November 2, 2013
I had a discourse approach in reading class.
The teacher taught us the narrative.
The title was "Secrets", it was written by Tim Winton.
We read this story and summarized it.
The summary of this story
Kylie felt left out from her mother and Philip's activities. (Philip is her stepfather.)
She became interested in the chickens in the yard.
Somehow her secret helped her to feel less lonely.
She found a second egg and then found out where other are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen.
In the holidays, Philip and her mother left her alone.
She was happy and went to the yard for looking her photo album.
There was the bore well which thirty-six deep.
Kylie was forbidden to lift the lid.
First, she sat near the well and looked her photo album.
After that, she went down into the well everyday.
On a sunday afternoon, Philip caught her down the well. Then he hit her.
Kylie had something in her heart.
She thrown the chicks down the well.
Next, she hit the hen and thrown it down too.
In that night, Kylie cut off her head from the special photo and thrown it away.
From this story, I feel sorry for Kylie because she felt left out from her family. That made her was lonely.
I dislike Kylie's mother because she didn't care her child.
She was only interested in her new husband.
I dislike Philip because he was violent for Kylie.
I think the themes of this story are...
- Neglect: Kylie's mother had a new husband. She was interested in her husband but forgot her child.
- Coping with the absence of a parent: This story gave the example of the child who had the problems in a family. When I read it, I thought about how to solve the problems.
- Loneliness: The little girl usually separated herself from her family and stayed alone. She liked to think about her father. These thing show me that her felt lonely.
This story have many symbolic.
In my opinion...
- The egg refers to the child that was cared from their parents.
- The well refers to loneliness and sadness.
- The photo refers to the good memory that can't come back again.
- Kylie's cutting of the photo shows the umbrage of Kylie.
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