Going Blind

Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

First is the reason why the writer chose the “Going Blind” story by Henry Lawson. The reason is the writer felt interested by the title “Going Blind” and by looking the title he became curious about what is the meaning behind the story. The writer wandering if the story “going blind” is about a person who is blind or in other words about a person with low visual ability.

The second is the story, the story is briefly about a meeting between two strangers in a dining room at a cheap hotel and both of them get introduce themselves. Next the story moved to the conversation about the bushman named Jack Ghunter. The bushman tells about him self and his life experience and what happen to him now and why he became blind. The story continues until the other person felt pity on the bushman and wanted to do something but he could not to. Even he has a problem with the payment. And the story ended with the bushman, the stranger, and Jacob the brother of the bushman Jack Ghunter, sat together and had a drink.

After that the part where the writer thinks is the most interesting part. The most interesting part is all of the story ,because the story tells about the life experience of an old bushman who has so many pain in his life and how did he survived in the time with his situation. Those parts are really interesting and amazing, to see an old bushman has such an experience in his life that the story is emotionally touched the reader.

Finally the writer will analyze the story systematically which contains