Title: My Fair Lady
Author: Lerner Alan Jay
Publisher (Level): Penguin readers (3)
Summary:
This is a story about the way the English think about people who speak their language with different accents, and also it is a wonderful story about growing love between two very different people.
Eliza is not a very good-looking young woman and has a very strong London accent. When Professor Higgins meets her, he decides to teach her a way to speak good English and good manners. Eliza takes his lessons, and about four month later they go watching the horse races at Ascot. She is wearing a wonderful dress and looks very beautiful. Freddy, who has met her once before she takes his lessons, is immediately in love with her. Although while watching the races her London accent got stronger and stronger, Freddy loves her strongly. About six weeks later, they attend a party, but Eliza feels sad and hopeless. After the party, in the midnight, she left Higgins' house and early in the morning of that same night, Eliza and Freddy get married at St George Church with everybody there celebrating them. After Eliza has gone, Higgins finds the fact that his lessons made her unhappy and he needs her. (193 words)
Evaluation: 5 stars
At the start of the story, I think it is a success story. But going on reading, I gradually wonder what way of life is good for me. If I took some special lessons which made me a real lady and I behaved like a member of the upper classes, would I become happy? Eliza, the heroine of this story, was unhappy. I would also become unhappy because I, who am not a real lady, am also the I.
This story contains music, songs and dance, so I really want to watch it on the movie. (96 words)
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