Frozen Pizza and Other Slices of Life

stock-still Pizza and Other Slices of Life Frozen pizza and other slices of tone, by Antoinette Moses, is a very good book which tells us eight several(predicate) stories slightly polar large number who show us the same earth (England) only from their own point of view and tells us eight different stories slightly their particular lives. In the weather four chapters, we c tallyin nail dumbfound other new Britishs point of view and many lessons from from each one chapter. pre direct is w assume we bring forth adopted from the last four chapters.To start with Sweetie, in this chapter, the figment represents a student life, whose game talks intimately Nikki Apton, a student college, who is not quite an good at managing on her life. Her singularity is the same as other students who be not able to define what is the priority thing to do. She is always irresponsible for the negative results that are do by her. Fashionable student Nikki Apton leads a fun-loving lif e, exploiting parents for money and leaning on her fri oddity Sue to c over up for absences at seminars. Her father loses his theorise and thunder mugnot subsidize her mean succession the bank stops her cash card.Sue complains to lecturer Mrs. Martins about the way Nikki puts pressure on her. Nikki receives a letter saying she has plumped the course. She dust convinced that she has a bright future despite her academic failure. In this news report, the causality does not give us know the story by the of import character narrating. She runs the story by Nikki, the briny character, sending E-mails to her friend, her boyfriend, her parents and her lecturer. The nomenclature and style that the author uses is just daily-life words. It is easy to understand even though there is some un collectn slang found.Nikkis characteristic is identical her sending Emails. She never faces up with the problems directly. She uses E-mail to deal with them. It shows that she is not quite sincere b ecause when writing E-mail, we have to think each word over repeatedly. Sometimes, we may not mean that as we exactly feel but have to use those sentences just because it sounds better. After finishing this chapter, Nikki reminds me to look at myself. She is the mirror that radiates my life and warns me not to do like her. The lesson that I have got from the chapter is As you sow, so shall you reap. From the story, Nikki does not do her duty by herself, request someone help and in any case complaining him or her when it is not what she expects. Finally, She deserves to fail in her academic at the end of the story. Next chapter is The Star Reporter. The plot of this chapter is associated with a student reporter, Mike, who launchs the news about a inundationed country near his college, and this event changes his life forever. thither are three main characters in this chapter Mike, Angela, and chant. Mikes characteristic is curious and sympathetic.Angela is an ambitious editor program of the Student News team who does not care what is right or wrong. The last main character is sing, a Robbies mother who lives in the deluge area. She finishnot accept any truth that she did. Mike, a student who was in the Student News Team, made the news about the nearby area, which had flood every year. Angela, the editor, agreed with him and sent him to give the bulk who lived in the flooded area an interview and also sent Sue with him in regularise to constitute the photographs. In the flooded village, Mike met Carol, who was lifting a buggy up to the stairs while carrying her baby, Robbie.While Sue was taking a photo of her, Carol was so frightened that she forgot her baby and things in her arms but cover her face instead. Luckily, Mike was fast enough to catch the baby in time. After talking with Carol, Mike was very pleasant and felt that she was a very good mother. Moreover, he was eager to know why Carol was afraid of diarist. So he returned to understand mor e information about Carol and he discovered that she was headline in the news longsighted ago as a barbarian murderer. When she was eleven years honest-to-god, she ordinarily to a faultk care of the children around her neighbor as a babysitter.According to the news, she hit the child to piss him stop crying until he died. But Carol verbalize a child had fallen off a slide and unfaltering hit head. Carol was sent to a prison for young people and she had to stay there until she was sixteen. While Mike was reading the news, Angela came in and proverb it. Angela took that news to the publishers and they published the news as WE FIND CHILD grampusS SECRET HOME Carol and Robbie had to be enlightend from each other. Mike resigned from the college and travel abroad. At last, He gave up the idea of journalist and decided to become a teacher instead.The speech communication and style that the author uses in this chapter is easy to understand. She often uses many dialogues in orde r to retain the story smoothly. In addition, she also uses metaphors to illustrate the readers. For example, she compares the Tabloids with two years old kids who scream when they are hungry or lose their toys because the tabloids select the readers watchfulness by using a big headline. For the mood of this story, the narrator, Mike tells the story depressingly and guiltily. Something that you do not intend to do can make others suffer is the lesson we have learned from this story.Mike does not mean to let Angela knows about Carols background, but Angela knows it accidentally and finally Carol had to separate from her child. Another lesson is Just one mistake can change your life forever. From the story, Mike decided to become a teacher instead of a journalist after this happening. The third account Dont female child the Mozart is involved with Melanie, a cleaning woman who is sent to pick up a pianist, Louise Conte at the train station, but she picks up a wrong woman with mis understanding, so she is fired from her work.Finally, she takes her revenge by abducted the pianist so that Louise Conte leave drop her concert. There are two main characters in this chapter Melanie and Nicole Leconte. Melanie is too careless to restrain that the person she picks up is the real pianist. And Nicole Leconte, a university scientist from France who comes to England to do a seminar, is too innocent to realize that there is something wrong with this hospitality. Melanie was sent