11th week -The Lottery Winner-

Title: The Lottery Winner

Author: Rosemary Border

Publisher (level): Oxford University Press (1)

Summary:

One Saturday afternoon, Emma Carter walked on the street. It was quiet town and there were no body in the street. Suddenly, somebody ran up behind her, hit her on the head, and snatched her bag. Then he ran away with Emma’s bag. She was taken to hospital. Later, a policeman came to the hospital and Emma told him about the bag-snatcher. In her bag, there were some money and a lottery ticket. She always has the same numbers. All those numbers are important to her.

Jason Williams lived with his father and mother. Sometimes he stole things from old people. He was angry because there were only a little money and a lottery ticket in the old woman’s bag. On Sunday, he checked the winning lottery numbers. They were same to the ticket in the bag. He was very happy to be a lottery winner. Sunshine Lotteries, which was the lottery company, had a party for him. But two policemen came in and they arrested Jason. The old woman was Emma Carter.

The next day he was at the police station. He denied that he stole the lottery ticket. Later, a woman came in. She was his wife and wanted half of money from Sunshine Lotteries. She left him a few years before because he did her bad things. On Thursday Jason thought that doing good thing would be an advantage in the court and decided to give some of money to “Help the Children”, which was the organization sent doctors and nurses to poor countries.

They went to law against that who was the winner: Emma Carter, Jason Williams, and Jason’s wife. Lawyers for each of them and even for Sunshine Lotteries and for “Help the Children” were involved in this case. One day, Sally, the Jason’s lawyer, went home and talked with her husband. He asked her the question who would win. She said, “The lawyers would. Because there are a lot of us and lawyers are expensive. So a lot of money is going to be our money.” She began to think how to use the money.

Evaluation: 5 stars

I know the world of the lawyers only after I read this book. They don’t think of clients. In this case, whoever wins, a lot of money from a lottery company will be paid the lawyers because lawyers are expensive and there were a lot of them.

I thought Jason would win because there was no prove that the ticket was Emma’s. I caught in a trap. I enjoyed the funny story.