"The Little Engine That Could" is a book by Watty Piper for children. It has been an all-time favourite and motivating children's classic book. It shares a lot of valuable lessons about determination and the gut to keep trying. Once a bunch of toys with good food decided to travel over the mountain to deliver themselves and the food to the children on the other side. They set up a small engine to pull the load. They went happily for a while, but soon they reached the mountain, and the engine broke down. The leader of the toys, a funny clown decided to find a way to reach the other side of the mountain. He and the other toys asked all the engines that came by to stop and to help. None of the engines was willing to help them as they thought themselves as too good to pull their load or too weak to do so. The toys did not give up, they kept on looking for an engine and that when a small blue engine came by. It did decide to help them despite its weak features. With its determination and will she pulled the load to the other side of the mountain.
Here we have two protagonists. If the clown and the other toys we're not ready and determined to find a replacement for their broken train this would not happen. If they gave up on the search and went back and gave up on the idea of delivering themselves and good food to the children on the other side when the first few engines refused, then they would never be able to deliver themselves and the delicious food to the other side of the engine. When all the stronger engines said they cannot, the small blue engine said I can. This inspires many. There are many people out there who think they cannot do anything because of their physical disabilities or just because somebody just said you cannot. The little blue engine has proved that if we believe in ourselves and do our best, then nothing is impossible in this world.
The engine had faith in herself, and so despite the fact that she was an engine who pulls trains to replace engines or boogies, she was willing to give it a try, which many of us don't do. This also can be interpreted in another way, many of us think some people around us or in our society can not be acceptable because they have a weak or poor physical appearance. But I assume, taking this story into account, it's long that we changed that thought about such people. The engines which resisted to help the toys thought themselves as too good to pull the load as they only pull AC compartments or mechanical loads. Even these arrogance engines teach us not to be like them. They expressed an attitude. We should never see ourselves too high and low.
In a perspective, most characters in this story have something or the other that we should learn from. The faith that the blue engine had in herself is the thing that we should learn from her. The gut to keep trying to find the engine to pull them to the other side and unwilling to give up is a personality trait that we all really need to impart and train ourselves from the clown and the train. And last but not the least, the lesson that we should learn from the engines who refused to help the toys is that never show attitude to somebody younger than you, or think yourself too high or low. At the end of the day, we should never be like the other engines who refused to help the toys.