Reading for the Theme

Can you believe the silly rumour? Today, I read the book called "The Summer the Sun Dind Not Blow Up" written by Birmati Lakhan. I learned that the fear of going down the rumour to evryone because someone say a small rumour to someone, it spread quickly to everyone and then a small rumour will be a big silly rumour. This story is about Indian families in Fiji. When the author was six years old, a rumour spread among children in the villege that sun would break. Their families think of many ways that they can survive in the villege. But adults in villege doesn't know about a rumour because the rumour spread among only children. The rumour is silly, so the sun never broken in the villege. When I read this article, I began to understand about the rumour really affect on people's life. And I understood that a small rumour is changed to a big rumour quickly by mouth to mouth. I realized that almost everyone might believe a rumour and their feeling and thinking are sometimes dependent on the rumour. This article reminded me about myself. When I was in an elementary school, a bad rumour which was about one of my friend spread among other students. I didn't want to believe about it so I didin't believe a silly rumour. Although I would believe a good rumour, I would not believe a bad rumour.

While I was reading this aricle, I used three reading strategies. First, I used the reading strategies called 'I try to picture in my mind what I have just read to help me remember what I read' in paraph 1. I imagined that what will happen to the villege if showers of fire and glowing splinters fall. I tried to picture in my mind about it, and I thought that if the showers of fire and glowing splinters fall down on the villege, Indian families in Fiji would die out. I was so scared to think about it. Second, I used 'when I read I translate from English into my native language' in paragraph 9. The author wrote "The rumour was getting out of hand" in paragraph 9 and the reason why I used the strategy on this sentence is that I didn't understand the exact meaning of "getting out of hand". Third, I used 'I underline or circle information or ideas in the text to help me remeber it' in paragraph 12. I underlined on "As the story went from mouth to mouth the time changed from 'millions of years' to 'next month'." because I thought that this sentence was most important part to relate with the theme of the story. It shows that the silly rumour in Fiji spread out the all families and it changed to big rumour. Through the article, I thought that the possible theme statement of this story was 'Rumour are easy to start but hard to stop" because it related to the theme that I decided first.

My process of reading for the theme is that I find the most important sentence in the story snd think carefully about why the sentence is impotant, and then I decide the theme of the story. I think that I worked well about I underlined on the important sentence in the paragraph and I can find the theme of the story. Next time, I will read more carefully for the theme and also I will use more the reading strategies to support the reading.