The nightingale and the rose. Story for children about the value of feelings
This beautiful story is one of the best known written Oscar Wilde , along with the Prince and the swallow. It is a story about love, about the lack of feelings and empathy , and about the value of sacrifice for others. A story with a lot of sensitivity and very sad but that will awaken many sensatio
This beautiful story is one of the best known written Oscar Wilde, along with the Prince and the swallow.
It is a story about love, about the lack of feelings and empathy, and about the value of sacrifice for others. A story with a lot of sensitivity and very sad but that will awaken many sensations in your children, besides being a classic of children's literature.
The nightingale and the rose. Story for children about the value of feelings
A little nightingale lived in a garden of a house, near a student's window.
One day the student was very sad, because he had fallen in love and his young beloved had asked him to bring him a red rose in the middle of winter if he wanted to dance with him at the next party.
- How strange is love! - thought the nightingale - has the greatest value of all but you can not buy anything. It must be true love because he suffers what I sing, what is joy for me, it is pity for him.
Thus, the nightingale decided to help the student and was flying to the rose bush that was under the student's window:
- Rosal, give me a red rose, and I will sing you the sweetest songs.
- My roses are red, as red as the coral of the ocean, but winter has frozen my veins, and I will not have more roses this year.
- I just need a rose, nothing more! Is there no way to get it?
- There is a way, but it is terrible. You can only get a red rose if you throw your music notes in the moonlight and dye them with blood from your own heart. You will sing for me with my chest resting on my thorns all night, the thorns will pierce your heart and your blood will flow through my branches, thus a red rose will be born.
- It is a high price for life in exchange for a rose, but the truth is that love is the essence of life and what is the heart of a nightingale compared to that of a man?
In this way, the nightingale, at nightfall, leaned his chest against the rosebush and began to sing the most beautiful songs he knew.
The moon was sailing through the sky and the song of the nightingale did not stop. ¡- Press against my thorn nightingale or the rose will not come out !, and the nightingale stuck a little more
the thorn in the heart, and its song became even more beautiful. That's how it went all night; at dawn
the song was silenced . The little nightingale had died, but on the rose was the most beautiful rose that had never grown in the garden.The student opened his window, and said: - What luck I had, a red rose !. He cut her off and ran to deliver her to his beloved
without noticing that under the rose tree lay the body of the dead nightingale.
The beloved opened the door to the student, who offered her the flower, but she said with a scornful face: - That rose does not stick with the smell of my dress. In addition, the Duke's nephew gave me a pendant of rubies and pearls . What is a rose compared to the value of these jewels? - and he slammed the door shut.
The young man, went down the stairs of the house of his beloved very sad, threw the roseto a puddle and cursed:
- What nonsense is love, is not practical, or logical and is useless! Then the student went home, he did not know anything about love
, he only knew about things that were written in the books.
Find out if your child has understood the story Through these reading comprehension questions you can find out if your child has understood themessage
of the story.
The initiation to reading not only covers the comprehension of each word, but also that of the meaning of the text in full and the conclusions that can be drawn from it.
- Why does the nightingale want to help the student? - To whom do you ask the nightingale for help? - Did the student know that the nightingale helped him?
- Why did not the rose want the beloved?
- Why did you throw the rose into a puddle?
