The wish
The short story the wish by " Roald Dahl" is completely based in imagination of the main character a unnamed boy. This story has presented imaginative acts of the boy in an imagination game of red carpets. The title "the wish" has created confusion among the readers because it's wish hasn't fulfill at the end of the story. He was expected to get a puppy in his birthday after coming across the red carpet and reaching safely. But the wish for the puppy finish as a boy fall in the black spots of the carpet and losses his imaginative game.
The story has presented the setting of house front doors stairs and inside the hall where the huge carpet has been placed. This imaginative story is about crossing the halls red carpet stepping on the right colours and reaching inside from outside front doors stairs.
The story begins with the scene of the boy touching in his scab. He was sitting alone on his front door stairs. He bend forward to examine it closely. After plundering much he decided to pick that scarb from his wound. He picked his scab gently with his nail and put it on his thigh. He rubbed his wounds circle and flipped the scrab with his fingers. The scarb fell upon the edge of the red carpet. When he received to the carpet different colours of the carpet attracted him. He imagined a game plan using different colour of the carpet. In his imagination he thought red coloured spot as a lamp of coals as poisonus snake that could bit him and leave him to die. The yellow colcoured spot as the safe zones where he could step cross the huge carpet to get inside it to get a puppy for his birthday.
The child imagined very tough and terrible game plan in his mind to get the puppy for his birthday. He started to move ahead on stepping on the yellow colour. He balanced his body by waving his arms. He did not get a proper strp ahead. He started to panic because there was no turning back due to his body position. The black coloured spot made him panic very much. He was fearful but collect the courage to reach to his destination. He thought of the possible ways to reach there. He made proper use of his mind, paused himself and stepped further quite carefully. Just a step ahead of the half way the child had to choose an option wheather to move on the left or the right.
The left side was more difficult for him to step but there were less black spot. So he decided to move ahead using the left side. Unfortunately he happens to touch black spot while was centimetres close. He felt so panic because he was nearly going to be bitten by a snake but his luck saved him. Again he had a option to choose. He could have gone right but he went to left because he feared of black poisonous snaked. In his imagination the snake looked up to see if he touch it or not. In a very panic tone the child said, " I am not touching you, you mustn't bite me! You know I am not touching you."
At last he thought that he was going to get his birthday wish after crossing the safe zone but he couldn't fulfill his wish. He started to wobble being panic. He tried to balance himself by waving his arms however it didnot work. He slowly started to fall towards the black spots. He gave a loud cry as he touched the black spots. His mother was looking for him for behind the house outside in the sunshine.
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