Characters: a powerful sultan, his daughter Aziza
Setting: Long ago in Persia
Plot: Aziza is brilliant. Her favorite subjects are numbers and games. Aziza sent out a riddle to find a husband.
Genre: Fairy Tail
The story One Riddle, One Answer is written by Lauren Thompson and illustrated by Linda S. Wingerter. It talks about long ago, there was a girl named Aziza who was the daughter of a powerful Sultan in Persia. When it is time for her to marry, the Sultan is concerned about finding someone worth Aziza’s hand. The Sultan’s advisors only recommended their sons and made the powerful Sultan angry. Aziza, who loves riddles, has an idea. She creates a four-part riddle that has only one true answer. Whoever can get the correct answer will be the man she will marry. At last, the farmer Ahamed, won Aziza’s hand.
People have different personalities and maybe selfishness is one of the most unwelcome personalities. Usually, selfish people always care for themselves when there is a chance of getting benefits or something really good. In the story, the sultan’s advisors only recommend their sons to be the perfect husband because they are selfish, and they could get a lot of benefits if they married the princess. Selfishness is a personality that makes a person want more and more, for example, money, power, or any other item. People don’t like selfishness because sometimes it will make people do dangerous things that might harm people.
A positive mood could make things better and better, but a pessimistic mood can make everything bad, even good things. Everyone has a different mood, positive people can use a positive attitude to face their life, but pessimistic people can only use a bad attitude and complain to face their life. In the story, the princess is a positive person, so she looks for ways to solve the problem, and the king is a pessimistic person, so he can do nothing but tantrum when he meets a problem. It is important to have a mood, but we need to have a positive mood, not a pessimistic mood. We should keep a positive mood to face the problems in our lives.
We should jump out of the knowledge circle of our job and think comprehensively. Thinking comprehensively could be important, we can solve the problem better when we jump out of our knowledge circle, or we could make ourselves better, and we could be prepared. In the story, the astronomer, soldier, and merchant didn’t think comprehensively, so they failed and got the incorrect answers. We should be thinking about all the knowledge, not only the pieces of knowledge, and we also should not be tied up by our jobs. Don’t be limited by our careers and think comprehensively before doing things.
This story tells us three important things: People have different personalities and maybe selfishness is one of the most unwelcome personalities. A positive mood could make things better and better, but a pessimistic mood can make everything bad, even good things. We should jump out of the knowledge circle of our job and think comprehensively. From this book, I learned a lot of other things. This is a book full of knowledge, and also warm and funny. I hope you can read it one day with your family or friends.
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