Title: The Turn of the Screw
Author: HENRY JAMES
Publisher (level): OXFORD (2.8)
Summary:
This is the strange story one woman wrote. She became to be a governess at one home-Bly to get a living. At Bly, there were a housekeeper-Mrs. Grose and two children-Flora and Miles. The children were very clever and soon became attached to her. But, she soon discovered that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. She sometimes saw one man and one woman who don’t live at Bly. One day, she talked about that strange people to Mrs. Grose in detail, then Grose very surprised and said, ‘They were a former housekeeper and governess, and they has been dead.’these monster became to appeared frequently. She noticed that they approached the children gradually and would destroy them. She decided to save them. One day, she and Miles were in a room alone. He gazed at out of the window, and his face turned to be white. There was the monster. She held him near her and shouted at the monster, ‘No more, no more!’The next instant, the monster disappeared. She defeated for the monster and saved the children at last.
Evaluation: 5 stars
I thought that the governess is a great brave woman. She was at Bly not to get a living but to save the children at the end of the story. If I were her, I’d run away from Bly because at the end of the monsters. I guess the monsters were no match for her courage. I read this book at a stretch.