My Favourite Literary Character 


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My Favourite Literary Character



My favourite literary character is Elisa Doolittle. Elisa is the main character of Bernard Shaw's famous comedy "Pygmalion". Elisa is eighteen, she has a strong Cockney accent. She comes from the lowest social level. She makes money by selling flowers in the streets of London.

Once Elisa meets Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics. Elisa and Higgins begin to work hard at the girl's pronunciation and manners. Higgins makes an agreement with his friend Pickering that he will pass Elisa off as a duchess in six months.

At last, before six months are over, she is well prepared to be introduced into society. Pickering and Higgins take her to a dinner party and the Queens dancing party.

Everything is good and professor wins his bet. But what is to become of poor girl now when the game is over? She has acquired some culture and she wants to do useful work. Anyway, she can't sell flowers in the streets again. She wants her share of respect and independence.

I like Elisa's quick wit, sense of humour and moral strength. The character of this girl shows how much force and talent lies undeveloped in common people. Elisa, thank to her mind and abilities, reaches a lot in life. And eventually people get to appreciate her.

Translate the sentences from English into Kazakh. Write down new words. Pay attention to grammar material.

1."Wish to look about the store? Oh, by all means, sir," said the manager of one of the biggest book stores in New York. He called to his assistant, "Just show this gentleman our ancient classics – the ten-cent series."

2.With this he dismissed me from his mind. In other words he had guessed at a glance that I was a professor.

3.The manager of the biggest book store cannot be deceived in a customer.

4. He knew I would hang around for two hours, get in everybody's way, and finally buy the Dialogues of Plato for ten cents.

5.He despised me, but a professor standing in a corner buried in a book looks well in a store. It is a sort of advertisement.

6.So it was that standing in a far corner I had an opportunity of noticing something of this up-to-date manager's methods with his real customers.

7."You are quite sure it's his latest?" a fashionably dressed woman was saying to the manager.

8."Oh, yes, madam, this is Mr. Slush's very latest book, I assure you.

9 It's having a wonderful sale." As he spoke he pointed to a huge pile of books on the counter with the title in big letters – Golden Dreams.

10"This book," said the lady idly turning over the pages, "is it good?"

11"It's an extremely powerful thing," said the manager, "in fact it's a masterpiece.

12 The critics are saying that without exaggeration it is the most powerful book of the season.

13It is bound to make a sensation." "Oh, really!" said the lady. "Well, I think I'll take it then."

14Suddenly she remembered something. "Oh, and will you give me something f or my husband? He's going down south.

15 You know the kind of thing one reads on vacation?"

16"Oh, perfectly, madam. I think we have just what you husband wants. Seven Weeks in the Sahara, dollars; Six Months in a Waggon, 6 dollars; Afternoons in an Oxcart, two volumes, 4 dollars 30 cents. Or here, now, Among the Cannibals of Corfu, or Among the Monkeys of New Guinea, 10 dollars."

17 And with this the manager laid his hand on another pile as numerous as the pile of Golden Dreams.

18' It seems rather expensive,» remarked the lady.

19"Oh, a most expensive book," repeated the manager in a tone of enthusiasm. "You see, it's the illustrations, actual photographs of actual monkeys; and the paper."


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My Favourite English Writer

It's said that none of the British writers of our age enjoyed such popularity all over the world as Agatha Christie did. Her works were translated into many languages, and scores of films were made using them as the script.

The name of Agatha Christie is a synonym for high-class detective story, as well as Pele is a symbol of football, and Marilyn Monroe is an embodiment of femininity. According to Agatha Christie herself, she began to write just to imitate her sister whose stories had already been published in magazines.

And suddenly Agatha Christie became famous as if by miracle. Having lost her father at an early age, the prospective writer didn't receive even fairly good education. During the First World War she was a nurse, then she studied pharmacology. Twenty years later she worked in a military hospital at the beginning of the Second World War.

The favourite personages of the "queen of detective story" are the detective Hercules Poirot and the sedate Miss Marple who carry out investigations in noisy London and delusive quiet countryside. The composition of her stories is very simple: a comparatively closed space with a limited number of characters, who are often plane or train passengers, tourists, hotel guests or residents of a cosy old village.

Everyone is suspected! Murders in the books of Agatha Christie are committed in most unsuitable places: in the vicar's garden or in an old abbey; corpses are found in someone's libraries being murdered with the help of tropical fishes, a poker, candelabra, a dagger or poison. Once Agatha Christie wrote: "Some ten years will pass after my death, and nobody will even remember me...". The writer was mistaken.

Agatha Christie's novels are very popular now. People of all continents read and reread "The Oriental Express", "Ten Little Negroes", "The Bertram Hotel", "The Corpse in the library" and other of her novels time and again, enjoy films made by her works, and one can hardly find a country where people do not know her name.



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