Summary of Hello, My name is Scrambled Egg

HELLO, MY NAME IS SCRAMBLED EGG

By Jamie Gilson

The novel “Hello, my name is Scrambled Egg” tells a story about daily life of a kid named Tuan Nguyen and his family from Vietnam that moved to Harvey’s family in America. In this story contains of two main characters and there are Tuan Nguyen the Vietnamese and Harvey Trumble the American. Their daily activity after Nguyen existed in America was studying in a school. Harvey had to bring him to the school every day and helped Nguyen how to speak English better. They became good friends because they always together all the time.

Mostly in this story tells about Harvey and Tuan Nguyen that always made jokes all the time. What I enjoyed about the novel is when Harvey would teach Nguyen about English on computer. Another parts that I like are when Nguyen thought that hairdryer was a gun and he also thought that hotdog is really made of dogs.

Author of this novel wants to show readers about friendship between two different country and different culture and how both Tuan Nguyen and Harvey do their daily activity and spend their time together. The package of this novel is nice and I like that. It is colorful, interesting and good-looking. The language that the author used is good and the story also flows slowly and easy to understand.

This story reminds me to my father. He sometimes does something useless and little strange which makes me and my mom laugh. He said that it was an awful coffee after he thought he drank a cup of coffee but it is not coffee. Instead he drank a cup of herbal medicine which has strong bitter taste. Something simple like that makes me and mom laugh almost every day. Thus, the novel is interesting to be read generally for people who love funny story. And it is not only that, but the novel also shares readers about different culture and how to make a good relationship with someone new, moreover refugees.

English Accents

English Accents

English accent is an important element of English lesson for English learners. An accent shows somebody’s identity where he or she comes from. Alike Indonesian, native speakers also have different style of speaking their own language. In speaking English, there are many speech variations of language even in English. English has two common accents for English learners in speaking English; there are American and British accent. As we know that both American and British accent actually have many differences of speaking style.

A film titled Harry Potter with many series in it is one of British accent film. The main characters on it like Daniel Radcliff, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson speak English using British accent. Meanwhile a film titled Civil War is one of American accent film; almost all of the characters like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Junior in it speak American accent in speaking English. English accents play important roles in speaking English. In order that, they need to be distinguished because each accent has its own pronunciation, idioms, vocabularies, structure, etc. We can see that both American and British accent need to be learned by English learners and how they use and differentiate the accents in speaking English.

 

Reflection of Sarah, Plain and Tall

SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL

Patricia MacLachlan

The novel which titled “Sarah, Plain and Tall” tells a story about a family who is looking for a new wife and mother for a father and his two children. In this story, there are four main characters which contains Anna, her brother Caleb, their father Jacob and a woman Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton.

A stepmother is not really a wicked person. We are just influenced by many medias such as film that show us how really bad of having a stepmother. However, in this novel the author Patricia MacLachlan wants to show to the readers that not all stepmothers have bad behavior to a new family, such as torturing, selfish, anger, etc. Through this novel, the author describes the characteristic of a stepmother and stepmother’s relationship to a new family that make life more colorful. The cover of this novel is nice and simple that shows simplicity life of a family with a stepmother existence. But it is enough to make readers feel curiosity.

This novel reminds me to the film which titled “Delisa” which tells audience about how lucky we are having an angel named mother that always loves, protects, patient whatever happened to us. It shows us a struggle becoming a mother to keep a family’s harmonization to the father and the children. Thus, this novel is an interesting story of a family and a stepmother that can be read by kids, youngster until adult person. 

Learning of English Pronunciation

Learning of English Pronunciation

Unlike Indonesian, English has rule points which are needed to understand on its usage. There are few sections on English words used in Indonesian that are often mispronounced. However, Learning English is not just how many vocabularies that you get and how we construct English sentences but we need to know how to pronounce it correctly. In order that, for English learners, speak clearly is better than speak fluently. Pronunciation has important role to speak clearly in speaking English.

Learners should pay attention to the phonetic transcription on dictionaries. Because the dictionaries do not only provide English words (vocabularies), but also give phonetic transcription of each word to help learners pronouncing them. Both listening music and watching movie are examples in practicing English words that can be used for beginners of English pronunciation. There are many other ways to learn English pronunciation but they depend on which way is prefer to you. And do not forget to practice it. In conclusion, English learners can speak English correctly through practicing English pronunciation with looking at phonetic transcription on dictionaries.

