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BOOK
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For
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BOOK REPORT
FOR ONE MORE DAY
The
Tittle of the book : For One
More Day
Publisher
: PT
Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Writer
:
Mitch Albom
Synopsis
:
For one more day is the story of
a mother and son, the eternal affection of a mother, and the following
questions: What would you do if you were given one more day with someone you
loved, who had died?
When I was little, Charley Benetto asked to choose by his father, wanted to be
a "mama's boy or daddy child, but can not be both". So he chose his
father, adored her father, but that went away when Charley was a teenager. And
Charley raised by his mother, alone, though often she felt ashamed of her
situation and the state of his family intact.
Years later, when his life was
ruined by booze and regret, Charley suicidal. But it failed. Instead, he was
taken back to her old house and discover surprising things. His mother, who
died eight years ago still lives there, and welcome her home as if nothing ever
happened anything.
Chapter
Report :
Chapter I ( Midnight )
Stories Chick
People have always
wondered why try suicide. And why I survived, not what people are always like
that they judge themselves by contrasting with me. Alan as if there is a
boundary line drawn somewhere in the void, in fact, never existed such lines.
My life began chaotic
when my mother died, about ten years ago, and when it happened I was not there.
I'm sorry, and trying to believe that it was not my fault, even my daughter who
is 14 years old and was sorry never said goodbye, then I fell to my knees
crying.
After that messed up
my life, I was drunk, imagine when she filled my life as a child, and suddenly
she died, I began to lose direction, such as the flow of water floating on the
river bank. A year later, I do stupid things that bothered my financial, I was
fooled. I started to get drunk, to lose my job. After that my household was
shattered with Catherine. Even when my daughter was only 20 years old he
married a good man late afternoon, I just sent a letter and two photos of their
wedding. It was apparently after becoming a mess, I will be in the show are too
embarrassing for the family event. I felt useless and give up then becomes your
original point of escape
Chick trying to put an end to
everything
The letter from my daughter, gave me a reason to get
drunk. In the morning I went to the office with a late, but after that I even
sneak out of the office, then I call my ex-wife and tried to ask "why I
was not invited," the question was never answered Catherine with
certainty, that's where I feel more lonely than I felt before , I got drunk for
the last time. I went back to the place I was born in Pepperville Beach with a
car in a drunken state. I went to the apartment that had I left many years I
took the gun in the drawer. Then I went back out to my car and headed to town
with the deserted town that I would try to end my life in place I started.
That evening
drizzle, I was on the freeway with an empty state, I stopped dibar to buy beer.
I continued my journey towards Pepperville Beach, I drink beer and try to stay
awake. After passing through a town I stepped on the gas pedal hard, turn,
circular, spinning and getting faster, but suddenly the sound of the truck horn
sounded, and the collision occurred. I floated my car and landed hard, cars
thrown away, I was unconscious.
When I woke up
very chaotic situation, I'm confused, when you want to die, you're saved. I
slowly stood up with my whole body is sick, it's the same truck destruction. I
walk to my old town. I stood near the water tower and tried to climb out, see
the baseball field full of memories with my father, I think this ruined my
predicament does not believe that there had been a small child. I bowed my head,
probably no one would miss me
Chapter II ( Morning )
My father once said, "you could be a child's mama or
papa child. But not both. "
I then become destitute children. I imitate the way.
Mimic the heavy and hoarse laughter. I carry a baseball glove because he loved
baseball.
When home from school, I would run to the liquor store on
Kraft Avenue and stay until dinner time, playing with cardboard boxes in
warehouse, waiting for dad finished.
I have a younger sister named Roberta, she almost always
wore pink ballet shoes anywhere. My mother Roberta will take the place of the
woman, and my father would take me to the place of men, perhaps as this is
supposed to be the rule of life, I and my father, and mother Roberta. Woman.
Man. Mama. Papa.
One morning in the spring, I wear a full baseball uniform
with gloves by hand, in the kitchen is already warm. My mother is a beautiful
woman, but that morning he did not look pretty, she sat smoking. Chaotic state
of the kitchen with the smell of burnt toast and thought mother upset for
failing to make breakfast. I took cereal, and my mother asked my games hour. He
said he would take me, I asked why not the father who drove me, my mother told
my father taka da here, he did not answer where the real father and when he
returned. I became a mama's boy since that day.
The time I say I see my mother had died. I saw him
standing near the bench, he just looked at me. I tried to lift my body but
excruciating pain, and I again fell until I looked up. He was gone.
This is crazy. Maybe people say it simply: Hallucinations, fantasies, or
whatever it is. But the fact of her I saw her. I'm hurt, and I had twice failed
suicide. I headed for my house, determined to finish it all.
Mom
and Dad Meet
When I was 5 years old and still in kindergarten my
mother always took me. My mother always optimistic to me. She met my father in
Lake Pepperville in the spring of 1994. The capital was swimming, and he was
throwing the ball with his friends. They got engaged a period of rapid,
intense, my father started something with the aim of completing it. Leonard my
father's name and called len, my mother called Pauine, but all called posey. My
mother is French Protestant, Catholic and my father Italian, and I was baptized
Catholic. My father loved baseball, but my mother did not care about baseball.
