Anna

SUMMARY (21-28)
She is also knowledgeable about agriculture. It is not wondered because her family
once had a vast farm such as rubber plants and fruit. She and her sister sometimes sold the
fruits in a traditional market if the fruit yield was exuberant.
She spent her youth by playing with her peers cheerfully. She also produced something
that was productive such as a kite and lodging. She is also capable of fishing. It was so
because her village had a clean river with various fishes. There were also various sneaks in
there.
In 1961-1966, she continued her study in PGAPN (Pendidikan Guru Agama Pertama
Negeri) and PGAAN (Pendidikan Guru Agama Atas Negeri in Palembang). Her family also
supported her to continue study in the city after she and her brother persuade their family.
She spent 4 and 2 years learning in the schools.
She loves studying in the schools very much. She likes the lessons and teachers. Her
teacher of English subject of PGGAN, pak Muchtar, once encouraged her to take English
study program later on. It was so because she learned the subject earnestly. Her academic
achievement enables to catch up from other peers. Furthermore, she used to be in three bing
ranking in academic achievement of the class.

REFLECTION

The author enables to influence the readers successfully by telling her autobiography.
The title, Dari Sungai Musi Ke Mississipi & Muncie, has been a good device to attract
reader’s attention. The plot is also noticeable. Perfectly, she tells more detail to every single
condition set in both Kayuara and Palembang for many years ago. No wondered, the readers
are easily picturing the conditions happened during reading it. She also informed the readers
how to have a farm got from her experience and attached the scientific names of plants in the
country. The readers must have discerned in the action of their mind two settings which in
this book are harmonized. The author possesses a singularly wide, clear, and minute power of
accurate observation. Her observation, both of things and persons, is also keen and true to
actualities as it independently is. The most important thing is that the message of the
autobiography is to motivate the readers to move forward in achieving their dreams.
Therefore, the literature is highly recommended to not only urban but also suburban
adolescents.