The Castle of the Thousand Doors

By LVELEZ

The book is based on the stories that the author told to his children and their friends.The story tries to create values in children, develop their curiosity and intelligence, while stimulating group work.Six children, chosen among all the children of the world, enter a mysterious castle, and there they are subjected to tests on their intelligence, their courage, their determination, and their capacity to work as a group.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098020712

Book preview

Chapter One

The Rich Man

Once upon a time, there was an immensely wealthy man. This man was so rich that he owned an incredible amount of things around the world, including a great amount of cash.

He was the owner of hotels, hospitals, banks, ships, airplanes, factories, shopping centers, lands, oil, and had money invested in almost all the countries of the planet.

Even though inheriting a great fortune, he spent most of the time working day and night, to make more money.

He was an extremely greedy man.

He walked about two kilometers every day to his office to avoid the expenses of an automobile. Though walking was good for his heart, he wasn’t in a good healthy condition due to the kind of food he ate every day.

Being the owner of shopping centers, he didn’t allow them to throw away expired food. The expired food was taken to his house by the supermarket manager and was then cooked and eaten by him. This behavior gave him a lot of physiological problems (diarrhea and others).

Even as he walked he greeted no one, he used this time to create and write plans for his many businesses.

He was more than sixty years old, and for the last thirty years of his life, he had not bought new clothes, besides a couple of cheap shoes.

At night he used candles or gas lamps to economize electricity.

He was willing to do anything to avoid spending money.

He was the only son, he never married (he said that marriage was expensive), and he had no children or friends.

He only talked to his employees, and he only spoke about work- or money-related things. He never laughed.

He wasn’t interested in any other things in life, only making money.

His only hobby was to think about how to make money, and counting the money he had.

People in the village called this person Mr. S., not because he was Superman, but because he was Skinflint.

He wasn’t supposed to know they called him Mr. S., but when he knew, he didn’t get angry; he felt proud.

But as it happens to everyone, he got old.

One day he felt a strong chest pain and fainted. Although he didn’t want to be taken to a doctor,