1D BOOK REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice by Estibaliz Sanz Buerba

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esbuerba — 2016-12-20 09:47:25 UTC

BOOK REPORT:
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Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
Recommend? Why? Why not?

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?
Your star rating for this book: * ** *** **** *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2016-12-26 16:45:14 UTC

Student's Name: Ane Portugal
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters: Mr and Mss Bennet (parents); Elizabeth, Jane and Lydia Bennet (daughters); Charles Bingley (rich man); Mr Darcy (Charles´ best friend).

Story Setting: The story was set in the 19th century in a rural England, in which there were many differences between poor and rich society. Rich people used to live in big estates and poor people worked for them.
There was a big difference between men and wimen; men were allowed to do everything they wanted; wimen instead, could only stay at home trying to make their husbands happy.
Engagements were made by families in order to obtain a big amount of money. A rich person could not marry a poor one as this one could not give any money to the other one. Moreover, it would be a dishonor for the whole family.

Plot: Mrs Bennet was a mother whose dream was to see her five daughters married with rich men. She was glad that a new not married and rich neighbour has arrived, because it existed the possibility that he got engaged with one of their daughters. All the family was invited to a party were Jane was able to meet Mr Bingley (the new neighbour) and fall in love with him. Some days later, she was invited by Charles sister to their house, but in the trip she got ill and had to stay there for a few days. In that period of time Elizabeth went to visit her as she was worried and was able to meet Charles best friend: Mr Darcy.
When the two sisters returned home, Mr Bennet told all the family that his cousin, Mr Collins, was going to visit them. Surprisingly, he wanted to marry Jane, but Mrs Bennet told him that she was going soon be engaged by Charles, so she proposed to marry Elisabeth. However, she refused to marry with that man who she did not love.
Mr Wickham was a handsome officer who lived in a nearby town and who had suffered a lot as Mr Darcy had done horrible things to him.
One day, Jane received a letter which said that Charles had gone to London. For that reason, Jane was depressed and decided to spend some time with Mr and Mrs Gardiner (their aunt and uncle).
Elizabeth decided to visit one friend, who was now Mr Collins wife. During her stay, they were all invited to Mr Darcy´s house. Unexpectedly, Mr Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth, but astonished, she said no immediately, as she knew what kind of person Mr Darcy was. After that, Elizabeth received a letter from him where he explained that he was not the bad person. He explained that Mr Wickham spent all the money that Mr Darcy´s father had left him and he was still asking more. As he did not obtain anything, he wanted to marry Mr Darcy´s 15-year-old sister to get a fortune from her. But obviously, Mr Darcy did not allow that and for that everybody looked at him as he was the bad guy.
Elizabeth realized that she was wrong and decided to apologize for her thoughts.
Lydia Bennet, and innocent girl scape with Mr Wickham thinking that he loved her. Living with a man without being married was a dishonor for the family, for that reason he asked a lot of money to the Bennet family if they wanted him to marry her in order to improve that situation. Mr Darcy decided to pay that money to help Elizabeth. With that action Elizabeth realized that she was wrong at refusing getting married with him.
At the end, Charles came back and married whit Jane as he always had wanted, and so Elizabeth and Mr Darcy did.

Main events: Mr Collins (Mr Bennet´s cousin) wanted to marry Elizabeth Bennet, but she refused to marry with such a boring man. In the end, Mr Collins married Charlotte, Elizabeth´s friend.
Despite Jane was in love with Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy persuaded Charles not to marry her as she was not suitable for her. However, some years later, everything came to clear and they got engaged.
Mr Darcy, who seemed to be a horrible person in the beginning, was an honorable man who fell in love with Elizabeth.
Elizabeth got the wrong impression about him as Mr Wickham had told her bad things about him. But in the end the situation changed, Mr Wickham wanted to marry Mr Darcy´s young sister to get revenge and Mr Darcy was just a man trying to protect her loving sister. Finally Elizabeth and Mr Darcy got married.
Lydia, one of the youngest and most innocent sisters who was only 16, married with Mr Wickham, who asked for a large amount of money for that marriage and Mr Darcy decided to pay it as he knew that Bennet family did not have much money.

Story conclusion: At the end Mr Bennet almost gets everything she wanted: 3 of her daughters got married!
Elizabeth realized that Mr Darcy was a kind man who had not been treated as he deserved. She changed her mind about him and regretted not accepting his proposal; for that reason she apologized and all the truth came out.
On the other hand, Charles decided to return from London and finally the truth came out another time: Jane and Charles were both bad informed; she thought that he left the town because he was going to marry Mr Darcy´s sister; and Charles left because he thought that Jane did not love him and because he was told that her intention was only to get money.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story: One fact that has called my attention in this book, is the part where Mrs Bennet told her daughter Elizabeth to marry his father cousin. With that scene I believe how the families were at that time; young ladies were forced to marry old men and to serve them their whole life. Girl’s opinions were not considered and it did not matter if they did not love each other or if he was a bad person who might not treat his wife properly; the only thing which mattered was if they had money to live without worrying.
Hopefully that does not happen any more!

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
It took me less than a cople of hours to read it. It was not difficult to read, the vocabulary was easy and it could be easily understood.

Recommend? Why? Why not?
I would recommend this book as it is short and easy to read so it is a good one to start reading in English. Moreover, the story is enternaining and many people would like it.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?
I enjoyed the book a lot! It is a great and fascinating story written in a short way, which is very efficient as is difficult to get bored. One of the parts that I liked the most is when Mr Darcy explains the truth in a letter to Elizabeth. It is a sincere moment where we realize what kind of person Mr Darcy is, and from this moment I started to like him.
I learnt that first impressions should not be as important as they are, as a person might not be as you think for one thing they have done. Apart from that, I learnt how the society of the 19th century was. They could not live as they wanted; they had to follow some strict rules which made their lives unfortunate, such as the obligation to marry with a person they did not love.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-03 10:23:00 UTC

Student's Name: Ane Garcia Garcia
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters: Parents: Mr and Mrs Bennet
Daughters: Elizabeth,Jane, Lydia and Kitty Bennet
Uncles: Mr and Mrs Gardiner
Charles and Caroline Bingley
Mr Darcy
Wickham
Story Setting: This history was set in the 19th century, in this period the marriage was very important to poor families. When you were marrying a rich man, you honor to your family and you live very well.

Plot: Bennet´s family is not very rich and they heard that a very rich man called Charles Bingley is come to live in Netherfield Park and he´s not married. All the family are invited to the party and in there Mr Bingley put a particular attention in Jane.By contrast, Darcy says bad things of Elizabet and she listens to him for accident. A few days later, Jane receives a letter of Caterine(the sister of Mr Bingley) where she says to him that she should be going to his house with them. In the way, Jane get ill and she has to remain a few days more. Elizabeth worried , is going to visit his sister and meets Darcy.
When the two womens return to his house, his father says to them that his cousin , Mr Collins, is going to visit them. Mr Collins goes to talk with Mrs Bennet and he says to him that it wants to marry Jane but the mother says to him that Jane will marry soon and she proposes him to ask Elizabeth for marriage. The following morning, she rejects him and he marries with the best friend of Elizabeth.
A handsome man so calles Wickham, was living in a nearby city and he tells to Elizabeth a terrible things about Darcy.
One day anyone, Jane receives a letter that it says that Bingley is going to live to London, she gets depressed and his sister, Elizabeth says to her that should go away with his uncles to London, in there she´ll be better.
Elizabeth decides to visit her best friend,Charlotte. In his visit, the two womans and Mr collins are invited to Darcy´s house. When they came there, Elizabeth and Darcy remain alone and he asks for marriage him, she rejects him because she hates him. In the night, Darcy writes a letter to her where it tells the truth. He don´t treat badly Wickham, he wanted to take advantage of his money,even he wanted to marry his sister.
Elizabeth realizes that she is a good person and she loves him.After this, she receives a letter , her sister scapes to London with Wickham without permission, she dishonor the family and they need Elizabeth and she returns to her house. Wickham asks a lot of money to the Bennet family to marry with their daughter,Lydia. Mr Darcy decides to pay everything to help a poor family and Elizabeth.

Finally, Mr Bingley returns and he asks to Jane to marry with him and she agrees. On the other hand, Mr Darcy returns to Elizabeth and her, agrees!!!

Main Events: Mr Bingley goes to London and Jane gets depressed, but she doesn´t know that Mr Bingley went away because Mr Darcy persuaded him that she wasn´t the suitable woman.After some years, they get married.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh heards a rumor that Elizabeth will marry Mr Darcy and persuades Elizabeth to agree not to marry. Lady Catherine wants Mr Darcy to marry her daughter (his cousin) Anne DeBourgh, but Elizabeth refuses her demands. Disgusted, Lady Catherine leaves, promising that the marriage can never take place, but Elizabeth after reading Darcy´s letter, she realizes that he isn´t a bad person, he is a noble man and he helps to many people. The liar was Wickham. At the end, Darcy and Elizabeth get married.

Story conclusion: Finally, three daughters get married and they live very well with rich mens.
Lydia after she goes, she returns to her house with Wickham and they
eat in house. She tells them that they get married and she is very happy with him, and they return to London.
After this, Mr Bingley returns and Bennet family did not receive him well and but after speaking with Jane ,he proposed to Jane to get married and she agrees.
The Elizabeth feelings for Darcy had changed from dislike to love, and after talk with Mr Bennet they are engaged and life is very goos for the Bennet family.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story: A fact that impressed me much was when Mr Darcy said bad things to Charles about Jane without know her because at the finally of the story Mr darcy is a very noble man.
In my opinion this story is interesant, because I like this type of books and also talks about romance stories. In the whole book, it reflects the live in this age and it´s very interesant.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand? To read this book only I have had to be a few hours. I have not found any difficulty, it is easy to understand it because the vocabulary is easy.

Recommend? Why? Why not?
I recommend this book because the reading is easy and fast and also the story is very interesant, it talks about romantics, adventurous facts....

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything? I like this book , my favourite part was when Elizabeth reads Darcy's letter and realizes that she loves him because sometimes get a little carried away and we can get confused.
Yes, I have learned about this period and the difference between poor and rich families

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-03 11:59:03 UTC

Student's Name: Ane Miren Mogollón

BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen

Major Characters:

Fitzwilliam Darcy/ Georgiana Darcy/ Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Charles Bingley/ Caroline Bingley

William Collins

Sr. Bennet / Sra. Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet / Lydia Bennet/ Mary Bennet/ Catherine Bennet/ Jane Bennet

George Wickham

Charlotte Lucas

Sra. Gardiner/ Sr. Gardiner

Story Setting: The novel is set in the 19th century in England. It is set principally in Longbourn, the Hertfordshire country town that is a mile from Meryton and twenty-four miles from London.

PLOT: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five unmarried daughters. The family is not rich. The main concern of Mrs. Bennet’s life is to see that all her daughters are married, preferably to men with large fortunes. She sees an opportunity for her eldest daughter Jane when Mr. Charles Bingley, a wealthy gentlemen from the city, occupies the nearby estate of Netherfield Park. In her excitement, she urges her husband to visit Mr. Bingley on the very first day of his arrival, before any of the other neighbors.
At the next social gathering, Bingley brings along his two sisters, Caroline Bingley and Louisa Hurst, and his friend Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Bingley, who is charming and social, is immediately attracted to the modest and gentle Jane Bennet. Darcy, in contrast to Bingley, is proud, rude, and disagreeable. When Bingley suggests that Darcy dance with Elizabeth Bennet, he refuses her.
Jane and Bingley continue to be attracted to one another. Caroline Bingley invites Jane to Netherfield for a visit. While at Netherfield, Jane falls ill and Elizabeth comes to look after her sister.

Mr. Collins pays a visit to Longbourn with the intention of proposing marriage to one of the Bennet daughters. Collins is attracted to Jane, but Mrs. Bennet informs him that she is about to be engaged. He then turns his attention to Elizabeth and makes a ridiculous proposal of marriage to her. Elizabeth rejects him.

Bingley and his companions soon depart for London. Both Bingley and Caroline write to Jane to say that they have closed Netherfield and have no plans of returning to it in the near future. Jane is very disappointed. Elizabeth finds a new attraction. She meets Mr. Wickham and is foolishly and magnetically drawn to him. They have a friendly conversation in which she reveals her dislike of Darcy.

Elizabeth goes to Hunsford to visit Mr. Collins and his new wife Charlotte, who is Elizabeth’s dear friend. During Elizabeth’s stay in Hunsford, Darcy happens to visit his aunt, who also lives there, and attempts to build a relationship with Elizabeth.
To her surprise, Darcy proposes marriage to her that Elizabeth turns him down indignantly. She asks him how he dares to propose to her after separating Jane and Bingley, who were in love with each other. He explains to her that he did not believe that Jane was really in love with Bingley. He also tells her the truth about Wickham.

Her youngest sister Lydia has been invited to Brighton by a young officer’s wife. To top it all, Ms. Reynolds, the housekeeper who has known Darcy since his childhood, speaks very highly of him, saying he is just and fair. Elizabeth cannot believe that she has made such a mistake in judging his character. As Elizabeth is looking over Pemberley’s lovely grounds, Darcy himself appears, returning a day before he is expected. He looks surprised to see Elizabeth, and she is intensely embarrassed. He is polite to her and the Gardiners, and Elizabeth notices that there is no trace of pride in him.

STORY CONCLUSION: The following day, Bingley calls on Elizabeth, about Jane indicate that he is still in love with her. Darcy and his beautiful sister, Georgiana, also call on Elizabeth at the inn to invite her and the Gardiners to dinner. Elizabeth accepts the dinner invitation. During the dinner, Caroline tries her best to destroy the friendly relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth by running down Elizabeth’s family, but she does not succeed. Darcy is fond of Elizabeth.

