A long time ago, there lived a Giant, a selfish Giant, whose stunning garden was the most beautiful in all the land. One evening, this Giant came home and found all these children playing in his garden, and he became enraged. “My own garden is my own garden. ” And he built this high wall around it.
The author Oscar Wilde wrote the story of “the Selfish Giant” in 1888. Almost a hundred years later, that Giant moved into my heart and never left. I was raised in a family which my parents do some business, and my parents always only focus on my education. Fortunately, learning is not a painful thing for me. I enjoy reading, and I learned that the deeper I went into my books, the more time I took with each sentence, the less I heard the noise of the outside world. My own world is my own world.
After a period of time, that Selfish Giant again told me his story, how he had felt betrayed by the kids sneaking into his garden, how he had built this high wall and it did keep the children out, but a grey winter fell over his garden and just stayed and stayed. I learned something new about the hard stones of the roads that the kids were forced to play on when they got expelled from the garden about the gentleness of a small boy that appeared one day and even about the Giant himself. Maybe his words weren’t rageful after all .Maybe they were a plea for empathy, for understanding. “ My own garden is my own garden. ”
Following my growing up，I would realize that this was where I was inside that book ,spending time with the characters and the world that the author had created and invited me into. And in the Giant‘s garden, I never feel alone in this world and I more and more understand future or past. Through understanding the Giant，I can get lost to forget the hard times I’m living in ，through understanding the Giant，I believe fairy tale also is the truth. With the Giant , I change my mind, I can go to the place I never thought I’d go , I can communicate with people I never thought I’d meet.
My own garden is my own garden. You also own yours.
