Book name: Treading on Dreams : Stories of Ireland ( Retold by Clare West )


1.new words learnt:
(1)   aubergine - a long vegetable with dark purple skin
(2)   billiard room - a place where people plays billiards (using long sticks to hit the balls against each other and into pockets at the edge of a long table )
(3)   blush - to become red in the face
(4)   bollocks - someone of bad charactors; also, a rude word meaning 'nonsense!'
(5)   breeches - short trousers fastened just below the knee
(6)   buckles - pieces of metal used for fastening shoes
(7)   dartboard - a round board with numbers on it, used in the game of darts; the bulls-eye is the centre of the dartboard
(8)   drag - to pull something along with difficult
(9)   eejit - Irish English, an idiot, a very stupid person
(10) exaggerate - to make something seem larger, better, worse, or more important that it really is
(11) eyelids - the pieces of skin that move to cover your eyes
(12) fiddle - a stringed musical instrument usually called a violin
(13) the Garden of Eden - (in the Bible) the beautiful garden where Adam and Eve lived; a place of happiness and innocence
(14) giggle - to laugh in a silly way
(15) gin - a strong, colourless alcoholic drink
(16) guilty party - (in a divorce) the person who takes the blame for breaking up the marriage
(17) interrupt - to say or do something that makes somebody stop what they are saying or doing
(18) missus - used when speaking to a women
(19) Oedipus complex - a boy's feeling of love for his mother and of jealousy towards his father
(20) pawn - to leave an object with a person who lends money because of this (the object is given back if the money is repaid)
(21) pillar - a stone column that supports a wall
(21) raffle - the sale of numbered tickets, one of which wins a price
(22) reel - a fast Irish, Scottish, or American dance, foe two or four couples
(23) sober - not drunk, not affected by alcohol


2.about this book:
On the windswept west coast of Ireland a boy and his grandmother welcome a stranger; in a Dublin bar two man dicuss a women. A mother struggles to live the pain of a child dead; a failed musician drowns his sorrows in whiskey in New York. Then there is the fisherman who caught no fish; a small boy who get cross with his father; and a girl with long black hair, cycling down the mountain road to her first party, with hope in her heart. And the wish in all their hearts might be, in the words of the poet W.B. Yeats, 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.


3.my comments:
This is a story from Ireland. Irish writter have long been famous for short stories and there is a rich variety in this volume. This book talks about treading on dreams, there are many people in this world that had dream, even though it is not important. I belive that every people in this world have dream. This is very important to have a dream on yourself. This is a very intresting and good book. People who have dream should read this book so you will know how to treading on yous and other peoples dream. There are also some exercise for us to do before and after reading. This will make us know and understant what the writter wanted to tell us trought the story more easilly.