Story Telling

The Elephant Rope

A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cage or held by the use of chains.


All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.


As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily done so, but didn’t try to it at all.


Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing and never tried to escape?

The trainer replied :


“when they’re very young and much smaller we use the same size of rope to tie them, and at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they’re still conditioned to believe that the rope can still hold them from escaping, so they never tried to escape.”

The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free from the camp was that overtime, the adopted the believe that it wasn’t just possible.


Moral of the story:
No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become success is the most important step in actually achieving it.

Question :
1. What's the moral value of the story?

2. What's the conclusion of the story?

3. At the paragraph 3 "As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp."  the synonym of the word "gazed" ?

4. At the paragraph 3 "he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp" what's the antonym of the word "confused" ?

5. At the trainer dialogue, "when they’re very young and much smaller we use the same size of rope to tie them, and at that age, it’s enough to hold them." what does the word "they're" refers to?

Example of indirect sentence :
1.  "he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing and never tried to escape?"

2. "As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp."

3. "A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cage or held by the use of chains."

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