the sniper

I could empathise in this story and I knew that the real of civil war and it was shocked and sad because in the story there are fighting between the people in same country. More over many people joined in the war even old woman. She was in the place which the fight has occurred, she was maybe hired to find the enemy.  It makes me surprised. Reason why, I thought that only men are the part of war. Also after she told where the sniper was the worse thing happened, the sniper killed old women. I thought he did not have sympathy so that he kill whoever is his enemy. Finally he was fight with a man in one against one. And from the sentence that he did field dressing, I find he was an experienced sniper. This tell there were many fighting on Ireland. At the end of story he beat his enemy but it was his brother. I think that in the real, kind of this things happened because people has their own opinion and they a spread even their relative was in other side.

THE EMPTY HOUSE

The Empty House

by Algernon Blackwood

Character 

Protagonist: Shorthouse and Aunt Julia(She was a mania of psychical research)

Antagonist: Empty house

Mood: bright (because of the moon light),  haunted creepy or spooky (the street was empty and there was no breath of wind.)

SETTING

When: 1950's (because to lit a light she used matches. )

Where: rural because there were only 13 house
plot:

Falling

    Falling

      by Walter Wilson

Detail

Protagonist: A man who is falling

Antagonist: His memories

Conflict: Internal, Man vs Himself (Man vs His memories)

Plot:

Setting:

    I think that setting of this story take place in city and the story is in recent years. First recently there are places to fall in mostly in cities because there are a lot of high building and less in rural places. This is Why I expected that he fell in the city. Secondly When he was thinking about his childhood there is a word "BMX" it started around 40 years ago and he has children so that he might be around 35 years old. This shows that When he was 6 There was BMX.

Theme: A message of this story is "you are living with love even your life is simple."

search for my tongue

SEARCH FOR MT TONGUE

                                  Sujata Bhatt

You ask me what I mean

by saying I have lost my tongue.

I ask you, what would you do

if you had two tongues in your mouth,

and lost the first one, the mother tongue,

and could not really know the other,

the foreign tongue.

You could not use them both together

even if you thought that way.

And if you lived in a place you had to

speak a foreign tongue,

your mother tongue would rot,

rot and die in your mouth

until you had to spit it out.

I thought I spit it out

but overnight while I dream,

 (munay hutoo kay aakhee jeebh aakhee bhasha)

(may thoonky nakhi chay)

(parantoo rattray svupnama mari bhasha pachi aavay chay)

(foolnee jaim mari bhasha nmari jeebh)

(modhama kheelay chay)

(fullnee jaim mari bhasha mari jeebh)

(modhama pakay chay)

 it grows back, a stump of a shoot

grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins,

it ties the other tongue in knots,

the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth,

it pushes the other tongue aside.

Everytime I think I've forgotten,

I think I've lost the mother tongue,

it blossoms out of my mouth.

This poem has 3 parts. first one is that What does the author think about having 2 tongues and her mother tongue. Second part is unique a bit. there are no English in this part. A last part was translated from the worlds above. 

I like this poem because I think author use this style because she wanted to tell that our mother tongue will be never forgotten  even you think you forget or try to lost it. This is why did the author write the original and translate, she wanted to emphasis original. 
Also there is a lot of skills. For example, metaphor on the line 12 and 13 there is "your mother language would rot, rot and die in your mouth. " Usually people use rot for plant. However In this part  it is metaphorical state of tongue. And there is one more skill in these lines. This is why author separate in 2 lines. As you know from the poem above there are 2 "rots" and the sentence separate in between of 
them. Finally I found one more skill it is at the last section of this poem. there are 4 sentences that start with "it" and also grows are used 3 times. These makes rhythm. 

Reading journal - TORRES

chapter 1   [Liverpool's Number 9]

        Chapter 1 is written about how do people feel about him. For example "He is a god. It's what he brings to the team. A different dimension." "I think he's probably the best things since slice bread. Absolutely amazing." As you know the two example above people thing he is terrific football player. The author thing it is because of his attitude. He presents his all abilities which he got. He is young, he had speed, he has everything. He is not only good at football but also he is a charisma that people adore. The fan of Liverpool love Torres so that there are song to cheer him.

His armband proved

he was red

Torres, Torres!!

You'll never walk alone it said

Torres, Torres!!

We brought the lad from sunny spain

He gets the ball, he scores again

Fernando Torres - Liverpool's Number Nine

na-nar

na-nar-nar

Fernando Torres - Liverpool's Number Nine.

25/8 2013

             

My reading profile

      This is my first times to do blog and write reading journal(This is part of school program). I am a beginner english user and I might make a lot of english grammar. I can not read the english book that is written in difficult language. Also I have read only a few English books in my book so that my reading skill is no good. I think this blog will be slow. I will write only 1 or 2 on my contribution. Reason why I can not read as many as native english user.