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Self reflection : after doing this task, reading faster, I can know my reading rate and makes me wants to improve my reading skill better especially when reading an article in English. I also get a lot of new information in the articles that I had read. I also find many difficult vocabularies so I try to find the meaning in the dictionary and it adds my knowledge about some new vocabularies. EXTENSIVE READING A. Identification of the novel : Author : Betty Bates Year of publication : 1987 Character 1. Paige Truitt : is 15 years old, he loves his family very much, at first he always followed his parent choice to determine his future, although he did not want to be like they want. He did not have any braveness to say what he want to be and do not want to hurt and disappointed his father. He never wanted to be trap in his family apples orchard business, he always had strong willingness to see and live in another city. After he met Abby, he knew that actually he loves his home and the people around. 2. Abby Winch : is 13 years old, she looked like an elf. She has long, dark hair, sharp chin, peanut nose, and big puddle eyes. Her voice was fuzzy and soft, like an old quilt. She is friendly to all people that she had met and care about someone else who need her help. She loves Paiges village and the people around. She is also easy going and cheerful. 3. Mr. Truitt : loves his family and his apples orchard business. He is always care about his children future but never ask them what they want to be in the future. He admired his childrens decision to determine their future. He also easy to be angry if there was something wrong. 4. Mrs. Truitt : loves her family and just as strict with her children.

5. Joyce Truitt : is Paiges sister, 17 years old. She is faith and like who she is, where she is and the people shes around. She has braveness to refuse her parent choice.

6. Cade : is Paiges girlfriend. She was a kind of girl who attracted the attention, with her cornsilk hair curling around her face, and her hazy green eyes. She was not especially careful when she talked about people outside their crowd.

7. Earl Sanders : is Joyces boyfriend and plays tackle on Bartlett high football team. He is faith and does not like doing apples orchard business like Paige. He is not an ambitious men and honest. 8. Laurabell : is Paiges neighbor. She always dresses a million years old with flower all over it. She like kidding with Paige and has hard headed with her decision. 9. Rusty : is Paiges best friend, he does not care with his weight and always be Paiges best friend. They often do something together.

B. The Summary

ASK ME TOMORROW Paige Truitt will be sixteen in December and it was summer holiday. He felt trap and bored in his family apple orchard business, like this summer. His dad always asked him to work on the farm. He never wanted to do everything in his father business, because he does not like it. He does not want to be the owner of his father business, with its crisscross of apple trees, the barns, the storage buildings, the packing house, the cider room, the mechanics shop, the truck and the tractor and three wheelers, the pickers barracks, the foremans place, and the house a little way down the road where his Grampa lives. All that busy work for a bunch of apples. He wants to go to Portland or better still Boston, because its bigger. He wants to be a detective like Gibson, or join the CIA, or be a TV news correspondent or news reporter. Anything to avoid following the footsteps of his father who expects him to take over the family apple orchard business. Paige feels trapped, but cannot bring himself to hurt his father by telling him he want leave the farm. He does not have any braveness to tell his father what he wants to be in his future, because he afraid that his father will feel disappointed with him. Sometime he feels jealous with his sister, Joyce, who has braveness to refuse their parent wishes for her. Mr. Truitt wants her to go to college after she graduated from high school, but she wanted to get married with Earl Sanders after they graduated from high school next June. This summer Mr. Truitt asked him to work on the farm more often, he feels trapped but cannot go anywhere. On this weekday, Paige has to wake up earlier to go to Boston with his father to send the apple for the customers. His father always asked him to go there because his

father wants to teach him how to distribute and to whom the apples will distribute. His father also often introduces the customers to him and it makes him feels very bored. He does not care about learning the business. All customers that he met also expected that he would be running the orchard someday. The next morning after he went to Laurabells house, he met a girl that look like an elf. She is Abby Winch, she came from San Antonio, Texas to spend her summer holiday in her grandfather village. Abby sees the Maine Countryside differently and appreciates its people. She came from city and never saw village views before. The one thing that makes Paige feels bad is that she also expected that he will be running the farm someday. She knew all about Paige from her grandfather. At first, Paige finds her strange, but he feels closer with her though they just already met. Suddenly he told her things that he never mentioned to anyone, not even Cade his girlfriend or Rusty his best friend. Telling her that he wont be running this orchard someday. Like another days in this summer, this morning Paige have to work on the farm again. Today his mom sent him over to Grampas to pile up the firewood. Paige always feels unhappy with his job on the farm, but he has a good responsibility to finished all the work that they asked to him. Todays job is not too bored like before, because he was help by Grampa and Abby. After all finished, Grampa asked him to bring Abby see the Bibble Corner. Along the road, he saw many things that he never paid more attention to that. Abby show him the beauty of his village. Seeing his village through Abbys eyes makes him conscious that his village is wonderful. The journey to the Bibble Corner makes their relationship closer than before. The closeness between Paige and Abby makes Cade feels jealous. He could not believe how could she be jealous of Abby, thirteen years old. He had told her that Abbys new in Maine and she wants see things here. Cade still jealous with Abby, but Paige does not have any reason to go away from Abby because she does not have fault to Cade or himself. He still helped Abby and accompany her to see the village and introduce her to the people in the village. Abby loves the village very much and respect the people around. Everyday she helped Laurabell, an old woman who lives alone in her small cabin and now she is sick. Laurabell felt lucky because there was Abby who always takes care of her. Paige also get new job to help Abby and he also have to finish his work on the farm. This busy things does not make him feels bored because he started to love his job on the farm and there was Abby who always helped him to finish his work. After few days take care of Laurabell, Paige wake up earlier, take a breakfast and picked up Abby for the drive to Scrubtop Mountain. Abby asked him to accompany her for climbing a mountain in this village. Once again Paige sees more attractive objects that he never paid more attention of that, the views of his village is beautiful and full of peace. He thought that maybe his strong willingness to go away from his village makes him forget all the beauty of Maine.

Something that he loves and he never be conscious of that. His new experience to see his world trough Abbys eyes makes his decision more difficult. He had started to love everything in his village, both the farm or the people around. Paige cannot believe Abby, thirteen years old, will make his decision to leave the village more difficult. He also thanks to her because he can see the most important thing in his village. Because of Abby, he started to love his village and have braveness to tell his parent about his planning for his future. Finally he talk to his father that he maybe leave the farm and his father respect his decision for tomorrow. Mr. Truitt aware that he cannot force their children wants and give them an opportunity to determine their future.

C. Comments How did you enjoy reading the novel? I enjoyed reading this novel very much, because the story is very interesting and it is about someone experience in determining his future. The story is like another teenagers experience who always confuse to determine their future, they have a dream but their parent expected them to be what their parent want. The story is very natural and about our daily life, so it is easier for us to understand the story in this novel. What did I learn from the novel? The story: From the story of the novel I learn something such as we must having a dream that can lead our life to be better live. I also learn good character that Paiges had that is he had a good responsibility and always finished his job though he feels unhappy with that job. We also must have braveness to discuss our dream with our parent so they wont force their wishes for us. Parents also do not force their child dreams, they have to give them an opportunity to determine their future. The last we have to be careful if we make a decision, and respect another people around us. The language From the language of the novel, I learn the meaning of many new vocabularies. Not only get new vocabularies, I also find new idioms from this novel. I also learn the sentence structure, both passive or active sentences.