About other blogs

I really enjoyed writing in other blogs. It is a very interesting activity because I haven't read any other blog throughout the year. I liked it because I found out that we can all have many different opinions and in some cases we can also have the same point of view.
There are some blogs that are really interesting, but there are also some others that are not very nice, not even interesting.

No Witchcraft for Sale

I really liked this short story. There are many values in this story and they are all important, for example to be thankful, how can you pay someone who has just saved you from losing your sight? There is also one part of the story in which they talk about money, there are many things more important than money (for me is to live completely). Another value is to respect the point of view of each other (Gideon didn't want to show the plant to the doctor). The most important thing that I can appreciate in this story was that Gideon and his family considered themselves different from the Farquars (one will grow up to be a baas, and one will be a servant); in my point of view we are all the same just because of the fact that we are all humans. (We should treat each other for what we are, humans.)

Twelfth Night

I am really enjoying the play of Twelfth Night and also the movie. After reading the act one in the book, I consider that the book is better, because there are some words that change of meaning and there is a really good explanation of that in the book; besides that in the movie sometimes I don't get all the conversations. In the other hand the movie is nice, the acting is really good. My favourite parts of the movie are when Cesario (Viola) met Olivia and she falls in love with him (Viola/Cesario), it was really funny. Twelfth Night has bcome one of my favourite Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare

I think that Shakespeare is a really good writer, even though I don't like some of his works.

He really knew how to make people get interestes in all he wrote, he was able to make the audience feel kind of identified with many of his plays (they laugh in the comedies); I think that is one of the main reasons of why he was so succesfull.

I do believe that he was the author of all his works. Maybe he got inspired with all the things that were around him or hear a story, then adapt it in a way that it was liked by the audience. In my point of view he is still alive (he is inmortal), because we continue reading his works mostly his play of Romeo and Juliet (it is my favorite one).

The Interlopers

I liked this story, it is not the best but it is nice.
I think that the start of the story is nice and it has a good setting.
The part that I liked more of the story is when Ulrich and Georg became friends at last.
I don't understand why there have to happen bad things to make people see there are also good ones. Both of them had been enemies and they don't even had tried to know each other, there is not a concrete reason of why they hate each other.
The ironic part of the story is that when they have just became friends and they think someone is coming to save them, there appear wolves.
I wasn't expecting that but it makes that the end of the story be interesting.

Phenomenal Woman

I think that this poem is one of my favourite ones. I really enjoy reading ot in class.
One of the things I like of this poem is that it talks about all women in general, and we hav to be proud of that. Even though we are all different, we also have similarities.
I also loked the metaphors; I found some of them find of funny, for example:
Then they swarm around me
a hive of honey bees.
When I read this part I remembered one day of my life (I was like 11 years old), my mom and I went to Office Depot and we saw a very pretty woman and my mon told me to see the faces of the men (this is the part I remember most), they all were staring at her and some of them had their mouths opened. Then the woman asked for one of the workers if he could help her and he didn't pay attntion to what she asked him; she got upset and two workers went to see what was happening, then they help her to find I don't remember what. When she left one man was telling other "I don't know what we saw in that woman".
This poem also makes me see many other virtues that women have. For example Maya Angelou didn't give up and now she is a great writer, besides she was a singer.
I am proud of being a woman.

Exile

I really liked this poem; I think I have nver read a poem like this.
I think that this poem is very interesting, because it tells a story and also involves the feelings of the author and her family.
I also liked the images of the poem, it isn't difficult to see them, because it is kind of a strory
(has a plot).
The poem is really nice; the idea of leaving the place where you live is... I don't know how to describe it, but I think that doesn't matter if you go with your family, because they are your home. I thimk it would had been really confusing for Julia to escaoe from her country from one day to the other, leaving most of her things and have memories of what used to be.

Those Winter Sundays

About this poem, I think it is kind of sad, because as time pass it is less common to hear someone saying "thank you". It doesn't matter how isnignificant is the thing someone does for you, it is important to thank.
There are many times in which the people that love you do many things and we don't notice about that. Like in the poem, a father that stands up early to drive out the cold and when the house is warm, he calls his family.
I think that this poem shows the importanc of saying "thank you". It is important to don't lose that value.
What I liked about the poem were the metaphors, specially the one that says: blueblack cold; and aslo the cold splintering, breaking.

The Taxi

I liked this poem because it was easy to read and because of the images.
This poem is really interesting, because it talks about somenone who is leaving and is just seeing how the streets pass through.
In this poem I also found oit that it is very interesting how the author managed to write about someone's feelings while being in a taxi.
When I read the poem I imagined a person who was in a taxi, wondering about many things and wanted to come back. I think it would be frustrating to be in a situation like that, just thinking about coming back or not, and knowing that the time is also running as well as the streets.
I also wondered about where the taxi was going, maybe to the airport.

