Rio Kawabata

”A poor widow once lived in a little cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden, in which were growing two rose trees; one of these bore white roses, and the other red.” I also read “Snow-White and Rose Red”. The main characters of this story are two girls. One name is Snow-White and the other is Rose-Red. One day, a dear came into their house suddenly. The children were astonished, but their mother didn’t. She told them that the bear won’t do nothing wrong, and that was correct. The bear and children soon became friends and had a good time. But one day, the bear left the house to protect treasures from the bad dwarfs. One day, the children came across a dwarf in the forest. And it was not once, but several times. Every time they came across dwarfs, they helped them. On their way home, they met a dwarf again. The children and the dwarf came across a big black bear. The dwarf was kicked and dead. Children ran away from the bear, but were stopped by a well-known voice. The bear appro

"Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. They were both so disagreeable and so proud that there was no living with them. " I read “The Fairy”. The main character of this story is one girl. One day, she was asked to give water by woman and did it. Then, the women gave her a great gift. The girl’s mother hope that the incident occurred again and sent her another girl, but she got a bad gift. Mother  got angry and got her daughter out of the house. The girl who was kicked out was found and loved by the King’s son, and married him. I've noticed that too much profit-seeking can be a bad thing in reverse. I think this is true in reality as well. I would like to think that not only profit but also disadvantage will lead to my growth. [vocabulary] pitcherful 水差し1杯分 courteous 礼儀正しく思いやりのある minx 生意気娘 palace 宮殿

"There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes." I read “The elves and the shoemaker”. This story’s main character is one  shoemaker. He was poor, but a very sincere person. He lost everything what he had but leather enough to make one pair of shoes, and cut it out for the next day. The next day, something interesting happened. There were shoes on the table, and the degree of perfection was great. This incident occurred many times and made him and his wife rich. They wanted to know about who was making the shoes, so they hid and observe what is going on. Then, some little naked dwarfs came and made shoes quickly. Shoemakers thought that they should to give thanks to the dwarfs and gave them a shirt, and coat, and so on. The dwarfs came in the midnight again and seemed mightily delighted. From that day, t