"TOLERANCE"

Meaning of the word "tolerance"

Tolerance means :

• The willingness to accept or tolerance especially opinion or behaviour that you may not agree with or people who are not like you.
• the attitude of someone is willing to accept.

Which part of the story do I like the most ???

I love the part when the boy's father pretended to be a servant wearing the sarong and then serving the boy with what he wanted.Then the boy realised his mistake and apologised to his father.

From this story, I had learned that we must always be nice to other people and not to loose my temper easily as it will hurt others feeling.

Summary Of A Story

Title: "Holes In The Fence"
Author : Sheikh Hassan Seylan 'Abad
Publisher : Abad Ceria Enterprise
Illustration : Raihan Munif Bahasuan

There was once a boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.On the first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled.He discovered that it was easier to hold his temper than to drive nails into a fence. Finally, a day came when he didn’t need the hammer and nails at all. Proudly, he went to tell his father. This time the father suggested that each day he kept his temper, the boy should pull out a nail from the fence.The days passed, until eventually the boy was able to tell his father that at last all the nails were gone. The father took the boy by the hand and led him to the fence. “You have done well — but look at all the holes in the fence! It will never be the same again. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there.”

Writing a review.....

"Holes In The Fence"

This story is about a boy who loses his temper easily. He lost everything he needed. His friends, his parents and also his siblings. One day, his family decided to change his bad attitude. Therefore, his father pretended to be a servant by wearing a sarong and serving him. Now, he realised his mistake. His father gave him a hammer and a boxful of nails. Then he was told to hammer a nail once he loses his temper. After he began to control his temper, his fatner asked him to pull out a nail

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