The Remarkable Rocket

The Remarkable Rocket

1. Reading main idea

   • The sad consequences of an arrogant Rocket that used to think about himself as the best individual,but end up having an irrelevant life.
   • Lesson
     • The reading shows to the reader the consequences and warns us about the effects of being a snooty and narcissist individual through the Remarkable Rocket's character.

2. Characters

   • Main character:
     • The Remarkable Rocket
   • Other or supporting characters:
     • The King, The duck,The frog,The Roman candle,The Bengal light,The Catharine wheel,The Little squib,The Cracker,The Fire-balloon,The Prince and Princess,The Page,The Goose and The two boys.

3. What I liked the most?

   • I liked the moment when the Rocket met a frog, that end up having the same personality as him, being a great example of the way sometimes in our daily life deal with people that may have the same defects as us, but somehow we are not able to recognize it to make a change in ourselves.

4. Interesting details

   • The ending demonstrated the value and importance of humbleness, by showing the way a Rocket suffer after having a completely different ending as the one he expected and showed off.
   • Oscar Wilde included many epigrams among his story, being my favorite the one that says:
     • "I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments", representing the way society stopped considering others , looking for their decisions.

5. Setting

   • The story takes place in the past, among the high society, mainly in a garden during a Royal wedding.