The Last Word

By CoOlKaVe

The last word is the one of short story by Graham Greene. This is a story about the last Pope, John who was downfall move than twenty years earlier with the institution of new world government under General Megrim. The Pop is now a weak old man.

He has forgotten most of his past. Then the General’s officer arrests him because he is the last Pope. The General wants to finish what General Megrim haven’t done it yet. He offers him an opportunity to die with dignity “The last Christian. This is a moment of history”. The two men share a grass of win before the General is shoot him with a gun and John’s last word are “Corpus domini nostri…”.

The Moment of Truth

By CoOlKaVe

The moment of truth is the one of short story by Graham Greene. This is a story about the waiter who falling in love with the guest.

Arthur Burton is a waiter in the Kensington restaurant, which was called Chez Aguste. He falls in love with a guest, but she already gets marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Hogminster are the American couple, which very happy. Burton very closed to this couple because he always gives them an advice. Mrs. Hogminster is very attached to him. He is dreaming about her everyday. Later, Burton founds that he got cancer. He is depressing and feels lost. He is thinking more about Mrs. Hogminster.

Finally, he gets a letter from Mrs. Hogminister. He is very happy because he thought Mrs. Hogminister is caring about him. But the story is upside down, when he opens a letter and he found only coins about three one-pound and a note, which say thank you from Mrs. Dolly Hogminister.

The Man who Stole the Eiffel Tower

By CoOlKaVe

The Man who stole the Eiffel Tower is the one of short story by Graham Greene. This story are quite sarcastic with the social in the present, which very busy and competitive. The people don’t care everything around them because they care only themselves.

The story started with a French man who tells the story. One day, when he looks at the Eiffel Tower and thinks about what going to happen if the Eiffel Tower lost. Does anybody notice that it lost? Everybody are so busy with the business till they forget the person who really close to them.

I like the way that the writer compared the people with a big thing as the Eiffel Tower. I think the message of the writer to the reader is “Even a big thing as the Eiffel Tower lost and no one notice that, so what about if the person next to lost. Will you notice that?

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, which is first published in 1813. This is the story about the Bennet family, which composes of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. They are living outside the London. In this place, they have the law of the land, which all the property could be, inherited by a male heir but the Bennet family has no sons. This cause makes Mrs. Bennet really fearful that if Mr. Bennet is died, she will be rejected from the house. She has to find a man for her daughters as soon as possible before her husband died.

The main characters in the story are Elizabeth Bennet (the heroine) who is the 2^nd daughter of the Bennet family, Mr. Darcy (the hero) who is wealthy, aristocratic, and arrogant, Jane Bennet (the 2^nd heroine) who is Elizabeth’s older sister and she will come to marry with Mr. Bingley (the 2^nd hero) who is a new favors wealthy young gentleman neighborhood and a friend of Mr. Darcy.

The story start with Jane who falls in love with Mr. Bingley but Mr. Darcy and Caroline disagree with Mr. Bingley’s behavior and they think this is too quick. Then invent to have Mr. Bingley go to London. Then Mrs. Bennet makes a plan to send her daughter to visit her uncle and aunt in London.

Elizabeth doesn’t like Mr. Darcy for the first time when she meets him. She thinks Mr. Darcy is really arrogant Elizabeth begins a friendship with Mr. Wickham who is the enemy of Mr. Darcy. The story are more complex when of Mr. Collins who is Mr. Bennet’s clergyman cousin comes to stay with the Bennet family. He tries to propose marriage to Elizabeth but she is refused. From a disappointment, Mr. Collins turns to propose Charlotte (Elizabeth’s friend) marriage and she is accepted.

In London, after Mrs. Bennet sends Jane to visit her brother then Jane meets with Mr. Bingley, she also send Elizabeth to Mr. Collins’s house to meet with Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Then Mr. Darcy comes to tell his feeling to Elizabeth. Then she learn to know more about Mr. Darcy day by day and she has a good new impression with him.

Elizabeth received a letter about her young sister Lydia that she has run away with Mr. Wickham. She really worries about them because both of them don’t have any money. Then she has to leave from Mr. Darcy.

Elizabeth found that Mr. Darcy is the one who responsible for founding of Lydia and Mr. Wickham. He arranges both of them to get marriage and prevent her family reputation form shameful.

In the final, everything becomes better. Mr. Bingley proposes marriage to Jane and move from Netherfield to located near the Darcys in Derbyshire. Elizabeth accepted Mr. Darcy’s proposal, and two become engaged. For the first time Lady Catherine doesn’t like Elizabeth much but over time the relationship becomes better. They live happily ever after.

Reflection

In my opinion, this story has a very classic plot, which is interesting. The conflict between the characters are reasonable. The story's hitch are not complicated, quite easy to understand.

For language, I think it's not too hard and not too easy. I still need to open a dictionary to find the meaning of the words. But I can guess the meaning from the context.

Actually this is not my favorite genre of novel. I don't like to read the romantic-drama novel because I prefer to read the fantasy novel such as Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, but after I read this book, I might change my mind because this kind of story can happen in real life and I can also adapt some consideration point with my life. It might be useful someday when I grow up.