Question

What is the Moral of the story "Golu grows a nose"?

Answer 1

The moral of the story "Golu grows a nose" is

(I) never trust a stranger

(ii) Curiosity is good when you want to know something new, but not about everything ; sometimes it may lead to hazardous consequences.

We can learn the above moral from the story as:

Summary:

• In the story "Golu grows a long nose" golu, a baby elephant was always curious about every little thing, and had a bulgy nose.
• This time he began growing curiosity about the crocodiles.
• He now wanted to know about crocodiles and their habits of eating.
• Since, he never met a crocodile before, the curiosity in him led him towards a river to find one.
• When he finally met a crocodile, unknown of the fact how dangerous they could be he went closer to him (crocodile) when he winked at him(Golu).
• Being a clever creature the crocodile took advantage of this and pulled him and tried eating him.
• As a matter of luck, a python who was following Golu, started pulling him towards himself to help him escape and swirled around him and made efforts to save him and finally Golu was safe.
• Eventually, in between all this Golu's nose grew longer and he learnt a lesson from this incident of never trusting a stranger.

Answer 2

Answer:

Golu Grows a Nose summary is a story that tells us that curiosity, although useful, can lead to disastrous consequences.