Bingley makes an unannounced reappearance at Netherfield Park, and renews his courtship of Jane. They are soon engaged. Lady Catherine also arrives unannounced and acts very haughty towards the Bennet family. She threatens Elizabeth with dire consequences if she marries Darcy, but Elizabeth refuses to promise that she will not accept a proposal from Darcy. A few days later, Darcy comes to visit and makes a second proposal of marriage to Elizabeth. This time she accepts wholeheartedly. He thanks Elizabeth for teaching him the lesson of humility.

MAIN EVENTS:The party where Bingley meets Jane. When Mrs Collin asks for Elizabeth's marriage, Elizabeth's meeting with Mr Wickham, Darcy's statement at the church, The meeting with Darcy, and when she meets her sister.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story: My opinion on this story has been really good. The drama of the story as it has happened has made you hook to the end!

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?It has taken me to read it a few days calmly, but it didn´t seem to me at all difficult, the book is well done and is understood quite well.

Recommend? Why? I would recommend it as it has been entertaining and especially if you like love books this is one of the best. Also, reading is easy to understand

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything? If I liked the book and personally the part that I liked the most was the statement of Darcy to Elizabeth, I think that although the first that was not tastefully following the story has seen what Darcy made Elizabeth and that has seemed very sensible and romantic. The end is amazing.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-05 13:25:36 UTC

Student´s Name: Gabriela Gonzalez
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Major Characters:
Elizabeth´s parents:
Mr and Mrs Bennet
Daughters:
Elizabeth ,Jane , Lydia and Kitty Bennet
Uncles:
Mr and Mrs Gardiner
The rich familes:
- Charles ( The rich man who starts living near the Bennet ) and Caroline Bingley ( Mr Bingley´s sister )
- Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy ( Mr Bingley´s best friend ) and Mrs Georgina Darcy ( Mr Darcy´s sister )
Antagonist:
George Wickham
Others:
William Collins, Charlotte Lucas and Lady Catherine de Bourgh

STORY SETTING:

Jane Austen´s Pride and Prejudice is set around the beginning of the 19th century in different locations of a rural England really divided because of its society and life philosophy. During the story the author reflects a common situation that used to take place during the century where the book it´s set, where women who were not rich had to make sure to get engaged to someone with enough money to sustain them and take them out (in many cases from misery). This happened, somehow, as women in that period couldn´t come into the family´s fortune, and therefore they completely depended on their husbands, and any event where single men were attending to turned into a desperate attempt for getting a husband. On the other hand, the book reflects a society which slowly starts to reduces its differences between poor and wealthy people, as events such the one the Bennet sisters attend to, full of the well-to-do it wasn´t a common thing.

PLOT:

Mrs. Bennet, sees the marriage as the only option for her five daughters, as they couldn´t come into the fortune the family possess after Mr. Bennet´s death, and they will be leave high and dry when their cousin Williams Collins will take possession of everything the family owns; (we have to bear in mind that in that period, a woman couldn´t inherit and everything was left for the closest male familiar a family had).

That´s why the day that Mrs. Bennet´s hears the news of the arrival of a single gentleman from the city, can´t avoid to urge her husband to go to meet him so later on, she can introduce one of her daughters, and hopefully marry one of them with him. Although at the beginning nobody really knows him, the rumors that he owns a large fortune don´t take long to spread as seems that he has rented the estate of Netherfield, where he is planning to spend some time with her two sisters (Mrs. Bingley and Mrs. Hurst as well as her brother – in- law Mr. Hurst).

After a short period of time from his arrival, Mr. Bingley and his group accompanied by his close friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, attend to a public event in a town called Meryton, where the five daughters of Mrs. Bennet, don´t doubt to go in order to meet the newcomers.

Even though at the beginning Darcy arouse admiration because of his physical and the huge fortune he owns, quickly people starts to judge him as an arrogant person who mistreats people who belong to lower level in society (and actually, that´s the impression that the young Elizabeth Bennet gets, when by chance hears that the wealthy man doesn´t want to dance with her as she seems to not be pretty enough for him). On the other hand, Mr. Bingley it´s a pleasant man, who dances with a lot of ladies of the place but he specially seems to have gotten attached to Jane Bennet (the oldest of the sisters). After the event, Jane is invited to Netherfield, where she gets pneumonia. In order to take care of her Elizabeth has no more remedy that go to the estate on foot which provokes the mockery of Mr. Bingley´s sisters and admiration on Darcy.

Some days after the event took place, Mr. Collins, who will inherit the assets of the family, visits the family. Following the advice of his employer the countess Lady Catherine of Bourgh, he decides to get marry with one of his cousins, and knowing the fact that the oldest sister might get engaged with Mr. Bingley, Collins asks Elizabeth to marry him, although she rejects him.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth starts feeling attracted to an official who has recently come to the town, called George Wickham, who claims to have been private of his legitimacy by Mr. Darcy, which makes stronger the feeling of rejection he has against Darcy, because of the prejudices she had towards him. So are the negative feelings she has that when suddenly Bingley decides to return to London, letting Jane down, and explaining only by a letter wrote by Caroline Bingley, that they will be spending the whole winter in London; Elizabeth can´t avoid thinking that Darcy has part of the fault in the decision made by Mr. Bingley.

Time later, when Elizabeth visits her friend Charlotte, who finally has gotten married with his cousin Collins after she rejected him and who knows lives under the control of Darcy´s aunt, Lady Catherine, she surprisingly find him. During their stance together, Darcy ends up announcing his feelings towards her but wounded on her pride after discovering that he has convinced Mr. Bingley so he stopped his relation with Jane and still judging him by what his friend Wickham had told her about Darcy her rejects him.

The following day, Darcy gives her a letter where he explains him that everything he had done, hadn´t been with a bad intention and that if he had told his friend to broke up with Jane had been because he had mix up the discreet behavior of Jane with disinterest and thinking that his friend didn´t mean anything to her. He reveals, nevertheless, the real way of being of Wickham and how he forced him to give all the money he was going to inherent all in once and how after spending it, and seeing he won´t receive more money from him, he tried to escape with Darcy´s young sister Georgiana, in order to get her money but that he left her after knowing that he won´t receive her part of the inherent.

After knowing all the truth, Elizabeth, regrets having rejected Darcy and feels ashamed for what happened.

Later on, Elizabeth goes on holidays with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and convince her to visit Pemberley, Darcy´s estate while he isn´t there. Embarrassed still for what happened and after hearing the generous words that the employees of Mr. Darcy use to describe him, Elizabeth can´t feel worst and the least she expect it´s meeting him during her stance in the state as he wasn´t supposed to be there. Her warm behavior with everyone as well as her educated and friendly way he treats them, surprises her and this new concept she gets from him does only increase after seeing Darcy´s protective way of being with his sister.

When she starts having a better relation with Darcy, Elizabeth receives the new that her youngest sister Lydia has scape with Wickham, a relationship without marriage and an illegitimate will break the family´s honour and will reduce the other sisters´ possibilities of getting married. When family starts investigating they discover that Wickham did so in order to avoid debts he had left and going with Lydia it was just a way to scape. When Elizabeth tells the new she has just received to Darcy, this one assumes the mission of finding the official and suborn him so he will get married with Lydia (as he feels responsible of not having revealed Wickham´s real nature on time). Finally he is able to find them in London and incite the man to get married with Lydia by paying their wedding and by giving them money.

Elizabeth accidentally discovers what Darcy has done and her feelings towards him change radically, making her regret completely her actitude and having rejected him, as well as she understands that first impressions made by the pride and the prejudice not always are the right ones; and she has already lost all the hopes on Mr. Darcy proposing to her again after what Lydia had done.

MAIN EVENTS:

- Mrs. Bennet has five unmarried daughters
- A wealthy young gentleman rents the estate of Netherfield
- An event it´s made and Mrs. Bennet daughters as well as the newcomers assist to it.
- Mr. Bingley feels attached to the oldest of the Bennet´s ( Jane ) and during the event Jane get´s a bad impression of the close friend of Mr. Bingley ( Darcy ).
- Jane is invited to Netherfield where she gets sick and Elizabeth has to go to take care of her, which changes a little Darcy´s mind about Elizabeth.
- Some days after the event the girls´cousin proposes to Elizabeth but she rejects him.
- Elizabeth meets George Wickham which tells him his history in where Mr. Darcy appears and does not only but increase the girl´s prejudices.
- Mr. Bingley go back to London and Elizabeth and Darcy annouces his feelings towards him while she was visiting her friend Charlotte but she rejects him.
- The following day she gets a letter from Mr. Darcy telling her the truth about why Mr. Bingley broke up with Jane and the real history of Wickham.
- Elizabeth regrets her actitude with Fitzwilliam, as well as refusing to marry him.
- She meets him again when she is on holidays and discovers a new aspect of him she didn´t know about.
- She receives the new that Lydia has scaped with George but Mr. Darcy solves the problem.
- Lady Catherine tries to change Elizabeth´s mind about Mr. Darcy so she doesn´t marry him.
- She doesn´t get it and both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley end up getting married with the two sisters.
STORY CONCLUSION:

After what happened, Mr. Bingley comes back to Netherfield, occasion that Mrs. Bennet uses in order to force a meeting between Mr. Bingley and her daughter Jane, and event where Mr. Bingley uses to propose to Jane, so they get married. Meanwhile Lady Catherine discovers the feelings that Darcy has towards Elizabeth, which bothers her and ruins the plans she had of her daughter marrying him; that why, while Darcy is in London, she visits unexpectedly Elizabeth and she tries to pressure her in order to make her claim that she would never get married with Darcy; as Elizabeth doesn´t do so, Lady Catherine tells Darcy what happened which makes him realize that Elizabeth´s feelings have changed, and when we proposes to her for second time he accepts.

Jane y Elizabeth get married and after doing so Elizabeth and Darcy place in Pemberley with Georgiana, who has become her new close friend; after some time, in addition Bingley buy a property near his close friends home for both women happiness. Furthermore, Lydia visit both of them really often but always without Wickham´s presence.

ONE FACT/OPINION:

I found it really curious the fact that in that period women still had to marry men for convenience instead for love; as well as they couldn´t inherit and everything was given to the closest male in the family ( in case they didn´t have any son ) as I find it really unfair, because women as well as men should have the same rights to come into at least a small part of the fortune that the family posessed.

About my opinion I reckon that it has been a really interesting book and I have really liked it because I have always enjoyed romantic stories.

HOW LONG/ DIFFICULTY:

It took me around 2 hours or less to read it. It´s a really easy book, which doesn´t have any difficulties when it comes to vocabulary or grammar and the story it´s a really easy one to follow to.

RECOMMENDATION/REASON:

I would recommend it to anyone who likes romantic novels as well as I said before it doesn´t have any complications when it comes to grammar or vocabulary.

MY OPINION:

I really liked it, specially the part where Mr. Darcy expresses his feeling towards Elizabeths and tells him the truth because that´s where we can see a man completely different as Elizabeth had been reflecting us during the whole story and gives a new perspective from this misterious character.

RATING: *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-08 11:28:03 UTC

Student's Name: Oihane Royo

BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters:

Bennet Family:
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
- Elizabeth Bennet.
- Jane Bennet.
- Lydia Bennet.
- Others: Mary and Kitty Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner (aunt/uncle).
Mr. Darcy, and his sister, Georgiana.
Charles Bingley and his sister, Caroline Bingley.
Wickham.

Story Setting:
Pride and Prejudice story is set in 19th century rural England, when there were big differences between poor and rich societies. Usually rich people did not work because poor people did it for them.
Apart from that, at this time there were big differences between women and men lives, women were not expect to have a job or study because they usually had to stay at home hoping for a suitable husband who could offer them financial security.
That is why engagements were not realized by love, engagements were made bearing in mind the benefits that they could extract with them, so, poor people usually had more problems to get married.

Plot:
The marriage was a really important fact in the 19th century. So, Mrs. Bennet´s dream as a mother was to marry her five daughters, and if possible, with rich men who can maintain them taking into account that
they were a poor family and her daughters did not have any studies.

At the beginning of the story, Mrs. and Mr. Bennet heard about a new neighbor a rich and well-known man which was not married. This were really good news for Mrs. Bennet, who immediately started thinking
plans to join one of her five daughters with this boy, whose name was Charles Bingley. Few days later a big party was organized with all the
neighbors and some special guest who were Charles Bingley, his sister Caroline and his friend Mr. Darcy who also had a big fortune. Obviously the five Bennet girls went to these party, encouraged by their mother, for meeting Mr. Bingley and try to attract his attention.

At this party each of the girls made their own conclusions, first of all, Jane, the older sister spend most of the party dancing with Charles, she was the girl who attracted Charles Bingley´s attention, she also spent part of the party meeting Caroline, The impression she got from her was also very good, which was normal because Jane was very positive and always saws the best part of the people. Nevertheless, for Elizabeth Bennet it was not everything so beautiful, she thought that
Caroline seemed to be a very vain girl. And she thought that Charles friend, Darcy was also very rude and impolite.
On the other hand the youngest sisters had a really good time on the party.

Jane and Charles fell in love and some days later, Gloria invited Jane to their house to spend time with them. While Jane was in Bennet´s house she got ill, so she had to spend there more days than she has expected. When Elizabeth heard this she immediately went to Bennet’s house to take care of her sister so she also had to spend some days at Bennet´s house. In her stay, she realized that Charles really loved her sister Jane and also that Caroline was trying to get Darcy´s attention all the time. Few days later Jane improved and the two sisters returned to their house with their family.

