11-1-11 Selfish Giant

This story begins with children playing the garden of a giant who has been away for seven years visiting a an ogre. Once he return she find the children in his garden and being a selfish giant he scares the children away and builds a wall so that no one can enter his garden. Soon winter comes and makes it permanently winter because he has lost the love of the children which made the garden bloom. Winter continues in the garden until the children sneak in through a hole in the wall and make it summer again. The giant sees who child who can't get up into a tree, so he goes outside , but ends up scaring the children except for the one child who couldn't get into the tree. The giant helps the child get into the tree and seeing this the children return and play in the garden. The giant destroys the wall so that all of the children could play in his garden. The children continued playing with the giant until the giant became old and frail, so he could no longer play. At the end of the story the giant see the little boy he helped into the tree and find the boy has wounds on his hand. Seeing this the giant gets angry because someone hurt his friend, but is love that made the wounds not bodily harm. The next day the children find the giant dead under the tree where he helped the little boy so long ago.