The Prince & The Pauper
By Sammuel Clemmons
Cait Poulin
6th grader
Van Antwerp Middle School
I enjoyed reading this book and I would recommended it to you. Right now
you are probably thinking that we didn't really like any of these books
and we're just typing this because it's a school asignment and we have to
but really this is a choise asignment. Any of the books you are reading
about in here are good trust me. And to really find out you can read the
book.
In the book a lot of twisted mixed up things happen . Problems they have
to solve that you feel you have to solve too. You want to help them get
around the bad guys when you are helpless and even though you know it's
just a book a part of you feels it isen't and it starts to come alive inside
you.
So read the book and I don't mean the Micky Mouse vertion.
Go ahead read it.
Anna Stein
7th Grader
Van Antwerp Middle School
I liked the book The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain. It didn't seem
too realistic, but had some events that could occur-an abusive father, a
runaway meeting up with a band of thieves, or a prince learning what it
was to be one of the "little people".
This novel was about a boy who switched places with the prince of Whales.
The main conflict was that they were trying to get back to their rightful
place in the world, but no one would believe the prince when he claimed
he was the king f England, and everyone thought Tom, the pauper, was going
crazy in the head, for he claimed he was a fraud, not the king! (they had
switched places, so no one cold tell that the were who they claimed.) But
while this was happening, the two boys learned about lives they had never
dreamed of. So, of course, there was also a moral in this story.
I thought that this book was very good. Though, the plot was strange, and
it was written in old English, I was spell bound by all the events that
occurred, such as when the prince met up with a band of brigands, or when
he lived for a day in a peasants hut, and especially when a crazed old man
tried to kill him, thinking himself to be an angel fallen from the sky who's
duty was to kill the king of England.
And so, if you want to read a challenge, The Prince & the Pauper is
a wonderful choice. It is also interesting, and though I don't usually read
classics, I enjoyed it.
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