When they were back at home their father told to the family that his cousin, Mr. Collins who was the heir of the family was going to visit them on the following days. This new was not very good for anyone, especially for Mrs. Bennet who hates Mr. Collins. But everything changed when in his visit, Collins told Mrs. Bennet that he would please
her family getting married with one of her daughters, he thought in Jane, but when he knew that she was already engaged she decided that he wanted to marry with Elizabeth. Obviously this was a wonderful idea for Mrs. Bennet and she accepted, but when Mr. Collins asked Elizabeth
for getting married, she rejected his proposal. This answer did not please her mother but her father accepted her decision, so she did not have any problems. Finally, Mr. Collins ended getting married with one of Elizabeth best friends, Charlotte.

Few time later, when the sisters where takin a walk, they meet Mr. Wickham a handsome men who told them that he had suffered a lot because, as he said, Mr. Darcy did terrible things to him in his life on the past, because of this Elizabeth´s opinion about Darcy was worse over time.

Several days later, Caroline sent a letter to Jane in which she explained that Charles had gone to London. Because of that, Jane was really
sad and decided to go to London with her uncle and aunt Mrs. and Mr. Gardiner. Then, Elizabeth decided to go to London too.
When she was there, they were invited to Darcy´s house and unexpectedly, he asked her for engagement but she refuses his proposal blaming him for separating his sister and Charles and also
of having made life impossible for Wickham.

Darcy accepted her decision, but then, he wrote a letter explaining to her what had really happened with Wickham and how he had affected his life. He also explained why he had influenced in Jane´s and
Charles´s relationship. After reading this, her opinion about Darcy changed completely.

But this opinion changed even more when Lydia Bennet scape with Wickham, this was a big dishonor to the bennet family and for solving it, Wickham asked for a lot of money which was mostly paid by Darcy.
After that, Wickham finally engaged with Lydia although her sisters had warned her about him. When Elizabeth found out what Darcy did for them, she regretted not having accepted his marriage proposal, but she thought that it was very late to change her opinion.

Obviously she was wrong and some days later when Darcy asked her again for getting married she accepted his proposal. Who was really
happy at the end of the story was Mrs. Bennet because three of her daughters where married finally.

Main events:

1. A rich men (Mr. Bingley) coming into town.

2. A big party was organized in the neighborhood.

3. Jane and Charles fell in love.

4. Mr. Collins (Mr. Bennet´s cousin) proposes marriage to Elizabeth but she
refuses.

5. Charlotte (Elizabeth friend) and Mr. Collins get engaged.

6. Darcy separates Bingley and Jane.

7. Jane, and then Elizabeth went to London.

8. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth and she declines.

9. Lydia Bennet and Wickham scape together

10. Mr. Darcy Pays Wickham to Marry Lydia and solve all the problems.

11. Darcy Proposes again and Elizabeth accepted.

Story conclusion:
The conclusion I draw from this story is that it shows people that they have to stop being guided by their pride or their prejudices as stated in the title of the book.
For example Elizabeth, at the beginning is influenced by hers first impressions and by what people tell her about Darcy and then,
when she listen his story and meets him better changed her opinion.

Apart from this, the story also shows who Mrs. Bennet wanted to marry her daughters and she finally managed marry three of them. This
shows how the society worked at that time and the women roles at it. Obviously we can see that nowadays this has changed.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:
One fact about the story that has caught my attention is when at the end, Lady Catherine went to talk with Elizabeth to explain her that she can´t get engaged with Darcy only because she was poor and she won´t give any financial support to him, without taking into account Darcy´s and Elizabeth´s feelings and if they were in love or not. But fortunately this action instead of separating the couple had them together and they finally get engaged.
In my opinion this is also based on the prejudices and the pride instead of in people´s feeling which is what is really important. I think that they should give more important to the happiness and less to the
money.

How long did it take you
to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
I read the book quite quickly, it didn´t take me more than two hours because it was a short story and it was very easy to understand. The vocabulary was very easy and that also helped the speed of reading.

Recommend? Why? Why not?
I would recommend this book especially to English students. It is a good option if you want to start reading in English because it is an easy and a short book with an entertaining story.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favorite
part and why? Did you learn anything?
I really like and enjoy this book especially because it was short and entertaining and also because it had a really easy understanding so I didn´t get bored reading it. My favorite part obviously was the end of the story just because all the problems are solved on this part and also because Elizabeth and Darcy revel their love to each other and get engaged without thinking about the money or what people will think about their relationship. Another part that I also like a lot was when Elizabeth refuses Mr. Collin´s marriage proposal. It shows that
Elizabeth set her feelings before the money although her mother didn´t like that decision at all.

Yes, with this book I learnt how the society was and the society rules that where imposed in the 19th century. How women had to stay at home waiting for a man that would maintain them, while men could study, get a job and earn their own money.

Star rating: *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

iratibalerdi — 2017-01-08 17:51:40 UTC

Students name: Irati Balerdi

BOOK REPORT:

Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

-Bennet family→ Mr and Mrs Bennet (parents) , Jane, Elizabeth,Lydia,Mary and Kitty (daughters).

-Mr Collins (cousin)

-Charles Bingley

-Mr Darcy (Mr Bingley’s best friend)

-Mr Wickham

Story Setting:

This story is set in 19th-century rural England in which we could appreciate clearly the differences between poor and rich people. The most influencial sector was the rich landowners; they lived on large estates. They didn’t work, but they had a great amount of farmers working for them.

Then, according to the law all the land went to the oldest son. In the case of the Bennet family, as there wasn’t any son in the family, the land or the state passed to the closest male relative. Daughters couldn’t study a profession or own lands, the only thing they could do for the good of the family was to marry a rich man.

Plot:

Mrs Bennet wanted their five daughters to get marry with rich men, as they hadn’t a big fortune in the family.

The story stats when the family get inform about their new rich neighbor in Netherfield Park ( a large state near the Bennets’). Mrs Bennet sees a great opportunity for their daughters to marry him. Luckily a big party is celebrated by one neighbor of their neighborhood.

In that party Jane the oldest daughter attract the attention of the new rich handsome neighbor Mr Bingley. They start falling in love. In contrast Mr Darcy (Mr Blingey best friend) didn’t behave nicely with Elizabeth.

Some days after the party, Jane gets invited to Mr Blingey house by his sister. In the way to Netherfield Park she gets ill and she has to stay there some days. Elizabeth goes to visit her sister and in that time Darcy has the opportunity to meet her better and to change his mind.

When they return home their parents tell them that a close cousin was coming to visit them. When he arrives he says that he wants to marry Jane, but as Jane was in love with Mr Blingey he proposes Elizabeth, but she refuses because she isn’t in love whit that boring man.

The family started being friend of an officer, Mr Wickham, who hasn’t a good relationship with Darcy. He tells Elizabeth all the problems he had had with him and this makes Elizabeth having a worse impression of Darcy than the one she had before.

After that Jane receives a letter which tells her that Mr Blingey was going to London. So as she was so sad she decided to spend some time with her aunt and uncle, Mrs and Ms Gardiner.

Elizabeth also decided to go visiting her friend (now her cousisn’s Collins wife). In that period of time Darcy visits her a lot and he fall in love with her, that’s why he later proposes her to marry him. She refuses it without thinking it because of the prejudice she has about him.

Some days after that Mr Darcy sends a letter explaining the truth about the problems with Wickham and why he thinks her sister didn’t love Mr Blingey. In that moment, she realized that she was wrong about him and she start changing his mind and looking at him differently.

On the other hand, Lydia Bennet escapes whit Mr Wickham because she things that he love her. He demands money to the family in exchange of marries her, but as it is a high amount Mr Darcy pays to help them.

Mr Blingey returns from London because he was in love with Jane and of course she was still in love too so they get married.

Besides, Mr Darcy wins over Elizabeth by the act of helping Bennet family with Lydias’ wedding money and when the truth about Wickham comes out, so she finally accept the proposal and they get also married.

Main events:

-Mrs Bennet wants her daughters to marry with rich men.

-Mr Blingey (a handsome rich gentleman) comes to the neighborhood.

-Mr Blingey and Jane Bennet fall in love in the party.

-Jane is invited to Mr Blingey house and she gets ill on the way.

-Elizabeth Bennet goes to Mr Blingey house to take care of her sister. Mr Darcy stars meeting better Elizabeth.

-When they return home Mr Collins (their cousin) proposes Elizabeth to marry him but she refuses.

-The Bennet family meet the officer Wickham (who is not a good friend of Mr Darcy)

-Mr Blingey goes to London and Jane decided to spend time with her aunt and uncle to forget Mr Blingey.

-Elizabeth visits her friend and Mr Darcy goes always to visit her during that time. Finally he fall in love with Elisabeth and he proposes to marry him. She immediately says no to the proposal because of the prejudices.

-Mr Darcy writes a letter that changes totally Elizabeth’s mind.

-Lydia Bennet escape whit Mr Wickham (who only wants her for the money) and they get married.

-Mr Blingey returns and marries Jane.

-Elisabeth finally fall in love with Mr Darcy and the get also married.

Story conclusion:

The conclusion I got from this book is that we have to live apart from the pride and the prejudice. We have to follow our feelings and make decisions in our own, without looking at the others opinion.

As an example, when Elizabeth rejects Mr Darcy’s proposal is only because she have heard Mr Wickham version (which actually was false).

In another case for example, in the end of the book Mr Darcy and Mr Blingey follow their heart and they get married with girls that haven’t got a big fortune but that the love which is the most important thing.

One fact and one opinion about this story:

One fact that has attracted me is the pressure the daughters receive from their mother. I mean, for example when she want Elizabeth to marry her boring cousin Mr Collins. This was actually what used to happen in the past, the society imposed this kind of “rules” and people have a close mind.

So I think that in this book we can appreciate perfectly the type of society, not only in the fact I’ve mentioned also in other parts of the book, for example the attitude of Mr Wickham; he acts all the time around the money, even on his wedding he is thinking on the fortune he will get and not in love.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

It didn’t take me a long time to read this book, I actually spend less than two hours reading it. The vocabulary was quite easy so I didn’t find any difficulty reading it. In addition the contents of the book were also easy to understand and as there weren’t a lot of characters the story wasn’t confusing to follow.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I would highly recommend this book to those people who wants to start reading some English because of the reasons I have written above, it hasn’t got any complication to read.

I would also recommend it to everyone who like stories with romantic topics.

In contrast I wouldn’t recommend this book to the people who love reading because it is quite simple. It hasn’t got anything special, it is a romantic story like the common ones.

Opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?

I personally really like this book because as it is a short and a well understandable version of the real one. This version is perfect for people who don’t like reading or for those who get bored whit this topic. It seemed to me that it isn’t as the current unreadable school books.

My favourite part in this romantic book is when Elisabeth realized that Mr Wickham wasn’t telling the truth about Mr Darcy. This happens when he writes a letter explaining everything to her. This is a great change in Elizabeth’s mind. Another great part in the book is when Mr Darcy helps Bennet family with Lydia’s wedding; it’s one of my favourites too.

I think that an essential thing I have learnt is the way people used to live and act in the 19th century and that’s a good think to know about our antecessors, but without any doubt, the most important thing I have learnt from this fantastic book is that we have to know first people and put apart our pride and our prejudices; life would be easier in this way.

My star rating: ****

Pride and prejudice

2017-01-14 16:27:50 UTC

Student's Name: Ane García Domingo-Aldama
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen

Main characters

There are 7 main characters:

-Elizabeth Bennet: the second oldest daughter of Bennet family, it´s the most important character of the story. She is a different girl who wants to find the true love without caring about the money and social status.

-Jane Bennet: The oldest daughter of the family, she is very nice and she sees the positive side of everything.

-Mr Darcy: He is a very rich man, everyone thinks he is arrogant but on the inside he is a very kind person. He has a really strong relationship with his sister and he finally falls in love with Elisabeth.

-Charles Bingley: He is a very rich man and Mr Darcy´s friend; he loves Jane although they spent a long time separated.

-Mr and

Mrs Bennet: They are the parents of 5 girls and they don’t have much money. Mrs Bennet is obsessed with finding a husband to all of her daughters, meanwhile, Mr Bennet is more easy going.

-Lydia Bennet: one of the youngest daughter she is very impulsive and crazy.

Story setting

Pride and prejudice is set in 19th century rural England, when the social space between rich and poor people was very wide. Landowners were the most influential and rich sector and they earned money by renting their lands to poor farmers. It was a male-dominated society, where all the properties went to the oldest son while young sons had to get a job. Meanwhile the daughters could not own land or get an education, they usually where housewives after getting a husband.

Plot

The book starts with the Bennet family, a low class family who lived in England at 19th century. Mrs Bennet, a mother obsessed with marrying all of her 5 daughters, was very excited because a new rich and not married man was arriving to the place they lived. This man was called Charles Bingley and he arrived with another rich friend called Mr Darcy. Mrs Bennet convinced her husband to talk with the new neighbor and surprisingly they were going to celebrate a party. Without doubting Mrs Bennet forced her daughters to go to this party.

That night was very special, Jane, the oldest daughter and a very nice and beautiful girl, felt in love with Charles and he did it with her as well. On the other side, Elizabeth met Mr Darcy but the first impression was not very good, Mr Darcy was arrogant and a very bad person, she didn’t like him at all.

The days passed and Charles and Jane loved even more each other, but the relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy didn’t improve, well that is what Elizabeth thought but Darcy started loving her.

Some weeks later, a man arrived at Bennets house, Mr Collins. He was decided to marry one of the daughters. He wanted to marry Elizabeth, but of course she rejected him. He finally,decided to marry one of Elizabeth´s best friend and they went to London.

Some days after rejecting this proposal, while they were going to town they met Mr Wickham, him and Elizabeth connected very well and had fun together. For her surprise, Mr Wickham and Darcy knew each other and they relationship was also bad, he told Elizabeth that Darcy was jealous of him because his dad love him more and that he did horrible things to him.

