Book Review 6

I read "The Emperor's New Clothes" this week. It's called "Hadakano osama" in Japanese. I have heard this title, but I don't know at all how story it is. And I chose written by easy words one, and it was only seven pages, so I could read this quite easily.

Once there was an emperor who liked new clothes, and he bought some new clothes every day. Many people came to see him. One day two lazy men came, and they said, "We can make very beautiful cloth, and besides, it's so beautiful that foolish people can't see it." Then the emperor gave a lot of money to the two lazy men. The emperor waited and waited, ready to his new cloth, but two lazy men did not work at all, they just got money. The emperor wanted his new cloth, but he didn't want to go to the two men, because he was afraid. He thoguht "If I can't see the cloth, I am a foolish man and should not be emperor." So he asked the greatest man in his country to look at the new cloth, but the great man didn't see any cloth at all. Because, there wasn't anything there! The two lazy men told a lie to everybody. From the very beginning, they can't make beautiful cloth, and such things are not exist there. But the emperor wanted to believe he's not foolish man, so he pretended to see the cloth. Then the two lazy man said to the emperor, "Please take off your clothes, and we'll put these new clothes that make just right for you." So the emperor took off his clothes, and then the two men pretended to dress him in the new clothes. Nobody wanted to seem foolish, so no one would say that he couldn't see it. But of course, the emperor has nothing on! The emperor was angry because he knew he has nothing on. But he had to go on through the streets, and the great men and the servants walked on after him, looking at the clothes that were not there. Only he humiliate himself.