The Summer the Sun Did Not Blow Up

Have you ever make up any serious rumor? Whenever you heard about any news, you better think about it deeply. The story "The Summer the Sun Did Not Blow up" was written by Birmati Lakhan. This story is about an Indian family that lived in Fiji. One day, the children heard the rumor that they were going to be death on next month. It happed sometimes during Christmas day. So they were finding the way to stay alive, but finally, they were stop being impatient about that coming up deathly because it wasn’t true. When I read this story I began to understand how people feel when they heard about some frightened rumor. People shouldn’t invent a fake story for others to be fear.
There were the children who live in Fiji that heard about the rumor. Actually, I didn’t know the meaning of rumor, so I used a dictionary to help me understand and now I know what it is. Continual, their aunt told the children that next month, the sun will blow up and the sea would rise and drown all the land and houses. This sentence is very important to the story, so I slow down to understand it. The children were scared of death, so they were thinking about the way to be alive. There was many ideas come up. "I suggest that we dig a large hole, get inside, and cover ourselves with a big wet rug.” Then, the second ideas came up, “We decided that we’d have to light a small fire inside the refrigerator, just enough to stop us from freezing.” The children told the eldest brother that they need a steel boat and a refrigerator. For these quotes, I try to picture in my mind what I have just read to help me remember what I read. It makes all older people having a meeting because the rumor was getting out of hand. The father and the eldest brother were very angry and tried to find out who had started the rumor. Finally, the 14 years old girl had read an article and it said that it could happen in next millions of years, not next month. As a result, everyone was end with the fake story and be relaxed. For me, if I heard about the rumor, I won’t believe until it happens. But of course I will feel scare of death. The theme of this story is rumors are easy to start but hard to stop. From one people tell another one, then that two people tell another, and then it will add more and more.
When people have listened to any rumor, if they want to tell others, then they must say what exactly they have heard. Sometimes, the rumor might change by saying the wrong things. Like in the story, “millions of years.” How come the children have heard that next month the sun will blow up. However, the reading strategies help me a lot to understand the meaning of words and to understand clearly of the important part. I also imagine of the picture in my mind which make the story get more fun. Next time of reading I will do the same things and underline or circle information in the text and predict the story to challenge myself. Remember to think of what you’re going to say carefully because the story would gain to others.