The Stolen White Elephant (long ver.

 

      " Naturally the chief is the hero and his happiness is complete. I am happy for him although now I am a homeless beggar. "( P 54 L 4~6)

      I read " The Stolen White Elephant." The story of the book is about a white elephant. A man who is trying to deliver a white elephant gets a phone call in the middle of the night: the white elephant has been stolen. He hurries to New York City and goes to the headquarters of the police force. He tells the chief of the force, Inspector Blunt, everything. Inspector Blunt asks him to describe the elephant. Inspector Blunt sends his policemen to look for the elephant and the thieves. Messages begin to come into the telegraphic machine. A large number of telegrams come in from detectives who are following clues throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The detectives sends their reports every hour. Each one is following the elephant, but no one finds it. After two weeks the elephant is lost. He must have found a place to hide during the fog. News about the elephant stops. Two weeks after the elephant’s disappearance, Inspector Blunt suggests that he raise the reward. In the basement, Inspector Blunt falls over a large object. When Inspector Blunt comes back his eyes are happy. The man lifts a candle and walks down into the basement of the building. it is dark and frightening and there is a very bad smell. He feels sick and wants to go back. They found a dead white elephant. Naturally the chief is the hero and his happiness is complete. The man is happy for the Inspector although now the man is a homeless beggar, his elephant is dead, and he has no job.

Next, Something connected to the book as follows; "The Stolen White Elephant" is a short story written by Mark Twain – Twain in 1907 ・ Samuel Clemens, age 15

and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood; In this detective

Detective fiction – Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) ・Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)

mystery; Mystery fiction – Mystery, 1934 mystery fiction magazine cover ・Novels by Agatha Christie

a Siamese white elephant; White elephant (animal) – A royal white elephant ・A white elephant in Naypyidaw, Myanmar en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey; the local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end; the main characters of the story include: Mark Twain, who functions as the initial speaker and author of the story: An elderly gentleman, an Englishman in the British civil service in India, who told the story to Twain during a train ride and is in charge of transporting the white elephant.

Also, you can see how the story goes and who appeared in the book by URL below.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EXrw5wdFl7ZrBEuGKyXYveHwW4X8h6ej/view?usp=sharing

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qwtqHzOPnU6QT-5UiDisEw2dAt9zWtYTW6MHozdn66k/edit?usp=sharing

 

[ Vocabulary]

leave out: omit; not include

indifferent to: does not care about

insignificant: not important

clues: things that help you solve a  problem or a mystery

 

 

 

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The Stolen White Elephant (Throne Classics)

著者 : MarkTwain

Throne Classics

発売日 : 2020-09-29