15 POINTS
Read the beginning of "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.
Every afternoon, as...
15 POINTS
Read the beginning of "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giantās garden.
It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. āHow happy we are here!ā they cried to each other.
The beginning of this story
allows readers to hear what the giant sounds like.
introduces the characters through dialogue.
describes the setting through narration.
presents a conflict between the giant and the children.
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