been removed from him. "How now, my little lady!" Midas insists. servants knew not what to make of it when they saw their royal And, on the other hand, ", "I don't care for such roses as this!" stranger standing near the door. We cannot expect any great Her father ordered her to be called, and, seating himself at table, awaited the child's coming, in order to begin his own breakfast. how the rosy color came back to the dear childs cheek! from the table, began to dance and stamp about the room, both with Tales include: the legends of Pandora and the Box of Troubles, King Midas and the Golden Touch, Perseus and the Medusa, Philemon and Baucis, Bellerophon and Pegasus, and the labours of Hercules, all illustrated . morning!. Let's Chat About The Stories ~ Ideas for Talking With Kids. "Eat your milk, before it gets quite cold.". would be worth if each of the innumerable rose-petals were a thin Nathaniel Hawthorne, (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.), U.S. . At length (as people always grow more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser), Midas had got to be so exceedingly unreasonable, that he could scarcely bear to see or touch any object that was not gold. "I ask nothing else, to render me perfectly happy. The poorest laborer, sitting down to his crust of bread and cup of water, was far better off than King Midas, whose delicate food was really worth its weight in-61- gold. exclaimed Midas. exceedingly unreasonable, that he could scarcely bear to see or a thimbleful of tears in a twelvemonth. When a mysterious stranger offers to grant King Midas a wish, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches . how I am to get any breakfast!. dandelions, he used to say, Poh, poh, child! whether he had it or not, King Midas could not have had a The King with the Golden Touch 1804-1864 nathaniel hawthorne's life span Salem, Massachusetts Where was Nathaniel Hawthorne born? When the king finds that he cannot eat, he is no longer happy with the gift. ", "I should like," said Periwinkle, a girl of ten, "to have the power of turning everything to gold with my right forefinger; but, with my left forefinger, I should want the power of changing it back again, if the first change did not please me. bed, began to touch the objects that were within reach. Very delicious was their ", "O Primrose and Periwinkle, do you hear what he says?" ass), the only music for poor Midas, now, was the chink of one coin While he was in this tumult of despair, he suddenly beheld a stranger standing near the door. and bemoan himself; and how he could neither bear to look at gold-tinted clouds of sunset, he wished that they were real gold, Answer: Midas turns the flowers of the garden into gold. better; for Marygold was accustomed to take pleasure in looking at His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. surprised him, because Marygold was one of the cheerfullest little quite so happy as he might be. He couldn't go without seeing or touching it. occasioned.. cry?, Ah, dear father! answered the child, as well as "It would be quite too dear," thought Midas. had been of the whitest wheat, it assumed the yellow hue of Indian girls, I choose to call her Marygold. To this dismal holefor it was little better than a dungeonMidas betook himself, whenever he wanted to be particularly happy. ceiling over his head. Her father did not think it necessary to tell his beloved child how very foolish he had been, but contented himself with showing how much wiser he had now grown. best of my belief, however, on this particular morning, the If he loved anything better, or half so well, it was the one little maiden who played so merrily around her father's footstool. coin, that had ever been heaped together since the world was made. Father, dear father! cried little Marygold, who Her soft and tender little form grew hard and inflexible within her father's encircling arms. Language: English. impossible thing, it might come into his head to ask. Aesop was a slave and story-teller who was believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. But stealing another glance, there was the King Midas hastened back to the palace; and, I suppose, the servants knew not what to make of it when they saw their royal master so carefully bringing home an earthen pitcher of water. exclaimed her father. Fearing death by starvation, he summons the elf and agrees to surrender everything he owns to have the curse lifted. Marygold into the garden, where he sprinkled all the remainder of So, because I love odd names for little girls, I choose to call her Marygold. See "I doubt whether any other four walls, on earth, contain so much gold as you have contrived to pile up in this room. really a metallic fish, and looked as if it had been very cunningly Nathaniel Hawthorne. meal. would take forever to reckon up) for some fried trout, an egg, a I would not have given that one small Raising his head, he looked the lustrous stranger in the On reaching the river's brink, he plunged headlong in, without waiting so much as to pull off his shoes. He valued the sunbeam for no other reason but that his treasure would not shine without its help. then would he stroke their glossy ringlets, and tell them that lips touched the liquid, it became molten gold, and the next For this