Time passed quietly in Bennets house, but suddenly a letter arrived, it was for Jane and it said that Charles was leaving to London with his sister and Mr Darcy. Jane was very sad while Elizabeth was enjoying Wickham´s company. Both sisters decided to go to London separately .

While Elizabeth was there, she saw Mr Darcy in a dinner and surprisingly he asked her to marry him! Of Course Elizabeth rejected him and also she told him all the bad thoughts she had for him. Mr Darcy left the place and next day she gave a letter to Elizabeth where he explained everything: the real story with Mr Wickham ( he was a bad person and tried to marry Darcy´s sister to annoy him and because her money), the truth about Charles moving to London etc. Elizabeth was shocked she was completely wrong about Darcy.

Meanwhile, Lydia the smallest sister went to Brighton despite Elizabeth´s opposition. The relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth was just getting better and when she heard of the news that Wickham was trying to marry Lydia and that they had escaped together he was his support.

Finally they found the couple, they were not married yet, but they were going to if they paid some money. Later they found that all of this was because of Mr Darcy´s help, and when him and Elizabeth got again together they decided to get married.

Main events

· A new neighbor comes to the town

· Charles and Jane fall in love in the party, while Elizabeth and Mr Darcy don’t get along well

· Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth

· Mr Collins propose marriage to Elizabeth but she rejects him

· They met Mr Wickham and find out the horrible story he has with Darcy

· Charles and Darcy move to London

· Elizabeth an Jane go to London and there Darcy ask Elizabeth to marry him

· Elizabeth finds out the truth about Wickham and she starts having feelings for Darcy.

· Lydia escapes with Wickham and they want to get married

· Thanks to Darcy they return and got married

· Elizabeth, Lydia and Jane got married with their respective husbands.

Conclusion

In my opinion everyone earns a good lesson, Elizabeth understands that she can’t have so many prejudices without knowing a person as he did with Mr darcy and Mr darcy also learns that sometimes he must forget the pride and the social status and that he should follow his feelings.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

One fact that has called my attention in this book, is the obsession Mrs Bennet had about marrying all her daughters, she didn’t care who it was she just watched the social status of the man and didn’t care about her daughters’ feelings. I think this represents exactly how women were forced to marry any man without considering their opinion.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand? It was quite easy to read the vocabulary and grammar was not very complex and in an hour and a half it was finished.

Recommend and opinion

I liked this book a lot it was entertaining and understandable; the twist plot it has is unbelievable. Also it is a good way to know the society of that era. I would recommend it because it has been a good pastime for me and also it is a good way to practice English comprehension. Five stars.

Pride And Prejudice

esbuerba — 2017-01-16 12:14:19 UTC

Student's Name: Ander Ramos Caballero

BOOK REPORT:

Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

The main characters are Elizabeth, Jane and Lydia Bennet, their parents Mr and Mrs Bennet, Mr Darcy, Wickham, Charles Bringley and his sister Caroline. As secondary characters we can find Mary and Kitty Bennet (sisters), Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner who are Elizabeth´s uncle/aunt, Mr. Collins and Georgiana (Mr. Darcy´s sister).

Story Setting:

The story is set in 19th-century England. At that time, there were a lot of differences in the society. The first one was between poor and rich people:

Poor people used to live in little houses trying to survive day per day while rich people were living in big estates and doing whatever they want thanks to the money that produced the poor people they had working for them.

We also can appreciate the differences between being a man and being a woman:

The men had all rights and they were allowed to do a lot of things and to decide about their future. Women, instead, had to do everything their husbands wanted to, and they had to make their husbands happy.

Plot:

The Bennet family wasn´t rich, but everything they had would be inherited by Mr. Bennet´s closest male relative (Mr. Collins) because he only had daughters. That´s why Mrs. Bennet´s dream was to see all her daughters married.

One day, a rich unmarried boy appeared in the neighborhood so Mrs. Bennet started making plans to marry one of her daughters with him so she spokes with his husband about it but he wasn’t interested on it (That was what he said although he was really interest on it)

After some days, the Bennet girls went to a party in the neighborhood. Charles Bringley, the unmarried rich man, went there too with his best friend Mr. Darey. During the party, Jane (the prettiest girl of the Bennet family) and Charles felt in love. But, although there were many girls none of them was relevant for Mr. Darcy. Due to the behavior of Mr. Darcy, neighborhood’s people started disliking him.

After some time, Caroline invited Jane to their rented house (although she invited her, she didn’t like Jane), but as it was raining, she got wet and finally she got sick. Charles took care of her and Elisabeth went to visit her sister.

When the two sisters came back home, a letter from Mr. Collins arrived, he was coming. When he arrived, he proposed to marry Elisabeth but she refused. At that time, Elisabeth met Mr. Wickman who told her a story about how much he suffered because of Mr. Darcy and she trusted him. One day, a letter arrived for Jane, when she read it she realized that Charles had gone to London and he won´t come back. To help her forget Charles, her aunt invited her to her house in London, but not in the same area as Charles´ house.

From this point a lot of event happen and the relation between a lot of characters change completely.

Main events:

· Mr. Bingley comes to the Bennet´s neighborhood.

· Charles Bingley and Jane fall in love.

· Due to Mr. Darcy´s behavior everyone dislikes him. Elisabeth dislikes him even more when Wickman tells her a false story about Darcy.

· Mr. Collins proposes marriage to Elizabeth but she rejects him

· Mr. Bingley goes back to London (persuaded by his best friend and his sister to leave Jane).

· Jane goes to London with her aunt in order to forget Charles.

· Elisabeth goes to visit her friend Charlotte who is married with Mr. Collins.

· While Elisabeth is in London, Mr. Darcy tells her his feelings, but she rejects him. The next day he gives her a letter in which he explain all the truth about why Charles left Jane and why was false Mr. Wickman´s story. At this moment Elisabeth´s feelings about Mr. Darcy start changing.

· Elisabeth visits Darcy´s house with her uncle and aunt. Mr. Darcy was not supposed to be there but he suddenly appeared. She starts falling in love with him but she is afraid it is very late.

· Elisabeth receives a letter which says that Lydia escaped with Mr. Wickman. All the family and Mr. Darcy start trying to find them.

· The finally find them and Mr. Wickman says that she will marry Lydia if they pay a little quantity of money. Elisabeth doesn’t understand why he was that little money so she starts investigating and finally she discover that Mr. Darcy was paying Mr. Wickman in order to help Bennet family.

· Lady Catherine tries to dissuade Elisabeth about marrying Mr. Darcy.

Story conclusion:

After all the events that happen during the novel and the change of relation between the characters, the love is revealed and Elisabeth marries Mr. Darcy because she loves him and he loves her. Charles also comes back and he speaks with Jane so the finally get married although at first they didn’t want to talk. On the other hand, Lydia gets married with Mr. Wickman thanks to Mr. Darcy.

At the end, Elisabeth goes to live to Mr. Darcy´s house with him and her sister Georgiana. After a short time Charles buy a house near Darcy´s estate and Jane goes to live with him. That way the two sisters see each other every day.

Lydia, who is married with Mr. Wickman, live more in the north, but she sometimes comes to visit her family.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

I read with special interest the part of the story when Mr. Darcy speaks about Mr. Wickman. He says that he was not a hard worker man and that he was taking advantage of the Mr. Darcy´s father´s fellings about him for getting money.

I think that is very easy to trust someone while he is not saying the truth and a lot of people are abusing the confidence other ones have in them. Everyone must be a hard working person and anyone mustn’t take advantage of a person if you are hurting him/her.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

The book was very short and very easy to understand. Maybe you don’t understand some words but nowadays you can easily look for them in a web-dictionary. I don’t exactly remember how long did it took me to read the book, but I would say that no more than one hour and a half – two hours.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I would recommend it for everyone that likes love stories, because it is all about that: about love. If you are searching for something different from that just don’t waste your time reading it because you aren’t going to enjoy it.

I have to say that if you are looking for a romantic novel or you enjoy reading that king of books, this book is a must for you because it is really well narrated and the characters are well crafted.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did

you learn anything?

I´ve never liked love stories, and this isn´t an exception. Although it is a great novel (well written, well crafted characters, a good way of narrating the story…) I didn’t like it because it is a love story. So, as it is a story about love, it has a lot of characters and a lot of changing relations that could be really great for someone, but personally I don’t enjoy reading it.

I think that you can learn something from everything that happens around you. So, if I haven’t learnt anything about the story (for example the relations between people), I will have learnt something about vocabulary or grammar. I would say that I have learnt something new thanks to the book.

Your star rating for this book: ****

I give four stars because although I don’t like it, it is a great novel.

Pride and Prejudice

jonatxa28 — 2017-01-18 17:57:44 UTC

Student's name: Jon Atxa
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

1. Elizabeth Bennet: She is one of the five daughters of Bennet family. She is the most important character of the story. She is very suspicious and very protector with her sisters too. She searches for the true love; she doesn't want to marry a man because of the properties.
2. Jane Bennet: She is the oldest daughter of Bennet family. She is very sociable and optimistic too.
3. Mr. Darcy: Mr. Bingley's friend. He is more rich and handsome tan his friend. He seems to be very bour he will demonstrate us that we are wrong. He has a very beautiful sister called Georgiana.
4. Mr. Bingley: He is the new neighbour of Bennet family. He is rich and handsome. He is pleasant and kind. He has a sister called Caroline.

5. Mr. and Mss Bennet: they are the parents of the 5 sisters of the story. They are not rich so they want to marry their sisters with rich men.

6. Mr. Whickham: He looks like he is rich and kind but he really has not money, so he want to marry a rich girl and he is a bad person too.

7. Lydia Bennet: One of the five Bennet sisters, she is 16 and very impulsive, she does what she wants.

Others:

- Mary and Kitty Bennet: the other two daughters of the family

- Mr. Collins: Mr Bennet’s cousin

- Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner: sisters’ aunt and uncle.

- Charlotte: Elizabeth’s good friend.

Story setting:

Pride and Prejudice story is set in the 19th century rural England. We can recognise that because of the different between social sectors, where the landowners were the most rich one. Those people didn’t work and lived of rental income they received from farmers.

Apart from that, we can see the great difference between men and women. All the inheritance of the parents was for the oldest son. That happened because of the inheritance laws.

Men had to learn a profession to (they often were lawyer) but women couldn’t do that and they had to hope to marry a rich husband. (Women only could work as a governess or as a lady’s companion.)

Plot:

The story starts with a notice in the Bennet family, a low class family who lived in rural England in the 19th century, near Netherfield Park. The notice was that this large state, what was near Bennets’ house, had been rented by Charles Bingley. He was a not married rich man. Mr and Mrs Bennet had 5 young girls and Mrs Bennet wanted to marry them as soon as posible, so she wanted to meet him. Mr Bennet visited Charles so now Mrs Bennet could invite him to dinner. But before she could do that one of the neighbours organised a big party and all of them were invited. It was a perfect oportunity to meet Mr Bingley.

The party was very special. During that, Jane, the oldest daughter of the Bennets’, and Charles fell in love each other. Furthermore, Kitty and Lidia (two of the sisters) danced with some army officers. Whereas, Darcy, the best friend of Mr Bingley, had a rude behaviour to Elizabeth (the most intelligent of the five sisters), who didn’t mind that behaviour.

The next day a note arrived from Caroline Bingley, Charles’ sister, wanted to invite Jane for dinner that night, but Darcy and Charles won’t be here. Mrs Bennet said her daughter that she would stay at the night in Netherfield because of the rain, because she couldn’t return to his house and in this way she would see Mr Charles. But the next day another note arrived saying that Jane was very ill, so Elizabeth decided to walk to the state. When Elizabeth finished having dinner with Caroline, Charles and Darcy, she went with Jane, who was lying in the bed, and listened to Caroline saying bad words about them. The only thing Caroline wanted was to be near to Mr Darcy. The next day everything was well and the two sisters went home.

The day the two sisters turned back to their home, Mr Bennet had a new. His cousin, Mr Collins, would have dinner with them. He was the person who was going to inherit all Bennet family’s properties. He wanted to marry one of the sisters too. He asked for Jane but Mrs Bennet said that she couldn’t, so then he asked for Elizabeth. Mrs Bennet was agreed but Elizabeth refused him. Her mother was so angry so she talked to his husband, (Elizabeth’s father) who agreed with his daughter.

Finally Mr Collins proposed marriage to Charlotte, Elizabeth’s good friend, and she agreed.

One day Jane and Elizabeth went with Lydia and Kitty to a near town called Meryton. Here were stationed a group of army officers. They met Mr Wickham. He was a very handsome army officer who, in his childhood, had had a close relationship with Mr Darcy. He told them his story with him. (Darcy’s father and him got along very well and when Darcy’s father died he left him money and property to live well the rest of his live but Darcy went against that and didn’t achieve it.) In this way, Jane and Elizabeth only thought the worst about Mr Darcy and thought that Mr Wickham was very attractive and intelligent.

Time passed and a letter arrived from Caroline to Bennet’s house. Charles was leaving Netherfield to London and he won’t return. This was because Mr Charles would marry Darcy’s rich and beautiful sister, Georgiana. Elizabeth knew that Caroline wrote that because she wanted to marry Darcy and she thought that this way she would have more possibilities to do that. Mr and Mrs Gardiner, sisters’ uncle and aunt, invited Jane for going to London with them to get away from her feelings. She wrote to Caroline from London and she realized that she was a bad person. Mr and Mrs Collins didn’t want Elizabeth to marry Wickham because they knew that he only wanted to marry a rich woman.

