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Important Event Dear MR Kilmer
Important Event Dear MR Kilmer
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Understand the following:
Terms Meaning
Event / Incident Peristiwa
(What happened?) Peristiwa / kejadian yang berlaku di
dalam sesebuah cerita
Cause Penyebab
(Why did it Mengapa sesuatu peristiwa berlaku.
happened?)
Effect Kesan
Apakah kesan-kesan kepada watak-
watak yang terlibat apabila sesuatu
peristiwa berlaku.
Character Watak di dalam sesebuah cerita.
Characteristics / Perwatakan / Sifat / Kualiti seseorang
Qualities / watak.
Personalities
CAUSES EVENT EFFECTS
purposely
missed
shooting a Richard told Pa that he had no right to kill
it.
buck.
Richard could
Richard told Pa that he felt painful and
not kill animals. sad to kill an animal.
3
Richard realised that his schoolmates
were mean to Hannah and her parents.
They said that the Schermers were
Someone scrawled Dirty Hannah Schermer cried Huns.
Hun all over her book at the school hallway. They said that the Schermers were
cover.
unpatriotic because they spoke German
and served Hun food at their tavern
while a war was going on against
Germany.
5
Gus advised Richard not tell anyone he
wrote poetry. He wanted Richard to fit in
Richard told his family with other people . Everyone called him a
Mr Kilmer advised Richard
and Mrs Hansen that Hun Lover after he signed the card for
to overcome his fear.
he wrote poetry. Hannah.
Hannah and Richard won the roles Gus told Richard that all students said
of Lady Liberty and the Doughboy that he was unpatriotic and a traitor.
respectively because they wrote
the best essays. Mrs Hansen asked
the class to write an essay as one Pa was disappointed when Richard
of the activities for a patriotic declined the role of the Doughboy.
programme which helped sell Pa advised Richard not to side with the
Liberty bonds. Schermers.
Hannah wrote the best essay so Mrs Influenced by Abners father story, he
Hansen asked Hannah to read it. 6 thought that the Schermers wanted the
After she read the essay, only Germans to win the war.
Hannah declined
Richard clapped his hand. Richard told his father that the
the role of Lady
Liberty. Richard Schermers were patriotic.
Many students were angry with Mrs declined his They wanted the Allies to win.
Hansens decision. They regarded part as the Hannahs brother, Otto, was an
Hannah as an unpatriotic German Doughboy. American soldier.
although she was an American
citizen. Hannahs friendship with Richard became
stronger.
Some parents complained to the Hannah invited Richard to her house.
principal and demanded Mrs Hansen Richard got to know Hannahs parents.
to choose someone else. Mrs Richard visited the Schermers
Hansen did not change her mind. whenever he felt lonely.
The Schermers understood his dreams.
Richard shared Mr Kilmers letters with
them.
Hannah told Richard that her essay He read his poems to them.
started a little war in Turtle lake. She
During Christmas, Hannah baked
did not want to cause any more
problems. Richard wanted to support cookies for Mr Kilmer.
Hannah. Mrs Schermer knitted a scarf to cheer
Mr Kilmer up.
CAUSES EVENT EFFECTS
Mr Kilmer was killed in the Richard was afraid that his father was
war between the Allies and going to be angry at him. His father did
the Germans. not like Richard writing poems.
7
After reading the poem, his father told
Richard about what happened to
Richard wrote a poem Richards uncle, Roland.
Mr Kilmer was Richards as a tribute to Mr His father never told Richard about this
penpal. Kilmer.
story.
Roland was killed in a war in Cuba. His
father regarded Roland as his world.
In the poem, Richard His father was amazed how Richard
likened Mr Kilmer to the Richard
could continued writing
use the same poems
word in hisabout
poem.
world. farm life for the local newspaper.