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Once upon a time, there lived a twelve year old boy named 

Jack. He was young, but that did not stop him from thinking 

big, he dreamed that one day he would be able to help the 

people that were poor, like him. He lived in a small village with 

his mom, called Villemagique.

One day his mom gave him some money to go and get some 

food for them. Jack went to the market and looked around for 

a place to buy food but a man soon approached him. He was 

looking to sell some “magical beans.” Jack believed him and 

gave the man all the money his mom had given him for the 

beans. When Jack had returned home, he showed his mom 

what he had gotten and she grew very angry with him. 

“You spent all the money I gave you on these worthless things, 

Jack? Now we have no food!” said Jack’s mom.

“They are magical beans, mom!” argued Jack.

“Don’t tell me what they are.” muttered Jack’s mom. "Get out 

of my sight."

When Jack went to his room, his mom threw the beans out of 

the window, without thinking.

The next day when Jack thought about what he had done, he 

regretted it. He understood how thoughtless his decision was 

and went to apologize to his mom, until something caught his 

eye, outside the window.

As he went closer and closer, he became more and more 

shocked. There was a huge beanstalk.

"What! How?" muttered Jack.

The tall beanstalk loomed up in the sky and Jack could not see 

the top. His curiousity was unbearable and so he decided he 

would quickly climb up it and see if there was anything, those 

beans were magical after all. He quickly closed the curtains so 

nobody could see he beanstalk from the inside.

He climbed and climbed and finally got to the top in about five 

minutes but for him it felt like an hour. Jack was not scared of 

heights, in fact, he loved them because he could see 

everything below him.

At the very top of the beanstalk there were clouds, thick, 

white, puffy clouds. After that there lay a big, fancy castle 

which was covered in treasures. 

Jack's eyes widened in amazement. He thought of all the 

things he could do with all the treasure. Pearls, gold, 

diamonds, he could be rich. Then he realized how poor he was 

and how many people were just like him, could barely afford 

food. Instead of keeping it all for himself he decided that if he 

ever could, he would try to give to people that had nothing.

After his quick brainstorming session, he slowly walked into the 

castle. The architecture was amazing, not quite human-like but 

breathtaking. The ceiling was high and domed with jewels 

everywhere, equally spaced. The walls were coated with circles 

of gold bits. The floor was made of smooth stone which felt 

comfortable, and the air, it smelt and tasted slightly metallic 

but very pleasant.

Jack, who now felt powerful and careless wandered through 

the castle, until suddenly, he heard mumbling, deep, loud 

mumbling. He slowly but swiftly crept towards the sound and 

there he saw what he could not believe. There was a giant. Not 

a huge person or anything, but a real, genuine GIANT. It 

looked at him.

"Uhhhhhhh," mumbled Jack.

"Oh hello, hello!" exclaimed the giant. "Who are you, young 

creature?"

"Um, uh, I'm uh Jack." stammered Jack, stunned by the giant's 

loud, booming voice.

"Why, Jack, welcome!" said the giant. "I'm Gibtanig and you 

are the first one to find me after many, many years of being 

trapped here."

Jack was frightened inside.

"I will reward you greatly, as you can see, I have lots of 

valuable items."

Jack looked around and took in what the giant, Gibtanig, was 

saying.

Just then Gibtanig went somewhere and when he returned to 

Jack, he handed him a gold pitcher full of water, it was 

surprisingly light despite it being full.

"Now go and don't come back, Jack," said Gibtanig.

"Okay, thanks," mumbled Jack quickly as he turned to walk 

out. 

He then went down the beanstalk slowly so he did not break 

the gold pitcher. Jack thought about what had happened and 

how he had gotten the gold pitcher, he he did not do anything 

for the giant so why did the giant give him something so 

valuable? Jack decided to sell the pitcher and make some 

money out of it to get food.

When he reached his house, he was thirsty and thought it 

would be good to pour himself some of the water in the 

pitcher. As he poured the water, the water kept coming out but 

the amount of water in the pitcher did not change. He poured 

more water but the amount still did not change.

He thought about the idea of selling it and how much money he 

could get, he and his mom would never go hungry again. Then 

he thought about the people that did not have food, living on 

the streets, they could have as much water as they wanted.

That afternoon Jack asked his mom if he could go help people, 

still being angry with him she gave him permission but then 

quickly walked away. As Jack was out on the streets, he felt 

like he was doing something good, like he was accomplishing 

something.

He gave everyone as much water as they wanted and they all 

thanked him. Then the thought occurred to him, what about 

getting something else from the giant? If the pitcher has an 

unlimited amount of water, which he gave willingly, then he 

must have other things that he could give Jack.

This made Jack get an irresistible urge to go up there again 

and see if he could get anything else. So he decided that he 

would go up the beanstalk again the next morning and talk to 

the Gibtanig.

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