Elizabeth visited her old friend Charlotte and Mr Collins in their house, on Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s state, in London. When she was meeting them they received a special visit. She was Miss the Bourgh, Lady Catherine’s daughter. She was going to marry Darcy, she was very arrogant. Her mother, however, was a formidable woman. Darcy visited his aunt with his cousin Fitzwilliam. He was very pleasant. They both went on a walk by the garden. He told her that Darcy had done a favour to his friend Charles; he didn’t let him marrying a woman who wasn’t suitable for him. Suddenly, Darcy appeared and said Elizabeth that he was in love with her and that he wanted to marry her. She said no because she didn’t love him, because she didn’t understand why he treated this way Mr Wickham and because he had ruined her sister Jane’s marriage with Mr Charles.

The next day Darcy was waiting for Elizabeth outside the house, he had written her a letter. Here he explained the true of all. He thought that Jane didn’t love Charles so he and Caroline said him not to marry her. When Darcy’s father died, he wrote in his will that Darcy had to help Wickham every month with some money and that he would pay his church career. Whereas, Wickham wanted all the money at the same time and when he spent it he came back asking for more money. When Darcy denied it Wickham went to Darcy’s sister’s house, Gergiana, to marry him. At this time he would own Gerogiana’s fortune and he would take revenge on Darcy, but he avoid all that.

When Elizabeth came back to her house she told Jane all she had discovered except the reasons of Charles’ behaviour. They didn’t tell their family the truth about Wickham.

Lydia went out with Mrs Fosters, the wife of one of the officers, and Elizabeth went on a trip with Mr and Mrs Gardiner to Derbyshire. The first day they went on a visit to Plemberey, Darcy’s and Charles’ long state, but Mr Darcy wasn’t there, he would came back the next day. When they were going out the house Elizabeth saw Darcy in the other side of the garden.

They spent some days in Plemberey. Elizabeth’s feelings towards Darcy were every moment changing. One of the days Darcy went fishing with Mr Gardiner and Mrs Gardiner and Elizabeth stayed in Plemberey with Georgiana, Darcy’s beautiful and niece sister. Caroline only wanted to hurt her (Elizabeth).

Mr and Mrs Gardiner and Elizabeth returned home and read Jane’s some letters. Lydia had escaped with Wickham and no one knew where they had escaped. Mr Gardiner and Mr Bennet searched them some days and when Mr Bennet returned home, Mr Gardiner finally found them. They only had to pay a little sum of money every month. Elizabeth asked for the true to his aunt and he told her all it. Darcy had paid all Wickham’s debt and a large amount every year and he found Wickham a new position in the army too.

Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy went to Bennet’s house. The day after, Mr Bingley got engaged with Jane, but Mr Darcy returned to London. A week after that occurrence Lady Catherine de Bourgh appeared in Bennet’s house saying to Elizabeth not to marry Mr Darcy and she threatened her too. Some days after, Darcy appeared in the Bennet’s house and they both went out to the garden. They got engaged too!

Kitty and Mary weren´t married, but with three daughters married, (two of them with rich men) Mrs Bennet didn’t mind about the marriages more.

Main events:

- Mrs Bennet wanted her daughters to marry rich men.

- Mr Bingley rented the long state near Bennet’s house.

- A party is celebrated and Jane fell in love with Mr Bingley. Whereas, Darcy was rude to Elizabeth.

- Caroline Bingley invited Jane to Mr Bingley’s house. That night she became ill and Elizabeth went to that house to take care of her sister.

- They returned home and received the visit of Mr Collins, their cousin, who would inherit family’s properties. He wanted to marry Jane but he couldn’t. Then he tries to marry Elisabeth but she refused him.

- Mr Collins married Charlotte.

- Bennet sisters met Wickham.

- Caroline sent Jane a letter saying that they (Mr and Mrs Bingley and Mr Darcy) were returning to London.

- Mr and Mrs Gardiner invited Jane for going to London with them.

- Elizabeth visited Mr Collins ad Darcy and his cousin Fitzwilliam appeared there. Fitzwilliam told Jane about Darcy and his help to Charles saying him not to marry a girl.

- Darcy wanted to marry Elizabeth and he told the entire true about him and Charles.

- Jane went on a trip to Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle.

- They spent some days on Plemberey. Elizabeth’s feelings towards Darcy were constantly changing.

- Lydia escaped with Wickham. They got married but with the help of Darcy’s and Mr Gardiner’s money. Elizabeth only knew that.

- Jane got married with Mr Bingley.

- Lady Catherine de Bourgh threatened Elizabeth.

- Elizabeth and Mr Darcy got married too.

Story conclusion:

After all the changes of behaviour and feelings during the story, almost everything finished well. Jane and Elizabeth got married with marvellous and rich men. Whereas, Lydia married an opportunist and unashamedly man, but she loved him.

Finally, Mrs Bennet obtained what she wants. Three of her daughters were happily married.

One fact and an opinion about the story:

I was surprised by the fact that in that time women couldn’t inherit their parents’ properties so they had to search for a rich man to marry him. I think that rights for women were very unfair and the story tries to show it to us. Mrs. Bennet has ambition to see all her daughters married and she tries to be as soon as possible, she doesn’t mind how she is doing that, she even say her daughters the man they had to marry, without asking for their opinion

How long did it take you to read it? did you find it difficult to understand?

It took me less than 10 minutes to read each chapter. I didn’t find it difficult to understand. The vocabulary of the story is very easy and compressible; it doesn’t have any difficulties to read it.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I would recommend that book because the plot of the story is very awesome. It makes the reader want to read more and more. Moreover, it allows the reader to be a witness to the situation of a common family of the 19th century.

Opinion:

I like a lot this story, especially when Darcy declared his love to Elizabeth and he told her the all truth about what had happened. I like that part because it shows us Darcy’s feelings’ change and the pleasant and elegant man he was.

I have learnt what incredible evolution has suffered women’s rights and that we have not to believe on prejudices. The book shows us that those prejudices are usually wrong.

Star rating: *****

2017-01-18 18:44:31 UTC

Pride and Prejudice

2017-01-18 19:29:09 UTC

Student's Name: Sara Carou
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austin
Main characters:
1) Elisabeth Bennet : is a second daughter of Bennet family, She is the main character of this book. She is a very likeable and sincere girl.
2) Mr Darsy :Darcy is an arrogant aristocrat, owner of the Pemberley estate, and has problems in valuing people who are below their social status.
3) Jane Bennet : she is the eldest daughter of the bennet family. She is a very pretty girl who falls in love easily. He falls in love with Mr. Bingley.
4 )Mr Bingley :He is very indecisive and manipulable man, he is a wealthy man and darsy's best friend. He falls in love with jane
5 )Mr Wickham:At first this character appears as a perfect gentleman from a poor family, but then Wickham turns out to be the worst character of this history. He is a liar and manipulative man.
6)Lydia Bennet: She is the youngest of the Bennets she is mad about the boys. She is a very sweet and easy to manipulate teenager. He escapes with mr Bingley lean and in the end darcy force to mr Bingley to marry with her.
7)Mr collins

Story Setting:
The novel Pride and Prejudice, describes rather the rural Georgian society. Published in 19 century in rural ngland, is one of the masterpieces of English literature.

Plot:
Mr Bingley has rented the Netherfield estate, where he plans to settle temporarily. There Bingley, Darcy and his sister attend a dance where they meet the Bennet family. Bingley falls in love with Jane. Bingley falls in love with Jane and Darcy meets Elisabeth. But Elisabeth overhears a conversation between Bingley and Darcy where Darcy says Elisabeth is not beautiful enough for him. The next day Bingley invites Jane to her house and as she goes on horse she gets sick and stays at Bingley's house and when Elisabeth learns that jane stay there Elisabeth goes there to look after her sister where she sees Darcy again. At that time we can see that Darcy likes Elizabeth. Shortly after the dance, Mr. Collins, who will inherit the Bennet heritage, visits the family. And he proposes that the best thing to keep the Bennets assets is marry Elizabeth. During a second dance held in Netherfield both Collins and Darcy have ask to Elisabeth to dance and she decides to dance with Darcy. During the dance they argue coldly for her part, Darcy he admire her more. Later Elizabeth meets an officer named Wickham and him account that was disinherited because of Darcy. After Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collins, quickly marries Elisabeth's best friend charlotte, who accepts her offer.

Bingley suddenly decides to leave again to London disillusioning to Jane and only explaining through a letter that they would spend all the winter in London. Time later Elisabeth is going to visit charlotte who lives with Darcy's uncles. And Darcy also decides to go to see his uncles. Elisabeth discovers that it was Darcy's fault that Mr Bingley left Jane alone. Darcy believed that jane only left with Mr Bingley for his money. At that moment Darcy asks him to marry Elisabeth and she rejects him for what he did to jane and wikham.The following day Darcy intercepts to Elizabeth while she of his morning walk, it delivers to letter and it farewells coldly. In the letter, Darcy explains that it was what he thought of jane and that he only wanted to help his friend and that what happened with Wikham were economic problems with the inheritance of Wikham that the wasted all his money and then wanted to take the money To The Darcy kidnapping Darcy's younger sister.

In the end it turns out that it Wickham tries to do the same to the Bennets and escapes with Lydia to get the money. Darcy finds them and forces Wikcham to marry Lydia. Bingley returns to Netherfield and finally marries Jane. And Elisabeth and Darcy also get married.

Main events:
1)Elizabeth and Darcy fall in love and finally get married.
2)Wickham turns out to be a liar and a thief
3)Jane and Bingley finally get married.
4)Mr Collins an Charlotte get married
5) Lydia anda Wickhman escapes and get married

Story conclusion:
The coclusion of this storyThe conclusion of this story as the name of the title says, that we should not be left alone with the prejudicesand with the pride and that we should get to know the people more.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:
In my opinion the book I liked, I found it interesting.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
At the beginning I wasnt understand it but finallyI managed to understand it thanks to the diccionary

Recommend? Why? Why not?
yes,I recommend it because of the fact that you can learn a lot of vocabulary and the trama of the story was interesting

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?
In my opinion the book I liked, I found it interesting. My favorite part was the end because apart from having a happy ending did explain all the plot that had been forged

Your star rating for this book: * ** *** **** *****
My star rating for this book***

Pride and Prejudice

2017-01-18 19:35:34 UTC

Student´s name: Eider Fuentes
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main character:
Bennet Family :Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.Elizabeth Bennet.Jane Bennet.Lydia Bennet

.Others: Mary and Kitty Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner (aunt/uncle).

Mr. Darcy, and his sister, Georgiana.

Charles Bingley and his sister, Caroline Bingley.
Wickham.

Story setting: The novel is set in the 19th century in England. It is set principally in Longbourn, the Hertfordshire country town that is a mile from Meryton and twenty-four miles from London. At that time, there were a lot of differences in the society. The first difference that we can see is the rich and poor people, and the other is the difference between men and women. In this period the marriage was very important.

Plot
The Bennet family wasn´t rich and Mrs. Bennet´s dream was to see all her daughters married.

One day, a rich unmarried boy appeared in the neighborhood, Charles Bringley , so Mrs. Bennet had a good opportunity to marry her daughters .Big party is celebrated by one neighbor of their neighborhood.Charles was acompained by his sister, Caroline and by his friend Mr Darcy.

At this party, Jane, the oldest sister spend most of the party dancing with Charles, she was the girl who attracted Charles Bingley´s attention. They start falling in love. In contrast Mr Darcy didn’t behave nicely with Elizabeth. On the other hand the youngest sisters had a really good time on the party.

After some time, Caroline invited Jane to their but as it was raining and she got sick. Charles took care of her and Elisabeth went to visit her sister. Elizabeth was having dinner with Caroline, Charles and Darcy and when she finished she went with Jane, who was lying in the bed, and listened to Caroline saying bad words about them.

When the two sisters turned back to their home his cousin, Mr Collins, would have dinner with them. Mr Collins was the person who was going to inherit all Bennet family’s propertie. he asked for Elizabeth to get marry but Elizabeth refused him. Finally Mr Collins proposed marriage to Charlotte, Elizabeth’s friend, and she accepted

Few time later Jane and Elizabeth meet Mr. Wickham a handsome men who told them that he had suffered a lot because Mr. Darcy did horrible things to him

Some days later, Caroline sent a letter to Jane in which she said that Charles had gone to London. Because of that, Jane was really
sad and decided to go to London with her uncle and
aunt Mrs. and Mr. Gardiner. Then, Elizabeth decided to go to London too.
When she was there, they were invited to Darcy´s
house and he asked for get marry but she refused his proposal
Darcy wrote a letter explaining to her what had really happened with Wickham . He also explained why he had influenced in Jane´s and Charles´s relationship. When she read this, her opinion about Darcy changed.
On the other hand, Lydia Bennet escaped whit Mr Wickham. He demanded money to the family in exchange of marries her, but Mr Darcy paid to help them.

Charles returns from London because he was in love with Jane and they get married.

Elizabeth saw the act of helping Bennet family with Lydias’ wedding money of Mr Darcy and finnaly she accepted the proposal to get marry.

Main events:

1. Mrs Bennet has five unmarried daughters

2. Charles coming into town

3. A big party was organized

4. Jane and Charles fell in love

5. Mr Collins prposes marriage to Elizabeth but she doesn´t accept

6. The Bennet family meet the officer Mr Whickham

7. Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth

8. Charles and Darcy go to London

9. Darcy askes to Elizabeth to marry him

10. Lydia Bennet escapes with Mr Wickhman and they get married

11. Charles returns and marries Jane

12. Elizabeth and Darcy get married

Story conclusion:
Finally, three daughters get married and they live very well with rich mens.
In conclusion, I think that we have to live without pride and prejudice and we have to make decisions in our own.
In the beginning we can see that Elizabeth has a lot prejudices about Darcy because she doesn´t know him but when they know, Elizabeth loses all prejudices that she had and they fall in love and they marry

One fact and one opinion about the story:
One fact that has called my attention in this book, is the obsession that Mrs Bennet had about marrying all her daughters
Mrs Bennet wants to marry all her daughters with rich man but she doesn´t keep in mind their feelings
I think that the mother has to keep in mind their opinion and don´t force them to marry
How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
It took me less than two hours to read the book. I didn´t find it difficult to understand.
The vocabulary that appear is easy and appropriate
Recommend? Why? Why not?
I would recommend this book because it is short and easy to read. The story is very interesant and it talks about differents matters

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?
I liked the book, my favourite part is when Darcy declared his love to Elizabeth and . tells him the truth we can see a nobel man and different to Elizabeth´s thought.

