Hazwan Faiz : Dear Mr Kilmer

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SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 3

After a few weeks,Mrs.Hansen came to the class with a saddening news on how some irresponsible citizens harassed Hannah's family.To show their sympathy,she wanted the whole class to sign a card expressing their sorry to Hannah's family.However,she got more dissapointed because only Richard who signed the card.Most of the students who wanted to sign the card were afraid to do so because they might get bullied by Abner and Harry or be unfriended by popular girls like Peggy Mason and Blance.So,before going home,Richard asked from Mrs.Hansen to deliver the card on his behalf to Hannah's family when he got there.He was shocked to see the ugly sight of the tarvern done by people from his town. He tried to give the card to Hannah but she refused because she said that her mother thought people were just mean eventhough her father disgraced.Richard still wanted Hannah to pass along the card to her patients.Then,on his way home,he stopped to climb up an oak tree to look at a passing train.he saw everyone on the train happy and smiling .He wondered if any if those people had done the terrible thing to Hannah's family.He also had a thought of running away but he could not because of his family.Later when he was about to reach home,his sister,Angie told him that a letter came in from New York.He knew whom it was from .

Characters

Peggy Mason - Blanch's best friend,tall and pretty.

SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 2

It was already April and the news the US joining the war against Germany came.It was also spiring and Richard and Gus could go to school freely.At school,Gus did more sports than studying while Richard excelled very well at studying.He enjoyed History and English classes.One morning,her English teacher,Mrs Hansen decided to read out a poem to the whole class but while doing so,some troublemakers such as Abner Lewis and Harry Carver interrupted he.Abner said that poetry was not manly but Mrs.Hansen proved him by telling him that a lot of poets were very brave and patriotic.Even some of them were troublemakers too.

After class,Richard met Mrs Hansen and she lent him the book by Mr.Kilmer.Richard secretly took the address of where Mr.Kilmer worked and went out the class.Outside,he found Hannah Schemer crying while holding her scrawled book.She was called " Dirty Hun" on the book .Richard tried to console her but she just left him.

Then,Richard caught up with Blanche Freebold,Abner Lewis and Henry Carver.All three of them were talking bad things about Hannah and her family.Richard was not happy so he went home alone.After doing his chores,he went up to his room and read Trees and other poems.Halfway through the book,he decided to write to Mr.Kilmer .In the letter, he praised Mr.Kilmer for his bravery and asked his opinion on what he should do about his own poetry interest.Expecting no reply,he still mailed out the letters.

Setting

Classroom ( studying Mr.Kilmer's poetry )
Outside classroom ( Hannah crying )
Richard's room ( reading the book and writing a letter to Mr.Kilmer

Theme

Bravery
Courage

Moral Values

We must not be ashamed of who we are.
Respect others.

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