BOOK REVIEW
PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
Written By: Mark Twain
Prince and the pauper
is a book which has been placed on my bookshelf from a very young age. It is
one of those few books I have read when I started reading literature other than
my curricular books.
From Mark twain’s further
classics this is a winning book for young readers. Surprisingly connecting the
reader with a world of two boys, one a prince enjoying a lavish life in the
palace other an urchin pauper living in the not so good street of London. Both
unpredictably having the same identities by face but not by names or living
standards.
The story grows to a
point where both these boys confront each other, Tom Canty happens to meet Prince
Edward of Wales. And after a situation of confusion they nearly switch places
to each other.
The story
revolves around Tom, who is sick of being beaten by his cruel father, and
Edward who is bizarre of being present to his royal responsibilities. They both
switching their lives among themselves animate each other's lives, yet, it's
not as easy as they thought it would be.
Tom has a
dream even though by getting brutality from his father and grandmother -despite
of caring mother and sisters- that one day he will meet the prince himself. And
thinking about his dream he witnessed the hallucination of living a luxurious
life.
Waking up Tom
decided to visit way to Westminster Palace. A guard outbreaks him as he gets a
little too close to the gate. Fortunate for Tom, this interests the attention
of the prince, who reproaches the guard and let the pauper into the palace.
It's his dream come true.
Talking to
each other they both conversed about themselves and completes that regardless
of their families they both are fateful somehow, so we guess that's something
to bond over. Prince feeling excited about tom’s life decides to swap lives,
just for a little while. Changing his visual attire of a prince to a pauper he keeps
himself still in that clothing and conversed further when halfway he thought to
investigate the guard who opposed tom at the gate. What he wasn't expecting was
to be mistaken for Tom and kicked out of the palace because no one could recognize
him without his apparel of a prince. Now he's just another poor person on the
street.
The story
continues with some entertaining situations depicted by the writer as both have
been switched in places now. One of them as in the court, when Tom is given a finger bowl, he drinks from it,
announcing, "This is a very flavourless soup." And everyone thinks
he's crazy. Meanwhile, Tom starts to get a little twitchy at the palace. He
tries to turn himself in, but everyone just assumes that he's crazy whereas on
the other hand he’s scared to get caught and punished.
One the other hand in
the slums of London Tom’s dad is angry that Edward (who he believes is Tom)
doesn't have any money to give him. He brings the prince home, and beats him
for saying that he's the prince. Tom's mother responds, "Oh, poor Tom,
it's all those books you read that's done this to you”. But later she did believe
him as the mother knows all.
This was just the
beginning of the events that excites the reader and embeds them in the lives
and struggle of Tom and Edward. How they lived each day. How Edward tries to
escape and return to the palace while how tom tries not to get caught and
adjusts himself in the palace. Following by the decision of who the real king
was and the missing royal stamp it continues till the bad get caught.
One of the quotes I
treasured from this book was
“a
fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
The end of this book, is pretty
much contented, where the evil guys decease and get punish for their sins, and
the main characters just go back to their lives, with their minds full of
adventure. All I would say is that this book is worth reading!
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