TUGAS CERITA BAHASA INGGRIS PASSIVE VOICE

PETA TUA

The epic started with the scene of three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney and Smiley, getting lost in a dessert after being run out of Boneville, their home country. At a point they got scattered, only to bump, one by one, into diverse creatures from another land. Unaware, they got involved in a resurrection of a kingdom, not merely as spectacles, but as actors who drove the upturning of the whole saga.
Fone Bone befriends (and later falls in love with) Thorn, a 15 years old girl who lives in a hut with her grandmother – known as “Gran’ma Ben”. Prior to meeting Thorn, he also comes across a resourceful, tiny, leaf-like insect called Ted, two (stupid, stupid) rat creatures and a cool red dragon. Phoney Bone, who tends to get into trouble (not that he thinks he’s in one) due to his selfish and bossy behavior, ends up working for Lucius, a heavily built bar-owner, to pay for his food and drinks. Phoney is accompanied at most times by Smiley Bone, the happy-go-lucky one who takes everything cheerfully. They concoct a scam – brained by Phoney, of course – to rig a cow race, which rages whole village folks. I like it that the characters of these three Bone cousins are so diverse they represent all we have in ourselves, actually. Fone is too kind, brave and perfect to stand alone – we all need to be a bit like Phoney (selfish to a certain extend) and a lot like Smiley, for you wouldn’t survive in this world without a healthy sense of humor and a necessary doze of cheerfulness.

The main trigger of the whole adventure is actually an old map, found by Smiley at the dessert, which was thought would lead to Boneville. Thorn eventually sees the map and feels a familiarity to it, since it resembles her dream. Starting at this point, the history of the ‘forgotten’ kingdom and Thorn’s family, whose lines belong to the throne, are gradually revealed. Gran’ma Ben, an elderly woman with incredible strength, turns out to be Queen Rose, who should prepare Thorn for her ‘turning’ – which comes a bit too soon, thanks to the map, the Bones and the conflicts.
The center of the conflicts is “The Hooded One”, whose identity remains mysterious until the first half of the book. She serves a master, whom we see only as word balloons surrounded by random smokes and flying locusts, deep in a mountain cave. They are after the “Star Bearer”, or Phoney Bone, just because he wears a black shirt that bears a star at the front (other than that, Phoney is built exactly like Fone Bone, who wears nothing). Other characters start to appear along the way: Kingdok (the king of the “hairy people” or rat creatures), Rogue-Ja (a giant yellow lion who rules the mountain sides), Bartleby (a very young rat creature who becomes Smiley’s pet and rescues them in crucial moments), and many more. All are involved in the story with their parts in due times, fitting nicely with the pace, making sense of everything. We are taken in a journey from one place to another, all not necessarily tangible, to reach the aim of the lead actors (the Bones want to go home, Thorn and Gran’ma Ben have to set balance to their land so everyone could live without fears and nightmares).

A battle occurs and, in the end, is won by the deserving parties, but not easily. Everyone fights for his or her entitled spots and no insignificant role is played, even by the smallest creatures. Here, a princess is not merely a beautiful, fragile figure who needs rescuing: she gives her all for the sake of her family, her people and her kingdom. A queen is not a passive, mere ruler who orders her subjects around: she personally leads her troops and people to victory. They only appear majestically in dreams and in a very short moment, during an inauguration ceremony.