"The Remarkable Rocket"

"The Remarkable Rocket"

1. MAIN IDEA: The story begins with the marriage of the king's son, who was very much loved by all his citizens. His russian wife has never seen fireworks so the ceromony had a flattering susprise to her. While the weeding was on course the objects from the court ard began to engage in a conversation about the romance between the two lovers. The had different opinions but the rocket made it clear that he was the most important of them all. The rocket began to talk about himself, putting aside the initial discussion of his companions. When he spoke, he was selfish and praised himself to appear a better status. His tongue was the cause of his misfortunes. He began to weep as thought about situations that were not likely to happen. He criedso much that his stick got soaked, affecting his work at the wedding and failing to achieve his goal of exploding. When the king saw this, he threw it away and left him on a ditch.

2. SETTING: The palace of a King and his Kingdom

3. MAIN CHARACTERS: The king, The prince and the princess, The frog, the duck and The Remarkable Rocket

4. SURPRISING DETAIL: What surprised the most was Wilde's ability to make us feel compassion for the main character, despite his selfishness and arrogant behavior, we were able to perceive certain actions of him in ourselves and empathize with his tragic fate.

5. HARDEST THING TO UNDERSTAND: The most difficult part of the reading occurred in the conversation of the objects, because I had never heard of items similar to those in the reading, so to obtain a better comprenhension I had to search what they were function.

6. WHAT I LIKE THE MOST: What I liked most was the sympathy of the duck when she talked to the rocket, because even though he was disrespectful to her, she decided to advise him to stay and change his attitude. This represents how some people help us but we don't listen to them due to our selfishness.

7. A PART OF THE STORY I WOULD CHANGE: Something that I would change its the conversation of the duck with rocket, I would prefer that during their conversation the rocket would have realized their selfish behavior and his pomposity to approach others and he would have the desire to change by hearing the duck's advice.