She was trying to teach the ducklings how to stand on their heads in the water. Mother duck had a white face and a black head. Their mother followed closely behind them. This story is narrated by one of our faithful. Seven newly-hatched ducklings came swimming round the bend, looking like a group of fluffy balls. He lived a mostly sinful and tortured life, wrote sublime poetry and witty plays, was imprisoned for immorality and finally converted on his deathbed. This story is one of a number of short stories written by Oscar Wilde in which he reveals his yearning for the redemption that is only possible through Jesus Christ within the Roman Catholic Church. The moral of the story is this: those who are the most selfish are also the most blind about there selfishness. The Devoted Friend is an interesting fairy tale about two friends having different temperaments and different conceptions of friendship. Hans is a model of unselfishness and generosity and he considers the friendship of the miller to be a privilege, but in reality the miller abuses the good nature of Hans. It tells of a miller who considers himself to be a devoted friend to a poor flower grower named Hans. Despite the already preposterous nature of this request, the Miller refuses to give Hans his lantern for guidance during the storm, indirectly causing Hans’s death.The Devoted Friend is another fairytale for grown-ups. But the cherry on the top He thinks he’s exceptionally kind and just.

The injustice of it all Certainly, we get a villain who is nearly perfectly drawn. The Miller’s final request is for Hans to fetch the doctor for the Miller’s son during a storm in the middle of the night. The magic trick: Creating a villain who will drive you crazy. The Miller’s requests grow more and more unreasonable as the story progresses, showing there is no limit to how much he is willing to exploit little Hans. And though he offers Hans a broken wheelbarrow-openly applauding himself for his generosity-this object never manifests in the story. The Miller not only freely takes flowers and produce from Hans’s garden, but also requests Hans to perform difficult chores for him throughout the story. While little Hans suffers through the winter with very little to eat, the Miller stays in his comfortable home with his wife and son, with a pinewood fire and plenty of food and drink. The Miller is an incredibly wealthy man-“he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep”-but he doesn’t share his wealth with his so-called friend. He is a rich, exploitative merchant who manipulates Hans into performing labor in the name of friendship. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The Miller is the antagonist in the Linnet’s tale. The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 356 The Devoted Friend From The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole.

The devoted friend story