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The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

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Jan 16, 11

Read from January 15 to 16, 2011

Wilde Wilde Wide, what would I have done without your awesome books?

This book has five short- kinda childish stories all are awesomely-written and all got a moral or two..
Despite the fact that these stories were written for children - and by that I mean there's animals and inanimate objects talking-, I couldn't stop myself from not getting too emotional with the characters and the sarcasm each story ended with.

As usual Oscar discuses social-psychological thoughts and that whatever one does he\she will always get what they truly diverse people might get you wrong or even betrayed you or behave badly with you it doesn't matter just do the right things and never care what other might think of you.

The stories are :
The Happy Prince: *spoiler alert* Loved it ! It's about a prince, clearly, who used to be happy and to think that the people of his town are living fine for he has been living in his awesome palace and he never actually cared !
once he died his people decide to make a statue of him in the middle of the town where can see what is really going on, see the misery, see the poverty. He meets a travelling swallow & asks him to help him to make his own people happy the swallow refused at first, but then he does help the prince eventually. The prince starts to ask his new friend,the swallow, to take out pieces which he is made of like: the ruby in his sword or the sapphire in his eyes and the swallow will fly with them and throw them at the poor people. See both the prince and the swallow have give up what they want for doing good and for making people happy and yet the swallow died by a child he was going to help.. and the prince statute was removed and thrown away in a dust heap along with the swallow for he looks shabby and ugly now :( and I almost cried ALMOST, but happily that isn't the ending.. They both are sent to heaven now, the place where everything is better.

*End of the spoiler alert*

Moral of the story:
1- There's always things that we can't see, and it's never really the end even if you died :P
2- Never give a damn to what people might think of you.

The nightingale and the rose : it's about love and sacrifices made me sad too.
The Selfish Giant : LOVED IT ! how sharing is good and blah blah .. good one should be made as a film starting hmm Johnny Depp that would be awesome thing to watch !
The devoted Friend : good not as the two first ones though.
The Remarkable Rocket : didn't understand it fully, for I have been reading it in the car will re-read it probably.

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