Roald Dahl

The Wish
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Contents
Introduction to author

Summary

Central Idea

Character introduction

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 Introduction To Author
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Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British

novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter ace of
Norwegian descent. Dahl has also been called "one of the greatest
storytellers for children of the 20th century". He is now considered one of
the most beloved storytellers of our time. His fantastic novels include
Matilda, Charlie and the chocolate factory, and many more classics for
children, along with short stories for adults.

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 Central theme
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This story has been taken out from Roald Dahl’s short story collection called
“Someone like you”. This story is completely based on the imagination of the main

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character who is a child. There are many themes here in this story as a child’s
imagination, the imaginative world of children, reality vs imagination, fear as an
ultimate obstacle, greed etc.
 Characters

• A young boy
• His mother
This boy is the main character here in this story.
He is unnamed in the story. His physical, as well The boy's mother is a minor character in the
as mental activities, have presented the story who has been presented at the end of the
innocence and fear of the children. Here in the story. She is also nameless in the story.
story, the young boy plays a terrible imaginative
game of red carpet especially to get his wish or
a puppy as a gift on his birthday.

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 Summary
This story (The Wish) is completely based on the imagination of the main character who
is a child. This story has presented the imaginative acts of this main character in an
imaginative game of a red carpet. The writer has created two different voices in the
story . The first voice is of narrator and the second voice is of child . This story itself is a
fictitious story where the characters are unnamed. This story has presented the imaginative
acts of this main character in an imaginative game of a red carpet. The story “The Wish” the writer
has presented a sinister(ominous/unlucky) story about the darker side of human nature. This story
has also mentioned this main character's mother at the end of the story. Here the main
character has expected to get a puppy on his birthday after coming across the red carpet and
reaching inside safely. But the long for the puppy in birthday finishes as the child falls in the black
spot of the carpet and loses his imaginative game. This story has presented the setting of the
house front door's stairs and inside the hall where the huge red carpet has been placed.
This imaginative game is about crossing the hall's red carpet stepping on the right colors
and reaching inside from outside the front door’s stairs.

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 Question
Is "The Wish" a story about self-confidence overcoming fear or about greed?
The Wish" is primarily a story about self-confidence overcoming fear. This can be seen
in the boy's intense focus on facing the challenge of crossing the carpet. What chiefly
motivates the boy is overcoming the challenge he has set for himself. He is intensely
focused on his journey, as is emphasized by the use of exclamation points:
There! He had started! His bright oval face was curiously intent.
This tale enters into the mind of an imaginative child and reflects the child's
ability to turn something as commonplace as a patterned carpet into a scene of
adventure and challenge in which he can act out his fears in a safe environment.
 Presented by-

Aditi Ghimire Anjelica Gurung

Ankit Mishra Swopnil Shrestha

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 Presented to-

MR. Dipendra.

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