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Book Summary: The Stolen White Elephant
By Mark Twain
This story was told by a traveler to an old man. The old man said that in the Kingdom of Siam only kings could have a white elephant. When this kingdom had a border problem with Great Britain the king of Siam decided to send a white elephant to gift the queen of Great Britain. The old man who was an official of the kingdom was in charge of taking the elephant.
The ship was stopped because the animal was sick, but the elephant was stolen. The old man went to New York to seek police help. Inspector Blunt decided to investigate the case carefully because this wasn’t a common case.
He noted the features of the elephant, his habits of eating men and bibles. And he said that a reward was offered and ordered his assistant to publish notice of the theft. Detectives and police men were sent in various directions to investigate.
Soon arrived some theories about the theft, names of suspects and statements of direction to where they would have taken the elephant.
The inspector suspected of two famous criminals: "Brick" Daffy and "Red" McFadden.
By passing the elephant, it killed men and destroyed everything. The elephant was hit by a shot at one of the cities where it was and ran to black fog.
Then it took three weeks without news. The inspector said that the reward was increased. That was good because as soon one of the detectives sent a message that had the elephant.
Inspector Blunt wanted to personally negotiate with the thieves and arranged a meeting with them to make a deal.
The elephant was recovered, but was dead. When it fled wounded and hid himself, died of hunger.
The inspector Blunt was successful in investigating and won admiration of all but the old man lost the reward money and the office employee of the Kingdom of Siam.
Autobiography
I’ll speak a little about me.
My name is Ana Paula Ribeiro, I’m twenty six years old.
This is my family:
This is my mother, her name’s Julia, she’s fifty one and she’s a dressmaker. She is very angry. (This is her friend Goreti).
This is my father, his name is Hercílio, he’s fifty two and he’s a gardener. He’s very funny. And this is my sister, her name is Ana Carolina, she’s eighteen. She doesn’t live with me at the moment. She studies business administration in Lavras at UFLA and she lives with her friends. She’s a very intelligent girl. We’re friends, we always fight like all brothers, but I love her.
My family is very large. I have two grandfathers and two grandmathers, thirty two uncles and aunts and fourty eight cousins.
I was born in Maria da Fé and I lived there until twenty years of age. I live in Itajubá since 2003 (two thousand three). I live with my parents in a small apartment.
My childhood was great. My hair was blond and I was a naughty girl. I could read when I was four years old and I started wearing glasses with four years old too. At school I was always a good student.
When I was a teenager I was very rebellious. I always liked to travel and go to parties but my parents didn’t like it but I went anyway. I worked as tourist guide, receptionist, salesperson, secretary, telephone operator and now I'm administration assistant at UNIFEI. I studied until the high school in Maria da Fé and then I studied in a technical course of administration at Colégio de Itajubá and now I study Languages at Universitas. I chose this course because I want to be a teacher.
I have a boyfriend, his name is Juliano. He’s twenty six years old and he is a little farmer. He lives in Pedralva. He has beautiful green eyes. He’s my great companion. I love him very much and we want to get married in short time.
I also have many friends. Some don’t live here then I always talk to them by phone and internet. I never forget their birthdays. They are all very special for me and it’s very funny when we are together.
Well, things that I like: I learned to swim a short time ago but I like a lot. I like dancing. In my free time I like watching movies.I don’t like to cook, I just cook the basics. I like pasta. My favorite fruit is guava and I love chocolate. I’m a chocolover. My favorite flowers are tulips. I want to know the city of Bonito in Mato Grosso do Sul, it has beautiful caves and lakes.
My teacher of English says to me: _What can I say about your lovely life?!
=D I agree!!! Is a lovely life!!!