My star ratin:
*****

Pride and Prejudice

2017-01-18 20:05:29 UTC

Student's Name: Helene Sanchez
BOOK REPORT:

Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

Bennet family: Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr and Mrs Bennet and Kitty and Mary Bennet.

Mr Darcy and his sister Georgiana, Charles Bingley and his sister Caroline, and Wickham.

Story Setting: Pride and Prejudice is set in 19th-century rural England, when the most influencial sector of society was the rich landowners. These landowners lived on large estates in the countryside. They didn’t work, but lived off rental income they received from farmers.

At the time, family estates could not be broken up. According to the strict laws, younger sons had to learn a profession( they became lawyers, military officers or clergymen). For daughters, options were more limited. Daughters could not own land or study a profession. Most of them remained at home, hoping for a suitable husband who could offer them financial security.

Plot: The dream of Mrs Bennet was to marry her daughters with rich mens. In that way, her daughters will have money and lands and her family would not have the reputation of a poor family anymore.

Mrs Bennet knew about that a rich man, whose name was Charles Bingley, was coming near her house and was going to be her new neighbour. He saw a clear opportunity to present one of her daughters to him. Few days later a party was organized with all the neighbours and special guest like Charles Bingley with his sister Caroline and his friend Mr Darcy. Mr Darcy was also a rich man. Mrs Bennet forced to her five daughters to go to the party to meet Charles Bingley and to try to attract him. They went and Charles felt attracted by Jane, Jane was the prettiest one among her sisters. Jane also met Charles’s sister Caroline and she saw Caroline with good eyes and thought good things about her. It was normal because Jane was always very positive and saw the best part of the people. However, for Elizabeth it wasn’t everything so good and she thought that Caroline was vain and rude. She thought that Mr Darcy was also very rude and unpleasant.

Charles and Jane fell in love immediately and she went to Charles’s house but in the way she get ill and she had to stayed more days in Charles’s house. Elizabeth went to visit her sister and she realized that Charles was very in love with Jane. She also realized that Caroline was trying to get Mr Darcy’s attention. Some days later Jane was better and they returned to their house.

When they arrived to their house the two sisters find out about her cousin Mr Collins was going to go to their house. When Mr Collins arrived talked with Mrs Bennet and he said to her that he had the intention to get married with Jane or with Elizabeth. They thought in Elizabeth because Jane was with Charles. He proposed to Elizabeth and she said no. Mrs Bennet get angry with her but her father, Mr Bennet, accepted her decision and things calmed down.

Some time later, the sisters met Mr Wickham. He was a handsome men and he told to the sisters that Mr Darcy caused him pain and that was a bad men. After heard that from Mr Wickham, Elizabeth opinion of Mr Darcy was worse.

A few days later, Caroline sent to Jane a letter explaining that they were going to go to London and that not suited to Charles getting married with Jane. Jane felt very sad because she loved him. Jane took the decision of going to London with her aunt and uncle Mrs and Mr Gardiner. Elizabeth go to London too. Elizabeth went to Darcy’s house at London and even when she thought that he was going to be rude with her, he proposes her marriage. She obiously said no because she thought very bad about him. Darcy accepted well Elizabeth’s decision but he wrote a letter to her explaining all the things that he wanted to said to her.He explained everything that Elizabeth was worried about and in the letter explained that Mr Wikcham was a liar and what he have told to her and her sister was a lie. After reading the letter, Elizabeth’s opinion about Mr Darcy changed. She repented about saying no to marry him.

Then she talked with Mr Darcy and explained everything she had thought about him and he proposed marriage again and obiously she said yes. Then Charles returned and married with Jane. Lydia was with Wickham and the two other sister were single. Mrs Bennet coudn´t be happier.

Main events:

Mrs Bennet wanted her five daughters to marry with a rich man.
Charles Bingley came to the town eith Mr Darcy and Caroline.
Jane Bennet and Charles fell in love.
The sisters met Mr Wickham.
Charles, Darcy and Caroline went to London, and Jane was so sad.
Mr Collins proposed marriage to Elizabeth but she said no.
Jane went to London and then Elizabeth.
Mr Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth and she rejected.
Mr Darcy wrote a lleter to explain all to Elizabeth.
Finally, Jane married with Charles because he returned and Elizabeth married with Mr Darcy.

Story conclusion: The conclusion that i had about this story is that we have to live apart from the social interest and the rules that society imposes.

We should do whatever we want to do following our feelings and we shouldn’t do what society imposes us. For example, at the end of the story Mr Darcy and Bingley follow his feelings and get married with Elizabeth and Jane. They ignore the fact that Bennet family isn’t rich and they follow their feelings.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

It didn’t take me a long time to read it. It took me less than two hours to read it. I didn’t find difficult to understand it. The vocabulary was easy to understand it.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I would recommend this book because I really like the story of the book and because it easy to read and understand it.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why?

I really liked the book. My favourite part was when Mr Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth. It’s my favourite part because I think that it was a surprise that no one expected.

Did you learn anything?

Yes, I learned how the society was and how women and men were in that moment.

Your star rating for this book: *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-18 20:50:54 UTC

Student Name: Andrea Aquino
Author: The author of this is book is Jane Austen.

Main characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Lydia bennet (sisters), Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet(parents), Charles Bingley (unmarried rich man), Mr Darcy(Charles best friend)

Story Setting:

This story is set in 19th century rural England.

Plot:

This story starts with a party that the Ms Bennet organized to get their daughters married so his husband went to talk to Charles Bingley to invite him to de “party”.Charles Bingley arrives with a friend witch didn’t behave properly his name is Mr Darcy. On the other hand Charles was amaze by the beautiful Jane Bennet. After the party Elizabeth and Jane talked about what happened last night. Jane told Elizabeth that she liked Charles sister but her sister thought that she was arrogant and vain. Later that day Jane receives a letter from Caroline where she invites her to have dinner with his brother and Darcy. When she asks for the carriage her mother won’t let her take it so she goes with the horse and the ends up all wet because of the rain and she gets sick. She told her family that she had to stay there and Elizabeth was really worried so she went to check her out. Elizabeth has dinner with Caroline, Darcy and Charles instead of her sister because of her sickness. They finally return and that night Mr Collins appears he´ll inherit the Bennet house when Mr Bennet dies. Mr Collins suddenly proposes to Elizabeth and she denies him because she doesn’t love him. Mr Collins didn’t care about it that much as he married Elizabeth frien Charlotte, Charlotte married him for the fortunes that he had not because he loved him witch left Elizabeth worried and sad about it.

One day Elizabeth went with her younger sister for a walk and he met Mr Wickam. She described him as plasent and impressed all the girls. Mr Darcy appears and looks at Wickam with a serious and strange face and Elizabeth finds that pretty weird. What really surprised her was the story that Wickam told Elizabeth about Darcy, he told that Darcys father was really good with him and when he died he left him with things because he appreciate him but Darcy took it everything from Wickam.

Janes wakes up with a letter from Caroline saying that they will return to London and they will not come to Netherfield Park. Jane was devastated and she left her house with her uncle’s to go to London. One day Elizabeth went to visit her aunt and she bump into Darcy who proposes to her and he said he loved her. Elizabeth was shock and she immediately said no because all the bad things she knew about him and adding that she didn’t love him.

Darcy wrote her a letter in which he explains the whole Wickam story and that he isn’t the bad guy. Elizabeth didn’t blame him no more for what he have done.

At the bennet house again Lydia wanted to go with Mrs Foster to Brigton at first her father didn’t like the idea that much but he let her go. Elizabeth decides to go for a tour on a very big house property of Darcy and as they were visiting it Darcy appears. Caroline was jealous of Elizabeth, but after some time Elizabeth gets married, Jane too as Charles came back for her and also Lydia Mrs Bennet ended very happy knowing that her daughters were happily married.
Main events:

- Mrs Bennet want her daughters to be married she organized a party.

- Jane falls in love with Charles but he suddenly he moves to London with Mr Darcy and her sister Caroline

- Wickam lies about Darcy and Elizabeth hates him.

- Darcy proposes to Elizabeth but she denies him because of what she thinks he has done.

- Lydia runs with his lover wickam and she marries him but they are not happily married

- Jane and Charles get back together and they marry

- Elizabeth finally marries Darcy after having the wrong opinion about him and they live happy

- Mrs Bennets goals became true.

Story conclusion:

In my opinion the conclusion is that you should never marry someone if you don’t love them as Charlotte had done. Also I think that everyone has a different opinion about a person but when it comes to judgment you can only judge them if you really know that person and not like Elizabeth did with Mr Darcy that sometimes can be really rude.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

It took me less than 3 days is very easy to read and it has a pretty understandable vocabulary it wasn’t difficult to read at all.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I definitely recommend this book because is easy to read and if a very interesting story as it has love, hate, drama, action… really great book and to add I would also recommend to watch the movie, is one of my favorites.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favorite part and why? Did you learn anything?
Yes I really enjoyed it, My favourite part of this book was the ending when everything was fine everyone was happy and Elizabeth and Darcy finally got married. I loved this part because it was a happy ending. I learn that you should never judge someone that you don’t really know, like Elizabeth did with Darcy.
Your star rating for this book: *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-18 21:50:51 UTC

Student´s name:Nerea Modenes
BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters:
(Bennet Family)
Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Mr and Mrs Bennet
Lydia Bennet
Mr Collins (the cousin)
Mr Darcy,and Georgiana (his sister)
Charles Bingley, and Caroline Bingley (his sister)
Wickham

Story Setting:
This story is set in the 19th century in England. We can see that the society was divided into two groups, poor and rich people.
Poor people had to work hard and rich people used to live in big estates.
At this century,engagements were very important.Families were obsessed on this because they wanted to obtain amount of money.

Plot:
The story starts out with the Bennett family in their estate.This family isn't rich so, Mr Bennet dreamed of seeing her daughters married to wealthy men,to save them from financial ruin.At that time,a good looking rich man named Mr. Bingley moved into their neighborhood and started to look at Jane Bennet.Bingley’s friend called Darcy didn't like them together because he thought that Jane wasn't rich and she hadn´t valuable properties.So Darcy and Caroline,Mr Bingley's sister,planned to break them up.
Elizabeth,one of Jane´s sisters,started to hear bad stuff about Darcy and how he treated people.She also heard that he cheated George Wickham out of his inheritance.

Mr Bennet had no son, so his estate and wealth may go to his closest male relative, in this case, he was Mr Collins.He was an arrogant and vain man, who ended up marrying Elizabeth´s friend Charlotte,to get away from her poor life.

Darcy asked Elizabeth to marry him but she said no, because she thought that he was a swindler. She was angry that he broke Jane and Bingley’s love affair and also cheated Wickham. Darcy finally told her the truth,Wickham is a rude person.Elizabeth believed him and time after Elizabeth went on a trip with her aunt and uncle. They went to Darcy’s mansion and his housekeeper tolds her that Darcy was such a lovely guy.

Then everyone found out that Wickham ran away with Lydia Bennett, who was 16 years old . Elizabeth felt stupid for trusting Wickham and not Darcy. Darcy,wanted to help Elizabeth's family so he payed Wickham to leave Lydia. Elizabeth found out the good actions that Darcy did and started to like him.Finally, Bingley married Jane and Elizabeth agreed to marry Darcy.

Main events:
-Mr Bennet dreamed of seeing her daughters marrying wealthy men.
-Charles Bingley moved into the neighbourhood
-The family organized a party.
-Jane and Mr Bingley fell in love
-Darcy fell in love with Elizabeth
-Mr Collins asked Elizabeth to marry her,but he rejected him.
-Mr Collins and Charlotte got engaged.
-Darcy and Caroline planned to broke Jane and Mr Bingley up
-Elizabeth and Jane went to London
-Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth,and said not at first.
-Lydia Bennet and Wickham scaped
-Bingley married Jane and Elizabeth agreed to marry Darcy.

Story conclusion:
In conclusion,the dream Mr Bennet had,came true.Three of his daughters got married and had a good life with rich mens at big estates.
When Lydia returned,told that she was marrying Wickham and that they were moving to London.
Mr Bennet also returned and proposed Jane to marry her,and she agreed and Elizabeth´s feelings changed,then,Elizabeth started to like Darcy and he proposed to marry her,she finally accepted. To sum up,this three girls would have a good future,after marrying this three rich men,so they will live happy and they will be wealthy and rich living at smart estates.
The value of the prejudices couldn't broke the strength of love.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:
A fact that impressed me was that Mr Bingley listened and payed attention to his friend Darcy,about the things he said about Jane to avoid the marriage.Finally,Darcy was a good man,but at first wasn't fair with his friend Charles.
Charles didn´t know Jane,so he shouldn't have said that things to his friend.

How long did it take you
to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?
It didn't take me a lot of time to read because it was easy. I spent one hour and a half to read ir more or less and it had easy vocabulary and grammar so it was easy to read and understand.
Recommend? Why? Why not?
I recommend this book to all people who like short books and love stories.I recommend it because it is very interesting and you have a good time reading it.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favorite
part and why? Did you learn anything?
I really like this book because I was entertaining and easy to read, so I could read it without getting bored.My favorite part is when Mr Bingley return and meets Jane again.It seems to be a great moment.The author explains very good that moment and present us the situation in a perfect way transmitting the tension.I have learned that sometimes we have to remove our pride and prejudices,and we shouldn't talk and judge someone we don't know at all.
Star rating: *****

2017-01-18 22:54:22 UTC

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Student Name: Irati De las Heras

Author: Jane Austen.

