carpet without getting burned or bitten, he'll get a puppy as a birthday gift the next day.
He begins his journey. The first part of the carpet is quite easy. But as he steps further, his journey becomes more and more difficult for him. He has to take longer strides.
Just before the half, he loses his balance and controls himself by waving his arms. Then there comes a turning point where he has to choose either a right or a left turn. Although the left turn is more difficult, he chose it because there are fewer blacks (snakes). He is very afraid of snakes. Then he takes a long step and almost steps on a black stone, and the snakes start stirring. He is just a centimetre away. But luckily, he is saved.
He continues his journey. His next step is quite far away. He tries his best but can't step over properly. His feet fall too wide. He starts wobbling and tries his best to keep his balance by waving his arms. The stirring snakes make him feel so panicky. He slowly falls onto a big black spot with a very loud cry.
His mother is searching for him outside, somewhere back in the house, in the scorching sunshine.
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