20213黃歆媛 (HUANG, SHIN-YUAN)
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TITLE OF THE BOOK: George's Marvelous Medicine
NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Roald Dahl
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2013
ISBN: 978-0-141-34992
George's Marvelous Medicine
The story is about George and his Grandma. George was alone with his grandma. Most Grandmas were sweet and friendly — but not George’s Grandma! She was nasty, she yelled at George all the time, and she might even be a witch! George felt enough of his grouchy Grandma. He thought the solution might be to replace her regular medicine with some marvelous medicine that he would make out of sorts of ingredients. George’s medicine worked so marvelously well that Grandma — and his family — will never be the same again!
George and Grandma were at home. George’s Grandma bossed him around and bullied him. She was horrid. To punish her for her regular abuse, George decided to make a magic medicine to replace her old one. He collected a variety of ingredients from around the family farm including deodorant and shampoo, floor polish, horseradish sauce and gin, animal medicine, and so on. After cooking the ingredients, George gave it to his Grandma, who grew as tall as the house. George’s father was excited about the medicine. He had George feed the medicine on the rest of the farm's animals. George attempted to recreate it, but was unable to remember all the ingredients. The second medicine made a chicken's legs grow extremely long, and the third elongated a chicken's neck to bizarre proportions. George’s Grandma drank the forth medicine. She became smaller and smaller and then disappeared. George reflected on the recent events, feeling as though they had granted him an access to the edge of a magic world.
I think George was courageous. He made the medicine with a lot of strange ingredients. His Grandma ate it and became extremely tall without diarrhea. And I think George’s father was open-minded. He didn’t blame George. He invited George to make the medicine again. In a word, I think the story was creative and special.
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