It would help if you gave a concise but cohesive overview of the text. Use your Critical Reading Tools to chop up the text, digest it and pick out its key points. Now you need to rewrite it as a summary, using your own words.

Use Your Own Words

You must use your own words in your summary, and not repeat keywords or phrases from the text. The best way to avoid that is to go to the thesaurus you keep in your brain and find a synonym for the word. So if the text says “She was thrilled with the outcome”, run that keyword “thrilled” through your internal thesaurus and find words like “pleased”, “delighted”, “overjoyed” etc. 

This one is tricky – because we have to find a synonym for ‘friends’, ‘enemies’, ‘remember‘ and ‘silence‘ – almost the whole quote!