This Child’s Gonna Live Review

Title                             : This Child’s Gonna Live

Writer                          : Sarah E. Wright

Page                            : 253

Publisher and Year      : Dell Publishing Co., 1975

Genre                          : Fiction

I’ll do everything for my children

Mariah Uphsur, a strong religious black woman worked everyday with her husband, Jacob Upshur in the land named Tangierneck to fulfil the needs of their children, Skeeter, Rabbit, and Gezee. In Tangierneck, black people were treated as slaves. They were poor and have no milks, even they couldn’t get bank’s help if there was no white people who guaranteed. The white people who own the land was Miss Bannie Upshire Dudley, and everybody hated her.

Mariah was pregnant, but she was afraid that her child would not survive to live because her last daughter, Mary was died. The poverty was all the reasons. So, she decided to move from Neck to get a better live. In other hand, Jacob believed that they had to stay. He was sure he could regain the land from the white people, and made the Neck’s better live.

The best character in this novel is Mariah Upshur. She was the toughest woman character. She will do everything to make her children can survive in this cruel world. And also she is a religious person. Anytime she’s got a problem, she always talks with her God and asks for help. Although everybody humiliates her, she still does the best for her children.

The best part of this inspiring novel is, the part when Mariah born her youngest child. She expects that she will bear in the hospital, unfortunately she didn’t. She bears her child in her house without a doctor. It is a tense part. Another best part is when everybody, include Jacob was surprised with the baby’s color. The new daughter’s skin was not black which is like her parents, but it was white, just like white people’s baby. I think it is the most surprising and interesting part.

The best expression that represents this novel is, “Want you to grow up to be somebody. Not a body like me.” (Sarah E. Wright, p. 244). I think all parents in the world will agree with this sentence. Of course they want their children will be a better person, education, and life than them in the future

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D.K.D

Bapak Warung yang Pintar

Oke, gw ga tau si bapannya yang pinter ato gw yg ***
Suatu hari, persediaan air minum di kostan saya sudah habis, alhasil saya berniat membeli Aqua botol yg 600 mL di warung deket kostan Sella, Pesanggrahan. Warung ini dimiliki oleh sepasang suami istri, kebetulan yang lagi jaga cuma si bapake.

Sesampainya di warung, terjadi percakapan singkat yang mengharukan.
Le me : "Pak, beli."
Bapak : "Beli apa mas?"
Me : "Beli Aqua botol yang ga dingin, ada pak?"
Bapak : "Ga ada mas, adanya yang kecil" sambil mengeluarkan aqua botol yg kecil, mungkin kira2 250 mL.

Saya yang penasaran pun, dengan lihai mengintip ke dalam warung, dan menemukan benda yg saya inginkan.
Me : "Lah, itu apa pak di belakang?" Sambil nunjuk jejeran botol Ades dan 2 Tang
Bapak : "Ia mas, tapi itu Ades, bukan Aqua"
Me : "...................................................................." Hening.
Aku tak menyangka, satu kalimat sependek itu, bisa sangat mengetuk hati dan nurani. Jauh di lubuk sana, jiwa ini terguncang dengan hebatnya. *Ok fix, ini berlebihan.

Me : "Yaudah pak, Ades juga ga apa-apa"
Bapak : "3 ribu mas" ngambil botol minum tersebut, dan memberikannya kepada saya.

Terimakasih sudah mau menghabiskan 5 menit hidup anda sia-sia dengan membaca artikel ini.

Sekali lagi, ini ades, bukan aqua

Hilmi Fathurrahman - Salam Perpisahan (OST Musikal Laskar Pelangi) Chord

Penyanyi : Hilmi Fathurrahman
Penulis lirik: Mira Lesmana
Arranger : Erwin Gutawa

A
Ibunda ....

C#m                F#m
Yang ku sayangi

C#m                D
Yang ku hormati

C#m                A         E
Aku mohon diri

A

Sahabat

C#m                F#m
Laskar Pelangi

C#m                D
Yang aku kasihi

C#m                D         E
Janganlah berhenti bermimpi

D                     C#
Doaku menyertai

C#m                B
Simpan aku dalam hati

Bm                  A
Bila Tuhan kehendaki

Bm                  A
Kita akan berjumpa lagi

Saya cari-cari di internet chord lagu ini ga ketemu-ketemu, so I made this for anyone who is searching this song's chord.

p.s.: I made it with Digital Music Mentor (DMM)  software in my PC and translate it with the lyrics

p.p.s.: If there any mistakes, don't hesitate to tell me by commenting in this post. Thanks :)

Titan A.E. Review

Title                                       : Titan A.E.

Writer                                   : Steve Perry and Dal Perry

Page                                      : 225

Publisher and Year             : Ace; 2000

Genre                                   : Science-fiction

The last humans' hope

                It was the last day before alien-Drej destoryed Earth. Everybody was on a lot of huge rockets, ready to save their life, but Cale -5 years old- didn't want to leave, because his father left him and just gave him a ring.

                15 years later, human survivors scattered the galaxy, and Cale still hated his father. Until one day, he met new friends who told him there was a hope for human race. He realized that the ring which his father gave him- was a map to find the Titan, an advanced technology spaceship, which could bring human race to their home. He did his journey with Akima, a female human pilot, Korso, and 3 other aliens, Preed, Stith, and Gune.

                But their goal wouldn't be so easy, because the Queen of the Drej, Susquehana wanted the Titan eagerly as Cale and Akima did. But, finally Cale and Akima got the ship first and there was a battle between them and the Drej, which victory was human's. So, they made a new planet for human race's home with the Titan. And Cale realized that his father was not a bad guy, he just tried to save his son from dangers.

                The weakness of this novel is, it lacks of description that makes the readers difficult to imagine how do the aliens look like. And, there are some of alien word that I think, only the writer who understand it. The strength of this novel is its plot. The writer tells the story chronologically and makes the readers understand the sequences effortless.

                The moral value of this novel is, there's a will, there's a way. I recommend this novel to anyone who like adventure and science-fiction story.

D.K.D

Black Beauty Review

Title                                      : Black Beauty

Writer                                   : Anna Sewell

Page                                     : 245

Publisher and Year                : Scholastic Inc., 2001

Genre                                   : Animal, Fiction.

Loyalty, Survival, and Kindness

Black beauty is a fiction novel which tells about a black horse’s life. Black Beauty is a male horse, and has a white star-coat in his forehead.

When he was a clot, he has been well bred and well cared by his master. After he was a horse, he was sold to Squire Gordon and John Manly as the groom. The new master and the groom were nice, kindly and thoughtful person, just like his previous master. He lived there for 3 years. But one day, the master’s mistress got an ill that made the master has to sell Black Beauty.

After that, Black Beauty has many new owners. Some of them were nice person, and the others were not. He has been a cab-horse, and even driven by a drunken fellow. But he kept his spirit and did what the best.In his journey, he met a lot of horses, and made friends. Some of his bestfriend were Ginger, who has been ill-used by her previous master, and Captain, who was a war horse.

The weakness of this heart touching novel is, sometimes the name in the dialogue makes reader confused -wether it’s human or horse who is talking-. The strength of this novel is, the writer’s point of view. Anna Sewell put herself as a horse and succeed makes the readers fell like a horse too.

Moral value of this novel is, “Grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways, do your work with a good will” (Anna Sewell, p.2). I do recommend this amazing novel for everyone who’d like to learn about loyalty, survival, and kindness story, even it come from a horse.

D.K.D