NCERT Class 8 English The Selfish Giant

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The Selfish Giant

EVERY afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the springtime broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other. One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend, the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden. “What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away. “My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “anyone can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board:

TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED

He was a very selfish Giant. The poor children had now nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it. They used to wander round the high walls when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside. “How happy we were there!” they said to each other. Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only 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. Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep. The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost. “Spring has forgotten this garden,” they cried, “so we will live here all the year round.” The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak, and the Frost painted all the trees silver. Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them, and he came. He was wrapped in furs, and he roared all day about the garden, and blew the chimney-pots down. ‘‘This is a delightful spot,” he said, “we must ask Hail on a visit.” So the Hail came. Every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates, and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go. He was dressed in grey, and his breath was like ice.

“I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming,” said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold, white garden; “I hope there will be a change in the weather.” But the Spring never came, nor the Summer. The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant’s garden she gave none. “He is too selfish,” she said. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees.

One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music. It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King’s musicians passing by. It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird singing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world. Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement. “I believe the Spring has come at last,” said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out.

Comprehension Check

1. Why is the Giant called selfish?

2. 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?

3. (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 their activities. Describe the story in your own words.

4. Was the Giant happy or sad over the state of the garden?

5. What effect did the linnet’s song have over Hail and the North Wind?


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Honeydew Chapter 01 The Best Christmas Present in the World
NCERT Class 8 English The Best Christmas Present
Honeydew Chapter 02 The Tsunami
NCERT Class 8 English The Tsunami
Honeydew Chapter 03 Glimpses of the Past
NCERT Class 8 English Glimpses of the Past
Honeydew Chapter 04 Bepin Choudharys Lapse of Memory
NCERT Class 8 English Bepin Choudhary Lapse of Memory
Honeydew Chapter 05 The Summit Within
NCERT Class 8 English The Summit Within
Honeydew Chapter 06 This is Jodys Fawn
NCERT Class 8 English This is Jodys Fawn
Honeydew Chapter 07 A Visit to Cambridge
NCERT Class 8 English A Visit to Cambridge
Honeydew Chapter 08 A Short Monsoon Diary
NCERT Class 8 English A Short Monsoon Diary
Honeydew Chapter 09 The Great Stone Face-I
NCERT Class 8 English The Great Stone Face 1
Honeydew Chapter 10 The Great Stone Face-II
NCERT Class 8 English The Great Stone Face 2
It So Happened Chapter 01 How the Camel got his hump
NCERT Class 8 English How the Camel got his hump
It So Happened Chapter 02 Children at work
NCERT Class 8 English Children at work
It So Happened Chapter 03 The Selfish Giant
NCERT Class 8 English The Selfish Giant
It So Happened Chapter 04 The treasure within
NCERT Class 8 English The treasure within
It So Happened Chapter 05 Princess September
NCERT Class 8 English Princess September
It So Happened Chapter 06 The fight
NCERT Class 8 English The fight
It So Happened Chapter 07 The open window
NCERT Class 8 English The open window
It So Happened Chapter 08 Jalebis
NCERT Class 8 English Jalebis
It So Happened Chapter 09 The comet I
NCERT Class 8 English The comet I
It So Happened Chapter 10 The comet — II
NCERT Class 8 English The comet II
It So Happened Chapter 11 Ancient Education System of India
NCERT Class 8 English It So Happened Ancient Education System of India

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