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The Golden Goblet By Eloise Jarvis Mcgraw

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The book The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis Mcgraw it entertains us by telling us about a boy in ancient Egypt named Ranofer that is suspicious about his half brother Gebu because he has been stealing gold from the goldsmiths. Gebu has also been buying more expensive clothing after he had stopped robbing gold, but now Ranofer thinks that he has been stealing from the pyramids, but he does not know how to prove it because he is just a boy and nobody will just believe him without any proof. So Ranofer and his friends have been spying on Gebu’s friends to see what they were planing. And now Ranofer can prove it with the golden goblet. When Ranofer went into Gebu’s room late at night he found something in his wooden chest. Ranofer found a golden goblet. He looked at the hieroglyphs and found that it belonged to a Pharaoh that had died a long time ago. He then said ‘’Gebu has stolen it, from a tomb’’. That started the idea that Gebu was a tomb robber, but he wasn’t the only one robbing the tomb, his friend Wenomon was joining him. …show more content…

He decided that he could get some guards or witnesses to get Gebu ‘’Caught in the act’’ just like the other tomb robbers. The other tomb robbers were caught while trying to break into the tomb and then they were sentenced to death. The goblet was also proof to show the authorities if they didn’t believe

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