Characters: The dragon, the saint and the boy.
Setting: In a village.
Plot: The dragon had a fight with the saint.
The Reluctant Dragon is written by Kenneth Grahame. It mainly talks about a boy who met a dragon, and they became good friends. Every day, they will read sonnets together, play together, and tell stories with each other. Suddenly, they received a challenge. The saint wanted a fight with the dragon, but there must be a banquet for the villagers who will be watching. The dragon agreed, but the boy was worried. Finally, the dragon won, and so the saint became friends with the dragon and the boy.
Friendship is important, because it can help us know more about each other and strengthen the friendship bond. When we don’t know a lot about each other, we can become friends and know more about our interests, what food we like to eat and so on. We can make friends with somebody that we don’t know. In the book, the boy and the dragon weren’t friends, but they became friends when they first met. When the saint knew how powerful the dragon was, he wanted to join him so he could be better. We can also learn from him or her when we make a friend. Maybe there are some good parts we can learn from them, and make ourselves more perfect. We can also see if we have the same interests. So, when we make friends, be sure to also improve yourself to be better.
Get along with each other, and don’t always think about fighting or hurting each other. When we fight, maybe we will have bruises all over our body, or we have some cuts that release blood. It will hurt very much, and we may have a broken leg, and we cannot go to school for days. In the book, the dragon and the saint had a big fight. Luckily, the dragon won, but he had bruises and it took days to heal. The bruises also left scars, and it was really not pretty on him. If we fight all day long, we won’t have time to care about our studies. If we don’t care about our studies, then we can’t find jobs in the future. If we can’t find jobs in the future, then we can’t earn money to support our family. So, we need to get along with each other nicely, or else it will affect our study and also appearance.
When we’ve never done that thing in our life, that doesn’t mean we can’t do it because we need to try. If we’ve never tried dancing, then we can try, and after maybe we will think it is easy. It is the same idea with any other things that we’ve never tried before. But, just try it and you will find out how easy it is. In the book, the dragon never fought in his life, because it doesn’t have any enemies. But, it doesn’t mean that he can’t fight and he never will do so. He can try, and maybe he will win although it’s the first time. When we try something, we may not succeed in just one time, but maybe we will have some failure. And that’s okay, because everybody won’t always succeed in just one time. We may have trouble and failure throughout the way to success. So, just try and try, even when you fall down by failure.
This book tells us three things: Friendship, getting along and trying things. These are all very important because they show some rules like you need to have friendship, get along with other people, and try things that you've never tried before to live an amazing, important, and interesting life. Although this book is sort of long, I still recommend you read it because it’s so interesting and important.
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