BR 2-18: The laughing princess

This is the story about a princess. She couldn't laugh. Many people managed to make her smile, but they couldn't. Children had a tool to laugh someone. When they tried to use it, they dropped it and a dog took it. Everyone chased it. The king was hard, so his clothe dirtied. A boy caught the dog and took the tool up. But it was broken. Everyone thought that they couldn't make the princess smile. But she looked at king, she laughed. That's because he was dirty. Everyone was glad. 

Making someone smile is very good. I want to make many laughing all over the world.

[106 words]

Reference

Hunt, Roderick, & Brychta, Alex. (2003). The laughing princess. Oxford: Oxford University Press

The Christmas Tree

This is the novel which depicts the story of Sister Anthony who lives in the monastery called Brush Creek and a German spruce. The main character is a gardener. He sets out a Christmas tree showed at Rockefeller Center in Fifth Avenue. He found a German spruce at the monastery and the story started. But at first, he couldn't get the tree because the tree and Sister Anthony was best friends. It is mysterious. So I want to talk about relationship between the tree and the Sister.

Firstly, I want to talk about Sister Anthony. Her mother died on her birth. After few years then, her father also died. She entered to the asylum at a very young age. After that she entered the monastery. She didn't have any friends and stayed alone in those days. One day she went to the blank space in the forest, and she met a German spruce. She named it Tree.

She didn't regard the tree as plant. Because she was very young in those days, she didn't have a level head. That's why she didn't understand the tree was not human but just tree. So she named the tree. Also she described the tree as "him" when she talked about it.

Finally she decided to give him to the gardener. What made her do so? There was nothing about it. But she surely thought that delighting many people as a Christmas tree was his work. The gardener was scouting about for a Christmas tree every year. He was doing his job very hard, so she would have thought about the real role of him. She thought that it was better for him to finish his life with his best decoration than to keep standing at the same position his whole life. She decided so because there was deep friendship between them.

[308 words]

Reflection on writing IV

Trough Writing IV, I developed a lot of ability. I developed reading ability from Book review post. It took long time to read English sentence, but I learned to read quickly. And I developed Writing ability. I hardly wrote English sentence until then, so I wasn't able to write quickly. But I wrote a lot of English sentence in Writing IV, and I could write more quickly. In addition, I learned many idioms. I could write English with many expressions. And I could revise my wrong grammar. I want to make use of many things I learned in Writing IV.

[100 words]

BR 2-17: Vanishing Cream

This is the story at the wizard's house. Two children, a boy and a girl, go there by the power of magic key.They get there and ask the wizard to take them on as his pupil. He has them do many routine chores. When they clean the shelf, they find a bottle. It has something liquid. Carelessly, the girl drops it on the floor. They touched the liquid which leaked from the bottle, and their bodies vanished. When they were surprised, a thief came into the room. He thought that the room had nobody. When he tried to steal something, children blew him off. They were thanked by the wizard and they went back to real world.

I think that people want to do something bad if they vanish. But they helped the wizard. So they were brave.

 [138 words]

Reference

Hunt, Roderick, & Brychta, Alex. (2003). Vanishing Cream. Oxford: Oxford University Press

The Great Gatsby

This is the novel which depicted the whereabouts of characters with Nick's narration. Daisy, lives in across him, got married with Tom. Nick and Tom are best friends. Gatsby lives next to Nick. Daisy used to date with Gatsby. The story starts by the encounter of Daisy and Gatsby in 5 years. Tom is Daisy's husband, but he has a kept mistress, Merton in New York. Daisy is Tom's wife, but she is attracted by Gatsby whom she met in 5 years. Then I will talk about interpersonal ravel which they triggered and each view of love.

First I talk about Tom and Daisy's marital life. Tom fooled around with Merton, so Daisy was not satisfied with their life. She met Gatsby under the situation, and she would want to escape such life. Therefore she didn't choose Tom but Gatsby. If she got married with Tom by reason of alcohol or Tom's wealth, she could have abandoned realness and retrieve her past feeling. Especially if Gatsby came back with much money, she could. That's why Gatsby could declare that Daisy had not loved Tom. Gatsby felt that Daisy's voice was full of money.

Next I talk about Tom's character. He flirted, but he didn't allow Daisy to do so. Even as he had a wife, he didn't disengage his mistress. Even if Daisy tried to run away, he didn't disengage her. He was a greedy man. Because Gatsby had loved one woman for a long time, he would have thought Tom's character wasn't good. So Gatsby would mightily have thought that Daisy must have been Tom's wife. The reason she got mad during the quarrel of Tom and Gatsby was that Tom's greed and Gatsby's whiteness intersected. Finally, Tom lost his mistress, and Gatsby was shot. Maybe the clash of their temperaments caused the result.

That's how two was led to same cruel result though their points of love were different. They wanted to get their loved one, but I didn't know which thought was right. I thought Nick knew that Tom and Gatsby had a wrong idea. They had the excessive feeling. This novel tells us how difficult loving someone is.

[362 words]

Pigeon

This is the short novel written by Patrick Suskind. He is a German literary man. This is the story about a man. His name is Jonathan. He is past the age of 50. This story has a day of him. It can be divided into three scenes. The reason is that Jonathan is amorous and susceptible, and this novel has depictions of his daily life in detail in this low scene. But I can't declare whether the word "amorous and susceptible" is good sense or not. That's because I wonder if he has autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the depictions come from them. I talk about parts expressing his character in each scene and effects on his life. 