Main characters:

Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Lydia bennet, Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet, Charles Bingley, Mr Darcy

Story Setting:

19th century rural England.

Plot:

Ms Bennet organized a party to get their daughters married and invited Charles Bingley to it. Charles went with a friend, Mr Darcy that didn’t have a good behave.

Charles starts feeling something about Jane Bennet. Later, Jane receives a letter from Caroline where she invites her to have dinner with his brother and Darcy. She gets sick because of the ad weather so she stays in Caroline’s house some days. One day Elizabeth went with her younger sister for a walk and

met Mr Wickham. Mr Darcy appears and looks at Wickham in a bad way and Elizabeth gets confused because of that. Wickham told Elizabeth that Darcy's father was a good person and when he died he gave Wickham some things of him but Darcy took it all.

After that, Jane goes to London before reciving a letter of Caroline saying that they were going to London.

One day, Elizabeth meet Darcy and he propossed her but she said no. Darcy wrote her a letter explaining what had ocurred with Wickham.

Finally, Elizabeth gets married, Jane marries Charles and the Bennet familly finish very happy knowing that their daughters are married.

Main events:

- Mrs Bennet want her daughters to be married.

- Jane falls in love with Charles but he moves to London

- Wickam lies about Darcy and Elizabeth hates him.

- Darcy proposes to Elizabeth but she denies him.

- Lydia marries wickam but they are not happy.

- Jane and Charles get married. Elizabeth and Darcy too.

- Mrs Bennets are happy because of all those weddings.

Story conclusion: You are free to love someone. You don’t have to share your opinion about someone if you don’t know that person well enough. I think that it is very important not to lie, you can be changing the life of someone.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

How long did it take you to read it?

One hour

Did you find it difficult to understand?

No, it is easy to read.

Recommend?

I recommend it to people who want to learn some english

Why?

Because there is a lot of vocabulary to learn

Why not?

Your opinion:

Did you like the book?

Yes, I liked it. It wasn’t boring like I spected. It had some drama and hate too to contrast.

What was your favorite part and why?

The final was my favorite part of the book because it has a good final and all characters finish happy.

Did you learn anything?

Some vocabulary

Your star rating for this book: ****

Pride and Prejudi

2017-01-18 23:17:31 UTC

Student's Name: Goizane Gavilan

BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

Elizabeth’s parents: - Mr. Bennet

-Mrs. Bennet

Bennet’s daughters: - Elizabeth Bennet

- Jane Bennet

- Mary Bennet

- Catherine Bennet

- Lydia Bennet

- Mr. Darcy

-Charles Bingley

-Caroline Bingley



Story Setting: The story is set in the 19th-century England. All mothers in England wanted their daughters to marry a rich man.

Plot:

Mrs. Bennet found out that the Neitherfield house was rented by some rich and young man. The Bennet family went to a party where they met Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley. Jane and Bingley seem to fell in love and Elizabeth Bennet thought that Mr. Darcy was rude after hearing what Mr. Darcy thought about her.

A few days later Caroline invited Jane to have dinner with them and she agreed. The next day Jane wrote a letter to her family telling she was ill and she must stay there for some days. Elizabeth went to visit her and she had dinner with Caroline, Charles and Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy started to like Elizabeth.

After Elizabeth and Jane went to their home, all the family had dinner with Mr. Collins which was the man who would inherit Bennet’s house and all their property. Mr. Collins proposed marriage to Elizabeth, but Elizabeth didn’t accept the proposal because she wanted to marriage someone who was in love with. Her mum was disappointed about the decision she was making.

Mr. Collins didn’t take a long time to find someone else to marry, he wanted to marry Elizabeth’s good friend, Charlotte. Lydia, Kitty, Elizabeth and Jane went to visit a town called Meryton and there they met Mr. Wickham who was a handsome officer. When they were talking Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley appear and Elizabeth noticed that Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham were uncomfortable. The family was invited to a neighbour’s house and there Mr. Wickham explains his story with Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth.

Some days later Caroline wrote a letter to Jane telling that they all were going to London. Time passed and one day Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner went to visit The Bennet and told Jane to go with them to London. Jane noticed that Caroline wasn’t a good person.

Elizabeth decided to visit her good friend Charlotte and Mr. Collins in London. One day they went to visit Miss de Bourgh and there Elizabeth found Mr. Darcy. The next days, Mr. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam often visited Mr. Collin’s house. Someday, Mr. Darcy told Elizabeth all his feeling to her and proposed marriage to her but she didn’t accept it and she give some arguments why she wasn’t going to marry with him.

The next day Mr. Darcy appeared and gave a letter to Elizabeth who read it and after reading it her thoughts about Mr. Darcy changed the story of him that Mr. Wickham told her was false and the evil in this story was Mr. Wickham.

The two sisters returned again and some days later Lydia told her parents she was invited to go to Brighton with Mrs. Foster, Elizabeth thought it was a bad idea and she warned her father about it but he didn’t thought the same as her daughter. Elizabeth went on a trip with Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, they visited Pemberley. The housekeeper was saying a lot of good things about Mr. Darcy.

While they were visiting Pemberley Mr. Darcy appeared they both had a little conversation. The next day Elizabeth went to visit Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth’s feeling changed after this visit.

Elizabeth received a letter from her sister Jane telling that her sister Lydia and Mr. Wickham have married and then they disappeared. After reading this Elizabeth decided to return. Mr. Gardiner found the couple and told to Mr. Bennet that Mr. Wickham was asking a little bit of money.

The couple went to visit them and Lydia told Elizabeth that Mr. Darcy was in their wedding. Elizabeth astonished wrote a letter to Mrs. Gardiner telling why Mr. Darcy was at Lydia’s wedding. Mrs. Gardiner answer telling he pay all of the money Mr. Wickham asked for.

Charles Bingley returned to Neitherfield with Mr. Darcy. Charles and Jane only needed few minutes to fell in love again. The next day Charles told Elizabeth Mr. Darcy return to London again and after that he proposed marriage to Jane who accepted to marry him. A week later Lady Catherine return and threatened E Lizabeth to not marry Mr. Darcy but she didn’t care she thought she was free to do what she wanted to do. Few days later Mr. Darcy arrived to Bennet’s house and proposed marriage to Elizabeth who accepted marrying him.

Main events:

-The Bennet family meets Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy.

-Jane and Charles fall in love.

-Mr. Darcy start having feelings for Elizabeth

-Mr. Collins proposed marriage to Elizabeth

-Mr. Collins and Charlotte marry

-Elizabeth meets Mr. Wickham-Elizabeth goes to visit Charlotte-Mr. Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth

-Mr. Darcy explains all his life to Elizabeth by a letter.

-Lydia goes to Brighton

-Elizabeth goes with The Gardiner to Pemberley

-Receive a letter from Jane telling that Lydia is married to Mr. Wickham and they run away.

-Mrs. Gardiner tells to Elizabeth that Mr. Darcy paid all the money that was asked for.

-Lady Catherine threatens Elizabeth to not marry Mr. Darcy.

-Mr. Darcy proposed marriage to Elizabeth again.

-Jane and Elizabeth get marry with Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley.

Story conclusion:

Mr. Darcy went to Bennet’s house because Lady Catherine told him that Elizabeth was fell in love with him so he propose Elizabeth to marry him for the second time and Elizabeth accepted. They went for a walk and there Elizabeth thanks Mr. Darcy for paying the money that Mr. Wickham asked for. Jane and Elizabeth went to live to Pemberly after the wedding took place.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

When Lady Catherine visits Elizabeth and she threaten her, and I liked when Elizabeth says that she would decide if she wanted to marry Mr. Darcy because there we can see Elizabeth’s bravery.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

It took me an afternoon to read it. I haven’t got any difficulties to understand the story because it was easy to read it.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I recommend the book to everyone because it is a classical book and it isn’t a boring story.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did

you learn anything?

I liked the book because I love the old romance stories and this one is a very good one. My favourite part was the part where Mr. Darcy realizes that he likes Elizabeth before prejudice her and I learn to not judge a book by its cover.

Your star rating for this book: *****

2017-01-18 23:56:03 UTC

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-01-19 18:40:03 UTC

Student's name: Ibai Cía

BOOK REPORT:

Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:
- Bennet family:
~ Mr and Mrs Bennet
~ Elizabeth
~ Jane
~ Lydia
~ Kitty
~ Mary
~ Mr and Mrs Gardiner
uncle/aunt
- Charles Bingley and his sister Caroline
- Mr Darcy and his sister Georgiana
- Wickhman

Story setting:
Pride an Prejudice is set in 19th-century rural England. On that time, there were a lot of differences betwen males and females. Like we can see in the story, all the wealth went to the oldest son (so he didn't have to work), while the youngest son had to learn a proffesion to earn money.

On the other hand, daughters had to marry with rich men, because they couldn't own land or study. They normally worked at home, but they were some governess and lady's companion.

In a family with only daughters (like Bennet family), the land and state passed to the closest male relative and daughters didn't get anything.

Plot:
The story begins with an incredible new: Mrs Bennet has heard that Charles Bingley (a rich gentlemem) has rented a large estate near their house. She saif that it's a fantastic oportunity to marry one of her daughters, so they decided to go to the neighbourhood's party. There, the young girls meet Mr Bingley and after looking him some time the osberved that he is so handsome. Mr Darcy attended the party too, and they spoke to each other. Elizabeth heard Bingley saying that he likes one of her sisters and Darcy saying that Elizabeth isn't preety enough for him.

The next day after the big party, Elizabeth and Jane (who were good friends) talked about it, and Jane said that Mr Bingley is perfect and she also had make a new friend, Bingley's sister (Caroline). A few days later, Jane recived a letter from Mrs Bingley, inviting her to have dinner. Jane told her mother, and she answered that she should go and stay there because of the rain; like this she could impress Mr Bingley. The following day another letter arrived, it said that Jane can't come home because she is ill. Therefore, Elizabeth decided to go walking and help her. Caroline invited her to stay there and she agreed. When Jane was well they returned home, while Darcy realized that he loves Elizabeth.

The day after, Mr Collins (Mr Bennet's cousine) came to have dinner. He was going to recive all the wealth of the family because they were all daughters, so he spoke with Mr Bennet to engaged with one of his daughters. He proposed to marry with Jane, but she was going to get married with Charles. Therefore, he tried with Elizabeth, she denied him and her parents accepted her decision.
Mr Collins tried with Charlotte (a good friend of Elizabeth) and she said yes.

On the other hand, the sisters met Mr Wickham, a handsome and pleasant man. When Mr Darcy made eye contact with him inmediatelythey changed their faces. Mr Wickham explained why Darcy and him had a bad relation. He said that his father and Darcy's father were good friends, and Darcy's father promised to give Mr Wickham money all the months during all his life. Darcy had broken that promise and didn't give anything to him.

One morning, Jane recived a letter which said that Mr Bingley has already gone to London, and they weren't going to return for at least six months. Elizabeth tried to console Jane, and some weeks later another letter arrived saying that he wasn't going to return. Some weeks later Mr and Mrs Gardiners (an aunt and uncle who lived in London) visited Bennet family and they invited Jane to go with them. She accepted. After somo time, Jane wrote to Elizabeth telling that Charles doesn't visit her, so Elizabeth decided to to go there, to Mr Collins house.

Elizabeth realized that she can pass from Mr and Mrs Gardiners' house and visit Jane, so she did like that. One day after the visit, she went to Charlotte's house and she did a tour around it. That day Mr Darcy appeared and after speaking with Elizabeth he declared his love to her, and Elizabeth answered with a big no.

After the deny of Elizabeth, Darcy give her a letter. There he explained the real story of Wickham and why Charles didn't see Jane. He said that he had convinced Mr Bingley to leave Jane because he tought that she dind't love him, but now he knows that she really loves him. In addition he explained that he didn't cheat Wickham, he gave him miney and he spent everything in three years, leaving a lot of deubts. Furthermore he tried to get marriy with his younger sister Georgiana.
Now Elizabeth konws the truth about everything.

Elizabeth and Jane returned to their own home, and Elizabeth told her everything that has happened with Darcy. One week later, Lydia told her parents that they had invited her to go to London, and they allowed her. The next day, Elizabeth went with the Gardiners to make a tour, and the first place is Darcy's house (they didn't know anything about the letter...). There, the housekeeper said everything good about Mr Darcy, and suddenly he appeared.

They spoke normally, and he said that Charles Bingley and her sister were going to eat there tomorrow, and he invited her to be with them. She accepted. Everyone was in a room, and Elizabeth realized that Caroline tried to keep the atention of Darcy, but he didn't love her. Elizabeth started to change the opinion about Darcy and loving him.

Elizabeth returned with the Gardiners and there were two letters. It put that Lydia has run away with Wickham to Scotland, so they decided to return home. At Gardiners' house they met with Mr Bennet and they found Lydia. They make an agreement and they decided to get married, while Bennet family gave him money all the months.

Wickham and Lydia went to live to the north, and Elizabeth realized that Darcy has been in Lydia's wedding. She understood that he has paid all the doubts of Wickham, and he has done because of her. At this moment Elizabeth knew that she loves Darcy.

Finally Charles appeared at the Bennet's house and asked Jane if she would like to get marry with him, and she accepted. And to sump up Elizabeth and Darcy spoke and get engaged too. The two sisters now live near and they see each other all days.

