Sunday, January 22, 2012

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Classic
The Bennet's have 5 children, but they are all girls. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had no sons to give their inheritance to  Mr. Bennet dies. If he dies before his daughters are married they would be thrown onto the streets. So Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are trying to make sure that all of their daughters are married off to a man before their father dies. But this can not just be any man. The men have to be rich, nice, and good to their daughters. Mrs. Bennet also wants them to live close by. When the young rich man, Mr. Bingly, moves to town Mrs. Bennet wants her daughters to be set up with them so that she might be able to marry one of them off with him. Luckily the next town dance was the next day and it was sure that Mr. Bingly would come to it. The next day at the dance Mr. Bingly danced with 5 different girls, but there were 6 dances. This of course means that he danced with one of the girls twice. If you danced with one girl twice that means that you like that one girl. That one girl just happened to be one of the Bennet girls. It was Jane, the oldest of the Bennet girls. How Mr. Bingly liked Jane was the topic for the next few days, because that is the kind of thing they liked to talk about. After the dance Jane was invited to visit Mr. Bingly a few times and she was invited to a few dinners. One dinner that she was invited to she asked her parents if she could take the carriage, but her mother did not want her to take the carriage because it looked like it was going to rain. If it were to rain Mr. Bingly just would not allow Jane to go home and he would allow her to stay the night. It rained but unfortunately it started raining before Jane got to the Bingly residence. Jane caught a cold. She wasn't too sick, but she was too sick to be moved. Mr. Bingly kindly let her stay at his house and he called the doctor for her. It seems that Mr. Blingly and Jane are perfect for each other. Also at that dance Jane's younger sister named Elizabeth over heard a conversation. Mr. Darcy said that he was not very attracted to Elizabeth because she was not his type. After Jane caught the cold Elizabeth ran the three miles to the Bingly's residence to see if her sister is alright. In her rush the him of her dress became severely muddy. Mrs. Bingly, Mr. Bingly's sister, always finds something in someone to criticize. When Elizabeth got there she said that she was uncaring and not a very well-behaved girl. Mr. Darcy, surprisingly, disagrees with her. I could tell that Mr. Darcy's thought of Elizabeth was changing.
So far I really like the book and I hope to enjoy the rest of the book.

2 comments:

  1. This seems very interesting, I really liked how detailed your describitions were.

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  2. I am also reading this book for my book report and I think you did a great job at describing the first few chapters without giving anything away.

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