Chick
returned to her former home.
After the accident I went back to my house, up the stairs
and open the door. But the atmosphere inside, slightly damp, and the smell of
the carpet, I kept walking into the house and the kitchen served several meals there
as well as a fridge full of groceries. Cupboard filled with spices food. I'm
sure that this is really real, I took then laid it, then heard a voice calling
me, I knew it was my mother's voice.
The tones are changed
My mom likes this song could be the start of something
big songs in the 50's. My mother when I heard it was always dancing. At that
time the father was still lurking among us. Mother patted the shoulders of my
father but he did not turn around, and the mother came over and danced with me,
I'm laughing. Mom always play that song every night, but when my father left,
she could no longer do so. I understand, she did not want to remember how
"some big thing" that has been destroyed.
The
meeting in the house.
Our round the kitchen table and made of oak. In the
table, there are carving the name CHAR and ROBER unfinished when we made it
with a knife when she left. When suddenly my mother came and saw the
engravings, we scolded if the deed has been ruined oak table, the mother said
that playing blades can injure us. Now I sit in the same place, I'm confused Is
not the mother has died?. This is like a dream, the mother in front of me
watching me, care for me, treating my wounds.
A
new beginning
My parents divorced. Dad will not stay in this house again.
He took his stuff. Roberta was crying and felt that this was his fault because
he had been a naughty child. I feel an obligation to be a man. At that time my
father and mother fight, but I never imagined a result like this. Now I, my
mother and my sister will start a "new beginning" and "the new
project"
Eating
together
I remember the last time I ate normally. There my mother
cook something for me, it feels familiar and good. Still the same as in the
past
Chick
families after divorce
After the breakup of my parents, we try to act casual.
People are now more concerned about my brother and me. But not with my mother.
Since that time the separation is a scandal, and usually one of the parties
will be blamed, and now my mother's fault. For women, my mother was a threat,
but for men, he is the chance
Travel
My mother reassure his white
jacket. He has spent his last years become a makeup artist old woman. We
exchanged stories, and he said that he was very fond.
Rose
we walked around this neighborhood. Now I started receiving these oddities,
and do not want this to be over. We got old in a house, and the owner is an
elderly woman named Rose who walks with supporting equipment. Her home is real
to me, and now my mom and rose chatting.
Children
who feel embarrassed
My mother was washing her hair looks rose, and he looked
very proud. I remember I once abstain from ibukku. I'm not comfortable with,
and I was angry because she was a woman who divorced. I want a mother behave
like other mothers, wearing a hospital gown, baking and everything looks
normal. But she did not and I'm embarrassed to admit it.
Rose
say goodbye
When we came out of the house rose, the sun has been
brighter than before. We said goodbye, and he said he would meet her husband.
Though rose husband had died, I was confused and asked my mother. Mother said
that she was dying and only helped prepare.
Chapter III
(Evening)
Chick and campus
Departure day
to school to college is one of the happiest days of my life. At least so
initially. I get a baseball scholarship, and my mother always told me proudly
friends about his team. I went with mom to my college and he was wearing his
best clothes. My mother was too attentive to me and even embarrassing for
terihat like I was a spoiled child. And I'm annoyed with that.
Noon
My mom and I talked over the
kitchen table, she asked how Catherine. Initially I lie and say that everything
is fine, tap the end I said that I had been divorced, and this is all my fault.
my mother's silence, he said that everything can be fixed
When the ghosts back
I often dream
of finding my father. I dreamed he moved to the next town, and one day I was
riding my bike, and I knocked his house and say that this is all just a big
mistake. We went home together, and there she waited with happy tears. It is
amazing brain can fantasize. other children could see his father play baseball
field. but my father's invisible she was just a ghost. My father suddenly
reappears after eight years away, he sat in the audience and has seen growing
older.
Miss Thelma
her next
appointment, was an old lady living in a section of town flats, the woman named
Thelma. Most who live there are poor. He used to be a maid in our house. Now
she was the one who became her makeup stylist.
He wants to
still look beautiful at the age that was old. I wonder since when they look
very familiar. My mother told me that he worked together cleaning houses. And
it turns out the money I used to go to university.
In my second
year at university, I have been playing in tournaments talent search. I met my
father back then. but it turns out after the divorce once the change is very
pronounced.
Chick made a choice
At that time one of the association held a big party,
women and men arrive. There was the first time I met Catherine. I dropped out
of college at the minor league baseball team Pittsburgh Pirates on the advice
of my father. But she was not willing and prolonged disappointed me. I assured
him that would go to college back. But he said that "lived ever you leave
it more difficult than you think".
Things to do
My mother went
on makeup miss Thelma almost to be finished, I never imagined how hard they
both work. And the money from her work to pay for college. I was embarrassed
and felt like being a useless person. But the book told me to do and keep the
family so that you feel useful and will not be forgotten.......
