Year 7 English: Short Story on Greed - Brigidine College Assignment

This assignment features a short story designed for Year 7 students, exploring the theme of greed through the narrative of a young boy tempted to steal coins for ice cream. The story incorporates a tale told by the boy's grandmother about a mythical bird, Alcantino, visible only to those without greed in their hearts. The grandmother uses the story to teach the boy about the negative consequences of greed and the importance of honesty. The assignment highlights how the boy learns from his mistake, returns the coins, and understands that success comes from avoiding greed. The story aims to convey the universal truth that greed can alter one's beliefs and attitudes, preventing them from achieving good prospects and positive relationships. The provided solution emphasizes the importance of avoiding greed for personal growth and ethical behavior. Desklib offers numerous resources for students.

Short story on greed for Year
7 level

Table of Contents
Story of ALcantino..........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Story of ALcantino
Once upon a time there lived a small boy who lived in a place with his beautiful family. His
family consisted of grandma, mother, father and a brother. The small boy is going to participate
in a competition and is also very fond of eating ice creams. Since children or more into eating
icecream therefore the boy is also very much passionate about buying an ice cream and therefore
he has been saving coins to buy one. It happened to be such that the boy was not having enough
of coins where he need to buy an ice cream of his choice. He was running around to find ways to
get the coins but then he found that his parents left for a work. He did not know what to do and
he quickly pulled a drawer where is parents stored money (Mussel and et.al, 2018). He saw few
of the coins and he was greedy at the moment in order to buy an ice cream and thought of
stealing some of the coins that are there in the drawer. He did not realise that his grandmother
was watching him. All that was there in his mind is a sense of greedy that is pertaining with
respect to the situation. He wanted and ice cream very badly that made him steal money which
was being saved by their parents. His grandmother was watching him slowly and noticed the boy
taking money from the drawer. She caught him red handed and pulled him towards her and made
him sit to a corner. She started narrating a story to make sure that the boy will identify the
mistake that he has done. She started narrating a story called Alcantino. Alcantino is a bird that
will not tolerate any concept of greed. It is a very beautiful bird and is also very satisfying to
watch. But the thing is there is no sense of greed that is being tolerated by the bird and therefore
people who have the prospect of grade will never be able to see this Alicantino bird. It humn
songs very perfectly and therefore it is visible only to people who are plane at heart and never go
for things that are greedy. The grandma started evaluating this story and the boy was listening to
it without making sound (Zartman, 2019). He started to realise the concept of greed from which
he has stolen coins to buy an ice cream. He understood what his grandmother was a trying to say
and realise his mistake and he paid his way back to the drawer and place the coins that he has
stolen earlier. The grandmother properly evaluated the story and said that in order to be
successful in life people will put aside their greed and it is only then the probable factors will fall
apart. The grandmother also instructed the boy not to go into any situations of that kind in future.
The boy nodded his head clearly and paved his way back to the participation.

The concept of greed. People from going towards the fact that the beliefs as well as attitude will
probably change. There will not be any sense of good prospects that is incorporated in the people
is what is being depicted. There will not be any good terms that are associated for people with
greed in this present world and that is the universal truth that can be depicted. After the narration
of the entire story the boy got realise about what he was doing in charge of taking coins from
their parents site and he understood that great will never helped him to prosper.
A story that will portray upon the aspect of greed and how far it will revolve around the universal
truth is being depicted in this report. Greed is a proper component that will entitle the effect of
any individual and the circumstances that are pertaining around and therefore it will be one of the
compliance in today's existing scenario.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Mussel and et.al, 2018. The convergent validity of five dispositional greed scales. Personality
and Individual Differences. 131. pp.249-253.
Zartman, 2019. Need, creed and greed in intrastate conflict. In I William Zartman: A Pioneer in
Conflict Management and Area Studies (pp. 95-117). Springer, Cham.
Online
Effects of Greed: [Online]. Available through: < The Effects of Greed - 1757 Words | Studymode
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