Story Review : Holes In The Fence

Title : Holes In The Fence
Written by : Sheikh Hassan Seylan 'Abad
Illustrated by : Raihan Munif Bahasuan
Published by : Abad Ceria Enterprise

The story is about a boy who has a bad temper. He has no friends because of his terrible temper. Even his own family dislikes him. One day, the boy even scolded his father. The father purposely treated him like a boss to make him see how wrong he was to treat his father thus. The boy immediately realized that he has a very bad temper. He wanted to change. He asked his father for help. The boy's father asked him to hammer a nail into the fence whenever he loses his temper. On the first few days, the boy hammered many nails into the fence because he lost his temper so often!
As the days passed, they boy hammered less nails into the fence, when he slowly learnt to control it. Finally, there was a day that he did not have to hammer a nail into the fence. He had learnt to control it! The boy's father was very proud. Then, he asked the boy to take out one nail from the fence everyday. After a while, the boy managed to take out every nail from the fence. Now, the boy was very happy that he has not lost his temper once. He is now very close with his family and he has many friends.

I like this story very much because it is very interesting. My favourite part of the story is when the boy had to hammer a nail in the fence every time he loses his temper. I like this part because it is an effective way for the boy to learn to control his temper.

The moral of the story is that we have to practice self control and not lose our temper over every little thing, and especially not to lose our temper with our loved ones. We have to learn self restraint and the best way is to think of an effective way like what the wise father taught the boy to do.