MY FRIEND
LUKE FERNANDO SORRENTINO TRANSLATED
By Gustavo
Artiles and Alex Patterson
Summary
Luke is the sweetest, shyest person
in the world. He is short and skinny, middle
age, had moustache, almost bald and wear eyeglasses. He is not too friendly and inconvenience to
everyone. He rather do something that he
can do than say “excuse me” and he speaks very low. He already married for years to his wife and
have a son named Juan Manuel. His wife
suffered from an unknown disease that make her personality change. His son Juan Manuel is tall, thin and
intelligent but he is sarcastic, distrustful and have a fringe. He obeys his mother more. Luke was the oldest employee in his company
but his violence and greedy boss, Aquerontido always give him huge task and cut
his salary without reason. Luke have to stop
buying the newspaper and Reader Digest so that he can pay for his son’s school
where his wife chose. When Luke in the
bus, he purposely make the driver and passenger mad for example when he ask for
ticket and do not have cash for it, he purposely show up one of his hand and
check his pocket slowly.
(188 words)
Questions
- Why do you think
Luke’s personality with people who are close to him (Luke’s wife, Juan
Manuel and Don Aquerontido) differ from the passengers on the bus?
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It
is because Luke is very shy and sweet.
Her wife suffered from an unknown disease that shows so many symptom
while his son is smart but sarcastic.
Aquerontido is very violent and greedy.
They are very different from the passenger on the bus because some of
them can tolerate, patience, respect for each other and even feel bad when they
didn’t do something nice when strangers mention about what they supposed to do.
- Based on your
experience, describe anyone in your life that shares similar
characteristics with Luke.
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Based
on my experience, I have one friend that shares similar characteristic with
Luke. Her name is Niola. She is the sweetest and shyest among of all
of our friend not too long ago but now she can get along with people
around. She is not old, I and she shared
the same age. She is taller and
skinny. She have white skin and
beautiful smile. Like Luke, when she
talked I almost cannot hear what is she saying.
- Write a letter to
Luke advising him on how to be a better husband, father, employee and bus
passenger.
Dear Luke,
How are you? I hope you and your
family are in a pink of health. The
reason why I wrote this letter to you is I want to give some advice on how to
be a good husband, employee, father and bus passenger.
First of all, you must change your
attitude towards people. As a husband,
you must be a little strict to your wife and son. This is because when you acting go on with
the flow, they will not have a full respect for you as a leader of the
family. When you strict to them, you can
may be taught your wife to be to be more on control and responsible. By sending she to see the therapist will help
her to know why she suffered such disease and spend more quality time with her will
stabilize her. Other than that, you can
tell her that it will save more budget if Juan study in the state. As a father, like I said earlier you must be
strict to your son so that he won’t ignore you.
He must obey to you and also respect you. Spend some time with him so that you know
what exactly in his mind. Boys intend to
keep something away rather than telling it.
At work, you must know your right as
an employee. Even though it is not wrong
to stay late to finish some work, but you must think about your contribution to
the company. Report Aquerontido to the
Headquarter or quit. I am saying this
because he is using you for his own good.
He cut your salary without any reason and even let you to handle big
task. It is not right. You can find another
job because you are hardworking man.
When riding the bus, you must think
about others too. You are not the only
one who ridding the bus every single day. There are lots of people ride same as
you do. Before you ride the bus, please
prepare exact amount of money so that the paying business become faster and do
not take too much time where people can get angry because some of them maybe
rushing to do something. Bus driver also
a human, he dealt with all kind of people who riding his bus. Do not expect the bus driver will have the
highest patience that you would purposely try to get into his nerve. Other than that, please respect other
passenger while on the bus. It is not
good to tease other passenger and then feel nothing but full of fun when doing
it. Some people may be ignoring of your
wrong doing but you will never know if they can hurt you or not.
I guess that is all I can say for
now. I can only give you an advice but
you are the one who can make the changes in your attitude. You surely do not want the same thing happens
to you. Send my regards to your wife and
your son. Thank you.
Sincerely,
( JARINAH )
