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The next book I choose for my extensive reading is “The Great Gatsby”. This story was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. This is a story about one rich but miserable man, Gatsby. And, this story represents the Americans dream. This is a concept of success in America. The people is 1900, tried to get their dream by making use of their opportunities also, they believe hard-working and making effort will read their success. The readers who dream own American dream was attached very much and this story became popular and popular. Do you know how famous this story is in many countries? This story is not just a novel. Many countries of course in Japan, make this to the movie or musical. And there are so many fans of this story. I didn’t read the whole of this book, but I may be a fan of it. The beginning of 39pases was about Gatsby’s great life. He came back from the war and met very beautiful woman, Daisy. To get her interest, he built huge wealth in very short time. Furthermore, to ma...

This week, the story became deeper and more interesting and more complex. There were a lot of characters in this story so I was little confused some times. Now I’d like to introduce the main original characters. Great Gatsby    Mein character of this story. He is a fabulously wealthy young men living in a gothic mansion in west egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. Nick This story’s narrator, Nick is a young man from Minnesota who after being educated at Yale and fighting in WWI goes to NY to learn the bound business. Honest tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confident for those with troubling secrets. Daisy Nick’s cousin and the women Gatsby lives. As a young woman in Louisville before the war. Daisy was courted by a number of officers including Gatsby.

This week, I’ll introduce the happy end of this story. The last scene we can see some happy ends. 1 By using time magic and music, Paulina made Hermionie wake up from stone. Leontes were very surprised but he felt supreme happiness. Hermionie accepted his apologies and they had a big cuddle for the first time in 16 years. For Pardita, this was first time for her to meet her mother. To see Pardita is overcoming with emotion, her mother came closer and gently said “please tell me about your past life” this is one of my favorite scenes. 2 Leontes removed Polixenes’s misunderstanding and they became friends again.  3 Polixenes accepted Perdita and Florizel’s marriage When Polixenes found his son Florizel is dating with the Perdita, the girl brought up by a Sheperd, he blamed them bitterly. But at the end, it was appeared that Perdita is a royal lineage. To read this scene, I remembered our senior’s play in Shakespeare Production. This scene was so impressed...

This week, I’d like to mention my favorite words ↓ For you there’s rosemary and rue;these keep seeming and savior all the winter long あなたにはローズマリーとヘルダーを。この花は冬の間中、色と香りを失いません。 This is one of the famous and my favorite line in this story. We can see this line in the scene, Perdita gave flowers to Polixenes and Camilo at the festival. People got the God’s blessing and gifts from the land. If you saw the our senior’s stage, you can easily imagine, this scene is very beautiful and full of love, happiness and blessings. Of course, this was my favorite scene! 🌸🌸🌸 when I found this word in the book, I remembered the Shakespeare Production’s stage. How cute our senior who play Perdita was… ❤ Her voice was not only cute! That include feeble, neatness and so on!! Here come those I have done good to against my will, and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune 彼らがやってきた！そんなつもりはなかったのに、彼らに善を施してしまった！まるで運命の花盛りだよ This is Autofocus(a roguish peddler, vagabond and pickp...

This week, the set of this story moved to Bohemia after Camilo and Polixenes’ escape. In this country, a lot of fantastic characters. Like Autrycus or Shepherd or merry girls and boys.I introduce my best three in the story!!! 1 Partita The daughter of Leontes and Hermioni. Because her father believes her to be illegitimate, she is abandoned as a baby on the coast of Bohemia. And brought up by Shepherd. Unaware of her loyal lineage. She falls in love with the Bohemia Prince Florizel. 2 Frorizel Policies’s only son and heir. He falls in love with Perdita. Unaware of her loyal ancestry and defies his father by eloping with her. 3 Paulina (from Sicily) A Nobel’s woman of Sicily. She is fierce her defense of Hermione’s virtue and unrelenting in her condemnation of Leontes after Hermione’s death. She is also the agent of the apparently dead Queen’s resurrection. If I were a member of this year’s Shakespeare Production, I want to play Pardita! She is one o...

The next book I choose for my extensive reading is The Winter’s Tale. The story is this year’s Shakespeare Production’s script. I was very very very impressed by the stage and that story became one of my favorite stories. So I want to try this book. I know this is too difficult for me but I want to try as far as I can. (this is not the original wark but easier edited one) This is the story about love, time, fortune and destiny. The king of Sicilia, Leontes suddenly misunderstood that his wife Hermione and the king of Bohemia, Polixenes loved each other. He was driven by jealousy and forced his loyal vassal Camilo to murder Polixenes by poisoning. However, Camilo said the truth to Polixenes and escape from Bohemia together. To know their escape, Leontes‘s rage became bigger and bigger. He locked her wife in imprisonment and he ordered to throw the new girl (Perdita)away at the wilderness. In the end, Hermione dead because of the shock and own miserable disgrace. Piling up of traged...