Dauntless Little John

  I had read a absorbing book that give me deep impact,but I forgot its name .I still remember that one of the chapter had written about a story taken from a book, Italian Folktales  by well known Italian writer called Italo Calvino.The tittle of the story is "Dauntless Little John". Its story line is like that,

"Once upon a time ,a boy called John .He was brave and everything that people afraid of was just a piece of cake for him , he was afraid of nothing. Traveling about the world. One day ,He was given a chance to get a pot of gold piece and become wealthy .But at last, he was died ,frighten by his own shadow ,and died due to heart attack ( I believe)."

I surprised with his ending and I think this part of story would be inspire everyone and no only me.
  

Why he fright about his shadow?

If we consider this circumference in objective perspective, sometime we could surprise about our change of act when we find it out ourselves .As example, when one become greedy and selfish , he don't even think that he was a problem but blame other about it. And he need someone to tell him the truth or warn him or remind him.Then he will finally realize that what he done is wrong, his shadow is "horrible". We believe what we had seen even the shadow is fake or imagine by ourselves , and this is the problem. No wonder we make  the decision too fast ,we don't give us enough time to consider about it.

why bravery could bring someone to hell? Sometimes brave could blind our eye ,then make us can't sense about the risk or danger in front of us. Brave turn into ego. And it ravage us gradually. 

The pot of gold is opportunity ,and we have to pay for it if we decide to receive it.This is why he died at the end even he get the great wealthy ,He doesn't care about the term and criteria ,therefore he fall down. Lack of consideration always was being our weakness nowadays ,and I will aware of this hidden trap around us .

Shadow like mirror..

Shadow always followed us.The shadow is the symbol of science, knowledge, if we don't even understand about it, we will fail or mistaken about the thing we see, and believe to religious statement. This is why John afraid to his shadow till died ,I expect John don't know about what is shadow ,and he think that he is facing a ghost or creature.So, general knowledge is essential to us so we can avoid from unwanted danger .