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The Giant says this as he expels the children from his garden, having just discovered them there upon returning home from a long vacation. This is the moment which establishes the Giant’s selfish character and sets the story’s conflict in motion. The Giant thinks only of his property, and his reasoning is purely selfish and decidedly petty. After all, it is unlikely that he, an adult with a hardened demeanor, would ever actually play in his garden—he simply wishes that no one else occupy his property, for no reason beyond the fact that it is his. In fact, he even…