First, I talk about Jonathan. He was taken away with his sister from their parents. Finally he was taken from her too. He got married, but his wife went off with another man. In the result, he lapsed into a distrust of humanity. And the symptom like autism was seen in him. So he decided to live stilly by himself out of humanity. He moved from Charenton to Paris. He went into a bank guards and rend the apartment. He decided to live there quietly.


But the apartment had a problem. The toilet was public. He had to go out his room to go to the toilet. He wanted to avoid publicity as far as he could, so it annoyed him. "Live alone" was not general single life for him. He hoped that he lived alone in the world if he could. He wanted to have a life without connection. He had live there more than 30 years, so he got the ability to go to the toilet with avoiding publicity by pressing his ear to the wall and feeling the air or sound of corridor. His creed that he didn't want to see anyone gave him such ability. One day, he was going to the toilet by using the ability as ever. He inferred that no one was at the corridor. But he encountered a pigeon sitting there at the moment he opened the door. Maybe due to be unexpected for him to meet it by chance at such place, the pigeon's each part was depicted carefully by him. So he went back to his room as hard as he can lick. And he had s feeling of despair. It was not to say he didn't like pigeons. He was had conscious access by the pigeon. The time that he went to the toilet and came back to his room every morning was to appreciate the space for only him without be seen by anyone. But the pigeon perceived the existence of him. And he got confused. His persecution complex was written at great length. It was "You are very chicken. You have to take fright at the existence of the pigeon all your life. You have to die without going out the room." But it was not the persecution complex but whispering of someone in his head for him. Because he had lived with avoiding such hopeless for a long time, he had not experienced persecution complex. So he thought that there was someone in his head.


In addition, the encounter with the pigeon changed his life. That's because he had to live with taking fright at the pigeon hereafter as far as it existed.  Whereat he decided to scout out a cheap inn.


When he went out the apartment to go to work, he encountered the landlord. When he went out and came back, he always met her. At that time they exchanged light greeting each other. But of course, she was frightening for him. Though he didn't want to be perceived by anyone, she certainly perceived him. He felt that her line of sight, greeting and anything ridiculed him.


The story thus far was at the apartment. What he had a heavy persecution complex was known in this part. I thought that he had autism from such air. Also I thought that it is so frightening for him who wasn't used to being perceived by someone to be perceived. And I noticed another character. He didn't say what he wanted to say. The narration had most of things he wanted to say. He hardly uttered for real.


One of them, he talked to the landlord when he saw her. What he wanted to said wasn't written. Because he was mad about her fulsomeness of line of sight and remark, he might have wanted to say about it. But he said only "Please clear off a pigeon."


Next scene was at the bank which he worked at. This scene had nothing to do with the pigeon as if he hadn't seen it. But this scene was the longest of three scenes. The air of him who was working was depicted in detail by Suskind.


As I said first, I regarded his character as amorous and susceptible. He keeping watch on the bank expressed the view and his feeling finely. But in fact, this scene may have depicted the air of him who was not able to get centered on his work.


The reason I thought so was that there was his work to open the gate and pass a limousine which had the president of the bank. But he missed it. Because he felt dizzy when he stared one point of view with keeping guard, he felt nearsighted and presbyopic at that time. When he was getting in a state over, the limousine arrived. Though the limousine honked the horn many times, he didn't notice. He was just getting depressed. I thought he had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder from his air that he had other things on his mind without concentrating on things and neglected his work. I thought which the reason that he depicted his around view vividly came from amorous and susceptible or lack of concentration power.


In addition, this scene also showed the intensity of his paranoia. He had lunch on the bench at lunch break. When he tried to stand up, his pants hooked into the bench and tore. Common people would think the fat was in the fire and let someone repair it. But he had heavy paranoia. He was likely to die in excessive bleeding.


Last scene was at the new inn he found. This scene was very mysterious. The gait he went there was depicted very rhythmical and airy. And when he went to bed, he inadvertently said "I will kill myself tomorrow."


Further information wasn't written for uttering this phrase. He just said it. It didn't have deep meaning? But somehow I felt the phrase was very heavy. The reason he went to the inn with light gait was that he got his mind set on something?


When he was asleep, he was dreaming. It was his memory in his childhood. He was immured the dark basement room. The war was running outside. No one without him was there. He was lonely. He was stricken by heavy fear at that time. He had to live alone from now on. But he would be able to live? He was likely to cry "I can't live without someone!" He couldn't live alone after all even if the phrase was said by infant him in his dream.


He went back to the apartment which had the pigeon finally. But the pigeon wasn't there. And this story was over. Then, he killed himself after that? The opinion whether he died or not is divided.


I connect "he can't live alone" and "the pigeon wasn't there". The reason he went back to the apartment was he would think that he bore the fear of astounding pigeon and lived with it. In other words, he would think that he wasn't alone by accepting the pigeon's existence. But there wasn't the pigeon in the apartment. Because he was alone after all, he would kill himself. That's because he realized that he couldn't live alone. Because he who lived peaceably without being perceived was perceived by a organism, his life was changed perfectly. 

[1354 words]