SHORT STORIES OF OSCAR WILDE

THE YOUNG KING:





The first story is that the King of a village is very old and he doesn't know who will be the next King. But he has a secret, he has a daughter and she is married with a country person, he doesn't want say it because the people of the village talk about them, but he thinks that if he doesn't say it nobody will be the new king. So he talks with the married of his daughter because his daughter is died, and the country person says to the king that he has a son, this son will be the new King, the young King.

When the young king arrived to the palace he was astonished, because in the palace had pictures, statues, jewels and more things with a big value. Now he isn't the same of before, now he is selfish and he wants jewels for his coronation. Nut later he has three dreams and he understands that the jewels and the money aren't the most important in the life.

THE STAR-CHILD:

Two woodcutters return to their house but they saw a strange thing in the sky, they saw that this is on the floor, they run to it, the strange thing is a baby, a Star-Child, and he had a gold cloak and a chain of amber, They were amazed and they didn't know what to do, but if the baby is in the forest he will die, and one of them said "I can't put the baby in my house, because I haven't any food for him because I have many children", so the other woodcutter, said "Ok, I put the baby to my house". When the woodcutter put the baby to his home the married of him was angry, but later she thinks that he baby can't live in the forest. When the baby grown he received a visit, the visit was his mum, but he didn't love her because she was ugly. The next day the person ugly was him, and his friends didn't want play with him. He realized that the thing he done was wrong and he wanted find his mum. In his travel he learned more things, and he learned the love and the solidarity.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE:

A student want dancing with the Professor's Daughter but she only will dance with him if he give her a red rose.

The student search the red rose for the garden but he didn't find it, he start to cry, and a Nightingale that listen his words, thinks that the student is in love. The Nightingale sing to the Student, and alls days he tells the story of the Student to the Stars. For the Nightingale the love was the thing most important in the life, better than the opals and the emeralds. When the animals of the garden know why the Student was crying they laughed.

But the Nightingale understood the love. The Nightingale searched the rose in many place3s, but he didn't find it, but he fined a solution, when the moon will be in the sky he will put his hearth in the thorn of the rosebush while he sing to the rosebush. The Nightingale accepted and he died. When the Student saw the red rose in his window he was happy, and he show it to the Professor’s Daughter, but she didn’t want it because she said that her dress was blue and the rose red. Later the Student put the rose on the floor and he returned to his house crying.