Main events:
- Mr Bingley rented the Netherfield
Park.
- Mrs Bennet and her daughters
went to the party.
- Mrs Bingley invited Jane to have
dinner at her home.
- Elizabeth realized that Mr Bingley
loves Jane and Mrs Bingley loves
Mr Darcy.
- Mr Collins proposed marriage
with Jane and Elizabeth and they
said no.
- Mr Collins got marriage with
Charlotte.
- Bennet sisters met Mr Wickham.
- Wickham told them his problem
with Mr Darcy.
- Mr Bingley went to London.
- Jane went to London too, to Mr
and Mrs Gardiner's house.
- Elizabeth visited Jane and
Charlotte.
- Dracy proposed marriage to
Elizabeth and said no.
- Elizabeth read Darcy's letter.
- Bennet family was together again
and Elizabeth told her sister
everything about the letter.
- Lydia went to London.
- Elizabeth met Darcy in her tour
with Mr and Mrs Gardiner.
- Elizabeth didn't know if she loves
Darcy or not.
- Jane sent a letter to Elizabeth
saying that Lydia has run away
with Wickham.
- The found Lydia and she get
marriage with Wickham.
- Elizabeth realized that she loves
Darcy.
- Charles Bingley and Jane get
marriage.
- Darcy and Elizabeth get marriage.
- Elizabeth and Jane lived near and
they see each other every day.

Story conclusion:
Finally, after the wedding of Jane and Bingley, Elizabeth reveled Darcy her love and they also get engaged. Mrs Bennet felt delighted because in less than a month she has three of her five daughters married, and two of them with rich and hansome males.

Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

One fact that I think is curious and unfair is that if in a family there were only daughters all the land and wealth went to the closest male relative.
This story is very interesting and it's well narrated. It's based in the 19th-century, so it teach us how was the society in that time at the same time it is telling us a posible real story. It is interesting but personally this stories don't attract me too much.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

It took me more or less two hours to read it, and I didn't find any difficulty to understand it, it has an easy vocabulary.

Recommend? Why? Why not?

I would recommend it to people who like romantic stories with a lot of relations... But personally I wouldn't recommend it to any friend because anyone like stories like this.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?

Is a good story but personally I don't like this type of books, there are a lot of characters having diferent relations and I prefer to read adventure or mistery book. From this story I learnt that there were a lo of differences betwen males and females, and girls hadn't got any rights.

Your star rating for this book:

****
I give 4 stars because the story is good.

esbuerba — 2017-01-21 18:55:16 UTC

Student's Name: Amaia Maruri

BOOK REPORT:
Book title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Main characters:

There are 7 main characters:

1. Elizabeth Bennnet: She is the second daughter of the family Bennet. She is a very intelligent woman and the most important character of the book. She isn´t like the other girls and because of this she wants to find love and she don´t care about the move or the social status.

2. Jane Bennet: The oldest and the most beautiful of the Bennet daughters. She has a very good friendship with her sister Elizabeth. She is a very kind and innocent person, who thinks that everybody is good.

3. Fitzwilliam Darcy: He is a very rich. Everybody in the town detest him, but after is known that she is very kind person, that finally fall in love with Elizabeth and engaged her.

4. Charles Bingley: He is also a rich man, but in his case he made a good impression in everyone. He is very pleasant and kind person that falls in love with Jane.

5. Mr and Mrs Bennet: They are the parents of five daughters. Mrs Bennet want to see all her daughters married with a rich man if it possible, because the family don´t have much money. But Mr Bennet don´t cares that much about that.

6. Mr Wickham: He looks like a rich people, and everyone like him, but he really isn´t a good person. He said bad thing about Darcy so people hate him. She is looking for a rich woman to marry with because he don´t have that much money.

Story Setting:

This story is set in the 19th century England. In this story this is easy to because of the difference that it is between socials status. In other words, there is a huge difference between rich and poor. Rich are better are viewed much more favorably that poor, that is way the can do whatever they want, while poor was to work very hard to earn a little bit of money so they can survive.

Another difference that we can she, is the difference between women and mans. While women only can do what their husband wants them to do, men can do whatever they want.

Plot: The story began with the news of that a very rich well-know man not married, whose name is Charles Bingley, was moving to the town where the family Gennet lived. These were great news for Mrs Gennet, who was obsessed whit the idea of marrying her five daughters, with a rich man if was possible that could take care of them. That's why he wanted his daughters to meet the boy as soon as possible. Thanks to a party that was celebrated in the neighborhood this was possible. In this party, Charles went to with his sister, Caroline, and his best friend, Mr Darcy. Charles made a good impression everyone from the beginning, but with his friend, who did not behave in a very sociable way, did not happen this. Instead, everyone thought that he was arrogant and unpleasant. In this party Charles pay a lot attention on the oldest of the Bennet daughters, Jane. Furthermore they spent all the party dancing together, and she also got a very good impression of his sister. Nevertheless, Elizabeth disagrees with her sister, she thought that Carolaine wasn’t a good person and she don´t trust her. But he got a much worse impression of Mr Darcy, who behavior in a very bad way with her. Apart from that the others daughter spend a great time.

Jane was invited to Charles's house by Caroline. But when she was there she became ill and so she had to stay for a few days until she recovered. When his sister found out about this, he decided to go in order to see his sister and to take care of her, because of this she also stayed at Charles's house for a few days. While they were there, Elizabeth realized that Charles and Jane were really in love. And apart from that she also realized that Carolaine was continually trying to get Darcy's attention.Later, when the sisters were back home, the heir of the family, the cousin of Mr Gennet, Mr Collin, went to visit the family and gave them some news. H wanted to help the family, because the family wasn´t in a very good economical situation. Because of this he decided to marry one of the daughters. Although it was not his first choice, he asked Elizabeth to marry him, but she rejected him because she wasn´t in love with him. Finally he married with a friend of Elizabeth, Charlotte, who didn´t care about love and the only thing that she want was a stable life. A few days later, the girls met Mr Wicham, an attractive man, who told them that he had suffered a lot because of Mr Darcy, and because of this they realized that they hated Mr Darcy.Much later, Carolaine sent a letter to Jane telling her that they were going to London where Charles would probably end up marrying Darcy's sister. Because of this Jane decided to forget him and for that she went to London with her uncle. After Elizabeth went also London to visit his friend Charlotte. There she discovered that because of Darcy and Caroline Charles rejected him. Also she spend a lot of time with Darcy , but when he ask her if she want to marry him because he is in love with her, she rejected him and she reproach him what he do to his sister and to Mr Wickman. The next day Mr. Darcy wrote a letter to Elizabeth where he explain what really happened between him and Mr. Wickman and ask her forgiveness. There he proof that Mr. Wickman is dishonest. Because of this letter the opinion of Elizabeth about Mr. Darcy change completely. A lot o f time later she meet again Mr.Darcy and finally they confessed that they love each other and they engaged. But before this Jane also engaged with Charles

Main events:-Charles moves to their neighbor- In the party Jane and Charles fall in love, while Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy didn´t get along well-Mr Collin propose married to Elizabeth but she reject it- They meet Mr Wickman and the story between him and Mr. Darcy- Charles, Caroline and Mr. Darcy go to London- Mr. Darcy ask Elizabeth if she want to marry him, but she rejected him- Mr. Darcy write a letter to Elizabeth to explain a lot of thing, and she starts having feeling about him-Mr. Wickham and one of the sister escape to married and with the help of Mr. Darcy they do it- Jane and Elizabeth get engaged

Story conclusion:

After all, three of the daughter qet engaged. And they learn a lot of things for example that Elizabth can´t prejudice people without knowing them, and Jane that can´t be that innocent.
Write one fact and one opinion about this story:

One of the facts that most impressed me is the importance that marriage had in the society and the most important fact that they don´t do it because they love each other. Instead, they do it because the social status.

I don´t like this because if you have to be all your life you must love him or her.

How long did it take you to read it? Did you find it difficult to understand?

The book was very short so I have read it in a very short time. I think that it wasn´t difficult to understand, because thing were explained in a very good way.
Recommend? Why? Why not?

Yes, I liked the book so much because I love romantics books, and the story is a very good and beautiful one.

Your opinion: Did you like the book? What was your favourite part and why? Did you learn anything?

Like I said before I love romantic story so of course that I like it. My favorite part of the book is when Mr. Darcy write the letter and Elizabeth discovered the truth. In that moment you learn thatyou shouldn´t prejudice people people before knowing
Your star rating for this book: *****

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2017-02-18 17:16:22 UTC

Student's name: Gorka pineda
BOOK REPORT:
Title: Pride and perjudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters: Bennet family (Mr. and Msr. Bennet, Elizabet, Jane, Mary, Catherine, Lydia), Mr. Darcy and Carles Bingley.
Story Setting:
The novel is set in the 19th century in England.
Plot: The novel starts with a family, Bennet family, and in the family there are five daughters that they are not married and their parents want to marry them. The Bennet family isn't a rich family so the father, Mr. Bennet wants to marry his daughters with a rich man so Mr. Bennet organizes a party and he invites to Charles Bingley who was a rich man. Darcy, Bingley's friend, Wants to broke the relation betweewn Jane and Bingley. Then Elizabeth meets wikham (a bad man who wants to aparent other thing) who says bad thigs about darcy but then darcy explains what have hapened by a letter.
Finaly three daughters of the five get marrien, two of them with rich and good looking mans. There werw two more daughters, Catherine and Mary, w that they are not married but Mr. Bennnet doesn't matter it because of the other three daughhters and he doesen't want to know anithing more about weedings.
Main events:
-Bennet family haves five daughters and they want to marry them.
-Mr. Bennet organizes a party
-There apear some rich people
-There apears some wrong informaton about Jane
-Wickham is not a good man
-Three daughters get married
-They are happy
How long did it take you to read it?
An hour and a half
Did you find it difficult to understand?
No
Recommend? Why? Why not?
No for the people who doesn't like tese type of historyes and yes for the people who likes it

Did you like the book?
No
What was your favourite part and why?
I haven't got any favourite part but i like that in the end all the people is happy
Did you learn anything?
No
Your star rating for this book:
***

Pride and prejudice

2017-02-20 16:41:48 UTC

Student´s name: Oier Vázquez

BOOK REPORT:
Title: Pride and prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Main characters:
There are seven diferent main characters:
1. Elizabeth Bennnet: She is the sister of Jane Bennet. She´s a very clever woman and the principal character of the book. She wants to find the love without looking for social status.
2. Jane Bennet: The oldest and the most beautiful daughter of the Bennet daughters. She has a very good friendship with her young sister, Elizabeth. She is a very nice and innocent person, who thinks that everybody is fiable.
3. Fitzwilliam Darcy: He has got a lot of money. Nobody in the town love him, but after is known that she is very kind person, that finally fall in love with Elizabeth and engaged her.
4. Charles Bingley: Like Fitzwilliam Darcy, he is a rich man too, but everyone has a good impression of him. He is very pleasant and kind person that falls in love with Jane.
5. Mr and Mrs Bennet: They are the parents of the principal character and her four sisters. Mum´s wants to see her daughters married with rich man´s, because they haven´t got a lot of money, but the dad isn´t care about that.
6. Mr Wickham: He looks like a rich person, and everyone likes him, but nothing is real because he isn´t like this. He said bad thing about Darcy so people hate him. She is looking for a rich woman to marry with because he don´t have that much money.
Story setting:
The novel is set in the 19th century in England. It is set principally in Longbourn, the Hertfordshire country town that is a mile from Meryton and twenty-four miles from London. It is a well-ordered, provincial town, filled with landed gentry and oblivious to the sweeping changes occurring outside the fringes of its narrow, circumscribed vision.
Plot:
The story starts out with the Bennett family in their "estate" called Longburn. This good looking rich dude named Mr. Bingley movies into their neighborhood. Bingley has the hots for Jane Bennett. Bingley’s friend Darcy doesn’t like them together because he thinks Jane is white trash. So Darcy plans with Bingley’s sisters to break them up. Meanwhile, Darcy has the hots for Jane’s sister Elizabeth.
Elizabeth thinks Darcy is a rich asshole. She hears lots of bad stuff about him and how he’s a prick to people. She hears he’s cheated George Wickham out of his inheritance. then Wickham and Elizabeth fall in love because he’s a good looking dude.
Mr. Bennett has no son, so his estate goes to his closest male relative. The closest relative is this dude named Mr. Collins. He’s an arrogant priest. He ends up marrying Elizabeth’s friend Charlotte. She marries him to get away from her crappy life.
Elizabeth sees Charlotte a lot. Darcy goes to visit his aunt a lot. They run into each other. Darcy asks Elizabeth to marry him but she still says no, because he’s a prick. She’s mad that he screwed up Jane and Bingley’s love affair and also cheated Wickham. Darcy admits to screwing with Jane and Bingley, but tells her that Wickham is a jerk. Elizabeth believes him. then Elizabeth goes on a trip with her aunt and uncle. They go to Darcy’s mansion. His housekeeper tells her what a sweetheart the guy is.
Then everyone finds out that Wickham ran away with Lydia Bennett, who is 16 years old (cradle robber). Elizabeth feels stupid for trusting Wickham and not Darcy. Darcy goes and finds the couple. He basically pays off Wickham to leave Lydia. Elizabeth finds out what good deeds Darcy did and starts to really like him. Bingley marries Jane and Elizabeth agrees to marry Darcy.
Main events:
-Bennet family haves five daughters and they want to marry them.
-Mr. Bennet organizes a party
-There apear some rich people
-There apears some wrong informaton about Jane
-Wickham is not a good man
-Three daughters get finallymarried
-They are happy
How long did it take you to read it?
It takes me around an hour and 45 minutes
Did you find it difficult to understand?
No, I didn´t
Recommend? Why? Why not?
I won´t recommend it because I don´t like reading, but for people who likes reading yes that I´ll recommend because it´s a nice and short story.
Did you like the book?
No, I didn´t because I don´t like reading
What was your favourite part and why?
Specially I haven´t got any favourite part, but I like the stories with a good final and it has got, so I think that it would be my favourite part, apart from that, because I had finished the book too.
Your star rating for this book:
****