WHO
IS KIT KITTREDGE?
Margaret
Mildred Kittredge or usually called Kit Kittredge. She’s an American girl.
She’s an ambitious one. She wanna be a reporter. She loves and spends almost
her time to write articles by her old
typewriter
on the tree house in front of her house. Although her first article has refused
by Mr. Gibson Peabody as a newspaper’s editor of ‘The Cincinnati Register’
to be published nor her next articles neither, she never gives up and tries to
write and write continuously.
ALL
WILL EXCHANGE
Kit’s
father, Jack Kittredge works in his car dealership. Her mother, Margaret
Kittredge is a kind housewife. And Grace is a good girl dog which brought to
home from pathway. Kit’s family live happily
until the bank takes his father car dealership and her car too. All things will
be exchanging. Her father decides to go to
Chicago to finding job. For a while, her house
receives some boarder to get some money and save the family’s home. They have
to adapt with strangers people. They’re Miss May Dooley (dance instructor), Miss
Lucinda Bond (mobile librarian), Mr. Jefferson Berk (a magician), Mrs. Howard
and her son, Stirling Howard. Then, Kit meet Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos who will work for meals.
SELLING THE EGGS
Sometimes,
it seems difficult to survive without father beside them but Kit and her mother
try to keep their life go on. It’s better than live together with uncle
Hendrick. So, they do not only plant the vegetables, but also sell the eggs
which sent by Aunt Millie continously. At first, Kit minds to do that. She
feels shy as like as her friend and neighbour too, Franches and her young
sister (florence) who must sell eggs before lost their home. She thinks that
selling eggs will bring them to the poorness. But then she remembers that she
can let the problem beat her. So, she never gives up and just goes with the
flow.
AN
EXITING TOUR
Kit
thinks, it will be interesting to investigate the hobo’s life. So, she asks
Will and Countee who live in a hobo
jungle near the river
and railway to bring her to their
environment. Her friends, Stirling and Ruthie join with her too. Will tell them
about his life and how he can be gether with Countee since they have met in
Oklahama, fourteen months before, and tell them what every hobo’s symbols are
mean too. When they arrive in hobo jungle, they are amazing. They are told that
all those people who live there was a succes men and had a happy rich family.
And now, they live together. All for one, and one for all. They divide all what
they have to others.
WILL
IS A THIEF … (?)
One
day, when the Smithens, Ruthie’s family have a vacation trip to Myrtle Beach
for ten days, their house is almost robbed if no one knows and stops him. An
eyewitness thinks that the thief is a hobo and has a tattoo on his right
arm. The sheriff finds evidences, such as a pair print of shoes that
given by Mrs. Kittredge to Will and the big suspecticion as the thief is Will
Shepherd, who worked in Kit’s house with Countee, his friend. Because of his
dissapearing, it makes the thief accusacion to Will become true and stronger.
But, Kit do not believe it and try to resolve the mystery.
MR.
BERK AND THE MONKEY
Mr.
Berk’s brother joins to live with them. His name is Frederich Berk and his
monkey’s is Curtis. Berk brothers strange attitude arouse Kit’s suspicion. When
the brothers go out to somewhere, Kit and Ruthie enter to their room to get
something as evidences and Stirling stay on the treehouse to giving warning to
them when the brothers come. Kit finds the money and jewelry which saved by her
mom into the box before. But she can’t find the box there till the brothers
enter to the room. Fortunately, they have found Stirling’s warning in hobo’s
symbol. So, they are still in savety. Kit asks Ruthie to call the sheriff and
tell what has happened. Then, She hides behind of car seat to follow where the
brothers go.
ALL
IS OVER
Miss
Bond is told by Ruthie that the thief will be finding and Kit have followed
them. Soon, Miss Bond, Ruthie, and Stirling follow them. Frederich digs the
ground where he hid the stolen money. He tries to dig up many times but he doesn’t
find it yet. Miss Bond comes near to Berk brothers alone and tell to them that
their job has known. Kit suspects Miss Bond as one of them. Then, she plans
something with her two friends to disturb their work. Kit changes the direction
of hobo’s symbol which only can be read by hobos. Although the brothers and
Miss Bond lost the children trails they have
found in one of hobo’s tent in environment. All hobos help the children and
hand the brothers and Miss Bond over to the sheriff. It reminds Will to ‘Robin
Hood story’ who steal from the rich to give to the poor. But they aren’t. They
have stolen from the rich and the poor and keep it for themselves.
A
GREAT THANKSGIVING’S DAY
After
that day, Kit, her mother, and all people who live in that house fell better except
Mr. Berk and gether to celebrate thanksgiving’s day with uncle Hendrick. The
hobos come to celebrate it with them and are allowed. But uncle Hendrick
doesn’t. Kit’s happiness rises since her father comes back to their home. He
decides to stay in Cincinnati ever after and find a new work. Then, Mr. Peabody
comes to Kit’s house and tells that her articles has published. All people
congratulate on it. Finally, Kit’s family live happily with new family.
Thanks…^_^