SUMMARY OF 'SILAS MARNER'

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SILAS MARNER

Silas Marner was a strange man who worked as a weaver and lived alone in Raveloe. The people did not know anything about him, because he always worked at his own house. He was without friends and God. He was also very interested in money, especially coins. He spent a little time to count and look at them every night. They gave him pleasure, and the coins became his only friends. He kept them inside a hole under the floor of his house.
The most important man in Raveloe was Squire Cass. He had two sons: Dunstan and Godfrey. Godfrey had married, but he loved another woman named Nancy. One day, Godfrey really needed money, so he ordered his brother to sell his horse. But, Dunstan was drunk when he rode the horse. On the way, they fell and the horse was died. Dunstan thought that Godfrey would be angry if he knew it. Then, he tried to escape. He then passed Silas’ house which was left by the owner. He tried to steal Silas’ money and he found it. When Silas arrived at his house, he found nothing strange. But, when he tried to look at his money, he was very surprised, because they had lost. He then went and told it to public. This news spread quickly, and the people of Raveloe knew that Silas was not a strange person. They gave a big sympathy and helped him to find the money. Few days later, Godfrey knew that his horse had been died, and Dunstan ran away.
One evening, when Silas came home from the village, surprisingly, he saw a child inside his house, near the hole where he hid the coins. He also found a body of a woman whom he assumed as the child’s mother, outside his house. The body was almost covered by snow. Silas went to the party at Squire’s house, to tell the Rector. Godfrey heard it, and when he looked at the body, he recognized it as the body of Molly, his wife. He later knew that the child whom Silas found was his daughter. But, public did not knew it. So, he kept the secret. Because of the death of Molly, he could marry Nancy.
16 years later, people found Silas’ money which had been lost for a long time, beside the body of Dunstan. The body lied between two great stones and when the stone-pit dried, they found the body. So, for over those years, Silas took care of that girl called Eppie. Later, Godfrey and Nancy who had not had a child, wanted her to be their daughter again. So, Nancy, who had known the old secret of his husband, and Godfrey himself, told it to Silas. Trough a little debate, Silas let Eppie to choose her own decision on it. After thinking and crying for a while, she chose to take care of the old Silas. She thought that she only had one father who had taken care of her since she was a kid, Silas. Hearing that, the couple was disappointed, but they respected her decision. They left the little family in sadness. At their house, Godfrey thought that it was too late to change the past, and he had to lose his daughter. But, he still relieved that he had Nancy as his lovely wife.
One spring, Eppie was married by Aaron, Dolly Winthrop’s son. Godfrey prepared the things for their wedding. They then were surprised, because the house had been beautifully changed by Godfrey, when arrived at it. The garden was bright with flowers which welcomed them.