The Wish
What predictions can you make about this short
story from it’s title, ‘The Wish’?
What would be your ultimate wish?
Exploring Possibilities
Using your skills of prediction, you will be shown a series of
four cards – each of them focusing on a colour.
All of these colours play an important part in the story.
Try to predict in groups what each colour might
represent?
Using the Venn Diagram to help you,
consider the possibilities of what each colour
might represent individually and then
collectively.
What might the colours
collectively represent?
Making imagination become reality
Roald Dahl, in The Wish, demonstrates a great ability to
allow his characters, and us as readers, to loose
themselves in the world of imagination. He
demonstrates this, in part, through the colours he
chooses to use in this story as metaphors. Dahl,
like many great writers succeeds in taking a
truly ordinary household item and creating
from it an extraordinary world which exists
in the imagination of the central character and
in the minds of his readers.
Now read page 255 of the story to discover
what these colours collectively represent.
Surprised?
Manipulating Reading Skills
Which reading skills will be the best to use to establish
the meaning of any unfamiliar vocabulary you have just
discovered in the passage you have read?
What does the boy wish for?
Anything else?
Reviewing
What you have learnt about:
a) Roald Dahl’s writing style
b) The central character in The
Wish?