Paid By Gillian Essay

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After finished the story, I was appreciate with Mr. Gillian, who was brave to choose love and ignored the money he could get. He didn’t care about money but he wanted to give the best to his love as much as possible, never asked for return or get back something, even though she didn’t love him but he still said that “ Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owned by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth.”

I believe this pure love is hard to find nowadays. It is because people nowadays are realistic, money is important and useful, they may want to put the money and time on the people who can response, otherwise it is waste money and time. Therefore, in the choice of love and money, I usually think that the lure of money is greater than love. And the story showed me differently, there are still have someone who want to spend money and time, if he or she really loves you.
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“ Would you mind telling me what you would like to do if you had a thousand dollars?” asked Gillian. I thought the blind man would say something like “ I would like to buy a comfortable house” “ find a powerful doctor to cure my eyes”, but the writer is interesting and humorous. He wrote down that the blind man was already had one thousand dollars! This plot makes me smiled.

If I were asking that I had one thousand dollars (US) in the 19th Century, I also didn’t know how to use these large amount of money. But if I had one thousand dollars (US) nowadays, I would like to buy a new bag for me.

Finally, I would like to share this book with my friends because it is an interesting

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