Sherlock Holmes short stories

Do you like Sherlock Holmes solving mysteries? Then you should read ‘The Five Pips’ from ‘Sherlock Holmes Short Stories’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This story is about Sherlock Holmes who solves the mystery about John’s uncle and father’s death. The client, John Openshaw, had an uncle who was a member of the K.K.K. When there was equality for black people, he runs away with his documents. One day, Uncle Elias received the pips from K.K.K and soon died mysteriously. A year later, the same thing happens to John’s father. Now John also received the pips from the K.K.K so he feels danger approaching. Sherlock Holmes gives John some advice but John dies the next day. Holmes gets angry, so he sends some pips and police to the place where the K.K.K will arrive. However, the K.K.K dies in the sea because of bad weather.

I thought that Sherlock Holmes is very smart. However, after reading this story, I don’t think so. If I were Sherlock Holmes, I would have checked the weather forecast before I sent the pips and the police. It would have been quite embarrassing because the K.K.K died anyways. However, I still think that Sherlock Holmes is smart.

I recommend this book to people who love mysteries. It is fun so they will like it.

Phantom of the Opera

Do you like love stories about mysterious people? Then you should read ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ by Jennifer Bassett.

This book is about a person called ‘Opera Ghost’ with a terrible face. A young singer, Christine Daae, sings Margarita instead of La Carlotta. Daae sings like an angel and Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny, loves her. La Carlotta ignores the Opera Ghost’s warning, so while La Carlotta was singing, the Chandelier fell and hurt lots of people. In the Opera house, Daae told Raoul that the Opera Ghost is an ugly man who was her music teacher, and that he wants her to be his wife. However, Raoul doesn’t want Daae to marry the Opera Ghost, so with the Persian’s help he goes to the Opera Ghost’s house when Daae disappears. However, they end up in the torture room. Daae kissed the Opera Ghost and he was so happy that he let Daae go marry with Raoul.

I wonder what would happen if the Opera Ghost is very handsome. First, he would not live under the Opera house. He lived under the Opera house because his face was ugly. Second, Daae would accept living with the Opera Ghost because he is also talented. Raoul won’t be able to say anything if the Opera Ghost looks better than him. I think that it will end up as a happy ending for the Opera Ghost.

I recommend this book to people who like horror-love stories. That’s because this is a love story but it has scary parts too.

Through the looking glass

Do you like dreaming about a strange world? Then you should read ‘Through the looking glass world’ by Lewis Carroll.

In this book, Alice dreams that she is in a looking glass house. In that world, everything happens backwards and is a part of chess. Starting as the white pawn, Alice decides to become a queen. While she is having the journey, she gets to know more about the strange things in the looking glass world. In that world, everything can talk, sees the future, and there are ‘unbirthdays’ which means days when you get presents even though it is not a ‘birthday’. Also, people and knights fall over easily and the cake cuts itself up after it is passed around. Finally Alice becomes a queen and wakes up shaking a black kitten.

I think that Alice is quite similar with me. Alice has a very interesting and strange dream. I have strange dreams like that too. I can understand how Alice felt in the looking glass world. I also get confused in the dream and after I wake up. It was fun to read this book, comparing with my strange dreams.

I recommend this book to people who have strange dreams. They can compare their dreams with Alice’s dream. They will be able to understand the story better.

Huckleberry Finn

Did you read “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”? If you did, and liked that book, you should read “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.

This story is about a boy named Huck who lives with Widow Douglas. He doesn’t like to wear new clothes and be good. One day, Huck finds Pop’s footprints near the house. Pop wants money but Huck didn’t give it to him. So Pop locked him up in a hut. However, Huck escapes and meets Jim in an island. They meet people who claim themselves as a duck and a king. Then Jim gets caught so Huck goes to the Phelps’s house to free Jim. Huck meets Tom and they plan to free Jim but fails. They meet Aunt Polly who tells them the truth, so Huck gets to know that his Pop died and that Jim is a free man.

I can understand how Huck feels about clean clothes and good behaviors. He was free and wild in the woods so clean clothes and good behaviors can be quite a shock to Huck. I had a similar experience. When I started to go to school, everything was new and not satisfying. The main reason was that freedom allowed in my house wasn’t allowed at school. I think that Huck felt the same way as I did when I started school.

