THE SILK SCARF BY AHMED ESSOP

SETTING

Time: day time

Place: Oriental plaza Johannesburg

MAIN CHARACTER

Mrs Nebo.

She was very rich.

She was a wife of an important official of the African front.

She lived in the white suburb of Houghton.

She was of medium of height.

PLOT

Mrs Nebo was a rich woman. She had a husband named Clive Nebo. One day Mrs  Nebo went to the oriental plaza for shopping with her friend Margret, and then  while she was  walking from shop to shop she saw a beautiful Indian dress and decided to buy it . She also decided to buy a silk scarf in order to match with the dress  although in the shop were she bought the dress there were scarfs   which she wanted , she went to other shop were she found the scarf she was looking for. When asked about its price she realized that she don not  have enough cash so she took out a cheque  and  gave it to the shopkeeper ,( mr  Sakur).The shopkeeper refused it because he did not have a rule of  accepting cheques in his shop. Mrs Nebo felt humiliated and started arguing with the shopkeeper , when the other shopkeepers heard about the argument  they  came to see what was happening and they convinced  mr  Sakur to give the scarf to mrs Nebo but he decided to stick to his rules. One of the shopkeepers , mr  Sader decided to give mr Sakur  cash  gave the scarf to mrs Nebo as a gift. 

THROUGH THE TUNNEL BY DORRIS LESSING

SETTINGS

PLACE: Beach

TIME: Summer

PLOT

 A young English boy went on holiday with his mother for swimming and sunbathing. His mother who is a widow is concerned for her son to be who he wants to be.

 Though he knew his mother was not quite happy about him being out on the bay alone, he went to swim anyway.The English boy swam towards some boys  far on the rocks.The boys waved at him and they noticed he is a foreigner. He felt accepted as he dived and they watched him.He failed as he tried to stay under water for some time as one of the biggest boys did.Suddenly he was left behind alone and the boys has dissapeared. He finds out that they went through a tunnel in a rock and he was impressed. He tried all he could to go through also and he decided to do it also. He decided to learn controlling his breath and tried though he kept bleeding.

 After a hard and tough time of practice, Jerry finally manages to go through the tunnel and he was proud to tell his mother he can stay under water for some minutes.

CHARACTERISTICS OF PROTAGONIST

 Jerry is the main character 

 He is an English boy and he is 11 years old.

 He was a good swimmer.

 He was hard working 

 He does not give up on what he wants.

My blog experience

Creating a blog was very easy than i thought.
At first i searched for the site were i created the blog .
And then i followed the procedures on how to create it.
At the end of the creation of the blog i was asked to give my phone number.
The phone number was needed for the  code that is needed for confirmation of the blog.
On the blog page you can upload a picture of your choice. 
You can also write or post what ever you want to write or post.
You can also edit  your blog page.
 The blog page can only work were internet is available.
A blog  is a very nice thing that  i think i will enjoy.