The Remarkable rocket

short story

1. Teacher : Dra. Alexandrina Rebolo Student : Silvia Raquel Vieira

2. OSCAR WILDE Irish Writer Born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin Wilde is still better remembered for his personal life - his exuberant personality, consummate wit and infamous imprisonment for homosexuality . Nevertheless , his witty, imaginative and undeniably beautiful works, in particular his novel  The Picture of Dorian Gray  and his play  The Importance of Being Earnest , are considered among the great literary masterpieces of the late Victorian period . Throughout his entire life, Wilde continued deeply committed to the principles of aestheticism, principles that he expounded through his lectures and demonstrated through his works as well as anyone of his era . Wilde died in Paris of meningitis on November 30, 1900 at the age of 46.

3. SUMMARY We are talking about the wedding of the English Prince with a Russian princess inside a castle, were the fireworks are waiting to be released. Each of them has a character representing human types. They enter into a discussion before the release, the Remarkable Rocket (one of the fires), with its unpalatable arrogance, annoyed by the reactions of the others, to their offenses, ends up crying and gets wet. Without being released and going to a swamp, the Remarkable Rocket intersects with various animals that provide valuable lessons to him. But, his arrogance only prevents him from changing their way of thinking and acting.

4. PLOT As part of the celebrations for the wedding of a prince and a princess, a fireworks display is to be held. The fireworks display is a great success . The following day, the Rocket is noticed by a workman who is cleaning up after the festivities who consider the Rocket a piece of garbage, and throws the firework over the palace wall where he lands in a muddy ditch. In the ditch, the Rocket meets a frog, a dragonfly and a duck. He does not get on very well with any of those animals . Two boys find the Rocket. Mistaking him for an unusual stick, they use him as part of a fire they are making to boil some water . N obody sees him rise up into the air or hears him explode

5. Oscar Wilde gave human qualities to this story as the language and the ability to speak . The remarkable rocket by Oscar Wilde is a very attractive short story and contains many principles of life that must be taken on consideration. During this story the character “Remarkable Rocket” is always talking about himself. The story teach us to not to be selfish because persons don’t like selfish people. CONCLUSION