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    The Selfish Giant is a short story about a giant who owns a beautiful garden that all the children in the land love to play in. One day the giant returns after being away for 7 years and bans the children from playing in his garden. Without the children, the garden remains cold and barren through spring and summer. Eventually the giant realizes his selfishness has prevented the garden from flourishing. He decides to let the children play there again, and as a result the garden is filled with life and beauty once more.

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    The Selfish Giant is a short story about a giant who owns a beautiful garden that all the children in the land love to play in. One day the giant returns after being away for 7 years and bans the children from playing in his garden. Without the children, the garden remains cold and barren through spring and summer. Eventually the giant realizes his selfishness has prevented the garden from flourishing. He decides to let the children play there again, and as a result the garden is filled with life and beauty once more.

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    The Selfish Giant

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    The Selfish Giant is a short story about a giant who owns a beautiful garden that all the children in the land love to play in. One day the giant returns after being away for 7 years and bans the children from playing in his garden. Without the children, the garden remains cold and barren through spring and summer. Eventually the giant realizes his selfishness has prevented the garden from flourishing. He decides to let the children play there again, and as a result the garden is filled with life and beauty once more.

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    THE SELFISH GIANT

    CHARACTERS:

    NARRATOR 1, 2, 3

    CHILDREN:

     BOY 1
     BOY 2
     BOY 3
     GIRL 1
     GIRL 2
     GIRL 3

    GIANT

    AUTUMN

    SCRIPT:

    NARRATOR 1: Every afternoon, after school, some children used to go and


    play in the Giant’s garden.

    BOY 1: What a lovely garden!. The grass is so green and soft.

    GIRL 1: And the flowers look like stars!.

    BOY 2: Stop talking, I want to listen to those birds singing.

    GIRL 2: I feel happy here.

    BOY 3: Me too. I wish we didn´t have to go.

    GIRL 3: Come on. It´s getting late and our parents must be worried. We can
    come back tomorrow after school.

    CHILDREN: Yes, let´s go.


    NARRATOR 2: One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend
    the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven
    years were over he decided to return to his own castle. When he arrived he
    saw the children playing in the garden.

    GIANT: What are you doing here?.

    CHILDREN: Run!. Let´s get out of here, the giant is back.

    GIANT: Yes, leave, get away from here!. This is my garden , any one can
    understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.

    NARRATOR 3: So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-
    board. TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. The poor children had
    now nowhere to play.

    BOY 1: Now, where are we going to play?.

    GIRL 1: The road is very dusty and full of hard stones.

    BOY 2: I wouldn´t like to play on the road.

    GIRL 2: I miss so much that beautiful garden.

    CHILDREN: How happy we were there.

    NARRATOR 1: Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were
    little blossoms and little birds, but in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still
    winter. The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the
    trees forgot to blossom.

    GIANT: I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming. The garden
    is still white. I hope there will be a change in the weather.

    NARRATOR 1: But the Spring never came, nor the Summer.

    AUTUMN: I will give golden fruit to every garden, but not to the Giant´s
    garden since he is too selfish.

    NARRATOR 2: One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he
    heard some lovely music.
    GIANT: Where is that sweet music coming from?. Maybe they are the King’s
    musicians passing by… it´s the most beautiful music in the world.

    GIANT: I believe the Spring has come at last. I better get out of bed and see
    what is happening outside.

    NARRATOR 1 : And he saw a most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in


    the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the
    trees.

    GIANT: Oh, the children are in my garden!

    CHILDREN: We are so happy to be here!.

    BOY 3: Look everybody, over there!. The birds are flying and singing with
    delight, and the flowers are blooming once again.

    GIANT: How selfish I have been! Now I know why the Spring would not come
    here. I am very sorry for what I have done.

    NARRATOR1: So he went downstairs and opened the front door quite softly,
    and went out into the garden.

    CHILDREN: Run, the Giant is here!

    GIANT: Please don’t go! It is your garden now, little children. I will knock
    down the wall, and you can come here every day.

    CHILDREN: Thank you, Mr. Giant, we love you and this beautiful garden.

    NARRATOR1 And when the people were going to the market they found the
    Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever
    seen.

    NARRATOR2: Every afternoon, when school was over, the children came
    and played with the Giant.

    NARRATOR 3: Share, dear friends, as Llfe is better with generosity and


    kindness and not selfishness.

    Author: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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