Welcome to My World
Senin, 27 Oktober 2008
Cross Cultural Understandimg
Minggu, 06 Juli 2008
SUMMARY
Author : John Fowles
Year : 1980
Publisher : Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
City : New York
Page : 255
This book tells about Clegg Frederick's life. He is a young man who grew up with less of love. He lost his father in a car accident and her mother left him to his aunt and uncle. He loved his uncle very much but, his uncle was dead when he was fifteen. No one really loves him after that. He was not well educated man. He liked to collect butterflies for pleasure. One day he got a big luck. He won a lot of money from the lottery. He made his aunt, cousin and some of his friends happy with the money. He bought a big house on the village and a new car. He loved a beautiful young woman. Her name is Miranda. She was a well educated woman. He liked her very much but, he was not brave enough to tell her. He followed her everywhere she went. One day, he had a plan to kidnap her. Then he did it. He kept her at the cellar on his house. He gave her everything she wanted but the freedom. She had done a lot of things to go away from that house but she failed. She hated him very much but she also pitied him of all his past. At last, she gave him her body but Clegg didn’t want it. He just liked Miranda but he didn’t like her to do such thing. Clegg never set her free until one day she got a terrible cold and she was dead.
REFLECTION
This book is about Clegg Frederick's life story. He is a young man who grew up with less of love. He lost his father in a car accident and her mother left him to his aunt and uncle. He was not well educated man. He liked to collect butterflies for pleasure. One day, he won a lot of money from the lottery. He bought a big house on the village and a new car. He loved a beautiful young woman. Her name is Miranda. She was a well educated woman. He liked her very much but, he was not brave enough to tell her. He followed her everywhere she went. One day, he had a plan to kidnap her. Then he did it. He kept her at the cellar on his house. He gave her everything she wanted but the freedom. She had done a lot of things to go away from that house but she failed. Clegg never set her free until one day she got a terrible cold and she was dead.
Fowles wrote the story from both of Clegg’s feeling and Miranda’s feeling during the time they lived together. It is very interesting. But, unfortunately the vocabularies he used on this book were little bit complicated so it will be more difficult to be understood for the beginner level readers.
For the readers this kind of book can be used to analyze people who probably have psychological disorder. We can also try to analyze how to help them.
Reading this book reminds me to a film that was being played by Hale Berry in one of the TV station. I forgot the title. It told about a man who have psychological disorder and he kidnapped girls on the basement. The characteristic of the man was similar to Clegg’s. One of the girls has been murdered by him.
This is an interesting book to read. We can learn lot of things from the story. Lecturers and students from the faculty of psychology can use this book for their learning material.
Annotation
Patricia C. McKissack
The text tells about the story of Esau. Esau was a special boy that was born with the gift to see the future. His mother whom I think a nice and wise mother told him not to let anybody know about his special ability. But one day his father who is a bad father to be admired by Esau knew about Esau’s special sight and asked him to help him to do bad things. Because of that he lost his special sight. As he grew up, Esau had a nice wife, Charity Rose and sons. One night, Esau had a terrible nightmare which was a bad vision about his family. He decided to tell his wife about it and took his wife and sons to his mother’s house. Then, he realized that it was a wrong decision. Esau tried his best to save them and finally he did it very well. Although this story was probably a bit hard to be understood by the beginner level readers because of its vocabularies, the story was a nice and interesting story to read.
Jumat, 09 Mei 2008
NOVEL SUMMARY
Author : Olive W. Burt
Publisher : The BOBBS-MERRIL COMPANY, INC.
City :
Year : 1962
Page : 200
The book tells about the childhood of one of the famous Americans, John Wanamaker. John Wanamaker is one of famous merchants in
Kamis, 08 Mei 2008
Novel Summary
Title of the book : Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boys with Wings
Author : Augusta Stevenson
Publisher : THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, INC.
City :
Year : 1951
Page : 192
The book tells about the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright who invented plane in 1908. Wilbur and Orville lived in a good family. They lived happily on their childhood. Their family was the family who liked to make things. On their childhood, Wilbur and Orville liked to take things apart. Then, they would try to put the things together again. They mother and father never complained about what they did. They even supported them to do that because they realized that it would make them more creative. Wilbur and Orville liked to make or repair things. Since they were child, they had got money from their own job. They worked or make things to get the money. They wanted to get things from their own money, even for their school’s books and clothes. They never gave up to do something and to make things. Everyone on their neighborhood knew it. One day they got an idea to make something that could carry things and them-selves fly. They tried their best and spent a lot of money and time to make it. They finally succeed and got a lot of medals for their plane.
Minggu, 27 April 2008
SUMMARY
Author : J. Michael Bennett
City : New York
Year : 1991
Publisher : McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Page : 122