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//**The Enchanted Garden** //  

In Italo Calvino's novella, //The Enchanted Garden//, two children, Giovannino and Serenella are walking along railroad tracks and realize there is a train coming. They walk on a path and discover a beautiful garden. They pick various flowers and then approach a villa with a swimming pool. They go swimming for a short while and then find a young, pale boy who looks afraid and unhappy. Giovannino and Serenella then leave because they were afraid of getting caught by the owners of the villa. The two children then come upon a beach and decide to have a seaweed fight.

 **Italo Calvino** (1923-1985) <span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; color: #fafafa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00b9;"><span style="color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #fa0fb8;"> <span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00b9;"> <span style="color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #fa0fb8;">

<span style="color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00b9;"><span style="display: block; color: #fafafa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00d6; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #fa0fb8;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #fa0fb8; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: #fafafa; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00d8; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ff00c1; text-align: left;">Italo Calvino was an important Italian novelist and essayist in the 20th Century. He wrote fantasy, fairy tale, allegory, and science fiction. He was born on October 15, 1923 in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. His mother and father were Italian which led them to move to San Remo, Italy. He went to Turin University. Against his will, he was drafted into becoming a member of a fascist youth organization. His first novel was //The Path to the Nest of Spiders// which was published when he was 24 years old. He also wrote later works with fantasy and folklore to produce something new in contemporary fiction. Calvino was awarded the Italian literary prize, the //Premio Feltrinelli// award. He died at the age of 61 on September 19, 1985. Italo will always be known as one of the most inventive and imaginative writers of his time

<span style="display: block; font-size: 140%; color: #fdfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #f915af; text-align: center;">       <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #f8f7f7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #f00aaa; text-align: left;">            ** My Opinion ** My opinion of //The Enchanted Garden// is that it has a good idea behind it but not enough detail. I like how Giovannino and Serenella have a good friendship but the author only described one day of them being together. I feel as if it should have had a better plot and I wish there would have been more that would have happened in the garden. To me the story's plot doesn't really live up to its name. Literary Analysis [|World Lit - Literary Analysis - The Enchanted Garden.rtf]