Setting
Main characters
Usmanova Pat
Salavova Naida
Plan:
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2.
Setting
Main characters
The event takes place in the last Chinese
colony in Britain, on the island of Hong
Kong, in 1995-1996.
"When you're older we'll tell you that you were born in
Britain's last Asian colony in the lunar year of the pig and
that when we brought you home, the staff of our
apartment block gathered to wish you well. "It's a boy, so
lucky, so lucky. We Chinese love boys," they told us. One
man said you were the first baby to be born in the block
in the year of the pig. This, he told us, was good Feng
Shui, in other words a positive sign for the building and
everyone who lived there."
"We have called you Daniel Patrick but I've been told by
my Chinese friends that you should have a Chinese name
as well and this glorious dawn sky makes me think we'll
call you Son of the Eastern Star. So that later, when you
and I are far from Asia, perhaps standing on a beach some
evening, I can point at the sky and tell you of the Orient
and the times and the people we knew there in the last
years of the twentieth century."
The actions tale place in different poor countries in
southern Africa.
"Ten-year-old Andi Mikail dying from napalm burns on a hillside in
Eritrea, how his voice cried out, growing ever more faint when the
wind blew dust onto his wounds. The two brothers, Domingo and
Just in Menongue, southern Angola."
"Last October, in Afghanistan, when you were growing inside your
mother, I met Sharja, aged twelve."
Of Rwanda, and the churchyard of the parish of Nyarabuye where, in
a ransacked classroom, I found a mother and her three young
children huddled together where they'd been beaten to death.
The third setting as we can see is just an unknown city, in
England.
"It begins thirty five years ago in a big city on a January
morning with snow on the ground and a woman walking
to hospital to have her first baby. She is in her early
twenties and the city is still strange to her, bigger and
noisier than the easy streets and gentle hills of her distant
home."
Fergal Keane
Daniel's father himself grew up
without a father, which
prompted him to give a better
future to his son. He is always
optimistic, especially at the
beginning of the letter.
1. the author itself.
2. father of Daniel
He has got 2 roles
as a father
He is a person full
of love, devotion
and joy.
"We had wanted you and
waited for you, imagined you
and dreamed about you and
now that you are here no
dream can do justice to you."
as a son.
He is a little boy
who needed a father
all his life.
"And it's also true that I am
pained, perhaps haunted is a
better word, by the memory,
suddenly so vivid now, of each
suffering child I have come
across on my journeys."
Keane’s father:
He had a wife.
He was a drunkard.
He was frivolous man with health
problems.
He died from cancer.
“Her husband comes that night and weeps with
joy when he sees his son. He is truly happy.
Hungover, broke, but in his own way happy, for
they were both young and in love with each
other and their son.”
THE END.