How was your holiday? My holiday was not that great bcs I have a lot of homeworks to do and yeah I had to go to tuition along this week and I don't have much time to do homeworks.But I'd tried my best to finish all my task.One of my task that I've finished is,Drama Script for literature novel entitled Dear Mr.Kilmer.I just wanna share my not-so-great work here.hehe.Somehow I feel proud bcs I can finished it and I'm satisfied with that.This task is for our ULBS things and we were devided into groups and my groups got chapter 10 to be present and I'm the one who entrust to make the script for our presentation.So here we go,...
Dear Mr.Kilmer – Chapter 10 (Drama
Script)
SCENE
1
(at Schermer’s house)
[Narrator]
Mr.Schermer handed Richard a copy of
a newspaper .It’s about Mr.Kilmer death.
*flashback from the war* while
Richard is still read the newspaper
Richard: “How could
he died! I could have reply his letter this morning”
“Thank you for the news by the
way.I got to go now.See you later”
[Narrator]
Richard thanked Schermer for the
news and run along the town until he reached his favourite oak tree and climbed
up to the branch.He cries and clutch the unsent letter to his chest
Richard: “I will
never write another poem! Never!”
[Narrator]
Then he walked home and write a poem
about Mr.Kilmer
SCENE
2
(at Schermer’s house)
[Narrator]
Richard sitting with the Schermers
in their little parlour and he read his poem to them.
*Richard read his poem on a piece of
paper*
[Narrator]
Hannah cried quietly and Mr.Schermer
shed a small tears.Richard realised that his poem had made them all think about
Otto.
Mr.Schermer
:
“So what are you going to do with this poem,Richard?”
Richard
: “I
don’t know”
[Narrator]
Richard surprised by the question
Richard
: “I
used to send my best poems to Mr.Kilmer, but…..”
“Maybe I can show it to
Mrs.Hansen.”
Mr.Schermer
: “That
won’t work.It is not enough”
Richard
:
“I don’t understand”
Mr.Schermer
:
“There are many boys from Turtle Lake fighting in this war.Some
have died already.The town is full of family
who feel just the
way you do.They need
to read your poem.Your words would
mean a great deal
and they will feel appreciated.”
Richard
:
“But how can I share this to people?”
Mr.Schermer
:
“The Turtle Lake Weekly might print it,”
Richard
:
“Then everyone could see it! Oh no…”
Mr.Schermer
:
“Isn’t that the idea?”
SCENE
3
(at the newspaper office)
Hannah walked with Richard to the
newspaper office.They found old Mr.Garrison setting type by hand.He was the
newspaper’s owner and its sole employee.
Mr.Garrison
:
“Can I help you?”
*Richard stood in silence,unsure to
begin*
Hannah
:
“He’s written a poem,about Mr.Kilmer.”
“Give it to him,Richard.”
[Narrator]
Richard gently handed his poem to
Mr.Garrison.He was too nervous to stay and see his reaction.
*Hannah and Richard going out from
the newspaper office*
[Narrator]
They headed towards Hannah’s house.
Richard
:
“Maybe he won’t print it.”
Hannah
:
“Don’t you want him to?”
Richard
:
“Hmm..you don’t understand.If my poem reveal on the
newspaper,Pa will see it for
sure.”
Hannah
:
“Maybe he will like it.Who knows?”
Richard
:
“No.You don’t know my Pa.I’m enough of an embarrassment to him
already.If the whole town
sees my poem,it will drive him crazy.”
SCENE
4
[Narrator]
Next few days,Richard walked into
town at dawn so he could be at the newspaper office when it appeared.Then the
first bundle of papers hit the sidewalk,he bought a copy.He shocked after
seeing the front page of the newspaper.
Richard
:
“Oh no!”
[Narrator]
Quickly he turned the page.There it
was,square in the middle: “In Memory of Sergeant Joyce Kilmer” by Richard
Knight.His poem on the newspaper.
Richard
:
“Oh my god! Pa will sure see this.I’m dead.”
*Richard quickly walked to the farm
and joined Pa with his work*
SCENE
5
[Narrator]
Richard said nothing about his poem.After
they finished the works,Pa picked up the day’s mail at the mailbox.Richard feel
so nervous how Pa would react.
Pa
:
“Richie! It says here that your poet friend was killed.Did you know that?”
Richard
:
“Yeah I did”
[Narrator]
Without another word,he quickly
walked up the stairs to his bedroom because he don’t want to see Pa reaction
when he saw his poem on the newspaper.
*Pa shocked*
Pa
:
“Oh my god Richie.”
*Pa appeared in the Richard’s bedroom,holding
the newspaper in his hand*
Pa
:
“Can I have a word with you,Rich?”
*Richard nodded*
**silence for a while**
Pa
:
“I guess I’ve never told you much about my brother,Roland”
Richard
:
“No.You’ve never have,Pa.”
Pa
:
“Well he was a lot like your brother.Had some idea that he had live forever
like nothing would ever get the best of him.He was a fine man.I don’t think a day
goes by when I don’t imagine him working this land alongside you and me.But
then,came ’98 and the war with spain.I was too young to enlist.But Roland was
all heated up about doing his patriotic duty.So he signed up and went.It was
just a short little war.He was the only one to fight in Cuba and he is the only
one who died.He was killed in the Battle of El Carney on July 1.I’ll never
forget what one of the big city papers wrote about that battle,’American
casualties were slight’,it said.Roland was not a slight casualty!”
*Pa started to cry*
[Narrator]
Pa cries and Richard was shocked
Pa
:
“As I watched them lower his coffin in his grave,I kept whispering to myself,’A
world is gone! A world is dead and gone!”
*Pa held out the newspaper page*
Pa
:
“How did you know,Richie? How did you know those words?”
*Richard stay in silence*
[Narrator]
Now,Pa understood why Richard wrote
poems
SCENE
6
(at the living room)
[Narrator]
The war came to an end in
mid-November.The Allies were victorious.Richard picked up a copy of the Sioux
City Newspaper and showed it to Angie and Pa.
*Pa is laughing*
Richard
:
“What’s so funny,Pa?”
Pa
:
“I’m just thinking about poor Gus still training and working out to get ready
for a war that’s over and done! He still got a lot time to training and he’s
going to hate every minute of it!”
*Richard and Angie laughing*
[Narrator]
And so was a danger to Otto.Richard
knew that anti-German feelings would linger for a while in the little town but
they would not last forever.
-THE END-
That's all the best I can do and I hope my teacher will give a higher mark to my group.And the important thing is,I really really hope our drama presentation will gonna be okay.haha.Oh yah I got the character as Richard Knight who is the main character in this novel so I feel a bit nervous.
till we meet again,bye XD