Summary of Oliver and Company

The novel “Oliver and Company” tells a story about a little yellow kitty’s survival named Oliver that has been adopted by a little young girl Jenn

y. With a dog colony named Company. In this story there are five main characters which contains Oliver the little kitty, Dodger the dog, Fagin the dog’s owner, a little young girl Jenny and also Sykes.

This story begins from the little kittens were in a box that all of them had been adopted except one even didn’t have a name. Therefore he tried to survive in big city and scary world, New York. One day in the morning he was hungry and tried to get hot dogs but he failed. Across the alley, a dog named Dodger persuaded him to get hot dogs as team. But after the dog got the hot dogs, he brought it to his owner barge and showed it to his friends.

Oliver followed him and watched the barge. He fell down and landed around Fagin, Dodger and friends. But few minutes later, black and brown dogs with their leader Sykes which is called Company came to Fagin’s barge to get money from Fagin. Oliver pawed bravely one of them. Sykes decided to give Fagin a chance to bring him the money in three days. The next day Fagin took his dogs out and his new member Oliver to the street to get cash. And then they found Jenny’s car as their target. Each of them had a job, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful due to Oliver was trapped in the car. But not a long time the Limousine car went away and brought the kitty.

In Jenny’s luxurious house the kitty was looked after by Jenny and was given a name as Oliver. In that house there was another pet besides him that was Georgette the poodle dog. Georgette hated Oliver because she didn’t want Oliver more love Oliver than her. In the outside of the house Dodger and friends were waiting for the house owner to recue Oliver. After Jenny went to school the dogs went inside and got Oliver. But Oliver felt comfortable with Jenny then he didn’t want to leave Jenny. Fagin had an idea from a news to get money. Therefore he picked the kitty up to a pocket and brought him to a warehouse where the company lived.

Jenny went to rescue her kitten which was accompanied by Georgette after read a note that Oliver had been kidnapped. When she arrived, Jenny saw Fagin and Oliver inside the warehouse but in a minute Sykes kidnapped Jenny and bring her away. But Fagin and the dogs chased Sykes to save Jenny until subway. Dodger and Oliver jumped to Sykes’ car to fight with Dobermans and finally got Jenny.

In Jenny’s big birthday party, Fagin and the dogs were invited to celebrate the birthday of Oliver’s owner. Jenny and Oliver were happy and so Fagin and the dogs were. After got an info that Jenny’s parent would come to the party, Fagin and the dogs decided to go to the crowded and busy city, New York.

About Me

  Name                   : Dede Sulaeman

  Date of Birth    : December 3^rd, 1996

                                      Address            : Mayor Idma Street, Babakanmulya, Jalaksana, Kuningan (West Java)

                                      Hobby              : Reading, Watching Movies and MotoGP

History of Education

·     Babakanmulya Elementary School 1

·     Jalaksana Junior High School 1

·     Kuningan Vocational High School 3 (Engineering)

·     Bogor Ibn Khaldun University (English Education Program) [ACTIVE]

Life Motto

Human’s actions aren’t always right because they aren’t angel and Human’s actions aren’t always wrong because they aren’t devil.

Summary of Sarah, Plain and Tall

The novel which titled “Sarah, Plain and Tall” tells a story about a family who is looking for a new wife and mother for a father and his two children. In this story there are four main characters which contains Anna, her brother Caleb, their father Jacob and a woman Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton.

Jacob’s wife died after Caleb was born. Anna shares a memory in their house to Caleb that Papa (Jacob) sang a song in every single day. Anna hopes that Papa (Jacob) would sing like he did before. But unfortunately, Papa (Jacob) doesn’t sing anymore because he forgets the song. Jacob has put an advertisement on the newspaper to ask new wife and mother. A woman from Maine who lives near the sea named Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton responds it and decides to come. Sarah arrived by train and bring things for the children.

In summer, Sarah is still in Jacob’s house and both of Jacob’s children feel comfortable because her existence. Sarah and Caleb share each other about their home and then She picks flowers and all of them sing together. Sarah meets Maggie, Jacob’s neighbor and they talk about the old life that happened in this family. She remembers home and miss her brother William. Maggie tells her that “there are always things to miss, no matter where you are”.

In corn field, Sarah tells to Jacob that she wants to go to town alone. Sarah decision makes Anna and Caleb worry that she want to leave them. But Sarah stays with her commitment to see her brother in the town by drives a wagon. But one day she returns and tells them that she does miss her home but she would miss them more.