Monday, January 25, 2016

the little humpbacked horse
Across the wide sea-ocean, on the further side of high mountains, beyond thick forests, in a village that faced the sky, there once lived an old peasant who had three sons. The eldest, Danilo, was the most knowing lad in the place; the second, Gavrilo, was neither clever nor dull; and the youngest, who was named Ivan.Ivan cared to do nothing but sleep in the corner so because of that the whole neighborhood called him "Little Fool Ivan".
One day the family planted wheat and after they harvested and sold it they planted again,and few days later when they were about to harvest it again the wheat was not there,so they found that someone in the night had stolen some of the hay, so that evening the father  sent his eldest son to watch for the thief.So danilo  took the ax and started guarding the hay,but it was cold,snowing and he said to himself, "Why should I freeze myself for some wheat",and went to home and slept,the next day the wheat was stolen again,when the father asked to danilo about last night he answered." I shouted and he dared not come nearer".the father called him good son and the next day the other brother guarded the wheat and it was cold again,so he said again why i should stay all the night,and went in to sleep.The next day the gay was stolen again ,the father asked him again,he answerd."i chased to thief and he ran far away,im sure he will not come again.
the next day the youngest brother started to guard the wheat and he didnt want to sleep,it was late night and he heard a sound he looked and saw a horse coming to steal the hay,he ran and caught him then the horse started to fly with the boy and then when the boy was about the kill the horse it started to talk and said."please dont hurt me and i will split in 3 horses and stay in your garden,the boy agreed and went back to home.
One day when the 2 other brothers were walking in the forest they saw the 3 horses and started to think to sell them and have fun with the money,they took the horses and went to sell them,in the way ivan saw them,the 2 brothers said "we will sell the horses for our poor family,our father is sick and we need money"poor Ivan agreed , they went to sell the horse and they were very happy thinking what they will do with the money.
but the horses went back to ivan and the seller said to ivan come live in my house and i will take care of you,ivan agreed, and went to the sellers house.Years passed,little fool Ivan was happy but someone                      and wanted to kill him.
the story was good only if they changed the middle part (when the horse splits in 3 ) that would be better 
                         Highway
                                                      Robbery
This story start with a homeless young boy telling a tall gentleman
the good thing and bad things about being small.One good thing is that people often mistake me for being much younger than I am and that makes them take pity on me.Especially the women,the ones that have their own children  at home . And especially the poor ones,who know there isn't much keeping their own little ones from begging in the streets like me.Not that i'm begging now,sir. I wouldn't want you to think that, not for a minute.-The young boy said.
   One day I ended up begging far from the center of the city,it was cold,miserable day that couldn't decide whether it wanted to rain or snow.I had pair of boots once but they were so often wet that the nails came through and it was like trying to walk on a pair of hedgehogs,and that is the truth sir - the young boy said.
I led another lad steal them off for me just for the pleasure of hearing him howl when he put them on.
