Synopsis of The Night Visitor

Title : The Night Visitor

Author : Richard MacAndrew and Cathy Lawday

Publisher : Macmillan Heinemann ELT

ISBN : 0 435 27183 0

Synopsis :

                The River Oster has polluted because of the Chemical factories. The river pollution made plants and fish killed. Professor Hamilton, Dr Andrew Scott and Jo work together in the laboratory at Oster Valley University. They try to create a new compound to heal the the river.

                One day, Professor Hamilton as a leader in the laboratory should go to zurich, she leaves Andrew and Jo. Time is running out, the river still polluted. Andrew can’t control himself to work harder and harder. He comes to laboratory at the midnight and he works harder to find new compound without Professor hamilton help. He works more than 30 hours. He feels he works with Professor Hamilton, they both try to make a new compuond for the river. Finally, the success to make a compound. Professor Hamilton ask andrew to go home after that.

                In the same day, the accident happen near the airport. The car crushed a van. The victim was Professor Hamilton.

                The next day, andrew very happy because they made a compound. He said it to Jo, but Jo feel andrew was getting crazy because he said he works with Professor eventhough Jo knows the professor was died.

My Opinion :

                This story is very interesting. Honestly i love this story!

                This story use a simple vocabulary, so i can understand all of the messages in this story. This book use for beginner. As a stundent, this story can make me increase our knowledge about structure. The sentence in the book is not very long but the sentence use a good grammar or method, so it easy to understand. The book use past simple and past continous tense. The book says “Past Simple and past continous Tenses usually used in narration and student must become familiar with it as these continue to extend and develop their reading skill.

                In other hand, this book tell us about “hard word”. As a student we should follow this principe. We should work harder, harder, and harder until we catch our dream.