Allegories

I think that an allegory is a very nice way to show an idea of a feeling that can or cannot be shown in a direct way. An allegory can offer more ideas about a toppic and because of the way it is explained we pay more attention to it, and therefore, we learn more and can remember it like a story and not only as a simple concept. It gives a complete concept of something, for expample love, it can be nice, but ot also can make you suffer. In a way it shows both sides of the coin, like the image for "Justice", it is suppose to be blind (equals for all), but in real life sometimes this doesn't happen. Knowing now what an allegory is, I am sure the next time I see a picture I will look carefully to it, and try to undertsand what the artist is trying to express.

The Masque of the Red Death

In my point of view, this story is interesting; even though I did't like it that much.
It is interesting because I learned what a pun is. In the story it is used with the word masque. This is a very important fact for the story, because the Price Prospero organized a party in the abbey, it was a masquerade, but when the death arrived, it didn't have any mask.

I didn't like this story that much, because I consider there are many descriptions that can be omitted, and I would heve liked that there was a dialogue between the death and the Prince.
The fact that the death arrives to the party and kills everyone just like that, is in my point of view a little bit boring. I like the stories with more suspense.
I also consider it wasn't a good ending.

The Pit and the Pendulum

I think that Edgar Allan Poe is a great writer, but I cannot explain myself how he can write so well, because he had passed through a difficult childhood.
He was buried alive two times; I cannot imagine a think like that happening to me, besides his parents died when he was a child, and his wife died two years after they got married, I think that these are some of the main reasons of why he liked to write horror stories. He knew how to write, and in my opinion he was afraid of what he passed through his life, but he knew how to take advantage of it. (It isn’t brave the one who doesn’t have fear, but the one who knows how to conquer it.)
I liked a lot this story, because it really made me feel anxious, he knew how to manage the ideas of the story. I also liked the description of how the character felt, maybe Poe was comparing his own experience with his story.

Night

How can a person live hating that much other human beings?
I cannot imagine suffering the way Jews suffer during the World War Second.

Night is really a good book, it has many values, and it makes you think about the difference between having a good or a bad life; if you have the chance to do something you just need to do it, and don’t wait until there is no time.
Sometimes people refuse to believe what is real, and begin to be optimistic, this is the easiest way to escape from what you are afraid of, but it is not the best.

Most of the times, this kind ok books make me have many questions, because I don’t know what to think about humans in general. For example books show you the cruelties that were done during the war, but also the strength of the human heart.
Faith is a quality all humans have, but it is the decision of each one of us to use it for good or bad things.

I think that wars are originated because of two things: sometimes humans cannot accept the differences between one and others. Sometimes humans are so puffed up with pride that it is hard to say “I am sorry” or to forgive someone, but we don’t consider this option is one of the worst ones, because life will become full of rancor and it will also be harder to forget.

A Sound of Thunder

What Ray Bradbury likes to do the most is writing, but to become a good writer he had to pass through many things; for example, de didn’t have a nice childhood, he didn’t have the opportunity to go to school, and besides that his firsts works were rejected, but he achieved his goal, he is one of the most recognized writers.
For me, he is not only a good writer ¡, but also a person who not only wished something, he continued trying until he achieved his goal, without forgetting that dreaming can hurt you if you forget to live.

In the story he uses a technique I like a lot, the foreshadowing; it really made me think about the different possibilities for the plot of the story.
The story is very interesting; it has a really nice setting that was one of the things that captured my attention since the very beginning.
The story has an interesting topic and it is that maybe in the future the humans will be able to travel through time.
The theme of the story for me is that the things that you do in the present will have echo for the rest of the eternity.

what is art?

Art for me is a way that human beings have to express what they feel for someone, for something or to simply express and idea (dream).
Art can be expressed in many different ways, for example: with paintings, movements, music, writing, etc.
The facts that contribute a lot in the kind and also the technique of the piece of art a person is doing are: the country you live in, the culture of your country, also the way you are, and the way you think.
Human beings are equal, but at the same time we are all different; because we all have two legs, two eyes, a nose, two arms, etc, but we all have different ideas, feelings, etc. All kinds of art are all equal, but also different.

The Witness for the Prosecution
It is a great story, it is very mysterious.
I liked the end, it was a surprising ending. I wasn’t expecting Leonard to be guilty; I didn’t pay much attention to the most important clue, the fact that Romaine was an actress. Other important part is when Leonard told Mr. Mayherne that she was devoted to him.
A part in which I got confuse is when Janet declares that she heard Miss Emily French talking with someone, who?
I liked the story, but I think it is unjust for Romaine, even though it was like her own decision.

California's Tale
For me it is a very interesting short story, because the setting of these one is quite different to the ones I'm used to read; the way the story begins is also unusual, because it doesn't really have an exposition of events it goes directly to the inciting incidents.
In this story I got a little bit confused, because there is an outsider narrator and he doesn’t know all the information until the end of the story, and in this part I got disappointed, because I didn’t expected Henry’s wife to be dead.
It is a great story and there are some values in it, but in my opinion the most important is about friendship, because Joe, Tom, and Charley had been helping Henry throughout 19 years. Friendship doesn’t spring up of time, it’s from the heart.