 After that he was hungry,barefoot almost frozen.He was walking through a street which didn't have  much traffic, it was one of those streets with pigs and muddy little streets. No one had a coin or crust of bread to spare for him and he thought it was going to be a bad day from him until round the corner he cam,a tall man with a big black horse and all the chicken and pigs ran away from him even the young boy took a step back from him,he was breathing hard there were tear tracks on his face.He looked wild and mad and the sight of him terrified the boy.And then when he cam off the horse he gently said (hold the horse for me lad) and when I come back I will give u a reward he said that with ruffling the boys head .The boy felt the kindness he never felt in a while and that why he did like the gentleman asked. It was a cold day the boys was really hungry but full of satisfaction, I don't know if that makes any sense.
two girls were passing by with a basket of bread in their hands and they were attracted to the horse so they came and started looking at the horse and the young boy said go away it is my masters horse you can't touch it .The girls offered a loaf of bread for him and he took the offer because he was so hungry.Afterwards the boy told them not to tell anybody about this .
The Gentleman was gone for a long time now the boy started being anxious for him to come back. The street was empty for a while but then a man started coming closer to the horse, he didn't say a word for a while he was just looking and examining the horse ,who does it belong to he said, he looked old and he had lost most of his teeth and his speech wasn't clear .The boy said none of your business.
How much is it worth he asked, the boy was tempted by how much of the reward can be but also he promised to obey that gentlemen who was going to give him his reward .After a while toothless and someone else came and started walking towards me the other man looked like a gentleman but afterwards  found out that he wasn't he asked about how much is the horse an he offered alot of money for it but the boy said it's not my horse it's my masters and I would never sell it no matter what. Then they started pushing him on the ground but they started running away from boy, the boy didn't understand until he saw the kings soldiers that were riding their horses through the streets until they saw the boys horse. The Captain came off the horse and started asking the boy who's horse is this ? the boys answer was my masters . Who is your master the captain asked the boy? you will see when he comes back . Afterwards The captain cleared the streets, ordered his soldiers to be alone with the boy. The captain asked the boy : Have you ever heard of a fellow named Dick T
urpin? of course I have the boy answered, well the captain said Dick Turpin is the Gentleman who gave you the horse . The boy stared at the captain while a hundred new thoughts were charging around his head . And the horse is none other than Black Bess- The Captain said .
Wait here with Black bess until Dick Turpin comes back and we shall give you a reward for it.
The boy was so tired,he was wishing that this never happened to him,and a couple of hours later the Captain came back and told the boy that they have found Dick Turpin and they are going to hang him the next day. The boy asked the captain. Am I gonna get my reward ? The Captain pushed the boy off the horse while laughing .
The boy quickly got on the horse and started running away from the soldiers and especially their Captain. Finally  the boy found a shelter for him and the horse because they had to spend the night there. Days have passed, the boy was hungry ,the horse was hungry, both were tired . The boy was trying to sell the horse because then it would be good for both of them ,but no one believed the boy because there were people trying to impersonate another black horse saying it's the Great Black Bess.
   This is the story of the boy. In my opinion they should have changed the part where they were going to hang Dick turpin,instead of that Dick Turpin should have came back and saved the boy and lived with him.
 What I learned from the story is that you should take your chances while you still have them ...

