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        "I see you miss out on a lot of things you love because of your Imp of Fear,                                                                                                  CHAPTER 5
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        and that you feel that your classmates are better than you because of him;
        sounds very unpleasant".                                                                                                                                      THE CUNNING IMP TRAPS
        Said Wizder.                                                                                                                     On Monday Ms. Beasley announced that an important math test would be

        "Exactly!"  said  Jonathan  with  great  ease  as  he  felt  that  finally  someone                                              held the following week, and then started preparing the class for the test. She
        understood him "I hate this imp! I wish he would disappear forever!"                                                             wrote an exercise on the blackboard and asked: "Who can solve this?" Jonathan

        "Hold it mister, are you sure you'll be able to manage without him? Can you                                                      quickly solved it in his head. He so badly wanted to raise his hand and tell the
        imagine what would happen to a child who doesn’t have an Imp of Fear?"                                                           entire class the solution, but for some reason his hand refused to move. As if

        Said Wizder the Observer with a kind smile.                                                                                      someone was holding it down. He wanted to shout that he knew the answer,
                                                                                                                                         but he felt choked and couldn't make a sound. He sat withdrawn in his chair
                                                     "Of  course,"  said  Jonathan.  "He’d  be the                                       even when Sharon yelled "I know!" and gave a completely wrong solution…

                                                     best!!  He wouldn’t  be  afraid of anything!
                                                     Everyone  would  look up  to  him…  just like
                                                     Tommy who's never afraid to play soccer in
                                                     the middle of the street, even when trucks                               5

                                                     drive through there!"

                                                     Wizder asked,

                                                     "And  you  think  that  not  being  afraid  of
                                                     trucks is a good thing? Did you know that all
                                                     animals in the wild are afraid of something?

                                                     Even lions, wolves and the most venomous
                                                     snakes.

                                                     Fear helps us survive and keeps us safe.

                                                     Without fear, wolves would  be killed  by
                                                     lions, lions would be killed by poachers and
                                                     snakes would be eaten by eagles…"




                                                                                                                                           Pause for a moment and ask the children – Which imp do you think took control over Jonathan this time?


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