5.The Graveyard They left his house and began to walk along the road to the hill.
When they arrived, they walked slowly through the graveyard. At the top of the hill, they looked down at the fields below. They could see a lot of lorries, and a lot of men were working there, building the new town. Already there were hundreds and hundreds of new houses in the field. The village is changing very fast, he said. Soon there are going to be thousands and thousands of new houses. What will happen to our village then? Once it was a quiet place and the people were friendly. But soon there will be a lot of new people and busy, noisy roads. I don't want to live in a place like that." Can't you do anything? Can't you stop them?' asked Karen. Me? No. What can I do? Nothing. I'm an old man, and nobody listens to me.' They walked on through the graveyard, and Kee said, My grandfather is here in this graveyard. He was my mother's father. I remember the day when he died. I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground, and we put his body in the grave. It was raining. I was twelve years old. My mother and father were with me, and they were crying too.'