Haruka's English Blog

   I read "THE DREAM AND OTHER STORIES." As the title, this book consists of short stories.      I think that a story  "The Blind Man" is most interesting. I will tell you the story. Isabel and her husband, Maurice, were waiting for  their friend Bertie. Maurice had been blinded in the wer in France and he had been home for a year because he was badly scarred and totally blind. He became despairing. His wife tried to give her hussband some further connection with the outside world so she invited their old friend. Bertie is kind, but also weak. He became a successful lawyer, a rich man and a great social success but he was ashemed of himself because he couldn't marry.    The three of them enjoyed dinner together. Afterwards, Maurice left the house and Bertie went out to check on him. Then, the blind man asked Bertie fo permission to touch him. Maurice expllained Bertie's skull, face, and arm. He then asksed Bertie to touch his eyes and scar. The experience

   I read “The moneymaker.” As written, this story is about money.    John Law was gambler, murderer and adventure. He tried to spread an idea of paper money in Paris.   Before the paper money invented, people used  gold and silver as way to buy things in Europe. But there were not many gold and silver so countries had to pay back a lot of debt. Law thought that the paper money system is the only way to solute the problem. He had many good feiends but also had many enemies. Good friends helped him to spead his idea, enemies tried to disturb him. He overcame many difficulties and he was very lucky man. He lost all his money once, but he always won gambling and got a huge amount of money. However, when he was dead, the paper money system was still doubtful.    Paper money system is normal to us now, I can't imagine the world that we don't use paper money.    This book was difficult for me because level is 5 and the story is very long so it took long time to finished reading.