SUBMITTED BY: Necolyn Gayle Uba SUBMITTED TO: Mrs. Mary Michelle J. Claro

MY HOME READING REPORT TITTLE: A DAYS WAITAUTHOR: ENERST HEMINGWAYPAGES: 88 TO 90SUMMARY: One cold morning Schatz was shivering, his face was white. His father asked that Are you ok Schatz? Schatzsaid Ive got headache. Then Schatz is sitting by the fire he looks like sick his father put his hand on his forehead he knew that Schatz had fever. After his father called a doctor later on the doctor get the temperature of Schatz. His temperature was One Hundred Two. Then the doctor left three kind of medicine. Schatz father read his favorite book of the pirates. Schatz feel he was dying but in the other day Schatz was feeling better.SETTING: At the house of SchatzCHARACTERS: Schatz, the doctor, and father of Schatz.PLOT: He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. Whats the matter, Schatz? father ask Ive got a headache. Schatz said You better go back to bed. Father said No. Im all right. Schatz said, Father said You go to bed. Ill see when Im dressed. But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking like very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When Schatz father put his hand on Schatz forehead he knew that he had a fever. You go up to bed, youre sick. His father said. Im all right. Schatz said. Schatz Father called a doctor. When the doctor came he took the Schatz temperature. What is it? Schatz father asked. The doctor said One Hundred Two. Downstairs the doctor left three kinds of medicines in different colored of capsules with instruction for giving them. One to bring down the fever, another purgative, the third to overcome the acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, the doctor explains. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia. Back to the room I wrote the boys temperature down and made a note of the time to give various capsules. Do you want me to read to you? Schatzs father offers. All right. If you want to, said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. I read aloud from Howard Pyles book of pirates, but I could see he was not following while Schatz father reads. How do you feel, Schatz? he ask to his son. Just the same, so far, Schatz replied. Schatz father sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely. Why dont you try to go to sleep? Ill wake you up for the medicine. Schatz father says. Id rather stay awake. Schatz replied. After a while Schatz say to his father, You dont have to stay in here with me, papa, if it bothers you. Schatz father say It doesnt bother me. I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him prescribed capsules at eleven oclock I went out for a while. It was a bright, cold day the ground had been varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and fell twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice. We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brushed and I killed two as they went out of sight over top of the bank. Some of covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, spring brush, they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five and started back pleased to have found a covey closed to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day. At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone came into the room. You cant come in, he said. You mustnt get what I have. I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I have left him, white-faced, but with the top of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed. I took his temperature what is it? Something like a hundred, I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths. It was a hundred and two, he said. Who said so? The doctor. Youre temperature is all right, I said. Its nothing to worry about. I dont worry, he said, but I can keep from thinking. Dont think, I said. Just take it easy. Im taking it easy, he said and looks straight ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something. Take this water. Do think it will do any good? Of course it will. I sat down and opened the pirate book and commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped. About how long will it be before I die? You arent going to die. Whats the matter of you? Oh yes I am. Heard him say a hundred or two. People dont die with a fever of hundred and two. Thats a silly way to talk. I know they do. At school at France the boys told me you cant live with forty-four degrees. Ive got a hundred and two. He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine oclock in the morning. You poor Schatz, I said. Poor old Schatz. Its like miles and kilometers. You arent going to die. Thats a different thermometer, thirty-seven its normal. On this kind its ninety-eight. Are you sure? Absolutely, I said. Its like miles and kilometers. You know like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car? oh, he said. But his graze at the foot of the bed relayed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things what where of no importance.PROBLEM: Schatz has a fever. SULOTION: When Schatz father called a doctor and Schatz take a medicine.MORAL LESSON: Dont say yes if youre not ok. Tell the truth what youre feeling.