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The girl who could silence the wind

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Call no.
: EF813.6/MED
Author
: Meg Medina
Contributor
: Charlene Bernadette anak David Dunit
Summary
“The girl who could silence the wind” portray a story of a girl named Sonia Ocampo who is the main character of the story. The story set in the small town of Tres Montes, Chile where most of the villagers still hold on to superstitious belief. Thus how Sonia Ocampo was born makes her special to the villagers. Hours before her birth, it was a bad weather. Tres Montes had one of the worst storm and coincidentally right at the moment that Sonia Ocampo slipped to the world, the storm ceased and the weather went from worst to fine. Ever since then, the villager look up to her and she carried the burden as the messenger of God that bring about miracle. But apparently, Sonia know and convinced deep down that the messenger of God that the villager look up to is far from what she really is. The villager would seek for her whenever there are illness in the village but apparently as in most of the cases, coincidentally she did brought about miracle which she herself believe to be a coincident one after another. But of course it was not a successful story for some, and when the healing failed, she get the blame and so does her family. This upset her because but in the same time that she wants to get out of it, she did not want to be selfish. She would locked in herself up in the room and cry and try to convinced her parents, that she is the regular girl, she wanted the normal life, go to school, get an education and really help her family and the village in that way. Desperately wanted to get out of the small serene village, she force herself into a job with the help of her aunt in the city as one of the maid in the rich citizen palace in the city. Joining her on the escape day was his brother. But having to arrived at the city without seeing her brother make her restless as her brother had opted for the illegal way of entering the city. The procedure of landing the job was difficult and candidate have to go through several interview and what more the vacancy is limited. Sonia knew that something is not right and so that was how the story progresses; the hardship she have to faced being a maid far far away from her comfortable little village, an envious housemate, her brother’s girlfriend being secretive about his own brother, her search for her brother, a little bit of romance and up to the resolution. Despite the bad ending for the brother but the story progress well. The setting; of the place and the theme presented in the story or that the author had chose work well. The story is a roller coaster of emotions; there is this suspense side of the story. It was well done because I think that the author successfully capture the emotions of readers. I love a story or book especially if it could stir up the emotion of the reader and this really did and it is simply captivating on its own way. It is also a plus point for me when the author chose an easy to digest vocabulary and the author did well any form of descriptive are well done as well. Spoiler alert: It does have a good ending for Sonia :)