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King Midas

King Midas had a great desire for wealth and wanted his daughter Zoe to be the richest queen. A man in white granted Midas's wish for everything he touched to turn to gold, hoping he would learn greed is not good. Midas turned his food and roses to gold, making him sad. When he hugged his daughter and she turned to gold, he realized money is not the most important thing and to value life's simple pleasures like family and food.

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King Midas

King Midas had a great desire for wealth and wanted his daughter Zoe to be the richest queen. A man in white granted Midas's wish for everything he touched to turn to gold, hoping he would learn greed is not good. Midas turned his food and roses to gold, making him sad. When he hugged his daughter and she turned to gold, he realized money is not the most important thing and to value life's simple pleasures like family and food.

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King Midas

Once upon a time, there was a King who had a large sum of gold. He had
more gold than any other man in the world. Aside from his desire to
acquire more and more money, he had another wish: that his daughter Zoe
would become the richest queen in the world.

Zoe, however, was a very beautiful young woman who had no particular
interest in money; she preferred flowers and other beautiful things. One
day, the King was in the room where he kept all of his gold when suddenly,
a man dressed all in white appeared and commented that the King had a
lot of gold. The King replied that it was very little compared to all the gold
in the world.

The man in white had magic powers and, seeing the King’s greed for gold,
decided to grant him a wish, that everything the King touched would turn
to gold, hoping that the King would learn a lesson.

The next day, the King no more than awoke before he began to touch
different things in his room to turn them into gold, so that he would be
even richer. The problem began when he went to eat breakfast and all the
food that he touched turned to gold, and he couldn’t eat anything. What’s
more, he accidentally touched some of the most beautiful roses in the
garden, making his daughter very upset with him.
Days passed without the King being able to eat a bite of food, and little by
little his desire for gold diminished and his sadness grew. For this reason,
his daughter, no longer angry, went to see her father and ask why he was
so sad, and the young woman decided to give her father a hug to cheer
him up.

“Oh no!!! My daughter, the most valuable thing in the world to me, you too
have turned into gold,” exclaimed the King.

In this moment, the strange man dressed in white appeared again, and
seeing that the King had learned his lesson, told him that he could turn
anything he liked from gold back to its original state by gently submerging
it in the river.

From that moment, King Midas learned a great lesson, that there are more
important things in life than money, such as his precious daughter as well
as simple but necessary things, like water to drink each day.

QUESTIONS:

1. Who is the main character in the story?


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2. Describe King Midas?
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3. What is the name of King Midas’ daughter?
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4. What is King Midas’ greatest desire?
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5. What is the magic power that the man in white gave King Midas?
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6. Would you like to have the same powers as King Midas? If you don’t,
what power would you like to have? Why?
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7. What is the lesson that you have learned after reading the story?
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