Book Of Records and forgetting also his unusual talent and want to life like a normal boy and life hapifully together with his family.
John is Irish like his both parent, but he hate Irish study at his school and can’t speaking Irish fluently. John is a big enough, bold and freakishly tall for his
young age. His voice has already broken. He is nearly 6 feet tall 183 centimeters. He not seems like a boy in 11 years generally. He is a smart boy,
kindness, honest, friendly, easygoing boy but also he is a lazy boys. He also love cat very much, like his father. Therefore, he choose cat as his pet. With his talent
as a liar detector, John can identifying person who want to lying him. His dream is want put his name in record at Guinness Book Of Record as a liar detector. But,
before he gets his dreams, he must to face a problem in his family. Finally, when his problem is over. He’s forgetting his dream and choose to live normal like a
boy generally with his family.
3.2 Michael Egan.
Michael Egan is John’s father. He’s an Irish man, has a brown eyes. He’s dark, curly hair is messy and his fringe has fallen down over his eyes He love
John and his wife very much. He is temperature person, unneat, and liar. He worked as an electric in Wexford when they are still life in his mother’s cottage in
Gorey. When he work in Wexford, he always back home so lately until midnight in almost every time. He hates his job very much.
Michael Egan is like cat very much like his son, John. but, sometimes when the cat and the kitten make a noise, he killed all of his kitten in the bath. He
holds the bashed kitten by the tail over the bath. He killed all of the kittens with bashes it’s head against the said the said of the bath. Michael is very angry when
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he look John scratching his head. When his son scratching his head, he said John is like a Foolish Man. Therefore, for prevent John to didn’t scratching his head,
Michael buy a hat for John. And the color is red. He also didn’t believe with John’s unusual talent, lying detection. He always said that as a nonsense .
After he lose his job, he can’t find another job for three years and make him be more depression and stress. When he hasn’t a job, he preparing for
entrance exam at Trinity College. According to him, that he shouldn’t have too much trouble passing because last year he sat the Mensa test and passed with
flying colors. When he still live together with his family in Gorey, his mother always
said he is a unuseful person. He always spent his time only with sleep along time, watching television, hearing the radio, always going out of the house until
midnight in almost every day and drunks with his friends without think for looking another job in Gorey. This bad things make his mother angry with him
every day. Michael can’t hold his emotion and make him hit his mother. as quoted below:
“Because she wanted to be hit. I hit her because she nagged me. She know I was about to hit her and still she nagged me. And then she told
me to get out of her house. And I hit her and she knew I would. M.J.Hyland.2006:187”
After that his mother told him to get out of her house. Then, he and his family live in her old sister of Michele’s wife for temporally before Michael find
a new house. Michael seems like not regretfully about that incident. He follow the lottery and he got a high-rise block in Ballymun in Dublin, Irish. Michael bring
also his wife and his son. In Dublin, Michael got a job at the factory. In this factory he wear overalls and solder bits of metal together.
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Michael also back home so lately every day in his new jobs. He can back home until midnight. And he never change his bad character, he always drinks
alcohol with his friends. It makes his family distrust about his works, his son look him go out from another woman room. Not also that, His father gambles and visits
the prostitutes upstairs in their Dublin tower block. It makes His wife very angry and sad. Then, his wife told that Michael must go out of his house, never try to
come back in Dublin and never try to visit them. And he came back to his mother cottage in Gorey. His wife prevent Michael to make communication, come back,
talking and telephone again with her and John especially . After go out of his Dublin tower block in Dublin. He decided to come back
into his mother cottage in Gorey. Because he hasn’t another home again to stay temporally. He told to his mother what really happens with him and his family
and why he is come back to Gorey. His mother received him in her house because Michael can make her sure and always give an appointment to his mother that he
will always to try for looking a new Job when he stay there. And his mother believe it.
When he know that his son bring by his wife into Boys Home, he visit John together with his wife. They also forgetting his problem for John. And then,
he bring John come back with his wife. They want to attend birthday party of John’s cousins Celia and Kay. After the party is over, they decided to back home
to his mother home in Gorey and forgetting all of their problem. Then John can forgetting his dream that he want to put his name in a record at Guinness Book Of
Records and also his unusual talent as a lie detector. Finally they live hapifuly ever after.
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In this story, Michael is an Irish has a Brown eyes. He’s dark, curly hair is messy and his fringe has fallen down over. He love cat very much. He worked as
an electric in Wexford before and said so every night when he got home. When he hasn’t job for three years, most of his time is always spent in bedroom for sleep
along day without think for looking for a new job. But, when he moved,he preparing for the entrance exam at Trinity College, that he shouldn’t have too
much trouble passing because he sat the Mensa test and passed with flying colors before. At least, he has got a scholarship in a metal works factory in Dublin. He
also has high temperament, a liar and lazy but he love his family very much.
3.3 Helen Egan
