RJ6黃怡慈

English Reading Journal 6
The Moon is Down
Author: John Steinbeck
Retold by: M. J. Paine
Publishing Company: Heinemann Guided Readers
Year of publishing: 1992
Word Level: Intermediate (1600 words)
Number of pages: 80

It is wartime. A small town is invaded by the enemy. The mayor
of the town, Orden, met the invaders' leader, Colonel Lancer. Colonel
was very smart to use the way of making soldiers live in the mayor's
house to let people in the town think that the mayor was helping the
invaders. Orden was surprised that the shopkeeper, Corell, was the
man who sent the information of the town to the invader. The war was
never end which was what Colonel thought, because he try the miner to
death. The unfair treatments the invaders had done made the people
angry. They didn't always treat them back immediately, but the people
would use their own force to make the invaders feel the trouble they
were going to face.
I didn't like such a serious story, but it can help me consider a
few war problems. The war is terrible, and it is worse to fight to
both of the winner and loser. There is no always winner in the war.
People start the war because of some benefits. In this story, the
invader is asking for the mine. Did they realy got the benefit by
invading other towns? Didn't they cost the soldiers' lives or any
other things? The invader would not get the peace if they never stop
invading.
There are some good sentences in the novel. For instance, "A
man must not think about living or about dying. He must think about
whether he is doing right or wrong." After reading this story I
conclude that the more difficulties the man confronts, the braver he
will be.

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