Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Story Title: Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl
Review:
This story is about a little girl called Matilda who had extraordinary brain powers. Matilda's parents didn't notice that their daughter was special and called her dirty names like"ignorant little squirt". Matilda's brother was a perfectly normal little boy but she wasn't. By the age of one and a half, her speech was perfect and she known as many words as most adults. When she was three, Matilda taught herself to read by studying magazines and newspapers that lay around they house. She hankered after books after reading all the newspapers and magazines in the house but her father did not allowed her to buy a book. Nearly every afternoon, Matilda was left alone in the house. Her brother went to school, her father went to work and her mother went out playing bingo. She was addicted to bingo and would play it five afternoons a week. After being refused by her father to not buy a book, Matilda set out all by herself to the plublic library. Matilda was only four years and three months that time. After reading all the children's books, Matilda started on books by Charles Dickens.
When Matilda went to school, she was five and a half. She was cleverer than all her classmates and can even do harder things of multiplication like 14 times 19 when even her teacher needs to work it out on a piece of paper. Matilda also understands what's a limerick and even create a limerick about her teacher, Miss Honey. Miss Honey recommend to the headmistress, that Matilda was a genius and should be placed in the top form with the eleven-year-olds. Miss Trunchbull, the headmistress, barked at her refusing to let Matilda be placed in the top form. Miss Trunchbull also heard from Matilda's father that Matilda is a bad lot and even accused Matilda of putting a stink bomb under her desk.
After Matilda's and Miss Honey's relationship became closer, she was shocked to found out that Miss Honey's aunt has actually Miss Trunchbull and she trackied Miss Honey into giving her teacher's pay every month to her. It was suspicious to everyone that death of Miss Honey's father was by Miss Trunchbull. Matilda, in order to help Miss Honey practiced something using brain power...
NOTE : Agatha : Miss Trunchbull ; Jenny : Miss Honey; Magnus : Miss Honey's father.
On the day Miss Trunchbull came to Matilda's class ...
Matilda wrote on the board controlling the chalk using her brainpower pretending to be a ghost of Magnus making Miss Trunchbull to return Miss Honey's wages and house to her otherise he will come and get her like how she got him. After reading, Miss Trunchbull fainted. The next day, Miss Trunchbull disappeared and the wages and house were returned to Miss Honey.
The headmaster was changed and Matilda were put in the top form. But she did not have any extraordinary powers anymore as brain powers were used for having to struggle and strive and kepp really busy as she's competing against people more than twice her age.
When she went home, her parents were busy packing their luggages to escape to Spain as her father's a receiver of stolen cars from all over the country and selling them to other people.
Matilda begged her praents to let her stay with Miss Honey. Her parents agreed so that they have one less to take care of.
SO, Matilda and Miss Honey live HAPPILY AFTER AFTER ..
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Story Title: Fame, Glory and other things on my to-do list.
Author: Jannete Rallison
Review:
This story is about a girl, Jessica, who dreams of going to hollywood and becoming famous. She finds her name plain as she thinks that there are enough Jessicas in the world. She feels that she needs a hollywood name like "Angelique" or " Cassiopeia" instead of plain old "Jessica". However, in the end, she dound out that in fact, she qiuite like it. Jessica finds her car, a honda civic, as original as her name. In her opinion, the car doesn't "like" her as whenever she is using the car, it worked only half the time. However, when her father uses the car, it starts up find without any problems. Jessica has one problem, a problem caused by her mum. She is paranoid everytime she leaves work after dark as she is afraid that someone would jump out and rob her, and she has her mother to blame. One day, when Jessica prepares to go home from work at the Wal-Mart, she thought someone was following here, She glanced back and saw a teenage guy with brown hair pulled into a ponytail, wearing some biker-looking jacket and a pair of jeans with a couple of holes spread across it. He seems to be walking in the same direction as her. She sees him as "a guy with 'lurker' potential". She tried, without avail, to start up the car. It had failed her once again, and at such a critical moment! After lots of attempts to try to chase away the "lurker guy", Jessica found out that she was in the wrong car. The truth hit her like a lightning bolt. The car was actually belonged to the "lurker" guy! They had identical cars, both silver honda civics. Jessica stepped out of the car, red with embarrassment. She went back to the car and tried to start it up, but to no avail. The "lurker guy", whose name was actually Jordon, helped her. She called her parents, but they were not at home, so she asked her sister to pass a message. Jessica found out that Jordan just moved into the neighbourhood and was going to attend her high school. Later, Jordon asked Jessica if she could help him pick out suitable outfits as his mum doesn't spproves of his clothes. She feels that his clothes are like handdowns from a heavy metal band that didn't have any access to a washing machine. On the way to the mall, Jessica tells Jordon about her dreams of becoming an actress. However, to her surprise, Jordon did not seem to agree with her. In fact, she thought her heard a hint of hate and anger in his tone. Soon, she found out why. Jordon was actually a very famous actor in hollywood acting in many action-packed shows, Christopher Hunter's son. Because of his career, he and his wife slowly got furtheraway from each other, resulting in them separating, each living their own lives. Jordon wanted to keep him as Christopher Hunter's son as a secret but by accident, she blurted out his secret to Mrs. Shale, the drama teacher. Before this, Jessica and Jordon had came up with a plan to convince his father to go down to Three Forks for a longer period of time and that is by getting a part in the next play. Word spread like wild fire. Soon, the entire school population knew that Jordon was Christopher Hunter's son. When Jordon learnt about in it that jessica had betrayed his trust in her, he didn't talk to her for 2 whole months. However, one day, he found Jessica and asked her for her help to reconcile his parents. So, thus begin their plans to reconcile Jordon's parents. In the end, the play was a totalk failure. However, the failure of the play brought Jordon and Jessica together and brought back Jordon's father and mother.
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