Jom Membaca – The Road To Nab End

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another synopsis buku yg iols baca

rasanya entry ni pendek jugak lah

sebab iols tak reti dan tetiba blur nak buat cam selalu tu
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buku pilihan - the road to nab end

nab end – nama tempat kat england sana nun…

nak tau lebih tepat – sila gugel ye

ekekekeke

kisah zaman kanak2 penulis – william woodruff

dah pun meninggal dunia dua tahun yg lepas

buku ni pernah diterbitkan sebelum ni

pada tahun 1993 di bawah tajuk ‘billy boy’

tho heols ni namanya william

tapi his families – relatives and everybody called him billy

sute gak lah kan – sokmo william jadik willie or will aje…

born in blackburn pada 12 september 1916

dan meninggal dunia di gainesville, florida pada 23 september 2008

era kanak2 pada zaman dulu tu

tak lah secanggih sekarang ye

nak plak masa tu perang dunia pertama kan….

dengan zaman kemelesetan ekonomi

strike pun ada jugak – sampai lah ke tahap kebuluran

jadik amat susah ye hidup waktu tu

education pun tak lah dititik beratkan sangat

even billy pun – his parents pun tak ambik berat pasal pelajaran

billy ni ada dua orang kakak dan seorang abang

so heols ni anak bongsu lah kan…

eldest sister jenny – lahir kat fall river – amerika

brenda second sister – lahir kat blackburn, endland

begitu jugak dengan dan – his brother dan jugak billy

brenda ni seorang kakak yg agak pandai jugaklah

tapi disebabkan kemiskinan – sheols terpaksa berenti sekolah

dan kerja di kilang cotton / kapas

earlier – his parents migrate ke US dengan family ayah depa ni lah

duduk menetap kat fall river

masa duduk kat sana – kira depa ni hidup senang jugak lah

when his parents decided nak balik ke blackburn

nenek si will – grandmother selma ni bising jugak lah

ye lah – kat fall river ni depa hidup senang

kalo balik ke blackburn mesti lah hidup susah

the reason depa migrate ke US dulu pun

sebab nak lari dari kemiskinan dan hidup susah semua tu

true to his grandmother word – bila his parents sampai ke england

depa ni hidup susah – duduk macam setinggan gitu…

his father then join askar – tinggal lah his wife dan anak2 kat blackburn

and after that worked as weaver at cotton mill

part paling best – all his life masa si billy ni membesar

he thought that he was born at home macam kanak2 yg lain

"i'd always believed that i had been born in our cottage in griffin street,

until i discovered that i was born prematurely across the street

in the carding-room of hornby's cotton mill.

day long, mother cleaned cotton there.

several days earlier she had received a telegram

saying that my father had been killed in france

in the great war and that the war office regretted it.

on the morning of my birth she had fainted before one of the cotton grinders

when a second telegram arrived saying that

the first had all been a mistake and that my father was alive."

and two days later - his mother was back at work

mak heols ni tak de pantang2 bagai ye

cukup takat rehat dua hari kekdahnya

lepas tu sambung keja

tak keja – kebuluran lah depa anak-beranak

the one and only holiday yg heols dapat masa heols berumur 10 tahun

with his mother – depa ke blackpool

he never wonders where they get the money to do so

only where she disappears to with strange men in the afternoons

before taking him to the funfair, pockets jingling an hour or two later

masa heols bersekolah – heols keja jugak lah

untuk membantu keluarga heols ni

before and after school – heols buat keja delivery suratkhabar

then at the age of 14 – heols dah tak sekolah dah

tapi buat keja lain plak – keja kat kedai runcit jadik tukang hantar barang

or grocer’s lad they called him…

masa ni – both his sister dah berkahwin

dan keluarga depa ni pun dah berpindah ke rumah yg lebih selesa

dari rumah setinggan tu – depa duduk menetap di livingstone road

tapi sebab rumah ni besar – the kids have their own room

and also ada bilik mandi dan dapur bagai

maka sewa pun mahal lah….

tu yg billy ke jugak membantu his family with his income as grocer’s lad

so – when he lost his job – makin susah lah hidup depa ni

and finally depa terpaksa jugak pindah dari rumah kat livingstone road

kali ni duduk kat nab end – but the condition was worse than griffin street

masa kat griffin street – billy shared room with dan  - his brother

and jenny and brenda in another room

his parents also have their own room

kat nab end – hanya ada satu bilik and all six of them

billy, his parents – his sisters and their spouse

kena share satu bilik – sesak tak hengat kekdahnya…

and they have no privacy at all….

dah le tu – suasana keliling kotor sangat2

bukan aje dalam rumah sesak

luar rumah pun sama gak sesak tak hengat donia

kotor – crowded – bising dari pagi sampai kemalam

depa jadik depressed kekdahnya

later on – billy dapat keja jadik junior labourer at brick works

thos tu keja sementara – he was happy with it

walopon keja tu amat memenatkan -

lama jugak lah heols keja kat brick works tu

and then later on – heols tinggalkan lancanshire

and move to London untuk carik kerja yg lebih baik at the age on 16

hoccay – citer ni sampai kat situ aje ye

sebab dalam buku pun sampai situ aje

harus lah nak ken abaca buku sambungan

beyond nab end

nak kena carik kat library lah kekdahnya

cerita ni best banget ye

kalo uols baca bukunya – kena baca dua-tiga kali

sebab perkataan yg di gunakan tu

perkataan lama – zaman blom ada dictionary

nak plak loghat omputeh yg pekat

so ejaan agak memeyongkan kepala bila baca

contoh ayat2 dalam buku iteww :

“tha’s go a calf’” i shouted, disregarding his ugly look

“oh, ah’av, ’av ah?

“tha ’as.”

“where?”

“down t’ bank. he woke us up.”

“tha’s woke me up. cudn’t ta ‘ve cum’  n told me after cockcrow?”

“we thowt tha’d want te know.”

“ya did, did ya?”

“ai, besides, we’re goin; ‘oom.”

“well, that’s summat,” said the farmer as he slammed down the window.

another one :

the shouting match ended with father bawling :

“goddamit, go ‘n join t’ army if tha must,

but stay theer. ah’ve ‘ad enough of thee”

last one sebelum iols tamatkan entry ni

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we all held our breath.

surely, he couldn’t say no to all that.

but he did

“tha off thi ’ead, woman” he shouted.

“how can we afford to live with toffs? we’re ‘and to mouth as ‘tis”

“that’s wat ye’re wrang,” she sobbeb, hiding her face in her hands.

“that’s  wat ye’re wrang. don’t you understand?

we ‘ve got to do summat of we’re goin’ te dee in this dirt.”

“aw reet,” he answered with a nod.

“aw reet, provided tha’ll promise no more shocks

and no more fancy house. a promise, mind?”

hoccay itu aje

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salam and adios

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