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My Impressions after Reading”
The Million Pound
Note
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This time
I want to talk
about
a very
famous short
story
written by
Mark
Twain---------
“
The
Million
Pound
Note
”
.
Referring
to
Mark
Twain,
you
must
feel
familiar,
because
we
must
have
read
his
works
before.
I
still
remember
the
article
“
The
Bite
Events
on
the
Train
”
in
our
textbook
when
I
’
m
in
the
middle
school.
What touched me most
at that time were his ironic words. Yes, he is a
great humorist,
novelist,
writer
and
orator
in
America
in
nineteenth
century.
During
his
40
years
’
writing
career,
he
created
dozens
of
short
or
long
stories,
among
which
“
The
Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn”
is
of
the
most
popularity,
which
was
praised
by
Hemingway
as
“
the
first
real
American
literature”
.
But
today
I
am
introducing
his
another work------ The Million Pound
Note.
This
story tells
about
a poor but
honest
American
Adam
Henry. When he was
wandering in the street of London, he
was given by two billionaires a letter, in which
he surprisedly found a
￡
1,000,000 pound bank-note.
Later he got to know that the
two
billionaires who were brothers had made a bet
about the results after he got a one
million-pound note at once. One of them
thought the note wound count for nothing to
the poor man because he could not prove
that the money was his own while the other
considered just as the opposite.
Dramatically, the plot went just out of
my expectation. Herry went to a restaurant
to have dinner first. The manager was
mean to him at the beginning but his attitude
changed quickly
when
Herry took
out
the note
and asked
for
change.
Faced
with
a
millionaire, the manager apologized
again and again and obsequiously told Herry that
he didn
’
t need to
pay for the bill right now. So Herry managed to
have a free dinner.
Then similarly,
Herry went to a clothing shop and got
a
suit of clothes costing
him
nothing.
Like the plot
above, people are curious of such a rich man and
tried every means
to cozy up to him,
from free food
，
free clothes to free accommodation. At
the same
time, his social status was
becoming higher and higher and finally higher than
most
dukes.
Apart
from
that,
he
later
got
a
beautiful
wife
and
200,000
pounds
of
bank
interest. I can imagine a bright future
was waiting for him.
The
writing
style
of
this
story
is
so
humorous.
Mark
Twain
used
hyperbole
describing how our
hero defeated snobbishness repeatedly. What I
appreciate most is
the
detailed
description
of
different
people’s
ridiculous
actions
before
one
million
pounds, vivid,
funny, ironic and humorous, which forms a
Caricature.
In
terms
of
the
theme,
it
is
apparent
that
the
author
wanted
to
denounce
the
overflowing mammonism in the society.
Even now it gives us an impressive lesson.
Yes, I cannot deny the importance of
money to
a person who wants to survive.
We
won
’
t
live
without
money,
with
which
we
get
food,
clothes,
house
and
many
other
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