SYNOPSIS
In the first story, called Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, there’s a rich man called Arthur who is going to marry a woman named Sybil. At first, he looks like a secondary character, but he becomes main after getting his palm read by a palm reader. According to him, he is destined to murder someone but he doesn’t want to get married before killing a soul, as he knows he is a murderer. During the story I thought he wouldn't try to kill anyone as he is a rich man with a great reputation, but he acts in an unexpected way attempting to kill his cousin by pretending to give her medicine, or pushing the palm-reader to the river in order to have a clear conscience and marry his beloved. The fact that this reading will continue being relevant or important in the future is that Oscar Wilde, the main writer of these stories, will be remembered for making stories with unexpected endings to surprise the readers and also for showing how people react to different situations as the main characters in the books did. For example, the situation of the king Arthur after knowing “he will be a murderer”, Hughie after seeing a man dressed “poor” or the Young king wearing his goat-herd clothes to his coronation. This following passage from the second story, called The Model Millionaire, describes the setting of a man who is being portrayed: “When Hughie entered, he found his friend busy painting. He was putting the finishing touches to a wonderful life-size picture of a beggar man. The beggar was sitting on a raised platform in a corner of the studio. He looked like a wise old man with a very wrinkled face and a sorrowful expression. An old, torn brown cape was thrown over his shoulders, and his boots had big holes in them. He held an old stick in one hand, while with the other hand he extended a hat for alms.” If I could interview the author of the reading, I would ask him why he wrote stories with unexpected endings. I really liked the closings, since I had different ideas of how the stories would develop. I might think his response would be that he wanted to surprise the book lovers to get them interested in his stories, and that would help boost reading in a world full of technology.
PERSONAL OPINION
I particularly liked the book since it is not just one story, there are three which haven’t got any connection. That makes each narrative more interesting and fun because of the different themes which are related and also for the reason the characters are non-identical. They were described and given a function to teach something about the reality of people. And last but not least, I really liked, as I mentioned before, the unexpected endings which were given due to the ideas I already had in mind of how they would end. From my point of view, I would recommend this reading to those who want to improve their English skills and comprehension.
REVIEW by ISABELA PRIALA
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