A Country Boy Quits School
Lao Hsiang
SUMMARY
A Country Boy Quits School "by Lao Hsiang is an endearing social satire. It's about a poor Chinese family that is forced to send their boy to school after an official proclamation, ignoring what a jail term would mean. ... The boy is finally taken out of school.
LEARNING
I have learned that education is very important to us, so we can improve our lives and do better. If we are well
equipped, we could be sufficiently flexible to all the changes around us. What we are becoming in the future is education.
Silk
Allessandro Barricco
SUMMARY
The silk trade was
booming in the 1860's, and Hervé, a merchant travels to Japan to obtain eggs
for silkworm breeding. He negotiates to obtain the eggs with a Japanese baron
and he encounters a young woman who has no Asian eyes. Hervé is captivated from
the moment he sees this woman, and although he is married he comes back to this
woman in Japan three times.because they don't speak the same language they can't address one another,
but they're conducting a secret affair over these meetings.
LEARNING
The very lesson this story has taught me is
when to let go of people you love, even if you love her in your fullest.
Malinche
Laura
Esquivel
SUMMARY
When Malinalli, a leader of the tribe defeated
by the Aztec warriors, first encounters Cortés, she assumes like many that he is her tribe's reincarnated
forefather king. She believes, of course, that her mission is to help Cortés
overthrow the Aztec empire and free his people. The two fall passionately in
love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortés's thirst for
conquest is all too human. He is willing to destroy anyone, even
his own men, even their own love.
LEARNING
Mixed feelings but mostly anger came out from
my heart after reading to this story, it gave me the basis of a cruel and also
a brave and wise characters.
Seven Ages of
Man
William
Shakespeare
SUMMARY
The seven stages are a helpless child, a moaning schoolboy, an emotional lover, a devoted soldier, a wise judge, an old man still in control of his ability, and an extremely elderly man who has returned to a second state of helplessness.
LEARNING
This motivates me to live more and it tells that the life is
not just a life, it`s an experience that you won't change forever, as they say
"You only live ones".
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A Thousand
Splendid Suns
Khalled
Hosseini
SUMMARY
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a gripping tale of two young women, Mariam and Laila, married to the same husband, Rasheed, and their difficult lives together.
LEARNING
All in all, I feel the Afghan unit has taught me lessons I'll be carrying with me for the rest of my life. This is a unit that has had a much deeper impact on me than most other things I hav learned in other classes.
She Walks In Beauty Like the Nights
Lord Byron
SUMMARY
The poem revolves around an unidentified woman. She's really
quite striking, and the speaker compares her with lots of beautiful, but dark,
things like "night" and "starry skies." The second stanza
continues to use the contrast between day and night, to describe her beauty. We
also learn that her face is really "pure" and "sweet."
LEARNING
Beauty takes many forms, including the "tender light" of the glittering characteristics of the woman, the eloquence of her speech and the purity of her love. Her inner beauty improves just her outer beauty and makes her the ideal woman.
The Valley of Amazement
Amy Tan
SUMMARY
The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative story of two women's intertwined destinies and their quest for belonging, traveling from the luxurious parlors of Shanghai courtesans to a remote Chinese village's fog-shrouded mountains.
LEARNING
Usually, there is a lot of moral lesson in our minds on the quote, but two things are for sure, first of all ACCEPT WHAT and WHO WE ARE; and secondly BE TRUE TO YOURSELF, an also for us to ACCEPT and APPRECIAT others.
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
SUMMARY
The story revolves around Coraline's very strange encounters when she and her parents move into an apartment in an old house. Coraline and her parents must be rescued from the evil forces which threaten them
LEARNING
In this novel, the independent themes are home, appreciating what you have and courage. In the novel, Coraline learns that her house, though imperfect, was the one she loves and never will leave. Also, she learns to be strong and depend on herself to fight for those she loves.
Telephone Conversation
Akinwande Oluwole
SUMMARY
It clearly reveals that
two people are talking on the phone and the theme of racial discrimination is
carried out through the dialogue form.
LEARNING
It shows that what they
are meant to read is realistic and free flowing.
The Boy Named Crow
Haruki Murakami
SUMMARY
A fifteen years old boy
who runs away from home to escape an awful oedipal prophecy.
LEARNING
In our life friendship
are very important no matter what happen and problem has come to you, your
friends are always in your side to heal you.
