Sunday, November 18, 2007

The Prince nd The Pauper by Mark Twain. Pages 1 - 47

In 16th century at London, Tom was born to the poor Canty family. Edward, the Prince of Wales was born family at the same day. Tom’s family was so poor. His father is a thief. His grandmother is a beggar. They always commanded him and her sisters to be beggars too. If he didn’t bring money home, they would hit him. One day, he walked until a beautiful building that the Prince of Wales lived. The prince saw him and asked him to come inside. Then, they changed their position. Tom became the prince and Edward became the pauper. When the prince was looking for the way to Tom’s house, he met Tom’s father. In the prince’s apartment, Tom’s attitude was very different with the prince. Everybody thought that the prince was sick, so forgot some of his memories. At the royal dinner, Tom was very strange but everybody tried to understand him. After that, the king was looking for the seal. He realized that he gave it to the prince. However, the prince didn’t remember about the seal because he wasn’t the real prince.

This book is really hard to understand. The author used British English for this book. Also, there are so many new vocabulary. I really couldn’t understand. It took a long time for me to understand this book. I should read two times, so I can understand the meaning in every chapter. However, it is really an interesting book. How can the prince change his place with the pauper? That is really unreasonable thing in the real world. (^_^) What would happen with the prince at Tom’s family? Could Tom get used to live at the prince’s house?

2 comments:

*Missy* said...

If I see ur summary, sounds very interesting even though I never read this book!

Tim said...

You say it's a hard book, and yet you read 47 pages in one week! If a book is interesting, whether it is hard or not becomes less important, doesn't it?

Yes, it's ridiculous that the prince and the paupers should look so much alike that even their families can't tell them apart. They can't be twins, after all!