The Wish - By Roald Dahl
The Wish : By Roald Dahl [Summary and Important Questions and Answers] (The Writer) -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This story is taken from the short story collection: Someone Like You 2. Main Character : A Young Boy 3. Setting : A House in England 4. Main Theme : Fear is the ultimate obstacle. As we read the story, the boy's feelings of fear become an obstacle for him. -------------------------------------------------------------- Short Summary : This is the story of a boy who looks at a very big carpet with large black, red, and yellow patches of colour. In his imagination he took the red patches to be red hot lumps of coal, which might burn him, the black patches to be poisonous snakes , which might bite him. The only safe colour was yellow one. He decided to walk across the carpet only stepping on the yellow patches. He set this as a challenge for himself. He fixed a reward for himself too. If he could wa...