Discussion for the setting in "The Enchanted Garden"

We had read a story called "The Enchanted Garden" written by "Italo Calvino." This story is about the two children, Giovannino and Serenella. They were playing on the railroad and because the train was coming they escaped and found a magical garden.

In my group, we had discuss that this story might happen in a garden of a European country because the name of the character is kind of the European people's name. And this garden was enchanted for the two kids, Giovannino and Serenella. The reasons that make this garden seems enchanted to them are because it has a swimming pool, a ping pong tables and cakes for them. Although, the children felt that the garden was enchanted to them but they still felt uneasy when they was playing in the garden because they always had to be worry that they might get caught by someone. The boy that they saw in the house was also felt uneasy because he was sick and that was surprising to the children as well. He had to stay in the house and could not go out and play.

During the discussion, we found out that we did not know anything about the author of the story at all. Who is he? Why did he choose this particular setting? we tried to answer these question but we really had no idea about the answer. We only could thought of his purpose of writing this story was to shows the reader that "life is not easy." As you knew, Giovannino and Serenella were have fun playing in this enchanted garden but they are also had to worry about getting caught. In the other hand, the boy who had the good things in his life, he still had to be at home because he was sick.