Resumo de "chemical Secret"

This story is about John Duncan (forty-five-year-old man). He was ahonest man and he was very poor, too. He and his two children wereliving in the small, miserable flat. The furniture was 20 years old,the wallpaper and carpets were cheap and dirty. He was a windower,because his wife, Rachel, drowned in the storm. When she had beenalive, they used to live in big house in the country, with a largegarden. They had everything that they needed. Then they (John andRachel) had started the boat-building company, but after Rachel died hecouldn't work, so the company had closed and he lost everything. When Mr Duncan got the work in paint factory, they were starting a newlife. He and his children: Christine (sixteen-year-old girl) and Andrew(he was thirteen) moved to the new comfortable, house with a largefield beside it and it was only half a kilometre from the river, sothey bought a boat. Mr Duncan was a very good biologist and in factory all day he hadto test different types of paints. One day he split some of the wasteproducts on his leg and he had to go to the doctor, because in left ared, painful place on his skin. John Duncan worked with Mary Carter (the chemist, who haddiscovered new paint for cars). Once he invited her to a meal in thenew house, but it wasn't a good meeting. Mary came again and John tookthem all (his children, too) out in their new boat. Andrew andChristine had started to like her. In the factory he had to test the waste products on rats. He putit in rats' food or drinking water. Some of them had delivered theirbabies. But little rats born without eyes, ears or with six legs. Johnhad written a report for his boss- David Wilson, who didn't like it,because John asked for new machines to clean up the waste productsbefore they go into the river. But the machines were too expensive, sothey couldn't buy them. Simon was a Christine's boyfriend, who had written a full-pagearticle every week in the local newspaper about the environment. MrDuncan didn't like him, but Mary talked with Christine and with John,so they weren't still enemies. Christine and Simon were married on afine day in June. During this time the seals from the local river had a strangedisease. Seven baby seals found dead and one was born without a tail.John was trying to explain that this disease wasn't because of thewaste products from factory. Mary left the factory and moved toScotland, because she knew that the situation wouldn't be better. When John had gone to see Mary, Christine and Simon arrived to hishouse and taken his boat. They met with their friends- Peter and Susanand the all of them sailed upstream, towards the paint factory. Theyput into the pipe (from the factory) a few paper bags full of cement. Then the back of sail hit Christine hard on the back of the head,so she felt into the water, but Simon saved her. This adventure was infact more dangerous, because Christine was pregnant. Two days latter, the Public Enquiry has begun. Scientists camefrom London to ask questions about the disease that was killing theseals. Mr Duncan had to tell them that the waste products isn'tdangerous (he had to lie, because his boss ordered him that). Then thelawyer told him about Christine's accident and that she drunk a lot ofwater from the river. Mr Duncan remembered those rat babies with sixlegs and he started to be frighten about his daughter's baby, so hetold the whole truth. John Duncan had to move to a small flat, because he lost his joband he couldn't afford the payments on his big house. His daughter wasgoing to have a baby soon, so he bought meny toys and baby-clothes. Buthe didn't give those her, because she didn't want to talk with him.Every morning he rang a hospital, to ask if she was there. When thenurse told him that his daughter is there and the baby is coming, hewent out to the shop with flowers. Then he bought some and went to thehospital.

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