Question

(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.

Answer 1

Answer:

In the lesson "The Selfish Giant" author Oscar Wilde described Giant's garden and giant too. In Giant's garden, there was no spring because spring indicates happiness but winter indicates suffering. The giant drove away all children from his garden so that there was no happiness.

In winter the garden was full of snow and frost was come to join with snow. The bone-shaking north wind was blowing over the garden with his special sound. All of the worst things in winter was invited to come and join them for the party.

Answer 2

Answer:

The above text have been taken from

the story "the sellfish giant" written by Oscar Wilde.

Explanation:

(1)Winters have been indicated as depression, sadness.The giant lives all alone and he found happiness In his lonely and sad life.Summers indicate warmth of relationships which was no where to be found In giant's garden.

In the story there was a giant who wanted to stay away from everyone.He did not want to even play with children.He had built a big wall in his garden to stop anybody from entering his garden.

2)Here winters resemble depession,sadness.This clearly indicates that the giant was very sad and lonely in his life. So he used to stay busy gardening and making his house look great.He wanted to stay away from the warmth of relationships.The winter is indicator of gloominess and depression.The sadness was increasing when suddenly one day the wall of giant's garden broke and children entered the garden to play.The winters ran away and warmth of love and innocence entered with children.Now giant's garden was also freen