Tada~starry来讲第三个故事啦≥﹏≤
这篇The Selfish Giant是王尔德非常脍炙人口的作品，大家应该也比较熟悉（毕竟被选入了小学课本）。这一篇应该是王尔德的童话里主题最鲜明，内容最简单的之一（不然怎么让小学四年级的小朋友们读╭∩╮）好啦，废话不多说，开始讲故事了。
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从前有一个巨人，拥有一个最最美丽的花园。每到春天，桃树绽放粉红笑靥，梨树裹上珍珠盛装，枝头鸟语啁啾，草上花香氤氲，孩童玩耍嬉闹，自由自在。
可是当巨人从他去拜访的怪物那里回来后，发现他的花园里都是吵闹的孩子，他非常生气，赶走了所有的孩子，并立了一块“禁止入内”的牌子。

于是自私的巨人和他的花园被春天抛弃了。

99'

The only people who were pleased were the Snow and the Frost. ‘Spring has forgotten this garden,’they cried, ‘so we will live here all the year round.’The Snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak,and the Frost painted al the trees silver.Then they invited the North Wind to stay with them,and he came.He was wrapped in furs,and he roared all day about the garden,and blew the chimneypots down. ‘This is a delightful spot,’he said, ‘we must ask the Hail on a visit.’So the Hail came.Every day for three hours he rattled on the roof of the castle till he broke most of the slates,and then he ran round and round the garden as fast as he could go.He was dressed in grey,and his breath was like ice.

后来，偶然间巨人发现小孩子溜了进来，于是春天也跟着到来，他恍然大悟，留下了溜进来的孩子们。

106'

He saw a most wonderful sight.Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in,and they were sitting in the branches of the tress.In every tree that he could see there was a little child.And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms,and were waving their arems gently above the children’s head.The birds were flying about and twittering with delight,and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing. It was a lovely scene,only in one corner it was still winter.It was the farthest corner of the garden,and in ti was standing a little boy.He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree,and he was wandering all round it ,crying bitterly.The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow,and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it. ‘Climb up!little boy,’said the Tree,and it bent its branches down as low as it could;but the boy was too tiny.

And the Giant's heart melted as he looked out. ‘How selfish I have been!’he said; ‘now I know why the Spring would not come here.I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree,and then I will knock down the wall,and my garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.’He was really very sorry for what he had done.

如果是那篇课文，到这里就结束了。这是一个单纯的关于分享的故事，王尔德想告诉我们的，分享创造美好奇迹，童真带来勃勃生机。
但是到最后，王尔德给这个简单的故事安了一个小小的尾巴，它就变得不那么简单了。还记得刚刚巨人帮助的那个小男孩吗？他不见了。后来巨人在花园的一角发现了他。

91'

Downstairs ran the Giant in great joy,and out into the garden.He hastened across the grass,and came near to the child.And when he came quite close his face grew red with anger,and he said, ‘Who hath dared to wound thee?’For on the palms of the child’s hands were the prints of two nails,and the pringts of two nails were on the little feet.

‘Who hath dared to wound thee?’cried the Giant; ‘tell me,that I may take my big sword and slay him.’

‘Nay!’answered the child; ‘but these are the wounds of Love.’

‘WHO ART THOU?’said the Giant,and a strange awe fell on him,and he knelt before the little child.And the child smiled on the Giant,and said to him, ‘You let me play once in your garden;today you shall come with me to my garden,which is Paradise.’

And when the children ran in that afternoon,they found the Giant lying dead under the tree,all covered with white blossoms.

所以，这个亲吻了巨人的小男孩其实是一个天使，天使给人救赎，教会人去爱，主会原谅你曾经的无知和不敬。最后巨人去世了，去了最美的花园，这让这篇童话变得王尔德了一些，而不是开心地一直陪孩子们游戏。在王尔德的童话故事里，连死亡都这样轻而美丽。死亡是一种解脱，死亡是一种寻找。这样的死亡，应该，是幸福的吧。
愿大家享受分享，收获幸福。

By Starry