THE SELFISH GIANT

By Esteban Cely
  • Period: 170 BCE to 172 BCE

    THE HOLE

    Everything was happiness but only in one corner of the garden it was still winter and there was a small child among the branches of the tree, so the giant was moved and said "how selfish I have been" and the giant understood why spring had not reached his garden, then he went down the stairs and opened the front door but the children fled scared, the garden was winter again
  • Period: 170 BCE to 240 BCE

    THE GIANT DIES

    The repentant giant for his selfishness decides to tear down the wall he had built, the giant played day and night with the children until he remembered his friend whom he had kissed, the children did not know where this child was from, they had not seen him either, it had disappeared, the years passed and the giant became weak, then one morning the boy who had disappeared arrived and tells him that it is time to go with him, the giant dies.
  • Period: 169 BCE to 170 BCE

    THE GIANT'S HUG

    The only boy who didn't run from the giant was the one in the corner of the garden, the giant when he saw him there, picked him up and hugged him, the boy kissed the giant, then the children saw that the giant was not bad they returned to the garden, the birds sang and everything blossomed
  • Period: 167 BCE to 170 BCE

    THE SCREAM

    The Giant when seeing that his garden didn't bloom shouted: "The spring has forgotten this garden".
    Who were happy was the snow that covers the grass and the frost that paints the silver tree.
    The ogre always waited for spring or summer to arrive, he always saw his garden white and cold, very sad to see that other gardens flourished and his didn't.
  • Period: 166 BCE to 169 BCE

    THE RETURN OF THE CHILDREN TO THE GARDEN

    After some time one morning the giant heard such a lovely melody for the one who peeked through a hole in a wall of the wall that he built and saw that there were children playing in the branches of the trees, the birds singing, the garden had flourished again , but...
  • Period: 165 BCE to 167 BCE

    WAITING FOR SPRING

    When spring came in some gardens there were flowers and the birds sang, but in the garden of the Giant the winter remained, spring did not come, then the birds didn't sing and their garden didn't bloom
  • Period: 162 BCE to 165 BCE

    THE RETURN OF THE GIANT

    When the Giant returned to his castle, he found the children playing in his garden and he became very angry. Hearing the roar of the giant, they got scared and ran away
  • Period: 162 BCE to 164 BCE

    A HIGH WALL

    The giant was so selfish that he decided to build a high wall around the garden so that the children couldn't enter and put offensive notices that said "passers-by will be prosecuted"
  • Period: 156 BCE to 162 BCE

    THE CHILDREN IN THE GARDEN

    The children when they left school enjoyed playing in the garden of the Giant in the branches of the trees and listening to the singing of the birds taking advantage of the fact that him wasn't
  • Period: 155 BCE to 162 BCE

    THE GIANT

    Once there was a giant who lived in a garden and went to visit his friend the ogre of Carnualles and there he lasted seven years