Gentleman Of Rio en Medio

Negotiation: People should read the negotiation agreement before they sell something.

Innumerable: Human have innmerable cells inside body.

Boundaries: My family’s lands boundaries stetch for few hundred meters in urban area.

Descendants: I’m not sure that my descendants in future are going to live in Vietnam, they probadly live in high economic countries.

Stop the sun vocabulary

Commotion:
I heard a big engine sounds, I came over the window to see what caused the commotion.

Foundered:
I was foundered on my math exam because I haven’t study carefully.

Ruin:
There are a lot of Maya’s ruin pyramid, they used to be place for sacrafice during Maya civilization time.

Inert:
I was inert when the giant snake appeared in front of me in the jungle.

Literary Focus: Point of view (Gentleman of Rio en Medio)

9)Hypothesize this story is told from the point of view of a narrator who is a character in the story. How might this story differ if Don Anselmo were the narrator.

If the story changed the narrator, from a lawyer who supervised a negotiation to Don Anselmo, the story will be different. In the point of view of lawyer, there are just a few details how Don Anselmo’s land or house look like. If it turned to Don Anselmo point of view, he would describe his memory about land and his house more details or why he sold his properties beside for money.


I believe that Don Anselno would deeply explain why he sold his land (8 acres = 8 soccer fields)and house with only twelve hundred dollars because that was his decision, maybe he sold his properties not only because American are his friends. Also Don Alselmo would explain why he refused to double the price twice of his land and house. Personally, I think that he might have enough money to live the rest of his life, that’s why he didn’t double the price up.

Literary Focus: what is the significance of the story's title, "Stop the Sun"

The battle is mostly start at the beginning of the morning, the soldiers and fires keep coming on the battle field, and soldiers’ dead bodies lay on ground everywhere.



“Stop the Sun”- the story title, it has a significance (meaning). Its mean, in order to stay away from death by war, the sun shouldn’t appear. Terry’s dad was the man who only survived out of 54 mans, he wanted to “stop the sun” in order to survived from the bloody paddy. When the sun appeared, he was extremely nervous because he might get shoot by north vietnamese soldiers. He wished he could “stop the sun” because his enemy will not be able to see him. In my opinion, maybe Terry’s dad wanted to stop the sun from shined its light because he didn’t want people died because of war.

Time traveler

The cold and white snow kept the atmosphere of Toronto, Canada frozen at mid October. There were few trees had their red leaves children on their arm left. Lucas Luke, an eleventh grader, who lived in old dark red house with full of old guns, historical books… He treated history as his own lover in his heart. He had a black-brown fuzzy hair, which kept his head warm during winter. On these days, his brain started to struggle whether Hitler had children or not. Lucas had come up with a giant idea to solve this problem, went back to time to meet Hitler and ask him this question by a time machine.
Lucas time machine worked like black hole core. Lucas’s little black-red “bug” time machine had a control board that have time/place, calendar, speed/second, and worked under theory of Einstein(E=mc2). Lucas finished time machine by few days work at his home, he used his smart brain in order to make time machine works.
He carefully entered the time/place, speed/second:
Ermm…1941/ Adolf Hitler’s Villa, 300,000km/second
He clicked on START button. Suddenly, he realized himself in a big empty space world, kept turning up-side down like a crazy mad world. Swiftly, Lucas appeared on a place where he had not seen on old fashion television in his room, “Oh…My…God. Where am I? Girl’s room with sickly pink and old traditional English bed? Those things make me want to throw up,” he said.
Pink papers covered the room’s walls. There were some swastika symbols on a black shinny wooden door. Lucas could easily recognize the Queen Elizabeth’s Bed near the wooden door. He saw the room had a lot expensive things, like Queen Elizabeth’s bed, wild North Africa tiger skins as a carpet, Samurai’s amour, etc... Those things made Lucas eyes get wild and nervous; he had never seen those things before, except only in books.
He could barely see what was outside of the windows. It was all perfectly locked in. unable to break it, Lucas walked through the room. Suddenly, he heard noise from the bathroom, Lucas curiously walked to the bathroom step-by-step.
The bathroom door was slowly open; Lucas’s heart beat extreme fast nearly said good-bye to his chest. His face was sweating beads. A blonde girl walked slowly out of bathroom covered by a white tower. Right away, she saw Lucas
“Raus aus meinem Zimmer jetzt!.”
Lucas was surprised too, his mouth became like stutter speaker
“D…do…y…ou…know…h..ow…t…o…spe…ak…En…glish?”
The girl responded in an astonished reaction, “Of course I do,”
“Do you know where I am?” Lucas asked her
“You are in my room,” she said, smiling.
“No, I mean where the location of your house is?” Lucas asked cautiously
“Berlin, Germany, 1941. Welcome back to planet Earth, alien boy,” she joked. Lucas was happy because he made it. The time machine test was success. He wondered who this kid was.
“So…What is your name in English?” Lucas wanted to know her.
“Aarika Fabio Hitler,” she happily replied
“So you’re Adolf Hitler’s…” Lucas started to say but he couldn’t finish his sentence. He felt two big hands on his shoulder. He turned his neck bit by bit. Lucas saw an ominous man with his deadly gun behind his back, his upper arm had red swastika symbol and wore black-brown uniform to prove that he was a SS soldier.
“Sie sind nun unter der Kontrolle von Adolf Hitler,” the soldier said.
“What does that even mean, Aarika?” Lucas asked, confused.
Before Aarika could answer, the SS soldier took Lucas away by his giant hands.
Lucas was so frightened, his face turned to red. He thought this man was going to executed him. Lucas was wrong, that SS soldier dragged him to the big office. He had a negative feeling for this office.
When Lucas stepped into an office, the smelled of sunny flowers made Lucas more calmed down. Lucas saw a lot of battlefield maps, and big Swastika symbol hang on a wall .Lucas could barely recognize a man sat on a chair that had short brown hair, and he wore a deep-black coat with some Nazis party symbol on it. Adolf Hitler, Lucas knew that Hitler had a high temper, serious face, so he wouldn’t mess up with a Germany’s dictator. Hitler stared at Lucas and growled in English, “Who are you? Where did you come from? Why were you at my house?”
Lucas stuttered, “I’m Lucas Luke, from Canada. Your house? Oh…, I’m here to research about you secret daughter. I just met her at her room,”
Hitler’s face became red and bellowed, “First of all, this territory had been banned by my power. Secondly, Aarika is not my secret daughter”
“Then who is…Aarika?” Lucas asked. He was too anxious because of Hitler’s hot face across the room.
“She is my niece, not my daughter or anything,” Hitler replied hotly.
“Then why her room window has been lock thickly?” Lucas demanded.
“You don’t know anything about my family. Two years ago, some Jewish broke into my brother house. They killed him and his wife, but they left Aarika alone because she was too young to be killed. Next morning, I visited them and I was shocked after I knew that my brother and his wife were killed, only Aarika left,” Hitler said as the tears rolled down his cheeks.
Lucas was so surprised that a person like Hitler would cry in front of a young boy. But he ignored that fact and soothingly replied, “Well, I’m sorry for your loss,” Lucas came, shook hand to Hitler, and said, “See you Mr. Hitler, I will tell the modern world that you do not have daughter or secret child,”
“Hold on! What do you mean by modern world?” Hitler replied in shock, but it was too late. Lucas had disappeared in thin air. When Lucas reached back to modern world, he wrote a book to answer a question “whether Hitler had child or not?” and included his journey. Time machine was useful for him to research for the answer about type of historical question that remained mysterious.