Monday, November 12, 2007

Laughter And Chills pg:1-39

-THE STORYTELLER
Three children with their aunt during a long journey.Their aunt told them a story and tried to stop them because they are very noisy,but no one interesting with the story as she was a boring storyteller.They met a stranger who could kept them quiet when he was telling an interesting story.Their aunt disagree about that story was an inappopriate for young children,unless he could keep them quiet for ten minutes.

-THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF
A young boy kidnapped for ransom by two criminals, Bill and Sam.They needed $2,000 more to pull off a real estate scam in western Illinois.Then they decided they will kidnap the son of a prominent citizen named Ebenezer Dorset,demand a ransom of $2,000 they actually kidnap the boy.Their young captive red-headed brat who calls himself''Red Chief'',actually he enjoys his stay with his kidnappers,and thinks he 's on a camping trip.Red Chief drove his captors to distraction with prank that they play wearying with him,such as using Bill as his house,they were remove fear,lower the price to $1,500 but still receive no answer,when they recevied a reply to their ransom letter from Red Chief's father to take the boy off their hands for $250,they quickly return him and run away as fast as they can.

-THE OPEN WINDOW
Mr.Framton wondered why they keep that window wide open on an October afternoon.the niece's aunt's husband and her two young brothers left through that window to go hunting three years ago,they never came back.while they was crossing a field to their favorite bird hunting spot,they were all drowned in a dangerous hole,they never found their bodies.Her aunt often tells them to keep the window open for each evening until it is dark and they would come back in through that big window .Finally ,her aunt saw them were walking across the lawn toward the window.

This is my new storybook,few story in the book ,some fun story and some are ghost story.its very interesting .There are 3 summaries of different storys.

1 comment:

Tim said...

Which story did you like the best? "The Ransom of Red Chief" is the most famous. The writer, O. Henry, was famous for his surprise endings.

Your summaries are a little too long, and you don't tell me much at all about what you thought of each story!