6. THE WISH
First Published: 1953
A child stands before the rug running from the first floor to the door. The rug is a mixture of red, black and yellow; the red parts is fire, the black parts are snakes, and the yellow parts are safe. So the child thinks that if he can reach the end of the rug without touching the snakes, he will be safe and get a puppy for his birthday. So he starts little by little, stepping on the yellow parts, and when he is almost at the end, he jumps and falls straight onto a big black part, and he screams.
The interesting part about this story is how the author gets inside the imagination of a young boy.
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