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Why is the Giant called selfish?
The Giant is called selfish because he prohibited the children from playing in his garden. He built a high wall all around it and put up a notice-board in it stating that all trespassers will be prosecuted.
On one occasion the children said: “How happy we are here!”
Later they said: “How happy we were there!”
What are they referring to in both the cases?
In the first case, the children expressed their happiness while playing in the Giant’s garden. They would go to play in the garden after returning from school and had a wonderful time playing around the garden.
In the second instance, the children were referring to the Giant’s garden after the Giant stopped them by building a high wall around the garden, and they could no longer enter it. They talked with each other about how they would enjoy playing around the garden where trees bore beautiful flowers and fruits and birds sang sweet songs.
The children referred to the Giant’s beautiful garden in both cases.
(i) When spring came, it was still winter in the garden. What does winter stand for or indicate here?
(ii) Winter has been presented like a story with its own characters and activities. Describe the story in your own words.
(i) When Spring came, it was still Winter in the garden. In the story, Winter denotes a desolate and negative atmosphere where the trees and flowers never blossom. Winter is also used to indicate a gloomy and depressing environment that brings sadness and laziness. In such cold weather, there is snow everywhere, and cold winds blow all around where trees tend to droop, and birds do not chirp. As the children were not playing in the Giant’s garden, Spring did not enter it. As a result, even the trees did not blossom, and the birds did not sing sweet songs in the garden.
(ii) When Spring came all over the country, the trees started to blossom, and the birds started to sing except in the Giant’s garden, where winter had still prevailed. The birds did not sing, and the trees forgot to blossom as the children did not come to play in the garden. One day, a beautiful flower blossomed from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board, it felt sorry for the children and slipped back into the ground again. Seeing all this, Winter was pleased as there was Snow and Frost everywhere. Snow covered the entire garden with her huge white cloak and Frost painted all the trees silver. They then invited the North Wind, who was wrapped in furs and blew strongly across the garden. Along with him came Hail who rattled the roof of the castle for three hours every day until most of the slates were broken. He ran all around the garden as fast as he could. He was dressed in grey attire, and his breath also felt like ice.
Was the Giant happy or sad over the state of the garden?
The Giant was extremely saddened to see the condition of the garden. Neither Spring nor Summer or Autumn came to visit it. It was miserable as Snow, Frost, North Wind, and Hail did not seem to leave his garden. He often wondered why Spring was so late in arriving at his garden.
What effect did the linnet’s song have over Hail and North Wind?
Hearing the linnet sing, Hail stopped dancing over his head, and North Wind stopped roaring. Soon, the Giant could hear a delicious perfume come to him through the open casement and he jumped out of his bed in excitement.