2007年12月13日木曜日

Book Review 2-12

I read the book "THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON". I will review this story.
It was the year 1666. London was an old city with lots of narrow streets. A lot of people were ill because there were rats in all the streets and the houses. One evening, a baker, Tomas and Farriner and his daughter, Harriet, were making bread. They worked quickly because they had to that bread for the king in the morning. Mary who was the barker's maid came to help. They made bread for two hours. Then Mr.Farriner wife, Anne called down to them. She said to them that they should go to bed. Thomas checked the fire was nearly out. He went up to bed, but he did not close the oven door. An hour later the baker's shop was on fire. They realized the fire and escaped from the burning house. But Mary was afraid to jump to the house next door. Thomas tried to help Marry. Just then, someone brought a ladder. Thomas, Anne and Harriet quickly climbed down. Mary could not be helped. There was a strong wind and the fire spread quickly to more houses in Pudding Lane. Just then twenty fire fighters arrived and began to bring to put water on the fire. But the fire was out of control and soon all the houses in Pudding Lane were on fire. People in the city were hurry to find the Lord Mayor. In a different part of London, Samuel Pepys was asleep in his bed. Pepys worked for the government and at home wrote a diary every day. At three o’clock in the morning, his maid came to his room and waked him up. Pepy went to the window and looked out across London. He saw a big fire. Pepy tried to go back to bed, but she did not allow him to do that. Pepy quickly put on his clothes. He went to the Tower of London. Near the Tower, he met his good friend, Richard Moore. They climbed up the hill to the Tower. Big clouds of smoke were beginning to spread across London. Belles were ringing from every church in the city. They also ran down to the River Thames to help people. They arrived at the river. Crowds of people were running down to the riverbank. The fire was in the next street then. Families left their houses with hands full. They were carrying their things away from the fire. Everybody wanted a boat on the river. A man found the Farriner family, but the family left quickly and went down the river in the boat. Pepy and Moore walked nearer to the fire. There were clouds of smoke, and thousands of rats were in the street. They were running from the burning houses. Just then, they met twenty fire fighters outside a burning building. They were putting water on the fire but it was spreading quickly. Pepys asked the chief fire fighter whether he could stop or not. He answered he could not do. He also said that he needed to ask the Lord Mayor, but nobody knew where he was. Pepys and Moore had to speak to the King. That’s why they tried to go up the river to Whitehall Palace. They went quickly up the River Thames. It was morning but the sky was black with clouds of smoke. The find was stronger, and many streets were on fire. The houses on London Bridge were burning fast, and people were jumping into the river. They arrived at the Palace of Whitehall. A crowd of men was standing outside the door. They were all talking excitedly. One guard cried that the King wanted to see Samuel Pepys. Pepys went into the King’s room. He told the King about the fire well. The king wrote a letter and asked him to give it to Thomas Bludworth was the Lord Mayor. Pepys and Moore went outside at once and jumped into the King’s coach. They drove madly through the narrow streets. In the end, Pepys found the Lord Mayor and gave him the King’s letter. The Mayor wanted to pull down houses near the fire but nobody listened to him because people did not wanted to lose their houses. Just then some of the King’s soldiers arrived. As son as the soldiers came, the Mayor came home quickly. The soldier began to pull down houses and blow up shops. It was nine o’clock on Sunday evening. Pepys and Moore went home. For three more days the Great Fire of London burned. Frightened people and hungry rats ran madly through the streets. The fire spread to the most important houses and churches in the city. Old St. Paul’s Cathedral burned day and night. Day after day the fire fighters and soldiers worked to stop the fire. On the fourth day the wind changed direction and the fire slowly stopped. The fire fighters stood and watched for the first time in days. Many people came back to look for their houses and shops, but they found nothing. At home Pepys began to write about the fire in his diary. He knew the government had to work a lot to help the people of London. Five days later, Pepys and Moore climbed up the tower of the last church in the center of London. There was nothing in the city, but only nine people died. Fifty years later London was a very different city. There were no more old narrow streets in the city center, but beautiful wide streets instead. The most important thing was there were no more rats.
This story was short, but my book review was too long. I did not know that history of London. I have never been to London, so I want to go there in the future. I especially want to go to Big Ben because it is only place that I know in London. I also want to go to Glasgow!!

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