Ann of Green Gables

One of my favourite novels from childhood is Ann of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It's a heart-warming book which tells the story of an eleven-year old girl orphan. Despite the fact that this book was written at the beginning of the las century, the book is still a bestseller.

The story is set in a small town Avonlea. One day Matthew and Marrila, a brother and a sister who lives together, decide to adopt a boy orphan to help them on the farm. When Matthew arrives at the station, he sees a red-haired girl instead of a boy. After some time Matthew and Marrila decides to keep her. Ann is a girl who gets into trouble very easy, so it's not easy to raise her, but soon matthew and Marrila become attached to Ann and are overjoyed to have kept her.

Ann of Green Gables is a facinating book. It's a beautifully told story. I think that it's a timeless book and I can highly recommend this novel to anyone who likes uplifting stories.

Amelie

This time I'd like to write about one of my favourites movies - Amelie, which was directed by Jean Paul-Jeunet. It's a french movie and it stars Audrey Tautou.

Amelie is a young woman who lives in Paris. On day she founds a box full of things which belonged to the man who lived there before. Amelie decides to find the previous tenant of her flat and give the box back to him. Throughout the movie, Amelie spends a lot of time trying to make other people happy, but later she founds out that she should take care of her own happiness first. 

This film tells about problems such as loneliness in a big city and the conflict between the real world and our own dreams. Also, it gives us a lesson and shows how much we can influence other people's lives. The film is neither a romantic comedy nor a drama. It is a story with a happy ending with a awesome music by Yann Tiersen. 

To sum up, Amelie is a special movie which makes you think. It's a real masterpiece of it's kind. The fact that Amelie is a french movie and not a production from Hollywod makes it more true and can touch you deeply. I can surly recommend this film to everyone who likes artistic films. 

Living with parents after wedding

Nowadays many young marrieges can't afford living on their own so the only solution is to move to their parents. As all situations like this, it has many advantages as well as disadvanteges.

One of the advantages of living with parents is that you don't have to pay bills and rent. It results in the fact that you can put by more money which you can allocate for buying a flat of your own. 

In addition, you always have someone who will help you. You can ask for help in taking care for your children. Despite having small children, you can have your ''own'' life. When you want to go out, parents can stay with their grandchildren. 

But on the other hand, you don't have any privacy. Mothers like imposing their own principles on their children and their spouses. You can't do anything which parents wouldn't feel comfortable and it results in the fact that this situation would hamper your relationship.

Also, when you live with parents you can't make up decissions without asking them. You are one big family and you have to pay attention to what they want and would they think. In-laws are harsh for their children-in-law and they grant them on quater, which brings many misunderstandings.

Summing up, while living with parents seems to be a perfect solution for those who can put up with others opinions, it probably is not a good way of living for those who don't care about other peolpe feelings.

Online shopping

Nowadays online shopping has become very popular. Many people did not even dream of it ten years ago. Every day more and more peolpe order things by Internet. In my opinion it's quite good way of shopping.

The most important advantege of online shopping is convenience. You can shop twenty-four hours a day without leaving your home or office. Thank's to this, you can save your time.

In addition, this shopping offers us a wider variety of products. You can get items, which aren't available in ordinary shops, like products from all over the world.

Obviously, there are people who claim that shopping in the Internet in an easy way to spend and buy more than you need, because there's a lack of personal attention.

In conclusion, I think that online shopping is a good way to do shopping for people who don't have much time. Personally I don't think that this way of shopping will be more popular than buying in tradiconal shops. However, we have to admitt that the comfort and an access to a wide sort of products  makes Internet shops very attractive.

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