BORANG PENULISAN SINOPSIS BUKU

(a) Nama Pelajar : Mohammad Nurnazmi Bin Yusof

(b) Nama IPG : IPGK TEMENGGONG IBRAHIM, JOHOR
(c) Opsyen : BIMBINGAN DAN KAUNSELING (SK)
(d) Ambilan : JUN 2019
(e) Maklumat Buku Yang Dibaca :

Bil. Perkara Catatan

1. Tajuk Buku: Sing To The Down

2. Pengarang: MINFONG HO

3. Tahun
2016
diterbitkan:

4. Diterbitkan
DEWAN BAHASA DAN PUSTAKA
oleh:

5. Sinopsis Buku The story begins with Dawan, a young girl living in a rural village
in Thailand, who wakes up very early in the morning. She sneaks
Yang Dibaca:
out of the house to enjoy the morning air and finds her brother,
Kwai, sitting on the nearby bridge. Dawan asks Kwai what he will
do if he wins the scholarship. She does not believe she will get
the scholarship because she is a girl. When they return home,
they see bags of rice stacked up against the house, intended as
payment of the family’s tax, and Dawan remarks how unfair it is.
When Dawan asks her parents about the scholarship, they tell
her it is a waste of time to send girls to school. At school,
Dawan’s teacher is more interested in conversing with the
students than teaching. They discuss the landlords taking away
rice from the families until the headmaster arrives, prompting the
teacher to pretend to teach a class until he leaves. She then asks
Dawan what she would do if she won the scholarship. Dawan
doesn’t know, and is shocked when the teacher announces that
in fact Dawan has won it. The other students all gather around
Dawan and cheer, except Kwai, who is upset. Kwai has come in
second to his sister, and believes he should have won. They go
home and Dawan tells her parents that she has won the
scholarship. Instead of being excited for her, their father is angry,
and tells Dawan that she has stolen the scholarship from her own
brother. Only Dawan’s grandmother is supportive, and she
suggests they talk to her cousin Noi and ask her to help change
Dawan’s father’s mind. Dawan’s mother decides to take Dawan
to see Noi. Noi and her husband Ghan, however, are not
supportive. Noi tells Dawan that the city is no place for a young
girl. Dawan contemplates the unfairness of society and wishes to
understand better in order to create a better world. Her mother
advises her to accept her lot in life, but Dawan does not believe
she can. Walking home, Dawan sees Kwai following and lets her
mother go on alone. Kwai tells Dawan that if she turns down the
scholarship he will get it, and urges her to do so, telling her that
she is not cut out for it. Dawan refuses, knowing that their father
will send Kwai to school not matter what but that this is her only
chance, and for a moment their relationship seems doomed. But
Kwai relents, and they make a joke and are friends again. Kwai
does not tell their father about being in second place in order to
protect Dawan’s chance. At dinner, Dawan’s father remains
convinced that educating a girl is pointless. Dawan tries to think
of someone who her father would listen to, and thinks of the old
monk at the village temple. She goes to the market to purchase a
tribute for the monk. A peddler named Bao gives her a lotus bud
and refuses payment for it; Dawan likes her and tells her about
 her quest. Dawan reveals that Kwai was the one who talked her
father into letting her attend school at all, and Bao reveals that
her own brother is more like Dawan’s father, and would never
allow her to go to school. Bao warns Dawan that the old monk
rarely takes sides in anything. The old monk already knows that
Dawan won the scholarship and that Kwai came in second.
Dawan asks him to speak with her father. The monk, however,
argues that since all mortal life comes to nothing, it is not worth
pursuing her goals, and urges her to find everything she needs in
the temple. Dawan leaves, angry. Back at the market, Bao sees
that Dawan is upset and allows her to set a sparrow free from its
cage. Bao’s brother Vichai comes and beats her for setting a
valuable bird free. When Kwai realizes that Bao knows about his
situation, he moves to beat her as well, but Dawan restrains him,
getting injured in the process. She tells Kwai his pretensions of
helping the needy are false since he won’t help her. Noi arrives to
help Dawan tend her wounds. Returning home, Dawan sees
Kwai sitting by the river, struggling with his desire for the
scholarship and his belief that Dawan should get to go. At home,
their father has learned that Kwai came in furious. They argue,
and Kwai tells their father that he will not steal Dawan’s chance,
and will refuse the scholarship even if Dawan is forced to turn it
down. Her father is finally convinced, and tells Dawan she can
take the scholarship. The next morning, Kwai is very upset and
tells Dawan life will not be the same when she leaves. Dawan
begs him to keep singing their song every morning. The next day
when Dawan leaves for school in the city, the village turns out to
see her off, and even her father wishes her well, but Kwai is not
there and Dawan is sad. As the bus drives by the bridge, Kwai is
there, singing to her. She joins him and heads off.
Everyone deserves an equal right to education. The society must
6. Manfaat/ courage all kids whether they are a boy or girl to further their
pengajaran education. For example, it is not fair when the father only allows
 yang diperoleh Kwai to win the scholarship instead of Dawan. While the Bao also
daripada buku being to block Dawan from accepting the scholarship. Besides,
yang dibaca: this novel shows the resposibility is important in family. For
evidence, the parents are responsible people, wanting the
children to be educated. But according to the mindset of the
people, the father thinks only males should be educated. But he
too relents when he lets his daughter go off to the big city on her
scholarship. It is the act of a responsible father.

7. Tandatangan: nazmi