S U M M E RY
F U R T H E R D E TA I L A B O U T T H E S T O RY:
T H E H O U S E G U E S T WA S W R I T T E N BY PA U L D A R C Y B O L E S I N
2007
Name, Maryam
 Last name: Torki
 The summary and its analysis of the house guest
 Master of class: Mrs. Farzane
 The story began whit a kind of explanation about the environment around.
 It’s about the kid that has big dark blue eyes, and red hair. She was a guest .it was
a kind of regulation for kids who have almost nowhere to reside in an another country
and keep their studying goes on.
 You signed up to keep a kid form Northern Ireland in your home as a kid. The idea
was to show the kids what American was like.
 The night Bridge (Girl) first came; she didn’t talk much at all, she just being silent.
She has a small green a bag whit some extra clothes in it and an old doll. She has all
the things except for the clothes she wore.
Next the mother of family took her to a couple of shoes in town and brought her
some new staff.
She antill wasn’t talking a lot, only pleased and thanks, when the mother took the
new clothes out of the boxes to hang them up, she touched them very polity.
She had been born in Belfast and grew up there. She had four brother and two sister
her Mather had died a year and a half before below sentence and her father took care of
her family as the best he could.
 In the house the girl always ate fast and never left anything on the plate. And also she never
ask for second helpings.
 It was not until the third day she was with us that she really started to open up a little to talk.
 That day we were sitting by the TV and she was also sat there to watched news that suddenly the
TV reporter said sth about Dublin and the girl add sth to the talk like the below sentence.
 My dad was in in Dublin the once.
 That good –sized stopped in the talk that woman asked: did he go on holiday?
 She gave her head a small shake and replayed ,nah mam he went there in a van to help his mate
was movin to Dublin and when her dad come back he brought me a dog,
The night after bridge had been tucked in the bed, the boy asked his mom that
whether they could adopt her or not and the woman replayed it wasn’t possible since her
family needed her too much and started to make excuses.
The next day his mam took the girl to the city for lunch and cinema. She sat there in
cinema without moving or even laughing.
There in cinema she like the movies and clips but the things which she liked best was
a bunch of puppies in the pet shop window.
But they can’t get her a dog and she couldn’t take it back to the Ireland
After my mother took her to the toy store and she walk through the doll section but
she want hot about said I dolls and she said I have got one already.
Finally they go to the craft part of a store. She found sth that she was really warm for.
It was a big leatherworking set with lot of colored in red, blue, green and yellow
The boy of family talked her about going to ice skating. she didn’t exactly skate when she
got there. The boy rented for her one. They were skating together and she was slow at first
That day afternoon when the boy got home back. He found her spend all her time there
in workroom where he spend lots of his time working on a model airplane
After spending so much time has fun together, the next day she was out in the workroom
after breakfast
 A couple of days before it was the time for her to go back and also the family were about planning to visit
some town friends and then later the mother of family called and said they are going to stay longer than what
they had planned and ask him to make sure of bridge in form of workroom by around ten.
 He got up suddenly and saw it was nine thirty. He yield for bridge but there wasn’t any answer. He run to
the snow out and also into the workroom but he found nothing but a light off.
 A second after ,he saw her footprint leading back to the lane and the footprint started to mixed with the
tire truck that were harder to make out.
 The boy could see her. She didn’t run around and maybe she didn’t hear him. After having so much
different phenomenon like he carried her home. And before she went to the bed, she said you are glad of me.
 He said sure and he kissed her. He was waiting at the desk bridge use to
come up and stand and she looked at him to make sure that he is still
there. There was some news about Belfast. Booming and shootings. A while
ago the boy heard a dog is howling in the dark and ten going away. The boy
turned around when he heard the dogs howling and he found that the girl
want there and if course she was back in home in her district and the boy
believed that bridge district is the world
Setting: this story happened in United States American
 It happen in winter
 Characters:
 Bridge: she has big dark blue eyes, and red hair. She was a guest
 Mitch: the boy’s family,
 Protagonist: the main character of lesson is the Girl
 The Effective and positive character of lesson is: Mitch
 Conflict:
 Internal:
 External: Mitch (boy of family) with his mother to accept the girl as a permanent guest
 Climax:
 When the Mitch look for Find Bridge
 and often nosily
 Flick: cinema film
 Mammoth: Vocabulary:
Red tape: excessive bureaucracy, in public business
 Intern: young doctor who is completing his training by living in a hospital and acting as an assistant
physician or surgeon here
 Duck: move down quickly, to avoid being seen or hit
 Clam up: become silent. Refuse to speak
 Whack: strike or beat (sth) vigorously
 Pester: annoy or disturb sb. Whit frequent requests
 Yak: talk continuously huge, immense
 Put oneself out: do sth even though it is inconvenient for oneself
 Blithering: absolute, contemptible
 Elbowroom: space in which one can move freely
 Fiend: very cruel or spiteful person
 Muss: put sth into disorder
 Dash: short race , sprint
 Peach: to inform against someone
 Dashing: lively and exciting
 Blot: run a way suddenly
 Crooning: humming singing or saying (sth) softly and gently
Moral point:
Humans are capable to reach to their desires by struggle
Them:
The them of this story is night and days each after each. Its winter its
cold its snow its vague all about whether to accept or not.
THE END