Monday, December 2, 2013

Unit 2 The narrative (Secrets by Tim Winton ) (Blog5)



Secrets by Tim Winton


My friends and I had a discourse approach in reading. First, the teacher told us to read the narrative. The story is Secrets by Tim Winton. In the story, there was a girl name Kylie. She lived with her mother and her stepfather (Philip). She felt left out from her mother and Philip’s activities. She became interested in the chicken in the yard. Somehow her secret helps her to felt less lonely. She found a second egg and then friends out where others are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen. One day her mother and Philip left her alone. She went to the yard, there was the well that thirty-six deep. She sat near the well and looked her photo album. She missed her father. Two weeks passed. She began to lift the lid of the well. Every day, she went down into the well and looked her photo album. She saw the chicks that was from the eggs. One day Philip found her in the well. He came down and dragged her out. Then, he hit her. That evening, Kylie put the chicks into a cardboard box and dropped them down into the well. The hen was hit and dropped them down into the well too. At the end of this story Kylie took her photo and cut off her head. Then, she thrown it away.

The characters in this story.
 -I feel sorry for Kylie because she left out from her father.
 -I dislike for Kylie’s mother because she didn'’t care her daughter.
-I dislike for Philip because he was violent with child.

 Discussing the story's symbols
The eggs - The eggs symbolize new life.
The well - The well symbolize excitement.
The photos -The photos symbolize past events that Kylie remember about her father.
Kylie' s cutting of the photo- Kylie' s cutting of the photo symbolize She want to solve the problems.She felt sad.


What were you going to do? If you were Kylie.

   If I were Kylie,I do not kill the chickens and I will go out to play with friends and talk with my mother.In freetime I would like to do activities with my mother such as see the movie,cook,plant the tree,and listening the music.

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