Bloomability 

 Katarina Markovic 

Summarizer

Bloomability

            This week my job was to be a summarizer. When you are a summarizer you have to retell the things that happened in a certain amount of pages that you read. 

            The main character of the book Bloomability is Domenica Santolina Doone, known as Dinnie. She has an older sister Stella, an older brother Crick and a mother and father. They move a lot since her father doesn't have a full time job. Every time they move they have less and less things since their mother always asks them do they really need that. Most of the time Dinnie, Stella, and Crick stay alone with their mother, while their father travels around to different cities looking for a new job. Each town they move into Dinnie’s brother Crick gets in trouble and ends up in jail. None of them had a connection to their mother’s side, they didn't talk to their grandparents nor to their aunt and uncle. One day their grandmother came, she argued with their mother but Dinnie tried to ignore them. One day her uncle and aunt came. Dinnie’s mother had decided that she can get a better education with them in Switzerland. Dinnie described how she felt about that by saying that she was kidnapped, she didn't know them that well and she didn't trust them. They bought her new clothes and everything; her uncle will work in the same school Dinnie will go to. Once they arrived to Switzerland and went to the metro station to travel to Lugano, Dinnie thought about running away since it was a terribly crowded and people were pushing. She thought that it was the perfect opportunity but she didn’t, she went on the train with her uncle and aunt. Once they arrived after hours of travelling her uncle and aunt were very excited and thought that everything was great. For Dinnie it wasn’t like that the view and the school she didn’t like now, but she knew that she would appreciate it later, but one thing was missing. Her family. Once she got settled into her room she put up a sign “Kidnapped! Held against my will!”. Since they were in the part of Switzerland where people spoke Italian, her aunt said that they won’t understand it and that if she wants she needs to put up a sign in Italian.  A couple of nights after they have arrived, Dinnie received two letters from her fathers sisters, Grace and Tillie. Dinnie was very disappointed to see that her parents didn't send her a letter and felt forgotten. Many things in Switzerland kept on reminding her of home, and it made her be even more homesick. One day while Dinnie was walking she met a girl named Lila. They have talked and walked a lot, and soon enough became friends. Dinnie liked hanging out with her since she was really funny and pleasant to be around. Since they had roommates, Lila, Dinnie’s new friend had ended up with a girl called Belen which doesn’t know any English. Lila immediately wanted to change roommates but the Head master (Dinnie’s uncle) didn’t listen to her. He believed that they would end up being best friends, even though Dinnie tried to explain to him that they wouldn’t.