Summary of 'TONE'

'Tone' is a short story written by a short story writer called 'YZ Chin' it speaks about a young girls whose name is sandy and she a deaf young girl, whose deafness was the result of a car crash. Sandy always hearing aids on her ears. Whenever she is introduced to any person by her friends, she shows her hearing aids as a sign of her inablilty to hear well.

One day she was invited to a party, where she was introduced to a young man whose name was Colin They became friends and both of them grew very much interested in one another. A strong love relationship grew between the two of them that lasted for a long time.

They share a lot of happy moments together, they went to different parties and social occasions and they enjoyed each other company a lot until one day Colin started to get bored of her deafness and he started to make fun of the fact that she always depends on reading people's lips and not finding any problem of going to concerts and enjoying loud music.

On his birthday, she booked two tickets for a concert party to which they went and had a great time. Being a fan of a famous writer, he invited her on her birthday to go and attend a signing party for her favorite writer Emily Barnes. She enjoyed very much seeing her well known writer and she returned home feeling quite satisfied.

One day, they had arranged to have dinner in a nice restaurant when he preferred going to a private show party movie to going out with her. Sandy felt too humiliated because he did not like to go out with her and he preferred seeing his friend's movie who was the director of the film. They decided to break up with each other and she felt that she did not regret it as he turned out to be a truly selfish person.