Sunday, January 24, 2016

                                                                            80 Days Around
                                                                                  The World


The year is 1872 and Phileas Fogg is living in London.Then he makes a bet with friends that he can travel around the world in eighty days.A crazy race across Europe,Asia,Africa and America.There are many dangers along the way.

Phileas Fogg was a member of Reform Club.He was rich but nobody knew how he made his fortune he didn't tell anybody about himself.There was no secret about his daily life he did exactly the same thing in the same way everyday.He had knowledge of every country and town in the world.He was never seen out of London.He had traveled in his minds and imagination.He had a servant who's name is Jean Passepartout. Then they began to talk about traveling and Phileas Fogg told his friends that he was ready to make a bet that he can travel around the world in 80 days and puts his 20000 gold on line.
London to Suez 7 days
Suez to Bombay 13 days
Bombay to Calcutta 3 days
Calcutta to Honk Kong 13 days
Honk Kong to Yokohama 6 days 
Yokohama to San Francisco 22 days
San Francisco to New York 7 days
New York to London 9 days
                                  
              London 80 days

Then Mr. Fogg returned to his house and said to Passepartout (We must leave in 10 minutes).7 days later they were at Suez and went to the harbor that the boat was leaving to Bombay they went to the consul before that and took the signature of him.. Then a detective comes and meets Passepartout and talks with him and Passepartout tells the detective about his master,the bet.Before they left London a thief robbed a bank and stole 20 thousand pounds of gold,so the detective thought that Mr. Fogg is the robber.Mr. Fogg called his servant and said ''we must go to Calcutta as fast as we can.There is no boat from Calcutta to Honk Kong,because of that we're going to Singapore and then to Honk Kong''. When they were going to Calcutta they faced some trouble with the Indians and on their way they saved a girl who's name is Aouda and continued their way. After they reached Singapore Passepartout met the detective again.They entered the boat that was going Honk Kong together.Then the detective invited Passepartout for a drink and they talked about the journey,but Passepartout started drinking too much,so he was drunk the detective took him to his cabin and lock him down.So when Mr. Fogg went to buy some clothes when he returned he didn't found Passepartout,so he was searching for him and they missed the boat to Yokohama.Then they started to search a steamer.They found a little boat that was going to Yokohama.They paid some money to the guy and went to Yokohama.They continued their way through the storm and their reached Yokohama safely.After they reached Yokohama they started to search a big ship.They found one it's called Henrietta.Then when they reached San Francisco they got in a fight with a American group.They went to the railway that was going to  New York. They stayed there for 8 days and in the mourning 10:30am the detective came and asked some questions to Mr. Fogg and arrested him.When he was in jail Passepartout came running towards him(he came to New York by a train,his master left him some money.). He stayed in prison for 1 day and in the mourning he heard sounds  of Passepartout,Aouda and the detective.The detective said to Mr. Fogg '' Sir...it was a mistake a man looked like you arrested in London 5 hours ago''. Then Mr. Fogg calmly went toward the detective and knocked down the detective.Then they went fast enough to the railway and reached London 10 minutes late.Mr. Fogg went down the the Reform Club and wrote down the bank note ''20 thousand pounds of gold''. But Passeparout started to run down to the club and cried '' there was a mistake in a day and we won the bet by 3 minutes''. Then Mr. Fogg married with Aouda and Passepartout lived with them and that's how the story ends.
I learned from this story that if you have a goal whatever your goal is and you want to reach it you can do it  I'm 100% sure.
                                               
        
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                                  End

The Third Man

The name of the book that I read was “The third man”. It was a book about a man named Rollo Martins and his dead friend. Rollo was a novelist, but his friends didn’t like his novels and they used to say that he’s not a real novelist.
One day Rollo decided to visit his friend Harry Lime in Vienna. But he didn’t know that Harry was death. When he was looking for Harry someone said that Harry died. After this Rollo started to think about Harry and asked people about his death. He asked everyone and he searched everywhere. Meanwhile, he met a lot of people who helped him to search for the Third man .Who is a common friend between Rollo and Harry. This mutual friend told Rollo that he was with Harry when three people killed him. However they know only the two of them. They were the people who lived with Harry in the same building. They were Harry’s secret enemies. Unfortunately, they didn’t know who the third man with them was. They thought he was the driver, because Harry was killed in the car. But then they said- ‘Why he wore a mask? ‘
Thus, they realized that something dangerous is missing in this problem. They started to ask people about this and they told the police, but no one could help them.
After this Rollo and the common friend met Harry’s wife. Her name was Anna Schmidt. She was not very nice this is what Rollo was thinking, but after a while he loved Anna. He used to love Anna, but he did not know why.
 Anna helped Rollo and the mutual friend and they discovered that the third man was a ghost.
The interesting part of the book was how Rollo asked everyone about his friend like a detective and how they discovered that there’s a third man in the story who is a ghost.
 Furthermore, I would really love to change the part of the story when Rollo loves Anna, because I think it’s nonsense to love your friend’s wife without knowing why.