to the train station at Norwich, England to pick up cut pianist, Louise Conte.She was a soloist who will play Mozart Concerto at festival concert. Melanie misunderstood that a French scientist, Nicole Leconte, was the pianist, so she took her to a luxurious hotel, which surprised Nicole. Nicole thought this was a surprise hospitality, but does not realize there must be something wrong. When arriving at the festival office, they just know the truth. Mel was very angry. Later, Mel took revenge o n Louise Conte by disguising herself to be Contes driver and taking her to the north, so it made Conte miss the concert.The author explains the two main characters feeling clearly so that the readers can understand easily that this situation is an accident, Melanie does not want to mix Nicole up with Madame Conte. Moreover, the author uses hyperbole to demonstrate the readers. For example Nicole heard her ask, as if it was the more or less marvelous surprise to find her there, at the moment. Another subterfuge the author uses in this chapter is foreshadowing. According to the middle of the story, Nicole told Melanie not to miss the Mozart concerto hat would be played one evening but at the end of the story, Melanie made Louise Conte miss it.The lesson from this chapter is Carelessness will lead to disaster. From the story, Melanie did not check carefully that the person she met was the true pianist, Louis Conte, so she was fired from her job. The plot of the last chapter The Shiv ering Mountain is about an Italian school student, Paulo, who expects the city life in England, must be fun. On the other hand, the Fowler familys activities in their free time, which he stays with, make him annoyed and disappointed. Finally, there has an disaster to make him realize why the British family loves doing those activities.There are two main characters Paulo and Nick. The characteristics of Paulo are stubborn, grumbling and pessimistic while Nick is easy departure and a nature lover. Paulo who was an Italian School student had to spend his spend with the Fowler family in England. Paulo enjoyed the city life just in the first week but after that time he found it miserable to plug into with the family trip to the Peak District and activities that the Fowler planned to do like exit walking and bird watching. Moreover, he felt disappointed his friends behavior, Nick Fowler, that it was not the same as if Nick became a different person.One morning, Paulo walked alone i nto the hills without unawareness of the danger. Getting lost into the mist, he al nigh stepped off a cliff but fortunately Nick could help him in time. Finally, the incident brought them closer together. The language and style that author usually uses is earthy words and informal language. So it is easy to understand. Moreover, the author always describes the story with lots of adjectives and adverbs that make us easily imagine the pictures along with the story. The language device that author usually uses is the metaphor. It also compares two things.You can see two examples in the story it was like being inside a cloud and youd look like a sheep. Moreover, author also uses hyperbole as one of the language devices. From the story The clothes, for a start, would make them laugh till they were sick, you can see that it is impossible for someone laughing until he or she is ill. It is the technique to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but not meant to be interpre ted literally. What I have learnt from this story is that we should adapt ourselves to the new environment. Try to learn the new activities in our leisure time of another edict.And you will find sometimes the differences are not worse like you think. For example, Paulo whose family, his friends and people in Italy love spending their summer swimming, playing football and sunbathing on the beach, while the Fowler family enjoys spending their holidays living with the nature in the countryside. British family is quite the nature lover. They like looking at many kinds of birds through binoculars, walking up to a hill, sleeping in a tent. Especially, for British family to use guidebooks and maps makes Paulo surprised. It seems that people in Italy do not take an interest in a map.At last, Paulo understood why his friend, Nick, loves coming to the Peak District after he had seen a goshawk flying over his head. The story we dislike the most is Dont Miss the Mozart because the way Melanie solved her problem by abducting the pianist instead of accepting he mistake is reasonless and desperate, so we think the story should not end like this. On the other hand, our favorite story is Sweetie because this story usually happens in daily life and in every culture. This story also reflects the college society that students have to deal with many problems.Besides the consequence of Nikkis behavior is what she deserves. There are many reading strategies we have learned from the class can apply to this reading of narrative text. The first technique is to guess importation from the context. From the entire stories we have read, we barely look up the word in the dictionary for. We usually try to guess the meaning from the context first. utilize note-taking technique while reading is so utile that when we want to get the important detail, we can abruptly recall knowledge from the note we take before.Moreover, making an inference is one we usually use to get the implied meaning of something. It is a crucial skill that must be mastered for us to have real comprehension. When we recall prior experiences that are similar to what we are reading, it helps us much to get the valuable lessons of each chapters. In conclusion, the stories from the twenty percent chapter to the last chapter reveal us the culture, the ways of life, people attitude, and the media in the linked Kingdoms society including personal thought, opportunity, and problem, media effects, and social adaptation.Because of the easy language, we can enjoy the stories and imagine along with when reading. Moreover, these stories are the common situations that can materialise in everyday lives but can be the social problems by not paying attention. Finally, all the valuable lessons in every chapter reflect every aspect of peoples lives and can be utilise in our daily lives. Chadaratch Kalyasiri 5311100265 Yanisa Treerat 5311100290 Tharin Rienjongdee 5311100338 Puttamas Limchaisawat 5311100443