The Lottery Winters

This is such a sad story because the heroine in this book is unlucky at the start and she can’t be happy in the end. The heroine, Emma, is poor, but she buys a ticket for the lottery every week. One day a not a very nice young man steals her bag where there are tickets for the lottery. A few days later she knows he wins the lottery, but the ticket is hers, so she decide to fight against him in the court. This book wasn’t so interesting to me, for I love happy ending.

The Coldest Place On Earth

When I was reading this book, I was surprised many times because this book is based on what really happened.

“The Coldest Place On Earth” is a race to get to the South Pole for the first time. The members of this journey faced a critical problem that almost led to death many times and it was like a fiction.

I recommend this book to you if you get interested in it. If you don’t want to read, please search for the Robert Falcon Scott, one of the main character in this book, and you will probably know the history of a journey to a south pole in detail.

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens. We learned about him in the class of 英文学史, but I had known him before that. His most famous work is A Christmas Carol, which I read in English for the first time. “Two Cities” means London and Paris and this story sets in the era that many things are changed by France Revolution. “A Tale of Two Cities” shows us a touching a bond and love of a family. You should read it if you have time.

Story-making game!?

In a class of Integrated Skill, I played a game to make a story with my five friends. The rule is that a person says only three words and the next person follows him. It was difficult for us. We made a story of Pizza.

The hero wants to eat pizza everyday because he loves pizza. He can do anything for pizza. The story goes on to the end like that. That means pizza. I need to improve the skill to make stories.

The House in the Picture and Abbot Thomas Treasure

This book was good because I could enjoy two stories in a book. Both The House in the Picture and Abbot Thomas Treasure are horror and mysterious stories.

I’ll tell you a little bit of the former. One day Mr. Williams, professor, finds a expensive old picture, but he thinks it is not good. However, surprisingly, his friend finds the picture is changed: some things are added to the picture and that happens again when his another friend sees the picture next day. As the story goes on, they know the frightening reason.

The Trumpet-Major

The Trumpet-major was written by Thomas Hardy. I didin’t know his any works, but I had heard his name, so I tried reading this book.

The Trumpet-Major is a difficult love story: John, a trumpet-major, has not seen Anne for a long time and becomes to love her, but Robert, John’s brother, also loves her and she loves Robert. I didn’t feel good to know that, but I kept reading, hoping John would be happy. At last I was sad though…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I learned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the 米文学史 class last semester. I thought The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is more popular because I didn’t know the story forcused on his friend, Hucleberry Finn. Howerer, it is said that The Adventures of huckleberry Fin is more valuable in a sense.

Huck is an adopted child, and lives with a rich family. He is bored because he doesn’t want to go to school and doesn’t want to wear elegant clothes, but one day his father comes back to Huck and tries to kill him to earn money. Huck leaves the town with his best frend, Jim and his adventure begins.

This story show us the problem of the black: Jim is black and he escaped with Huck to avoid being sold. In those days, it’s natural to take the black as not human-beings, but objects. We know it’s crazy, but if I were in that period, woud I say so?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I have known The Adventures of Tom Sawyer since I was an elementaly school student. I read this book in Japanese at that time because I could borrow it from the library; The series of Tom Sawyer are famous in Japan as well as in America.

There are two main characters in the book: Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckiebery Finn. Tom doesn’t study and help with housework. He just behave badly and enjoys it. One day Tom and Huch happens to find a murder: that makes their great adventure start!

I didn’t remember the story, but it reminds me of my elementary school life. I wanted to be like Tom Sawyer because I thought he was brave. I was always afraid to be scolded by doing something bad.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a love story of a woman who has a christian morality. This story begins with the heroine’s , Jane Eyre, childhood, when her parents have died and she is poor. Her life is not lucky because she experiences discrimination and Mr Rochester who Jane loves has a wife. She refuses his proposal to marry becase of her high christian morility, but in the end, she can marry him after his wife dies.

I didin’t feel like finishing this book at first because the heroine faces only sad things. Hoyever, I was glad to know she became happy finally.