The giant doesn't want to share his garden with the children. The garden remains cold and wintry. Will the giant change his mind and let the children and the spring into his garden?
'lt's my garden,' says the Giant. 'People must understand. Nobody can play here- only me!' So the children leave, and the Selfish Giant puts a wall around his garden. After that, it's always winter there. Later, the Giant feels sorry for a young boy in the snow. He knocks down the garden wall- and the children, and the spring, come back. But where is the young boy now? And how can the Giant find him again?
The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant (Green Apple Starter)Retold by Elizabeth Ann Moore
Fairy tale & fantasy The Happy Prince is the unforgettable story of the touching friendship between the golden statue of the Happy Prince and a little swallow. The enchanted garden of The Selfish Giant is the perfect place for children to play, until the Giant decides to keep it all for himself!
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes.
