Alissa

Tiger Li

Author: John Milne

I read Alissa. The English version is on cassette. This story is a popular story. I started reading it on the 10^th of November and I finished reading it on the 11^th of November.

The book’s time and place isn’t given.The main character is Alissa, a girl, a twelve year old, and she likes study. Her parents are very poor.

One day, she has to go to a city with a fat man. She dislikes him. Then she has to work more than fifteen hours a day, and she is very tired. Then the fat man sells Alissa to a thin man. Because the thin man’s wife doesn’t like Alissa, the thin man sells Alissa to a industry. She makes clothes in a small dark room, and she works more than twelve hours a day. Finally, she goes to school, because she takes a lady’s purse to her and doesn’t want some money for thanks. The lady likes Alissa’s honesty, and pays Alissa’s school fee for her.

I judge this book as good because I like this story, and I will be honest. The story tells us honesty is a feature of a good character. The English Level I rate as easy so I want to introduce it to my follow students.