151105-Summary of The Treasure in the Forest by H.G.

Wells

The main idea of The Treasure in the Forest is to tell us don’t take a risk when you are not
prepared. The two English men took risk in a strange forest and they lost their life quickly.
This story talked about two English men heard about there was gold on an island and they got
a map from a Chinese. So they drove a canoe to go to the island, on the boat they had a sleep.
They drove their boat into a lagoon and drove up a river in the forest, they followed the map
and succeed reached the place. At this time they found the corpse of the Chinese that they
talked to, they were scared and started to worry about their safety but finally nothing
happened. They packed up the gold and suddenly Evans got a puncture from the gold, Evans
tried to forget about this but this poisonous puncture made him dying only in a while. Evans
told the other guy, Hooker to throw the bad gold away. However, Hooker was scared and don’t
understand what his friend told him and Hooker touched the gold by mistake. At last both of
the men died.
This story succeed showed the terrible situation when they faced the danger and the result of
taking risk, this will give people a warning.