2월, 2022의 게시물 표시

The lady with the dog

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  rate: 7.3  I  liked the structure and Chekhov's description of the story. As the author realistically draws the relationship between Anna and Gurov. Unlike the student that detailed Cristian's concept that was rather hard to understand, the lady with the dog was easy to understand as the author Chekhov used the story of love story. 

The Student, By Anton Chekhov (1894)

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  hero journey #12   Return with the Elixir. The final reward after the hero was resurrected, purified, and has returned to the ordinary world.  You have done the difficult work of looking within at the reasons you drank and used.  With the help of mentors, allies, and self-efficacy, you are prepared to return home. When  he crossed the river by the ferry boat and afterward, mounting the hill, looked at his village and towards the west where the cold crimson sunset lay a narrow streak of light, he thought that truth and beauty which had guided human life there in the garden and in the yard of the high priest had continued without interruption to this day and had evidently always been the chief thing in human life and in all earthly life, indeed; and the feeling of youth, health, vigor -- he was only twenty-two -- and the inexpressible sweet expectation of happiness, of unknown mysterious happiness, took possession of him little by little, and life seemed to...

A Sound of Thunder, By Ray Bradbury (1952)

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rating: 6.8 I am not a fiction supporter nor do I like heroic material; however, the sound of thunder had a special setting that differentiates from classical heroic fiction. Although the story itself follows the structure of heroic fiction, the protagonist, Eckel, is depicted as a coward, dastardly, and selfish. As all heroic fiction does Eckel who used to live in his original world enters into a new world by time machine. Travis, a guide to the new world, takes Eckel back to 60million years ago.  Before the adventure to fight off a tyrannosaurus, there was an unbreakable rule which was no other creature could be killed except for the red-spotted creature, tyrannosaurus. During the fight with the monster, Eckel did nothing but run far away to hide into the machine. When he comes back to the present he notices eccentric. Instructions were written in language that is hard to interpret, the air was different and the result of the election changed due to a single butterfly Eckel kille...