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Fire on Mountains by: Paul Nation Chapter 1: Sugeng Loses his Home Indonesia is a beautiful country. It has many islands. It is a hot country. Fire on Mountains -chapter 1 Most people live on the island of Java. Java is a rich island. But too many people live there and life is not easy. His name was Sugeng. `Sugeng’ means ‘happy’ or ‘safe’, but Sugeng’s life was not always happy or safe. There were many people in Sugeng’s family. He had five brothers and four sisters. But one of his sisters died when she was only two months old. One of his brothers died when he fell from a tree. Sugeng’s family lived near a mountain. This was a dangerous place because sometimes fire and rocks came down from the mountain. But the land was good and there was a lot of water. Sugeng was happy on the farm. He had, a lot of work to do, but he liked his work. Because he was small and strong he climbed coconut trees to get the coconuts. He took the cows to the river
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