On Monday 2st December 2013
I had a discourse approach
in reading class. The teacher thought about Narratives.
I
learned story about secrets have 2 parts. "Secrets"
by Tim Winton is about a young girl called Kylie who feels inadequate and
lonely by her mother's lack of care and love and the missing father figure in
her life. I
think it interested and rather difficult.
This
is a summary part one.
Kylie felt left out from her mother and
Philip's activities. She became interested in the chickens in the yard.
Somehow her secret helps her to feel less lonely. She finds a second egg
and then found out where the others were being laid by an unhealthy-looking
hen, she likes to sit on the fence, sharing the
secret with hen. When she moved into the house, she was forbidden to life lid. Some
afternoons she sat out under the grapevines with her photo album, turning pages
and looking across every now and then and missed her father.
This
is a summary part two.
Two
weeks passed, Kylie watches the hen sitting on ten eggs. She takes the lid off
the well and starts to go down the well with her photo album every day. She watches
Philip and her mother then he hits her. Kylie hits the hen and throws it down
the well. She chooses on special photo which makes her feel good then she cuts
off her head from the special photo and threw it away f the window.
Here
are some sentence about the three people in this story.
1.
I dislike Kylie because she
rather psychosis and kill the hen.
2.
I dislike her mother because she loves
her husband more the her daughter
3.
I dislike Philip because he hits
Kylie and vie for the love of her mother.
I
think the most important are…
Neglect : Kylie's
mother doesn't care her and made her feel left out of the family because
Kylie's mother had a new husband.
Loneliness
: Her mother loves Philip more
Kylie, so She likes to be alone, because no one cares for her.
Problems associated with contemporary family
life : Family is important to take care
and look after their children. When there are problems, they should consult
discussed. So they cannot be a problem.
The story symbols.
· The eggs be
compared as her friends when she lonely
heartache.
· The well be
compared as the special places of Kylie.
· The photos be
compared as Memories of her past, she misses.
· Kylie's
cutting of the photo be compared as feeling that she does not understand her
mother and she did not want to be part of the family.
If
you were Kylie what did you do.
I
find activities to do such as reading, listening to music and talking to the
family as possible.