The
Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K.Rowling (The Fountain of Fair Fortune)
I have read
The Tales of Beedle the Bard which were written by J.K.Rowling. This book is a
compilation of 5 shorts stories for kids or in this case young wizard or witch.
The stories are The Wizard and The Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune,
The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump and the
infamous The Tale of The Three Brothers.
The story that I’ve chosen for
this month is The Fountain of Fair
Fortune. This story is about 3 witches named Asha, Altheda and Amata and
also a knight that was known as Sir Luckless. The villagers in this story
believed that there is a fountain inside the garden walls that could bring fair
fortune to the one that bath in its water.
For this month book review, the
response that I should give is about the moral values in this story. So the moral
value in this story is we must always care about others. This is evident when the three
witches agree that if one of them is chosen to enter the garden wall, they
would “unite and try to reach the Fountain together”. This is also
stated in the story when the creepers from the garden choose Asha and she
grasped Athelda’s hand and Althelda seized Amata’s robes.
Besides that, we must never give up. This become
evident in page 29 when Altheda walked faster and harder than everyone else but
she couldn’t move further up the enchanted hill. But even so, she didn’t give
up as stated in the book, “Courage, friends, and do not yield!”
she cried, wiping the sweat on her brow’. But all her
struggle hadn’t come to waste as one drop of sweat fell upon the Earth and they
are able to walk up the hill once more.
Moreover, we must always help each other. This is evident when Asha who is
sick and exhausted because of their long journey fell to the ground. Altheda
who is good at mixing herbs at once pick all the herbs in the garden that she
thought could heal Asha “and mixed them in Sir Luckless’s gourd of
water, and poured the potion into Asha’s mouth”. Then, at once Asha is able to stand and
cried “I am cured!”
In conclusion, the story The
Fountain of Fair Fortune’s moral value are to always care about others, never
give up and always remember to help each other.
Atiqah
Syahmina Binti Azlan
4 Cergas
27 February
2014