APPENDIX
SUMMARY
The House at The Briar Lake, begins with Hannah’s parent. Laurence is betrayed
by her husband named Rick. He embezzled money in his wife’s school that makes
Laurence loses her job and her teacher license. Finally they divorcee and Rick run
away. Of course Laurence has to take the responsible for the losing money.
During the investigation, Hannah and Laurence move often because they do not
have money anymore. Hannah also has to leave her school and loses her friends.
This situation causes deep depress for Hannah.
In the summer, Laurence’s friend named Bertie offers the house around the Briar Lake. She accepts and hopes that this summer is the happy summer for her
daughter after all the unpleasant moment. She wants her daughter makes friends
again there and can forget the memory about her father. However, during the
summer Hannah still keeps silent, she doesn’t interest to talk with her mother. She
always expresses her sullen face, but when her mother asks about her feeling, she
doesn’t like to share with her mother. In the Briar Lake, there is a lot of animal
such as dog, a goat, birds, and iguana. Common children like to play with the
animal, but Hannah doesn’t like to play with the animal, even she always does
something apathetically.
Her characteristics are different when she still in Minneapolis, her city. She has
father. She feels trauma with her father’s bad attitude, but when she have friend,
she can cheers herself by playing with her friends. She feels upset when she
knows that her father runs away. This case increases her trauma about her father.
One day, a man named Michael comes. He is Bertie’s nephew. He comes
to run his law practice there. He stays in the same house with Hannah and her
mother during her office was built. Initially, Hannah doesn’t like him. Actually she doesn’t like man because she will remember about her father’s anger. A long
with the time, she likes Michael because he is a kind man. He cares of Hannah
and her mother. Hannah becomes dreaming Michael to be her new father.
In Briar Lake, she doesn’t have friend. She feels lonely, that is one of the reasons why she doesn’t like to play with her pet and always made gloomy face.
She fears to make friend because she have ever get taunts from the children there
when she tries to get along. And even when she gets the friend request from a
child, she still doubts with herself, can she make friend? Her desire to have
someone both father and friend makes her characteristics changes.
In the end of the story, Hannah achieves her dream to have Michael
becomes her father. She also can trust child who have ever taunted her when she
gives apologies. Finally her self-doubt whether she can make friend or not can be
