The+Enchanted+Garden

**Enchanted Garden ** By: Italo Calvino

**Summary:    ** The story the Enchanted Garden is about two children who are forced to jump into the hedges when they see an oncoming train. Once they come out of the hedges they discover that they are in a secret and enchanted garden. After the children have explored the garden they get the feeling that they don't deserve to be in the garden. While the children are trying to find a way out of the garden they come across a window where they can see a boy about their age with the same look on his face as they have.

The author Italo Calvino was a cuban author who was born in 1923. Italo Calvino was born to Mario and Eva Calvino who were both botanists. When Italo was born his parents and him moved back to Italy where his parents were previously from. Italo attended preparatory school and then later attended the Faculty of Science at the University of Turin. Italo was drafted into the Italian army and he fled and lived as a partisan in the hills. Once the war was over he returned to the university and studied writing, and eventually wrote several stories, novels, and articles. At the age of 61 Italo died due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
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I enjoyed the beginning of the story but I would not recommend the story to anyone else because of the ending. I understood the story and it made sense to me, but the ending was a little bit strange. I feel that the story just kind of ended without some answers. I thought that the author would explain why the boy was inside in his pajamas with the sad look on his face and why the children felt the way they did in the garden. Instead the author just ended the story on a beach and never explained any of the feelings or thoughts of the characters. That is why I would not recommend the story to any other reader.
 * Karissa's Opinion: **

Karissa Zorn