Dear Mr. Kilmer ( Form 5 Literature ) Chapter 1

SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1

Richard,father and Gus went hunting after the heavy snow had stopped.They went to their hunting cabin and stayed there.On Sunday morning before sunrise, the three of them went down the river and found a pool where deer came to drink.They hid to wait for a deer to come.Richard was nervous because his father wanted him to shoot his first deer. A deer come to the pool and his father instructed Richard to shoot instead of his brother.Richard could not kill the animal and he missed the shot.Gus was angry and wanted to shoot the deer but Pa stopped him. Pa told them that they were leaving and sometimes hunters missed their shot.Richard's father asked him why he left the buck go on purpose and he told him that he didn't like to kill animal and that he didn't like killing rabbit before.Pa told him that death is a part of life and that Pa also felt some grief after killing. Pa told Richard not to come hunting anymore if he didn't want to. Richard went back to the cabin and gave him some advice.Gus wanted Richard to be in sports and fit in with others.Richard asked Gus how he felt killing animal and Gus told him that he felt no remorse at all.Then,Richard knew that Pa and Gus had different feelings about hunting and killing animal.When their father comeback.They started walking back home and talked about war in europe since 1914.Gus wanted to join the army but Pa said that without education , you went nowhere but after school they could do whatever they wanted to do.That night at dinner while Pa and Gus wer talking about sports,boxing in general,Richard went to the kitchen to help his sister,Angie.He felt sad and pitiful that Angie had to stop school and stayed at home as full time farm's woman organising the house and helping with the farm. However Angie said that it was her duty and father was a difficult man because he lost two people in his life.After that,Richard went up to his room and he remembered the first time he went hunting with Pa, Gus and Grandpa.When granpa killed a deer,Richard tried his best not to cry.To take away the sadness,he wrote a poem.

My crayons made it white and brown,

Nature made it shy,

God made it fleet of food,

But Grandpa made it die.

Richard felt better after writing down the poem and then he kept at his poetry .No one knew Richard wrote poetry and he did not want them to know because to them he already strange.

Setting

Time : The early morning, February ,War raging 1914.

Place : Tiny hunting cabin, near the pool in the forest , Prairie,Dining room,Kitchen.

Theme

Human vs nature

Family Relationship

Moral values