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I Have Read A Book Written
I have read a book written by菲利帕•格里高利(Philippa Gregory)who is known as the queen of British historical novelist . "The other Boleyn girl" tells the story of the sixteenth Century British Royal History: at the time of the king Henry VIII, for family’s status and rights, Boleyn’ father and uncle sent Mary who has married to a minister before into the palace. Then the king fell in love with Mary Boleyn because of her beauty, they forced her become his secret lover. When Mary was pregnant, her sister Anne Boleyn who was secretly married with the Royal Duke and exiled to France broke the peace, sacrifice herself to get the emperor’ s love .Finally she succeeded and became the queen. For their own interests and love,the two Boleyn girl have to fight .But what was the final result?
As Mrs Boleyn said:“When can people consider ambition as a shame not a honor?”l think this is the most impressing sentence in this book. Because of the power , Anna produced a revenge to his sister. Even after her sister reputation was bad , away from her lover and her children have no power. She was stick to revenge her. In fact, the real purpose is not to revenge Mary , but for the sake of herself. She is a woman of ambition. l think Marry loved King Henry 8.But from the book ,someone said” you canot get King’s love ”to Mary which hurts Mary a lot. Mary used her body as a bargaining chip before becoming the king’s secret lover. l think it is dirty and it is just a deal that woman used her body to get what she want and man use his authority to get the woman. When Anna ‘s child miscarry ,what she think is to have sex with her brother to get a child to keep her status. l think it is very ridiculous and sad. The reason why she made the decision is that she became dizzy with the authority. At last , she failed to do this because of the morality. What Mary do was all for her status. Mary is a woman who dares to love and hate. At last, Mary, the kind girl who was the only one alive in the

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