1. How did the woodcutters find the Star-child?
2. Why did one of the men think his friend was foolish?
3. Why did the woodcutter refuse to go into his home at
first?
4. What sort of person was the Star-child as he grew up?
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SUMMARY......
A Star-Child whose beauty has caused him to grow proud, cruel, and selfish denies that an ugly beggar woman is his mother. Learning he is wrong, he vows to search for her throughout the world.
"The Star-Child" is a short fantasy story for children by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. It was first published in 1891 as part of the anthology House of Pomegranates, which also includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta" and "The Fisherman and his Soul".
The title character and protagonist of "The Star-Child" is a handsome boy who for the first ten years of his life believes that he is truly the son of a star. As a result, he believes himself to be superior to everyone else and becomes vain, arrogant and cruel. When his real mother, a beggar woman, comes to the village where he lives, he wants nothing to do with the woman and mocks her for her ugliness. As punishment for his cruelty, he becomes monstrously ugly himself. He remains so until he shows kindness to others, even at the risk of his own life.
Films based on "The Star-Child" were produced in the Soviet Union in 1958 and 1983.
Plot
One winter night, two Woodcutters see a shooting star fall to the ground. They go to the place in the forest where the star landed, expecting to find a pot of gold. Instead, they find a child wrapped in a gold cloak embroidered with stars and wearing an amber necklace. Although he is very poor and already has several children of his own, one of the Woodcutters decides to take the child home with him. He has difficulty persuading his wife to take in the child but he tells her that the boy is a Star-Child. The Woodcutter and his wife treat the Star-Child as one of their own children for the next ten years.
The Star-Child grows up to be a handsome boy but he is also very vain. As the son of a star, he believes himself to be superior to everyone else in the village. He cannot bear people from the lowest levels of society and throws stones at beggars whenever he sees them. He also tortures and kills small animals. A gang of similarly-minded children gather around the Star-Child and accept him as their leader.
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The Beggar, 1899 painting by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior.
One day, the Star-Child and his friends throw stones at an ugly beggar woman. The Woodcutter, who is nearby, chastises the Star-Child, saying that he cannot understand why the boy behaves that way, given that he treated the Star-Child kindly ever since he found him in the forest. At these words, the beggar woman faints. When the beggar woman comes round in the Woodcutter's house, she says that her child, who was wrapped in a gold cloak embroidered with stars and wearing an amber necklace, was stolen from her by robbers in the forest ten years ago. The Star-Child is told that the woman is his mother but he wants nothing to do with her. When she asks for a kiss before she leaves, he says, "rather would I kiss the adder or the toad than thee".
The Star-Child goes to rejoin his friends but they shun him and call him ugly. He finds that he now has a face like a toad and skin like an adder. He realizes that he is being punished for his mistreatment of his mother. In the hope that he might regain his former appearance if his mother forgave him, he goes off in search of her.
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Star Child is a children's fantasy short story by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. It was first published in 1891 as part of the pomegranate house anthology.
The title character and protagonist of "Star Child" is a handsome boy who believes he really is the son of a star for the first decade of his life. As a result, he believes he is better than anyone else, making him useless, arrogant and cruel. When his true mother, the beggar, comes to the village where he lives, he doesn't want to have anything to do with her woman and ridicules her for her ugliness. As a punishment for his cruelty, he gets terribly ugly.
Explanation
1. How did the woodcutters find the Star-child?
On a winter night, two lumberjacks see a shooting star fall to the ground. They expect to go to the forest location where the stars landed and find a gold jar. Instead, they find a child covered in a gold cloak with embroidered stars and wearing an amber necklace.
2. Why did one of the men think his friend was foolish?
The woodcutters ran to the shooting start that fell to the ground expecting to find some treasures like gold, silver etc. but they did not find any of these things. They rather found a child wrapped in a golden tissue. One of the woodcutter decided to take the child to his home as he did not want the child to perish in cold and this act was considered foolish by the other man as they both already have many mouths to feed which they did with a lot of difficulty and to add on to that taking care of another child was not the best idea
3. Why did the woodcutter refuse to go into his home at first?
When the wood cutter found the baby, he decided to bring the baby to his house such that he and his wife can take care of the baby. But the woodcutter and his wife already had many children of their own and they had difficulty providing for their own children. The woodcutter knew that his wife won't take this new baby with kindness and he decided to not go to his home at first
4. What sort of person was the Star-child as he grew up?
As the child always thought of himself as the son of the star, he was filled with pride acknowledging that fact and, he always considered himself to be better than anyone else. As he puts himself on a social pavilion, he cannot tolerate people who belong to lower social class and he ends up throwing stones at beggars, whenever he sees them
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