I would like to recommend this book to people who want to be free from something. After reading this book, they would get courage and give a try to be free. I think that ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is fun.

Love among the haystacks

Do you like love stories about country side people? Then you should read “Love among the haystacks” by D.H.Lawrence.

This book is about two brothers who are inexperienced in love, finding their love in the hayfield. The two brothers, Geoffrey and Maurice like a German girl named Paula but she loves Maurice so Geoffrey is jealous. During their fight on the haystack, Maurice falls on the ground. At dinner, a tramp comes to ask for a job but the family only gives him some food. That night, Paula and Maurice meet and go for a horse ride. It began to rain so they covered up the haystack but the ladder fell down so they spent the night together. Geoffrey meets the tramp’s wife, Lydia, in the shed. She is wet and cold in the rain, so Geoffrey gives her blanket to cover, some food to eat and warms her feet. Geoffrey gets to know more about her and falls in love with her. The next morning, the four people have a happy breakfast together. Later, Maurice gets married with Paula and Geoffrey and Lydia stays together.

I think that this love story is easy going and comfortable than other ones. Most love stories are about rich people. It just feels like it would only happen to those rich and happy people. However, in this love story, the characters are ordinary people who fight and cry with each other. I think that this book is realistic.

I recommend this book to people who are shy and inexperienced in love. They will get good advices from Geoffrey and Maurice who are also like them. They will feel sympathy with the characters.

Matilda

Do you like stories where the kind wins and the bad loses? If so, you should read “Matilda”, by Roald Dahl.

Matilda is an extra ordinary girl who reads and calculates really well even though she is young. However, Matilda is treated badly by her parents. So she counterattacks by outsmarting them. She puts superglue on her father’s hat, acts like there is a ghost in the house and puts her mother’s hair dye in her father’s massage oil so that her father’s hair becomes dirty grey. At the age of 5, Matilda goes to school. Her teacher, Miss Honey is kind and gentle. On the other hand, the head mistress, Miss Trunchbull hates children and treats them badly. Miss Trunchbull’s bad attitude toward students makes Matilda angry and she gets super powers. She can move things without touching it. When Matilda finds out that Miss Trunchbull is Miss Honey’s aunt who used Miss Honey as a slave after Miss Honey’s father died, Matilda decides to use her power to help Miss Honey. In Miss Trunchbull’s class, Matilda moves the chalk without touching is and writes as if it is the ghost of Miss Honey’s father. Miss Trunchbull runs away so Miss Honey gets back her property. Matilda’s family runs away to Spain because Matilda’s father got caught by cheating customers. Matilda stayed with Miss Honey and they lived happily ever after.

I think that this is a story which teach us that doing bad things well eventually be revenged and doing good things will be rewarded. At the end, Miss Trunchbull and Mr. Wormwood got punished for their bad behaviors but Miss Honey and Matilda lived happily ever after. I have some similar experiences. If I do something bad, it comes back to me in a long term. If I do something good, then I get rewarded in other ways. I think that even though life is quite tough, if you help other people like Matilda and Miss Honey, you have a happy ending one day.

I recommend this book to people who think that their life is tough. Even though this is just a children’s story book, it shows that Miss Honey and Matilda had a not really good life at first, but at the end they became happy. I want the readers to read this book and realize that even though life is tough now, if you help other people you will be happy.

My six years in yeodo

Come on, people! This is just a poem!

Don’t look at me as if I came out of foam.

Now, would you like to hear my story?

It’s just my history.

When I was in first grade

I learned to drink lemonade.

It’s just a joke.

Don’t spit out your coke.

In second grade, we sang about the multiplication tables.

We had to topple over as if we stepped on cables.

I had a great time when I was in third grade.

Every day, we played.

Fourth grade was a blur.

I had a fight with a girl.

Fifth grade was wonderful.

Our teacher was always cheerful.

Now I’m in the sixth grade, thinking about the past.

I learned to do everything really fast.

I will miss Yeodo very much.