Crispin

1. In this book, the boy who was named Crispin is a main character. He was just a young and pleasant boy whose mother's name is Asta. Before his mother died, his name was just Asta's son. Later, his real name was revealed. It's 'Crispin'. His mother was not respected by the villagers. Even though she had passed away, nobody pitied her. The day after his mother's funeral, everything had changed dangerously.

2. He is a wolf's head because John Aycliffe spread the rumors like that. He did nothing wrong but the said that he stole money.

3. I think Crispin might be the son of the lord or king. According to what Father Quinel said, Asta could read and write but she pretended like she couldn't read or write at all. I guess if a woman was educated that time, she must be from a wealthy and welfare family. On the other hands, Crispin was baptized. It does mean that his father was the lord or in high level.

4. I think he is going to another village which is situated far from the previous village where he had been living in. Otherwise, he would be arrested by John Aycliffe. I guess Crispin will meet someone and go on a journey with him (or her).

The Red Tree

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein

In ESL class, we read a book called "The Red Tree". This book was about our depressing life. In this book, there is a girl who has her own red tree. However, it was not as same as the normal tree. There was only one black leaf in her room. It made her very depressed. She always failed whenever she was trying to do something. Sometimes, she was totally ignored as though she was invisible person. Whenever, she didn't succeed of achieving her goal, her room was covered with the black leaves. One day, when she came back home hopelessly, she found the red tree which represents 'hope'.

After reading this story, I was impressed. I strongly agreed with this story because sometimes, i feel like I am being ignored by someone. There is a lot of sad things happen in my life also. When that happens, I am always frustrated and don't know what to do. Therefore, I found my red tree to make me feel better.

My red tree is Korea. This is because Korea is my homecountry. After coming to Malaysia, I realized that Korea really did comfort me. Whenever I was in Korea, I felt that I am free like a flying bird and I felt really comfortable. Also, I could buy anything I wanted in Korea. I am really missing Korea.

Mr Linden's libraray

You would not believe what had happened to her. What 0n earth could the picture of the book turn up as a real figure by itself. Ok wait, let me explain to you. Of course, she was warned to take care of that book very carefully, but how could it be possible? Here is the TRUE story.

When the weather was extremely hot, a girl who was named Melissa, sprinted to the library near by Neitherfield. She loves to read books. The first thing that she did after waking up from her bed was hopping to the library which was situated near her house. However, that day, the library was totally changed. It was neither clean nor new. It was not the library that she usually went to. She blew up all the floating dust around the library. She tiptoed on the window. There was on bearded old man glancing at her. No one was reading or sitting in that library except for the old man. The old man waved Melissa to come in. She stepped inside carefully.

"Which book are you looking for, dear?" asked the old man with cracking voice.

"I......I need a fiction-book." mumbled Melissa.

"The fiction books are listed over there on the third bookself. You can also borrow them."

Melissa was really confused. Where is the library that Melissa usually went to? Melissa started to search a book with curiosity. As she looked around, she discovered an enormous book at the corner of the bookself. It was twice bigger than a normal book. The title was "The Spirits of the Trees".

"Oh, I found a great one! This was the book that I was looking for!" exclaimed Melissa.

As on bearded old man noticed the book that Melissa was going to borrow, he was perplexed.

"Oh, dear, this book is a bit......,"said an old man and ceased. After few minutes, he suddenly shouted delightfully.

"Ok, well! Good! I knew that this book would be borrowed by someone in someday because this book has not been borrowed for many years! This book will be very astonishing. However, there is one thing that you should remind when you read this book. Do not just sleep when the book is being opened. I said DO NOT," warned an old man.

Melissa thought that an old man was a bit weird and extraordinary. Anyways, she promised not to sleep with the opened book. After arriving at her house, she totally forgot the promise.

"Phew...that old man was really scary," sighed Melissa. She lied down on her bed and started to read over. The book was really astonishing and fascinating. However, she fell asleep with the opened book. Suddenely, the house started to shake extremely and the trees on the book turned up. Melissa was just getting to her feet without a word. She didn't know what had happened. She was neither in her bed nor her house. She was in totally different world that she had never visited before. She realized that she was standing in the middle of the forest with the book. There was a sign posted in front of the entrance. In a few second, she knew that she was in "Trees' World".

It was all green. Nothing was in that area. Only trees. Only trees were existing. Yet, trees were too sensitive. They neglected Melissa entering in Trees' World because humans have been destroying and cutting them violently. All trees started to shake and move towards Melissa. She sprinted as fast as she could. Despite of her trying, she was caught by trees. They squeezed Melissa's body with their stamps. She was about to pass out. Fortunately, she wiped the piece of paper of book. She was in her room with an opened book.