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Story By: Catherine Lim
It it the tragic story. Taysoon and his wife Yeelian have the dream of buying a grand house. They always talk and think about the big house. Their children are also influenced by the dream of the big house. Right now the family of Taysoon is living in his mother's house. The house is small but beautiful and comfortable. The mother does not see any meaning of the big and grand house. She warns Taysoon not to have bigger dream.
The dream of buying the grand house is not just empty dream. Both Taysoon and his wife have the good job and they have already collected 40,000 dollars to buy the big house. They can take loan and repay it on installment. But the sister of Yeelian suggests them to invest the money in the share market. Share business is like gambling.
They put the money in the share business. It goes up in very rapid speed. They earn more money than it is needed to buy the grand house. They do not stop and go on putting the money. But the day comes when the share market begins to to down. Taysoon goes on losing the money. But the business does not improve Taysoon has to lose even the 40,000 dollars. It is the greed. Which does not allow them to stop. Greed leads to human tragedy. Taysoon gets a great shock. He lose the control of his mind. He is put in the hospital, but his condition does not become good. He is about to lose his life. It is the mother, who takes the responsibility. Taysoon has the last wise that an elaborate paper house should be burnt with his dead body. The story tells us that their is a great gap between human ambition and real achievement. The ambition is the wonderful big house, but the achievement is the paper house. This is the source of human sadness.
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