You are going to write a short summary of an article, a movie or a book you like or don´t like.
The assignment shall contain the following items:
- A summary for approximately 200 words
- Write, why you have selected this particular article, movie or book, and explain why you like it or do not like it. Maximum 200 words.
This is suppose to be a practise, to recognise the most significant in a text or story, and be able to retell it in a short version. Think about the way you write and how you put the sentence together.
Good luck!
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Stand by Me
SvaraRaderaStand by me is a movie (based on a short story by Stephen King) of four twelve year old boys who are living in a small-town in the year 1959. The four boys Teddy, Vern, Gordie and Chris are best friends. They are very different characters and they have different kind of problems and relations to their families. Gordie’s older brother Denny recently died in a car accident and his parents have handled that very bad. All the time they are asking Gordie why he isn’t more like his brother and so on. Chris has an alcoholic father who beats him all the time. Teddy’s father is a disturbed war veteran who has abused him all his life. Vern is the chubby one that everybody makes a fool of. Vern is very frightened of his older brother that always pushes him around and Vern spend a lot of time hiding.
One day Vern heard his older brother describe the location where the dead body of a missing boy from the town that everyone had been looking for actually lies. This information makes Vern feel important and he tells the other boys about the news. They decide to go and find the body and on the way there a lot of things happen. When they arrived at the dead body they discover that they are not the only ones who’ve been looking for it.
I have seen this movie a few times and I think it’s really good but also sad. I choose this movie because I think it contains many interesting and important topics for example, death, family relationships, friendship, bullying and curiosity in adult life.
For those of you who haven’t seen the movie I really can recommend it.
//Anna H