Book Report

I have read this book some time ago. But it was inspiring. It is a classic book, and it seemed quiet boring at first, but it was amazing when I read it till the end.

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The Railway Children                                                      

By E. Nesbit

Book report

 The first thing I noticed when I saw this book was the title. ‘The Railway Children’. It just gives me thousands of imagination. Why are children called the railway children? Are they poor? Or are they children from the slavery in Americas? Are they children from Underground Railroad? But the drawing doesn’t seem like decades ago… It has been a very long time since I cared about titles in books or the pictures on the cover. But this book just gave me an interesting first attraction. I think that is why I was enthusiastic to read a classic. I was never a fan of classic books but this one really touched my heart.

 When I was reading this book, it kept on making me remind of my childhood. I think it was because of the things that Roberta, Peter and Phyllis. When these three children and their mother moved to the three chimneys, the children got really close with their neighbors and people in the railway station. I found out that along the whole story, these three angle like children help people who needs help or a support. For example they helped a teenage boy who was messing around with his friends and got stuck in a tunnel. This really stroked my brain because it really made me remember my childhood experience a lot. These three children were barely an age to take care of themselves. But they went to this extremely dangerous dark train tunnel to find this teenage guy who got stuck in the train tunnel. The train coming could have squashed them but they risked their lives to save this middle age boy.

 When I was young just like them, I was really enthusiastic at helping total strangers. I used to run up the fences and thorns just to help some teenage girls and guys. I had a lot of scratches on my legs because I roam around these dangerous places a lot. Just like the mother in this novel, my mom was always upset about what I did but was also proud. I could never understand why she was always upset of me helping people, which was certainly not a bad thing. But now I understand how the mother feels. She should have been worried that something could have gone wrong. This book is just so weird and a coincidence. The idea of these innocent children helping random strangers wasn’t strange to me at all. It was amazing how I could be synchronized with the characters in this book. It is always a joy to feel the same and understanding a character. It helps you to remember that book for a long time.

 Classics are always dragging like stories where it looks like no climax happens. But this one didn’t drag on and bored me. It gave me the first attraction, which made me keep on reading. The father. The father disappeared at the first chapter of the book. The mystery stayed until the very last chapter of the book. When you have a mystery to solve, you can never put down that book. So I had to keep on reading to know what actually happened. And the second one was the middle part. Actually the middle part could have been really boring for other people. But for me it was an amazing back off journey. When I was reading this book I kept on saying something like ‘Oh my god, I know that feeling!’ or something like ‘Now I know why my mom was in such a bad mood every single time I helped others!’ or ‘That was what exactly happened to me!!’ This book gave me a lot of satisfaction because I solved two mysteries! One is the book mystery. Why did the father disappear? The second mystery is the mystery I always had at the back of my head. Why was my mom always upset when I helped random people when I was young? I actually didn’t recognize the worriedness in my mother’s face till now.  Now that I know, I am dumbfounded.

 I like this book not because it is a classic. And I usually don’t like classics. But because of how the story matched my own story. And this book gave me a new view about classic books. Classic books are not always boring. Or maybe only boring for the people who didn’t had lot of experience. Does that mean I didn’t have a lot of experience?

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I would be writing more of book reports!