The Carrot Seed

My outside reading book for this week was a very interesting book because unlike the other books I chose to read, I had never read this one as a child. My mother gave it to me last week and said that it was a great read. The Carrot Seed was what the book was called, and she had read it when she was a child. Looking at the title at first glance, I thought the book could have been a parable that Jesus told. "The great parable of the carrot seed" immediately came to my mind. My mother assured me it was not, however like all parables, there was a moral to the story. It is not just a book about a boy who plants a seed and waits for it to grow, but there are other points to be made as well. Throughout the book, the little boy waits patiently for his seed to grow. Finally in the end, it grows into a carrot. This is the first lesson I got out of the book- Have patience and things will happen. The second lesson I got out of it was if you want something to grow and develop, you have to maintain and take care of it. The little boy in the story continuously feeds and weeds his plant so that it might have the chance to grow. This is much like friendship- If you don't take care of your friends and or talk to them much, then your frienship will most likely fail, just as if you forget to water your plants they will wilt. The last lesson I got out of the story is it is not easy to put your trust into something that you can't see or don't know the outcome of. People will continuously tell you it is not possible and fill your mind with doubt so that you don't succeed, but the key to beating this is perservering and staying true to what you know and after all is said and done, you will end up with a carrot like the little boy.