Edward and The Dragon

Childhood is one period of time where it is filled with fantasies and amazing stories. Everything is possible in the stories because our imagination know no limit for it. Therefore, children story are often the best method to make children keep quiet, at least for a while.

The story that I have chosen is Edward and the dragon. I read this story when I was in primary school. It is about a young knight named Edward. Despite his young age, he has fought so many enemies and won over them without using any weapons. His best weapon is his intelligence. One day, he comes across a cave as he goes for a walking. He heard voices crying for help and he goes searching or it. He reaches a castle and heard the voices again. He finds that they are locked there for years and treated as slaves by a dragon. As he climbed the castle wall to rescue them, he almost got killed by a fireball from his back. There is the dragon standing furiously behind Edward. Without getting angry, Edward tells the dragon that he forgives the dragon because it does not know who Edward is. The dragon is shocked as no one dared to speak like that to the dragon. He challenged Edward to fight with him. Edward used his intelligence and created a story telling that he is the owner of Great Crystal Sword. The only place that the sword’s magic would not work is the Gold Castle at the other end of the world. Edward told the dragon that he will wait for the dragon there and creates thick smoke so that he can hide. The dragon flies off to find the castle and Edward took his time to rescue the people in the castle. What happens to the dragon? Well, it found the castle and squeezed itself into the castle. It is stuck in it and still waiting to be rescued till today.

The reason why I chose this story is because I always have been fascinated with dragons. As I was born in the year of Dragon, I feel that I am a part of it. It gives me so much of inspiration as the creature is legendary. Anything that relates to dragon would catch my attention, even till today. I feel that this story is interesting because the bravery of Edward facing the dragon despite his small size compared to the dragon is something that we should make exemplary of. I wish I could be Edward and fight the dragon. I would have made the story filled with actions.

The characters shown in the story are a boy, a dragon and the people who are slaves. Dragon is shown as the villain of the story and they often do not have enough intelligence as the hero. That is why it got tricked by Edward who is better in using his brain and win against the dragon without raising his sword. This story is really suitable for the children because they will be able to represent themselves as Edward and learn from him to be brave. As Edward is also a small boy, this would create a relationship with the children as they would feel that it is someone just like them. Probably, the children would even gear up like Edward and ready to face a dragon. This story helps them to be braver and widen their imagination so that they would be able to solve the problems which seems to be bigger than them without any help.