Reading for the Theme

Do you know what Fiji is?? Probably, most of people do not know what is it. Today I read the story called The Summer the Sun Did Not Blow Up written by Birmati Lakhan. This story took place in Fiji. Fiji is located next to Australia. When I think of the title, it reminds me of the folk tale called Sun and the Wind" because the title of this article contains both the "sun" and the "blow". This is about young kids tried to find out the way to survive when the world's end comes.

The story begins with the talks between the kids and the aunt. The aunt told to them that the world will be end in next month. Kids were shocked. I read the story for two times. Surprisingly, when I read the first, I could understand the story but I could not understand deeply. However, when I read second time, I knew that where I should focus on. Therefore I could understand the story more. Back to the story, after kids knew that the world's end is coming soon, they talked what they could do and how they survive. When they told to the elders of the village, elders was surprised because they did not know the rumour. Then Elders told them not to be silly. Later on, they found out that the rumour was about the world will be end in next millions years, not next month. Even the next day came, it was fine. I think this story is quite easy to understand because the theme is easy to read. I think the theme of this story is that "it is easy to fool people, especially children" . Children are easy to believe the things because they are pure.

I have one thing that I do not understand even though I read for three times. That is the paragraph 10, which is "Later on my mother told us tat id we ate our food we'd be given a boat just before the sun broke." However, other parts of the story is easy to read. Next time, I will look carefully the metaphor, the simile,and the personification. My process of reading the book is that I reread. Before I found the useful strategies, I always visualized. But I found out that reread the sentence(s) is much more useful to understand the contents of the reading. Thanks to reading books lots, I could find one useful "tool" of reading.