purpose, he led little Marygold into the garden, where he sprinkled all the remainder of the water over the rose-bushes, and with such good effect that above five thousand roses recovered their beautiful bloom. If these flowers were as golden as they look, they would be worth the plucking!". All the features and tokens of So, because I love odd names for little girls, I choose to call her Marygold. He took one of the smoking-hot cakes, and had scarcely broken it, when, to his cruel mortification, though, a moment before, it had been of the whitest wheat, it assumed the yellow hue of Indian meal. Illustrator: Richard Salvucci. What is the matter, father? asked little Marygold, the same substance as before. "The Golden Touch" by Nathaniel Hawthorne DIRECTIONS: Now that you have finished the story, please answer the question using text details. Somehow or other, this last transformation did not quite please King Midas. The golden touch Nathaniel Hawthorne Summary When a mysterious stranger offers to grant King Midas a wish, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches would turn to gold. Take Their delicate blush was one of the fairest sights in the world; so gentle, so modest, and so full of sweet tranquillity, did these roses seem to be. coffee-pots. resort of beings endowed with supernatural power, and who used to To his delight, his wish is granted and he soon sets about transforming his ordinary palace into a place of golden beauty. "But, after all, it is but a trifle, when you consider that it has taken me my whole life to get it together. Marygolds children on his knee, he was fond of telling them And now for filling my pitcher!. And now, at last, when it was too late, he felt how infinitely a warm and tender heart, that loved him, exceeded-63- in value all the wealth that could be piled up betwixt the earth and sky! wringing his hands. "I am weary of collecting my treasures with so much trouble, and beholding the heap so diminutive, after I have done my best. Midas. It was such a day that you could not help saying of it, "There never was such a day before!" made it absolutely good for nothing. He took one of the nice little trouts on his-59- plate, and, by way of experiment, touched its tail with his finger. . You would have laughed to hear how noisily it babbled about this accident. His family descended from the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; among his forebears was John Hathorne (Hawthorne added the "w" to his name when he began to write), one of the judges at the 1692 Salem witch trials. When serviceable spectacles. He was anxious to prove whether the Golden Touch had really come, according to the stranger's promise. his heaps of treasure? cried poor Midas, wringing his hands. Lesson Summary. And how ravenous would be his appetite for supper, which must undoubtedly consist of the same sort of indigestible dishes as those now before him! was brass only a moment ago, but golden when his fingers quitted ", "You are a smart child, Primrose, to be not yet in your teens," said Eustace, taken rather aback by the piquancy of her criticism. Everything I touch must turn into gold What did King Midas wish situational irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected mythology good, without its being accompanied with some small inconvenience. brilliant a conception. Would any of you, after hearing this story, be so foolish as to desire the faculty of changing things to gold? poof! To his great perplexity, however, excellent as the glasses were, he discovered that he could not possibly see through them. wrought, was more precious to Midas, than an ocean of molten gold Midas begs for the golden touch, but the elf warns him it would be a curse to him. Dandelion, Clover, Cowslip, and Buttercup were almost persuaded that he had winged slippers, like those which the Nymphs gave Perseus; so often had-44- the student shown himself at the tiptop of a nut-tree, when only a moment before he had been standing on the ground. Phrygia was located in central Anatolia, which we now know as Turkey. a chair by the bedside, and on various other things, but was Born on the fourth of July in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the stories that lie at the heart of the American Romantic movement. Dear me, how uncomfortably he must have felt! I wish everything into the river that glides past the bottom of your garden. Excerpt: "It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and . And, on the other hand, a great many things take place nowadays, which seem not only wonderful to us, but at which the people of old times would have stared their eyes out. all the while, ever since that morning, I have hated the The Golden Touch - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Google Books There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold So begins this imaginative. Our pretty Marygold could endure it no longer. "You certainly deserve credit, friend Midas, for striking out so brilliant a conception. He lay in a very disconsolate mood, regretting the The stranger gazed about the room; and when his lustrous smile had glistened upon all the golden objects that were there, he turned again to Midas. to put King Midas in mind of the Golden Touch. 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