In English we have been reading and studying a story by Shinichi Hoshi Called He-y Come On Ou-T! We have done many activities linked to this story and about this story to help us study the text and the way that it is written.
I found that the story was pretty interesting the type of words and the way the author used them was a unique way to portray the story. Although I found that it told the story well. I really like the meaning behind the story how people were just carelessly throwing garbage and waste in the hole. Only for it to fall into the environment linking to Earth’s environmental crisis.
To sum up the story- Japanese villagers in the 20th century discovered a hole from where a typhoon had washed out a shrine in Japan. A young man threw a pebble in and it never hit the bottom, and the scientist and other people of the city couldn’t figure out the hole. So people started throwing more and more rubbish in. Then one day a worker was sitting eating lunch when a pebble fell out of the sky and landed near him.
After we read the story our teacher asked us to write a letter to a family relative as if we lived in the small village in the story as if we were writing to them about the hole and what is happening.
Here is my letter –
Dear Evangeline
I am writing to you from my Village recently a typhoon passed by damaging the shrine as a landslide swept it away. When some of the villagers went to investigate they found this curious little hole in the ground. News reporters came, and even a scientist although the scientist didn’t find anything and simply told us to fill it in, a man offered to claim the hole and build a bigger better shrine closer to the village, so the mayor gave it to him. Soon posters went up everywhere that the man was offering nuclear companies to be able to throw their nuclear waste into the hole. Many such companies started fighting for a contract with the man, Soon they started dumping waste into the hole with the town’s permission of course. Then gradually more and more companies started dumping their waste into the hole. A university even decided to dump tested animal carcasses into the hole. And the people in the village were using it too some people dumping diaries and old photos, I even think some criminals dump some material evidence into the hole where no one will ever see them again. This phenomenon has been quite interesting and crazy.
Your Dearest Sister
– Avery
I have really enjoyed reading this story and completed the work that we have been doing on the story. I feel like I learned a few new words and a unique style of writing from this story which doesn’t happen much, so I am glad that we read this story.