Overall, I think the book was interesting because the story was kind of detective and about things that needed to be discovered.
                                   The Hound of The Baskervilles                                                                                               The story is about the curse of the Baskervilles in this story Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson are trying to solve a mysterious death in a small country which kept happening every time to the Baskerville family. Dr. James Mortimer one day went to Sherlock Holmes to ask him to investigate the death of his friend, Charles Baskerville he died in the country of Devonshire near the hall of the Baskerville. Then Dr. Mortimer starts explain how it all started to happen back in 1742 there was a man named Hugo Baskerville he was the leader of that country he had many companions and followers one day he was drunk and he took her maid and locked her into a room the girl was so scared she feared for her life the she jumped out of a window and started running a moments later Hugo found out that girl ran away he jumped on his horse and started chasing her. He was furious not hes soldiers started following him and at the end of the moor they saw the girl she was fallen down and right next to him the body of Hugo which being ripped to pieces by a gigantic hound. After that Sherlock said "do you believe that sir Charles was murdered by a hound" Dr.Mortimer said " I don't know what to believe. But at that night when Sir Charles died I went to investigate what happened I saw footsteps" Sherlock said "it could've been anyone footstep" he responded "It was a footstep of a gigantic hound. I came here because I want you to solve and tomorrow Sir.Charleses nephew is coming to London and he is going to live there i am afraid that the same thing will happen to him" "you and your friend you can come here tomorrow at 10 o'clock and we will discuss what we will do" said Sherlock.     The next morning comes they only discuss if they are going to take the case or not they for 1 hour then Dr.Mortimer and sir Henry had to leave. When they leave Sherlock says to Watson to get read because they were gonna follow them. They go out and see a man watching sir Henry he was a in a cab they memorize the number so they can call the driver. At evening they arrive to sir Henrys hotel they tell him about the man who was stalking him but he says no matter what he is going to Devonshire. Dr.Watson volunteered to go with him so he can learn what is going on there. In the next morning they meet up they take there train and go to Devonshire. Sherlock had told Watson to visit the neighbors and learn about them and investigate the moor. Watson was very loyal to him so everyday he wrote a letter to him describing the place. But one day Watson was writing a letter sir Henry was next to him. It was late at night they started hearing footsteps in the hall and a woman was crying. In there castle only lived a guy named Barrymore there butler and her wife. They go out of the room they see Barrymore holding a candle in front of the window. Barrymore sees them and sir Henry says what are you doing he said nothing but outside the window there was a man. Later Barrymore said that that was his wives brother he said that they always fed him he was homeless because he was a criminal he had escaped from the prison. Barrymore begs to sir Henry to not to tell the police sir Henry says okay. In the morning Watson goes out to explore the guy who lived he explores the place but then sees a small tent there he goes in and as he enters he starts to hear footsteps and it gets closer and closer the man enters Watson sees that it was Sherlock say that he had been staying on the moor for a couple of days. And as he said that they hear a scream they go to see it and they saw a man at first they tought it was sir Henry because the man was wearing sir Henrys cloths but he wasn't It was the criminal on the moor. Sir henry had gifted that cloth to Barrymore and Barymore had given it to the criminal. There was a guy named Stapleton he was right next to the body but he said he had nothing to do with him. Sherlock predicted that he knew about the hound and Stapleton had been stealing sir Henrys stuff and giving to the hound so he can smell it and go to its next kill. On that day Stapleton had invited sir Henry to dinner. Sherlock goes to sir Henry he was suprised to see him. Sherlock said that he and Dr.Watson had to go to London that day. Sir henry was scared because at that night he had to go alone but Sherlock promised to him that nothing will happen but that was a plan they were going to stay there and stalk sir Henry. They go to Stapletons house at night they see that it was time sir Henry had to leave. As he was about to leave a fog started to appear sir Henry left and he started hearing the howl of the hound and he started running then a gigantic howl jumped in front of him. At that moment Watson pulled out hes gun and started shooting but he was missing because the fog was very strong at hes last bullet he fired it and it hit the hound. Sir Henry had fainted from fear. Sherlock entered Stapletons house he caught him and sent him to the police. After that horible night sir Henry had awoken and thanked Sherlock and Watson for saving him. Then Sherlock and Watson take there train and go back to London.                                                                                                                                                                                   I think the story was great and I recommend you to read it. If I was the writer I wouldn't changed anything. The story is perfect the way it is. And keep in my mind I wrote only a few parts of the book. It is very long and every single detail of it is important.