the secret garden

Step 1: Read it.

obtain a pair of scissors and a glue stick.

open the book to a random page.

cut that page out. throw it away, you don't need it getting in the way.

close the book.

repeat the above three steps until there are a manageable number of pages remaining. (how many this is kind of depends on the format of your copy of 'the secret garden', and also kind of on how big your glue stick is.)

cut all of them out together.

use the glue stick to fix them onto a piece of 8.5 by 11 inch piece of typing paper. if the pages from 'the secret garden' won't all fit on that piece of typing paper, it's ok to use another one, but try not to go over two pages of typing paper.

write your name in the top right hand corner of the summary.

i suggest not putting your summary in one of those plastic folders. the glue might stick the folder shut, and teachers hate those folders anyway.

How can I summarize this navel?
[Insert picture of sexy midriff]

What they said. Or look at a plot synopsis on the web, tho this will totally miss all the nuances. Watch the movie but this may be WRONG. Last resort, CHEAT. Oh this is what you are doing already you fraud.

Also I strongly suspect your e-mail doesn't begin with "www.". Although I suppose it could.

A group of tightly-knit Classics majors accidentally kill a farmer while holding a Bacchanal in rural Vermont. The repercussions of this act drives the group apart and reveals their deepest, darkest, most incestual secrets!

Oi, no helping Jocelyn. Children have to learn for themselves.

Set against the background of the opening of China in the nineteenth century by the European powers, this book explodes the myth of Western ideas of supperiority and insulaity that imperialism spreads. For many, the vivid metaphors of sado-masochism are difficult to stomach, but the juxtaposition of the depravity and exploitation with the decadence of nineteenth century French high society is perfectly pitched.

It begins when a young boy called Tom has to stay with his uncle and aunt when his brother gets measles. Bored and lonely, he eventually finds what seems to be the ideal escape. Every night, after the clock strikes thirteen, he finds he can travel back to a splendid Victorian garden just by walking out of the back door. He meets Hatty, an orphan and they become friends.

She tells him about a secret semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields where the people feed off the sun, like plants. In this world the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses and the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism.

Hattie's mother cannot rest until her family history is wiped clean of the guilt of a killing in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia, in the heart of the American South, in the early morning hours of 2nd May 1981. Was it murder or self-defence?

Then DI John Rebus discovers this secret world. He is on the trail of a WWII war criminal - until the running battle between two rival gangs on the city streets arrives at his door. When his daughter is the victim of a hit-and-run Rebus is forced to acknowledge that there is nothing he wouldn't do to bring down the prime suspect - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.

All their seemingly unconnected stories intertwine and everybody learns an important lesson - that you shouldn't put tinfoil in a microwave.

Hope this helps!

It's sort of appealing though that second question....can you show me how? Got about 10 hours?