Reached the top
As long as I'm playing baseball I had
suffered an injury and then playing baseball again. During play baseball, I'm
married and have a son named maria. But then, my career as a professional
baseball player ended. I tried to open a business, but I could never succeed.
My father had visited me several times and Catherine. My father to visit my
son.
The second visit ends
My mother saw Thelma miss with a sad look. I asked if he was going to die
too? and she answered "yes, miss Thelma will die". I'm confused why
my mother could know all this. He said that he was merely a form of mind, from
the people who cared for her and wanted to keep her alive. Now I know that my
time with the mother is not a lot.
Chapter
IV ( Night )
Sunlight dims
My skin feels like shards of glass. I will die ? she answered only god
knows. If I die I want to be with my mother again. This last time when I asked
my mother to tell the whole story about his life, from family, his hobby, his
fears, and so forth. I always miss my mother.
The day you'd have my father anymore
Eight years ago, when my son had a birthday party maria,
there diasana I, Catherine, and my mother. I received a phone call and it was
from my father, he offered to return to play in the minor leagues, first I had
refused but eventually I received a job offer. I went and said goodbye to my
mother that I was calling the work is very important and can not be abandoned.
I never say honestly that I would be playing in the minor leagues for the offer
of my father.
Match
I stayed in western-style hotel
before the game. That morning we do a game, I put on my old uniform and shoes,
we played in minor matches to hold a reunion of Old Timers. When I was at the
center of the field with the audience quite a lot. My mother was undergoing an
another incident in Pepperville Beach. Mom fell on the floor of the bathroom,
due to a massive heart attack. At that time my mother was breathing his last
Chick told about the death of his mother
I received a call from my wife. My wife cried when
talking on the phone. He told me that the mother had a heart attack, and maria
were found. My mother died. I was so shocked, it was the words that could
destroy me. He says it happened while and it was when I was playing for Old
Timers Reunion. I go home with a rental car. I lost both my parents on the same
day, which is a shame, the other one because of death.
The third and final visit
My mom and I are now passing through a town that has
never been previously kuliat. Suddenly like a voice calling me, everything
revolves around me, but I guess my mother holding the hand, and rounds it to a
standstill. Now I saw my mother was combing woman seventy years old. There was
no conversation, no greeting. My mother told me that this woman was the wife of
the father.
Everything becomes clear
my mother told me that my father seemed to meet her
during the war, and my father was stationed sector in the Apennine mountains in
Italy in 1944. Perhaps the woman, when it was to provide security for my dad
increasingly chaotic state of war, many soldiers are killed. Though my mother
said my father left shortly before the war he had proposed to her in advance.
When the war will end, it turns out the woman's father left, so my mother said.
My mother knows it all when my father was acting strange and suspicious. And it
is true, once the woman had been brought to the United States and placed in a
house. There aah seen having dinner with a woman is like a normal family. Even
from the marriage with the woman he has had a boy two years older than me. I
was so shocked as did my mother, who has known this for a long time. Then
divorce it was decided, as a man when it did not deserve to have two wives. Now
everything is clear, it turns out my mother had asked my father to go when the
incident corn cereal that made her angry.
There are so many regrets in my life, my mother said that
the mother and the woman were both hurt and wanted the same thing. My life has
been messed up this time my wife left me, and my son was ashamed of his own
father.
Chick finish the story
Last conversation before I knew it, my mother told me to
forgive myself. It turned out that I now lay helpless still in a state of
deplorable on the baseball field, when I hit and knocked unconscious. There's
people trying to hit me.
The latter in mind chick
I have forgotten so many things in my life, but I
remember every moment with my mother. When she taught me, when he advised me,
when he was defense.
And after the collision incident that I was hospitalized
for two days. I believe when it was my mother who saved my life.
Epilogue
Charles "Chick" Benneto
later died five years after the accident incident. Simple funeral was attended
by his ex-wife, his little friend in Pepperville Beach.
I traced every fact and remarks he had said, and turned
out all right, there had been an accident, a woman named Rose and many more.
Maybe he really get one more day with his mother. And one day passed with
someone you loved could change everything.
I called Mary Lang.
Previously named Maria Benneto.
Chick Benneto is my father.
Overall Report
Charles "Chick" Benneto and his sister Roberta
is a victim of his parents' divorce. Began when her mother died, she lost
direction, becoming an alcoholic, even his family was messed up. He had an
accident that made him dreaming, hallucinating meet her mother. Truth and
regret in his life came to Charles after his mother died. Everything changed
just by seeing her mother who had died, although he had tried to commit
suicide, but after the accident he lives his life as normal.
Personal Opinion
This novel is very instructive meaning of the values of
life. how important a mother. Divorce brings disrepute to the child
psychologically. Overall the novel is quite nice, but a lot of parts that have
a boring storyline. If the novel is written illustrations of Charles and his
mother will make this novel more interesting.
This
novel may be quite difficult to understand the story by a novice reader,
perhaps because of different cultures with the Indonesian people