Kathleen Hall by Elaine

 In reading this article I have been learning to combine close  reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of people known as heroes or leaders.

Kathleen Hall by Tom Newham.  School Journal Part 3:3 2001

Kathleen Hall is a name you may not know or may not of have heard about. In the year 1923 she left her small home in New Zealand to help the poor in China. She was a Christian Missionary nurse which meant she helped  injured and sick people. When she arrived in the small town of Song a  family village,  she was known to the villagers as the “barefoot doctor,’because she had no shoes.   It was going well for Kathleen but later in 1937 the Japanese army  invaded China. To take care of the army men who got injured she was asked to cross the Japanese border and secretly steal medical supplies and some how take these back with her without getting caught. Then not long after she had snuck in the medical supplies she was secretly discovered. She was sent  on a ship back to New Zealand but she jumped on another ship and went back to work with the Red Cross in China. She later died, but her courage, strength and faith still continues on and the people of Song family village, who  will never forget what she did for them.

Kathleen Hall  was an advocate and traveled freely to help those in need even though she had to go through dangerous journeys with her life on the line. She was a confident, strong, brave, courageous Christian Missionary nurse. She was hero to the people in the village. Kathleen hall had always wanted to help people that were going through hard times so that was why she had left New Zealand to go to China. Kathleen believed in God and she also believed in helping people in china. When the Japanese came to China she hated war and didn’t want to chose sides but she knew anyways that what really mattered to her was help the people.

Kathleen Hall	Values	Action
	Confident Compassion	Then on the ship back to New Zealand she jumped on another ship and went back to work with the Red Cross in China. She later died but her courage,strength and faith.