Harriet The Spy,, Chapter 6

This chapter is about Harriet, Ole Golly and Mr. George Waldenstein ate dinner, went to watch a movie together. Mr. Waldenstein talked with Harriet a lot about his life and after she became to know him more, she thought that he is a good man. During they watching the movie, Harriet was distinguish that Ole Golly and George always look at each other and have no attention to the movie at all. After they went back home after the movie was finish which was already 12:00pm, they found that the door and the light of the house was open. Then, Mrs. Welsch came out from the door and yell at Ole Golly. Ole Golly tried to explain the thing that was happen to her but she just did not listen to anyone and called Ole Golly to get into the house. After that Mr. Welsch also came out of the house and get Harriet into the house he also asked Mr. Waldenstein to come into the house. Mrs. Welsch was very angry about the thing that was happen and fired Ole Golly. Later, Mr. Waldenstein introduced himself and explain about everything that was happen that night, he said that he already asked Ole Golly to marry him and she will leave this house. The next day, Ole Golly was ready to move out and Harriet sent her to the front door, they both cry and then Ole Golly was gone.

The part in the story that explain about how mad Mrs. Welsch was when she found out that they want out and came home very late that night reminds me of what always happen to me and my sister when we went outside and came back late. Our parents was very strict about the time that we had to get home. They said that we could not get back home later than 8:00pm accept there is some accident or emergency. If we came back late, my father would get very angry. He will speak loudly which is very scary then we could not do anything. We could not explain anything because he would not listen to it. I could understand how was Harriet feels when she was at home that night. So every time my sister and I go outside, we try to come back as fast as we could or at least before they come back.

During I read this chapter I used some of the reading strategies to help me increase my understanding of this story. For example, When text becomes difficult, I read aloud to help me understand what I am reading. I think about what I know to help me understand what I read. I also try to picture in my mind what I have just read to help me remember what I read. When I read about the part that Mr. Waldenstein took Ole Golly and Harriet to the movie. I tried to picture what it's look like, and I know from the beginning of this chapter that Mr. Waldenstein is Ole Golly's boyfriend so I could understand the story better.