Theme

The theme of this novel is adventure and friendship.

Main characters

• Pat
• Tessa
• David
• Faith
• Miss twisley

Story summary (plot)

This novel narrates the adventure of two children who tried to free their friends, the twins, from being kidnapped by some people who wanted a valuable ruby ​​that belonged to them. Unfortunately, one of the kidnappers was his own governess. The four had had a great adventure before they could break free and send the kidnappers to jail.

At first, Pat and Tessa read a newspaper that said that the sinister ruby ​​that first belonged to a powerful Indian ruler and then gave it to an Englishman, the elder Ellis Gathergood, was now owned by the 12-year-old twins, Faith. and David Gathergood. Pat and Tessa had met the twins last year. Then they wrote them a letter, they wanted the twins to show the ruby.

He received no response to Tessa’s letter for some time. Then, on the third day of summer vacation, a letter arrived addressed to Tessa from Faith saying that it was true that they got the ruby, but that they had not seen it.

Pat and Tessa didn’t hear anything else for a whole week, and then another letter came out saying things weren’t very good, the twins were in the car and going to Bringking Hill, at least that’s what they heard. They threw that letter out of the car in the hope that someone would find it and send it.

Tessa sensed something was up, so they searched her dad’s garage and hotel book to see if Bringking Hill was mentioned. Bringking Hill was not mentioned, but apparently there was a town called Brinkin, they assumed Brinkin is the Bringking Hill Faith wrote about and that they would go there to see the twins.

At Brinkin Hill they found a 10 foot high wall, they searched for the door but it was closed, so they climbed the wall by shins to the nearby tree. They saw a large house with towers at each end. They saw a window, on the second floor, without the curtains drawn and they saw movement behind the window. Then a face appeared, but what kind of face were too far away to see.

Soon they were both on the wall and on the floor. They stood behind a bush from which they could see the second-story window that had no drawn curtains. Pat threw a stone at the window to see if the twins were there. In fact, there the twins threw the key to the garden gate at Pat so Pat and Tessa could enter.

They entered the house at night when everyone was asleep. When they were in the kitchen, Pat fell on a cat, got down and hit the back of a woman’s chair, making her get up so that the woman would yell at everyone in that house to grab him. Pat was getting caught, but Tessa was hiding behind the curtain in that kitchen.

Three men led Pat into the room where the twins were. After that, they went to the kitchen and asked the woman – she was the twins’ governess, about Pat but didn’t know him, and then Tessa overheard their conversation, realized that Faith and David had been kidnapped and their rescue was the strange ruby.

After everyone left the kitchen and went to bed again, Tessa went to the second floor and looked for the twins’ and Pat’s room. The key was on the outer side of the door so that he could open the door and escape.

They went to the island near the lake down the hill in a boat for the rest of the night. When they reached the island, it rained and it was going to be a terrible storm, so they took refuge in a strange little temple with its silent figures on that island. In the morning, after the big storm, they looked for the boat but it was gone.

It was impossible to swim on the lake, so they waited on the island. Until one day, two of the kidnappers arrived on that island in a boat looking for Rinji; the other kidnapper, they thought he was there. The children immediately hid in the tree, then ran to the boat while the men were not seeing them. They crossed the lake in that boat and left the men on that island.

The children then searched the road, saw telegraph poles, and followed the cables. Then they put a rural policeman, slowly riding a bicycle. They asked that policeman for help, and then the children and the policeman took an elevator and headed to the headquarters in Wareton. There the children recounted everything that had happened and then the inspector gave instructions to arrest the kidnappers on the island and Miss Twisley, the false governess, in Brinkin Towers.

The strange ruby ​​had been found and for the first time David and Faith saw their great treasure. He put it in a cotton box, a deep red ruby ​​with a strange glowing heart. The four children looked at him. Then Faith told the ruby ​​that they were going to sell it and used the money to make good and worthwhile things.

Setting (time and place) and atmosphere (dominant emotion that permeates the story)

Setting: One summer (schedule)

Swanage & Brinkin Hill (location)

· Environment: there is tension in the environment of the story.

5. Tone (the author’s attitudes towards his topic and / or towards readers)

The tone of this story is lively because there were some adventures that the children had but above all the tone is silent since the adventures were in the hill and the lake that away from the crowd and throughout the story they hid from the kidnappers.

Copyright (c) Ahmad Alim Aziz