Millions: Evaluating

    Do you agree with me that “Millions” is an amazing book to read? I can’t help waiting to share with you about it.

     The story happened in England, a mysterious foggy country that I wish to pay a visit one day. I love the two brothers, the main characters in this story. In my mind, Damian Cunningham was an innocent 10 year-old boy who was so keen with his belief in pantry saints. After his mother’s death, he always tried to be excellent by doing good things to please his dad .His deep knowledge of the Saints was kind of uncharacteristic of boys that age, but I thought that was what made him unique. Anthony was Damian’s older brother .I figured he was a little cunning but generally a good boy who only interested in money and real estate. Do you think that Anthony was so mature than his age (he was also a 6^th Grader)?When a big bag stuffed of money suddenly fall from the sky into Damian's lap 17 days before The British pound was replaced by the new Euro .He thought the money must have come from God. He tries to think of a saintly way to spend it, however his brother Anthony insisted to invest money in real estate. I can imagine how rush Damian and his brother raced to spend all of the money before it become worthless! The two brothers struggled between their temptation of buying things for their own and a sense of good purpose: helping poor people.

    Have you ever dreamed to be a Millionaire? What would you plan to do when you suddenly had a big sum of money? Could you spend this sum of money in just 17 days? Think about it!                 

Millions: Connecting

Well, what do you think bout Damien and Anthony, the two main characters of the story “Millions”? Then what would you do if you were in the same situation as these boys?

         In my opinion, Damian was such a young saint in mordern life. His innocent thought and his saintly behavious deeply impessed me! Having a big sum of money by sudden , in stead of just spending money to satisfy plenty of his own personal desires as many people would ( including you and me,right?), Damian only thought of how to help poor people as much as he could! He would like to spend all the money he had in building many hand-dug wells for the poor people in Africa. While Anthony, who was only interested in money and personal benefit, insisted to invest the whole money in real estate. If I suddenly became a Millionaire just after one night like them, I’m not so sure that I could make such an elevated decision as Damian did. How about you? I consider that it’s always easy to be said than done. Do you agree that it’s so tough to struggle between our own temptation of buying things for our own and a sense of good purpose? Nowadays, there are still so many poor people around us. Fortunately, there are also many famous Billionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Donald Trump …who keep donating most of their huge properties for many charity funds to help the poor and the victims all over the world. I think they are just the patron saints of the poor people in real life! These great people deserve to have our absolute admiration!

      Throughout the story, I also realize that money cannot buy everything, especially friendship and happiness. Damian recognized that his friends tried to be nice to him just because they were paid. Moreover, since the day they found the money, the two brothers always felt unsafe and became sceptical.The trouble that the unclear money brought to them seemed much more than the happiness. My parents often said “Money was a real burden, sometimes!” I honestly didn’t understand  their  weird complaint  until  I  read  this  story.

         The story also reminds me of the famous film “Slumdog Millionaire” by Danny Boyle .It’s also about an 18 year-old poor Indian boy who dramatically won millions dollars prize of the well-known TV game show” Who wants to be a Millionaire”. Have you ever watched this film? It’s a real touched and awesome one. You’ll also love its theme song. Don’t miss it!

Millions: Summarizing

I had just finished an awesome book named "Millions"

The picture that you are seeing above this line is the cover 

of a book "Millions"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Frank Cottrell Boyce 

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter and novelist. He has scripted the Oscar-nominated Hilary and Jackie and the Danny Boyle picture Millions, but remains best known for his six films in collaboration with director Michael Winterbottom, including the acclaimed 24-Hour Party People and A Cock and Bull Story. Cottrell Boyce's latest film, Grow Your Own, is released in the UK on June 15 2007. "Millions" is one of his successful novel. 

Book Review: 

 “Millions” was a story about two boys, Damian and his older brother Anthony. They lived in England with their father.  Their mother died several months ago.  The two boys and their father have recently moved to a new home where they hoped to start a new life away from the sorrow and memories of their old house.  Damien was a nice and innocent boy, he had a great interest in saints and angels.Like you, I was so impressed by his incredible knowledge about all the saints in Christian’s Bible.He always wanted to do good things to be “excellent” to please his father. While Anthony, Damien’s older brother, was deeply interested in money and real estate. I figured that he was a little cunning but generally a good boy. The two boys suddenly found themselves millionaires when a big bag stuffed with 229,307 old British pound notes dropped from the sky on Damian’s lap while he was praying. They realized that they had only 17 days to spend the whole money before the British pound was replaced by the new Euro. I can imagine how rush Damian and his brother raced to spend all of the money before it become worthless! Damian thought the money must have come from God. He tried to think of a saintly way to spend it, however his brother Anthony insisted to invest money in real estate. In fact, there was a band of robbers who broke into a money train. As the train traveled to its destination, he threw a bag full of money at each bend in the tracks.  One of those bags of stolen money just happened to drop on Damien’s hermitage. The two boys were in danger when the robbers knew the bag was dropped around the area of their house. I’m sure that these robbers would do any crazy thing to get the money back. Being young Millionaires in just after one night by sudden, Damian and Anthony struggled between their temptation of buying things for their own and a sense of good purpose: helping poor people. They realized that it was really hard to own a big sum of money, then knowing how to use it properly was even harder! What would they finally decide to do? What would happen to those sly robbers? All the problems were not sold untill the end of the story, I believed that it helped increasing the readers ' excitement.

   Being a millionaire was such an incredible feeling but Damian and Anthony finally discovered that money can not buy what they really needed: their true happiness and the peace in their mind.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

I had just finished an awesome book named "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 

The picture that you are seeing above this line is the cover of a book 

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Jeff Kinney 

Jeffrey (born February 19, 1971) is an American game designer, cartoonist, producer, and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. In 2004, FunBrain and Kinney released an online version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The website made daily entries until June 2005.The book became an instant hit. with the online version receiving about 20 million views as of 2007. When many online readers requested a printed version, Kinney agreed and in 2007, Diary of A Wimpy Kid was published. To date, eight Wimpy Kid books have been released, including a do-it-yourself book and a movie diary. In 2009, Kinney was named one of Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People" in the world.  "Dog Days" is one of the book series most influence book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.  

Book Review: 

 It's summer vacation and every kid is excited, well, most of them. for Greg Heffley, summer vacation brings a lot of trouble, not to mention the sizzling hot sun. At first, things are great, he get to go to the country club with Rowley's family. They would order smoothies and swim in the pool but Greg is not satisfy. His complains bought him a ticket to his boring old home with nothing to keep him company but his beloved video games. The bad news just keep on coming.     

   His mom wants him to go outside and play in the bright hot sun, his dad wants him to wake up early in the morning plus his annoying siblings became much more annoying since they're on summer vacation too. To make the situation grimmer, they're short on cash so there will be no trip to the beach this year. Greg was old enough to ride on the Cranium Shaker, the ride that proves that you have become a man, so that sucks. Worst of all is that he owed Mr. Jefferson money for all the smoothies he ordered.

  Then again, he had already decided to get some fun out of this vacation. First thing first, pay Mr. Jefferson back. Just then, his dad brought home something he have always wanted, something he longed for years now. His dad brought home a...

Experience Greg's Heffley summer vacation adventures and find out what trouble he and Rowley got themselves in this time and what kind of goofy plans do they have to solve them in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney.