Adventurer Can Make Dream Come True

Frozen In Time is the nonfiction book I'm reading now. It is written by America irfan writer Mark Kurlansky. The main character is a adventure who always keep curiosity and do something to make dream come true---the inventor of frozen food, Clarence Birdseye. Now, this funny name has been the brand of fast frozen good that we eat everyday. Think about this, if Birdseye didn't invent the frozen food, what will our life be look like? We still need to spend a lot of time on cooking, we can't save meat for a long time or it will go rancid. The adventurer, like him, is a kind of people willing to take risk to gain instead of dreaming. 

The world is fast changing; good thing for Birdseye is that he was born in Brooklyn, a third largest and fast growing city in US at that time. Since the end of 19 century, it was the time of the second industrial revolution, many things are invented; I think this kind of context is a component of success for Birdseye. Society is usually important for human, many people want to be a prominent lawyer or work on Wall Street, but still Birdseye was interested in things his peers doesn't care about just as what he did when he was a kid. He has own dream, keeps it and never change because of someone else. That's the point I admire him.

From the book, I can see how Birdseye was fascinated by science. Although he had to dropped out from college because of the financial problem, he still have passion and joined in the US Biological Survey. As a adventurer, he always keep his innovative spirit alive. He could work on Wall Street, be a lawyer and had a comfortable life in the city during all of his life. But he didn't, he went west where was an undeveloped rims, he went to Labrador where is a frozen land. Birdseye was a colorful character, inventions were just a part of achievements in his all life, as he said, he was a bank director, a president of companies, a fisherman, an author... 

Birdseye has enough courage and curiosity. If ask me, would I do what his did; I will say no. My dream is not to be an inventor and I'm not as intensely interested in science as him, I won't go to place such as Labrador and also I can't leave my family alone. But one thing same is that I will also keep my dream in heart and strive for it.

Vocabulary

Peculiar: strange, unusual.   P1

Admirable: deserving respect and approval.    P4

Astounding: be surprisingly impressive.    P9

Suspicion: doubt about something.    P11

Gripping: firmly holding the attention.    P11

Fixated: pay attention to something obsessively.    P15

Pragmatic: dealing with things realistically in a way that is based on practical experience.    P17

Eradicate: destroy completely.    P22

Insatiable: impossible to satisfy.    P27

Curiosity: want to learn more about something.    P27

Opal dream--a touching movie about love

After read the book Pobby and Dingan, I saw the the movie opal dream which the adaptation film of the book. Similar with the book, it talks about a little girl called Kellyanne, she has two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan. But one day, they died in the claim, and Kellyanne became ill. At the beginning, people don't believe Pobby and Dingan are real, but brother Ashmol did a lot to convince people, at last they became believed or pretended to believe. But one thing especially different with the book is, in the movie the funeral director gave back Ashmol the opal after the cemetery of Pobby and Dingan. In the book, he is indifferent about Pobby and Dingan, only cared about Ashmol's opal, made the funeral for them just because of the opal. And in the film, he was this kind of person at the beginning, but after the cemetery he gave Ashmol the opal back. This gave me an impression of how people change the attitude to Williamson's. He is not the only one who changed attitude but this plot is a typical one. And at the ending of movie, it doesn't tell us if Kellyanne died which can give audience hope especially for people who haven't read the book.

 

The book is really good but I prefer the movie after I saw it. This story is about love so I think it should give more hope. In the film, maybe some people think Kellyanne is dead, some people think she isn't, it's depend on your own feeling, but there's still hope. I feel a bit sad about the ending in the book, Kellyanne, the pure little girl was dead. Another thing I like is that, people in the seems more kind. On the trial day of dad, Mr.Humph would like to be dad's lawyer and helped him, grocery store woman and Kellyanne's teacher gave evidence to the judge, all of these show the change in people's attitude to Williamson's. These makes the film more touching.

 

Book tell the truth about life, but the movie gives us hope and exactly show what we expected.

Blog8 Play--Galileo Galilei

On Friday night, I watched the play Galileo. This is a play written Germany playwright Bertolt Brecht. This play shows the life of Galileo. Galileo is an famous Italian physician, mathematician and astronomer. He improved the telescope and use it to prove the solar system is sun-centered. But at that time this theory is against by the church and most people didn't believe that. So Roman Catholics told Galileo everything supports sun-centered  theory will be forbidden. Because of the touture from the church and people belief, Galileo had to give up claiming the sun-ventured theory. He was arrested in home. At the end, he gave the book which include all of his theory on science and math to his student Andrea Sarti. Andrea made more people know Galileo's theory.

The impressed scenes for me are the ending part of the 4th scene and the beginning part of the 5th scene. At the ending part, Galileo tried to convince the people in church and pope the sun-centered theory is truth. But the pope just fiddled with the crosier and didn't want to listen to what Galileo said at all. The funny and exaggerated action made a lot of audience laugh at that time, it exactly show the characteristic of pope, he is stupid, conservative and he never accepted new theory. But were those people in the church always religious? Although they always told people to obey the bible, but they don't obey at all. Bible was an excuse for them to convince other people. In reality, they drank, dance crazily, they do what a priest shouldn't do, these were showed in the beginning part of the 5th scene. 

This play is really hard for me to understand although I had looked for some information about it before I saw. The language is really hard. I totally can't understand what actors said. Because of this, I think I miss a lot of excellent language of this play. But for the plot, I think it impress me a lot. What I write

Before about religious people usually have same characteristic in other plays. But for this play, there's still something unusual. What do you think about an scientist as a hero? Maybe he should always insists his theory. But in this play, it doesn't happen. Galileo gived up. I think there was nothing wrong with him. Everyone may has thought like that at that moment. If he insists his theory, what will happen with him? He would be punished by the church and then died. He couldn't come up with more theories, he couldn't write his studies in the book and tell the truth to people. I thought he just believed there were more ways to prove his theory, not only death can show he was right.

Although the language is hard to understand, but from the visual aspect, this play is nice. The background of the stage is dark, I can see clearly what actor do, and the light is changed appropriately. The script is really hard to remember, it includes Latin words. And especially for the main character Galileo, he always have very long words to say, but he didn't make mistake on that. And what makes me surprise is that the actress who play in Galileo, she was international student, from Germany. Everyone in this play did well and show us a such great play at last.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht is a famous Germany Marxist poet and playwright. He was born in 10 Feb,1898. He was born in a middle class family, he studied medicine at university of Munich and served in the army hospital during the First World War. He has "anti-war" and "anti-bourgeois" attitude, and reflect his anger to the society by the play and poem. His main famous works include: The Beggar, Life of Galileo,  The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children. He came up with the idea of "epic theatre" and "the alienation effect" which means a kind of audience relationship, he wanted audiences to both engage emotionally in the scene but be able to stand outside and make a judgement. He was a Marxist and against nazi part in the public. Because of the policy, he was force to escape from Nazis. He went to Switzerland, Denmark, American Hollywood and a lot of places. At that time, his works were destroyed in Germany. Although 15 years of exile was hard, this made him get more ideas about people life, and he wrote those in his poetry and play. During that time, he wrote most of his great plays and poetry. In 1949, Brecht returned to Germany and lived in east Berlin.

Galileo Galilei

Galileo was born on 15 Feb, 1564. He was an italian physician, mathematician and astronomer. He improved the telescope and astronomical observation and he supported copernic theory that sun-centered solar system. One of his famous experiment is falling body. According to the biography, it said that Galileo had used two balls with same material but different masses to do the experiment. He dropped the ball from the leaning tower of Pisa. At that time, most of people believe in aristoteles's theory that the object which has larger mass will drop faster than the object with less mass. But after Galileo dropped balls, people found these two balls fall on the ground simultaneously. This experiment changed everyone's thought. Galileo believed in copernic theory, supported the sun-centered solar system. But the church against the copernic theory, so Roman Catholics told Galileo everything supports sun-centered  theory will be forbidden. Galileo ignored this problem for several years, but he believed in science, he published a book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. The church thought this book supports copernic theory and attacked Aristoteles, so finally he was arrested in the house by church. Because of heart disease, he was died 8 Jan,1642. All of Galileo's book about science wasn't forbidden by church anymore until 1853.

In class writing

"The secret of an opal's color lies not in it's substance but in its absences." Opal is precious and beautiful because of its variety colors. I think "opal's color" in this quote means some wonderful things in our life. If we want to find the most wonderful things in our life, we shouldn't just focus on some physical things or substances that are exactly exist in the life, should find more things we can't easily see it, some spiritual, immaterial things. In this book, I think it especially emphasize the "substance" wealth and opal, the "absences" love between people. At the beginning, people don't realize the importance of relationship in this community, many people don't believe in kellyanne and her imaginary friends Pobby and Dingan, they think Dad is ratter and he steal the opal in Old Sid's mine. Everyone just lives in own place and is crazy for opal and wealth or is a bit jealous to person who find opals. Dad doesn't care a lot about his family, always dream that he will find opals and got money. Mom miss her more confortable life in England. When I am reading, I feel everyone is indifferent to each other. This community is in a bad life. But after the missing of Pobby and Dingan, Ashmol makes everyone connect together to find Pobby and Dingan, to help kellyanne. They feel good with helping her and was sad for the lost of Pobby and Dingan at last. That makes people realize there are something else more wonderful in the life, the love and relationship between people. That has ever been the absence, and something people can't touch it. And the relationship between mom, dad, kellyanne and Ashmol is also became touched. Love and close relationship in this community makes everyone feel living in a community full with love, not indifference. This is the secret to find wonderful things in life, care about the love between each other.

Blog 7

Pobby and Dingan is a book I'm reading on English class now. This time, it doesn't include anything about war and national things. It's just a book about children, it's like a fairy tale. This book was written by Ben Rice. The story was happened in Australia, so there are a lot of Australia-English words in the book. So far, I had read 12 chapters. It talks about a little girl Kellyane has two imaginary friend Pobby and Dingan, they are her only friends. Kellyanne's brother Ashmol doesn't believe that they are real, he thinks they don't exist. When Pobby and Dingan lost, Kellyanne got real illness. Ashmol convinced other people in the town to find those two imaginary friends. Finally Ashmol found the Dingan's belly button--an opal and Pobby and Dingan has dead, Kellyanne wanted to use offer that opal to funeral director than bury the Pobby and Dingan and make them a grave.

First of all, I like most of parts of this book. There are not many complicated plots in the book, but for every plots, the writer describe it well, such like the description of the character's thought, conversation and action. An impressive chapter is 9. He was finding Pobby and Dingan, "I tiptoed over to our old caravan and took out a yellow mining helmet from underneath it. I put on the hat and tightened the strap up under my chin./after very five steps I took a breath to make sure I was still alive/I felt like I was in some throat, being swallowed by some monster."(Pobby and Dingan 54). Writter use whole chapter to describe the process of Ashmol finding Pobby and Dingan. There are a lot of details, vivid description. Those words make me easily imagine that scene, likes a movie playing in my mind as I was reading every paragraph. "My heart sank when I heard this./I had reckoned on buying a new house and getting my mum an air ticket for a holiday in England./the most important thing was getting kellyanne well again."(Pobby and Dingan 61) This is a long description of changing of Ashmol's thought, from the begging he felt disappointed to that he realized he more love his sister than any other things. It completely show how an about 12-year old boy feel when he find a beautiful opal and can be rich but he can't keep it, he will definitely feel disappointed, like "heart sank". But finally he realized if this can make kellyanne better, that's what he will do. Ashmol's thought make this character can attract readers a lot, what he thinks about like a what real person would think in reality; it can show the characteristic of Ashmol, he loves his family, his sister.

But one thing I don't like is that there are too many Australian slang in the book. It's a bit hard to understand what it means. The word on the first page "fruit loop", a kind of cereal. But there's a different meaning in the book, it means a crazy person. These words make the book harder to read.

quiz

1. I think the poem "streets" is for Naomi's grandmother. First the whole poem shows a kind of sadness and loneliness, such like the word "dark, tirelessly, quietly", which words not represents the positive emotion. "Think the same about people." Some people can sleep completely, but some people for lost and remembered, they sleep twice, once for the one who is gone. The author's grand mother was living far from her, in another country. Maybe her grandmother has dead or just can't meet each other, that's mean"lost and remembered". And sleep can represents missing someone she loved. Although the author can't meet her grandmother, but still miss her a lot, and always walk in the author's dream.

2. There are 8 lines and 5 sentences in the stanza4.

3. Personification means that add the human characteristic to something that is not a human, such like add the description of human action to a flowers, animals. In the stanza3, there's a example: "the sky which sews and sews, tirelessly sewing." Sew is a verb to describe the humans behavior. It means use the needle to fix the clothing. But in the poem, it is used to describe what sky looks like during the sunset evening time.

4. In the last stanza, she wrote: Some people do. They sleep completely, waking refreshed. Others live in two worlds, the lost and remembered. That's a contrast. She use the people who can stay with person they loved to contrast with those people who lost and miss families, such like herself; to express the loneliness and sadness.

5. There are 3 stanzas and 3 sentences in the poem "hidden".

6. This sentence means that put  the name of person you loved under the tongue for a long time, don't speak out. If you love someone, you don't need to always say the name of the person, just remember the person, and put in heart. 

7. I think, as another poem "streets", they all show the emotion to someone the author loved, maybe is her grandmother. But not directly say who's her grand mother and how nice person she is, she use the natural things to represents the human emotion. 

8. "Fuel that feeds you" may also mean the person she loved. Because in the poem she said:"tuck the name of a loved one under your tongue" "the little sucked-in breath of air hiding everywhere beneath your words""no one sees". Someone she loved is really important to her, she didn't say it and show others but she always put the person loved in heart and remembered. As the time go, this kind of emotion can always encourage her to do a lot.

Blog 6

In this quarter, I have read the Persepolis and Naomi shihab's poem. For the book, I didnt read a lot English novel before. There are many words and sentences I can't understand, hopefully in the next quarter, I can improve. And the characters or events sometimes make me confused, sometimes I can't find the meaning of a plot. So to figure this out, I plan to do some notes when I am reading. This is a good habit for reading and many people do, I will try in the next quarter. The most challenging thing is the poetry. Sometimes it's hard for me to understand what the author says, such like in the poem of blood: "a true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hand." I can't realize that it can show the relationship between Arab and nature. And although I have idea, I think maybe it's wrong, maybe I need to show more ideas and discuss more in the class with others to understand the poem better. 

In class writing

1.Naomi is a woman of two countries, Palestine and America.I think in this poem, skins may represents herself. In the first stanza, she wrote that  "swept away by someone who never saw it was a feather." "But skin felt it was never seen." I think she may wants to show that many people just look at her appearance to make a judgement but don't know her mind. She wants to change the way of people going on with her. So she still has hope, "Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.", go a lot of place, change the people's mind, change the people thought of a Palestine.

2. Skin represents her self.

summary of the words under the words

This is the poem about Naomi's grandmother. She show the love between her grandmother and her by this poem. In the first stanza, she expresses that there are no people in the world can stay with each other forever; we have to leave some day, we can never meet again. Maybe that's mean the death.  But from natural side, something can tie us together is the sky. It ties the whole universe, ties our world, Naomi can't meet her grandmother again, but the sky ties them together, just like the title of this poem, grandmother in the star.

In the second stanza, she has reminiscences if her grandmother. She imagined what her grandmother was doing at that moment in the village. In the poem, she use "rugged feet, moth-eaten scarves" to describe her. And she still wanted to hear the knowledge of the neighbors horse and the heroic cow from grandmother. She showed that her grandmother is a simple and kind woman. I think in some degree, this poem doesn't only show her love to her grandmother but also want to tell readers how Arabic woman is.

At last, she thought that although they can't meet each other again, bu the memory will always be keep in heart. The writer Naomi was burned in America, they speak two different language, although in this way, Naomi thought they will miss each other forever. The love between them is endless.

Poem

I was learning while guests were talking,

I can heard it.

Mom passed me coffee and grape.

I ate and learned half-heartedly,

I said that I wish to sleep because I got fever.

She sat with me and told me folktales.

blog 5

First, the reason of why Naomi write this poem as a response to 911 is that the author want to show readers what's the true Arab. AL-Qaeda are the islanmic terrorist group. They are Arabs, so this accident give people in the world a bad impression of Arabs. Everyone think Arabs are terrorist, Middle East countries are not peaceful. Naomi wants to show readers that not every Arab is the terrorist, show what's a true Arab. True Arabs love their motherland, peace.

In the poem of my father and fig trees, she wrote: "I'm talking about picking the largest, fattest, sweetest fig in the world and putting it in my mouth. "Fig trees represents his father's motherland. Her father miss his motherland a lot although he was living in America. A true Arab is homeless. Another poem, the words under the words. She wrote that "when one mails come, she announces it, a miracle, listening to it read again and again in the dim evening night." Her grandmother, a true Arab woman who is a simple and kind woman, always miss her sons, love the family.

The Arabic culture is also showed in the poem the arbic coffee. "The coffee was the center of flower." Coffee is a important part of arabic culture, this poem describes a beautiful and peaceful scene of Arabs' life.

Although after the 911, people thought Arabs are terrorists; Naomi tries to use her poem what true Arabs are.

poem homework 2

I think Naomi's grandmother is a simple and hard working on the farm work. In the poem of my grandmother in the stars, she writes that: I bow to your rugged feet, the moth-eaten scarves that knot your hair. This describes her grandmother. And she is kind, so the author always remember and love her grandmother, in the Poem, she writes that our two languages adrift, heart saying, take this home, never again and only memory make us rich. Her grandmother may missed her son a lot. She writes that maybe it holds her son to America. Although her grand mother know rarely got the mail, once got a mail she was very excited and read again and again. I think that because the mail was from her sons.

poem

1. what does the fig tree mean to the father?

2. What Arabic culture was shown in the poem Arabic Coffee?

blog 4

I think the book Persepolis is for young people who are not familiar with the history of the Middle East country--Iran. This book is written in a comic style by Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi. Iranian historical problem is complicated because of the political factor, fossil resources and islanmic religion. After I read this book, I consider the purpose of this book is to tell people something about religious revolution, Iran and Iraq war and people's life in Iran. 

Persepolis is a comic book. This is a reason of why I think it's for young people. For me, I'm a student, I don't think so many young people would like to take interest in the book which is concerned to the policy and use a lot of difficult and long words. It's hard for readers to understand and attract them a lot, especially for young people. But Persepolis has a lot of vivid pictures and words that describe the story in a clear way but interesting. 

The book is about the memory of Marjane's childhood. The main character is little girl Marjane. The book is written in a little girl's opinion. It tells many real stories and describes how was people' hard life in Iran. Such like, she tells reader the history of king by his own grandfather's story, show the conflict between government by his uncle Annosh's experience, black Friday, social class in her home. These are all her experience, they are real and convincing. She combine the polictical and religious problem with people's life to show what was happened in Iran during that special period.

I think this is her purpose and she achieved. For me, this is the first time I know something about Iran and impressed me a lot.

Uncle Anoosh-- who show a true society but with hope

Do you know the history of Iran? Maybe the first thing come to our mind is that a woman wear veil or the war. It's not a peaceful country because of the religion and oil resource. Do you know the real life in Iran. Persepolis can give us the answer. Persepolis is a book which is concerned the Islamic revolution in Iran. This is a comic book which is written by Marjane Satrapi. She introduced her child memory during the revolution in the book. The main character Marjane was a little girl at the beginning part, she lived in a rich family, she was very religious and she believed that she was the last prophet of god. She was a out spoken girl, she disagreed with the policy and was brave to say. She joined into the demonstration, rebutted the religious teacher in school. There are many character in the book, I will analyze more about Marjane's uncle Anoosh.

Anoosh was a loyal communist; when he was young he has ever worked with his uncle Fereydoon to support the country democracy. But they fell, he had to go to Russia, and became a student who learned Marx. After he went back to Iran, he was sent to the prison and stayed for many years. When he was arrested, he met Marjane. The most important event for Marjane is that he was executed and he gave two bread swan to Marjane as gifts. He is a important person to Marjane. He represents the first definition of hero to Marjane because he gave her hope but also told the truth of government. He taught her although real life is painful, she should never give up the hope.

Uncle Anoosh gave Marjane the first impression of hero. As a little girl, Marjane thought the person who fights for the democracy and is sent in to the prison is the hero. In The book, when she met Anoosh first time, she said that "I had a hero in my family.naturally I loved him immediately." (Satrapi 54) When Anoosh told her he support his uncle for democracy, he has went to Moscow and learned Marx. Marjane thought Anoosh is great, he is the hero, he can do other people can't do. He is a hero who fight for democracy, that's the first definition of a hero in Marjane's thought.

When uncle Anoosh lived in Marjane's home, he talked about the policy a lot. He told Marjane how he support the uncle Fereydoon to be a minister of a democracy country, how they try to free Iran province by province like Azerbaijan. And also told her the truth about Islamic revolution, religious leader can't make this country became free. New government doesn't mean the painful life will end. Later, the tragedy happened, the people who were arrested from prison was executed by the new government.

The words Anoosh always said is that"Everything will be alright." (Satrapi 65) In some degree, I think it gives hope to Marjane. Also it represents that Anoosh believed that, one day it will became a democracy country. Marjane believed that, when she knew Anoosh was executed, she was very sad but said" Everything will be alright!"(Satrapi 70) That's what Anoosh taught her. Although the life is painful we should never give up.

I think uncle Anoosh is a great character in this book. There's only one section in the book talks about the Uncle Anoosh. But he is an important person to Marjane. He was the first person who defined "hero" to Marjane, he taught her life is painful but never give up.

Citation: Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New York: Pantheon, 2003. Print. 

Paper draft

Persepolis is a book concerned the Islamic revolution in Iran. This is a comic book which is written by Marjane Satrapi. She introduced her child memory during the revolution in the book. The main character Marjane is a little girl at the beginning, she was lived in a middle class family, she is very religious and believe that she was the last prophet of god. She is a out spoken girl, she cares the policy in the society and is brave to say. She joined into the demonstration, rebut the religious teacher in school. There are many character in the book, I will analyze more about Marjane's uncle Annosh.

Annosh is a honest communist, when he was young, he has ever worked with his uncle Fereydoon to support the country democracy. But they fell, he had to go to Russia, and became a student who learned Marx. After he went back to Iran, he was sent to the prison and stayed for many years. When he was arrested, he met Marjane. 

The most important event for Marjane is that he was executed and he gave two bread swan to Marjane as gifts. Before he was executed, he wanted to tell Marjane what's happened, what he knew so the last person Annosh wanted to meet before he was died is Marjane. He is a important person to Marjane. Because when Marjane is a little girl, she was excited about everything about the revolution, she doesn't know what exactly a hero means, her definition to a hero is that a person was sent to the prison because of the revolution. She thinks Annosh is the hero in the family. Annosh help Marjane know more about the world and give the hope to her.

Uncle Annosh gave Marjane the first impression of hero. As a little girl, Marjane thought the person who fight for the democracy and be sent in to the prison is the hero. When Annosh tell her he support his uncle for democracy, he has went to Moscow and learned Marx. Marjane thought Annosh is great, he is the hero, he can do other people can't do. So she said that "I had a hero in my family.naturally I loved him immediately."

When uncle Annosh lived in Marjane's home, he talked about the policy a lot. He told Marjane how he support the uncle Fereydoon to be a minister of a democracy country, how they try to free Iran province by province like Azerbaijan. And also told her the truth about Islamic revolution, religious leader can't make this country became free.

The words Annosh always said is that" Everything will be alright." In some degree, i think it gives hope to Marjane. Also it represents Annosh believe that one day, it will became a democracy country. Marjane believed that, when she knew Annosh was executed, she was very sad but said" Everything will be alright!"

Persepolis--review

Persepolis is a comic book, which is written by Marjane Satarapi. It's also be adapted into the film. This is the first comic book I read actually. I recommend it. This is a story of childhood of a Iran girl. Marjane is a iran girl.  She write her childhood memory in the book, about her parents, grandmother, uncle, school, the life during war and her parents decided to sent her abroad.

Although it's in comic style, but it's absolutely not for little kids. I think it show something serious. It concerned the topic of Iran war and policy, but this book makes readers understand easily. That's one reason of why I recommend it. As a foreign student, it's hard for me to read some boring things about the policy. Because it's not a interesting topic for most of people. But if the book is showed in the comic style. We can know what Marjane think about by the picture in the book. The pictures in the book are really nice. They usually show some details. We can guess what Marjane thinks about by analyzing her painting style.

And the second point is that, this is a mamory of a young girl. Some serious topic which concerned the policy of a country is usually affected by the government. Some books or movies can't show the true historical events because of the political factor. I never know the history of Iran. But from this book, I know some affection of religious rule to people and the peoples' life during Iran war. 

Marjane lives in a rich family. I like her parents. Although in some degree, there is still social class in the family when they support the revolution. For example, their maid can't eat with them, the maid can't fall in love with the son of neighbors. But I like them because her parents didn't restrict her a lot on the policy and religion. Her parents bought her books about revolutionaries, Marx, tell her the truth of king, send her abroad to live in a more free place. They help her know more things about the country than others, help her to be a girl who is brave to say something different and have own thought.

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Homework Blog2 drawing

I think drawing is important to the book. It's a visual and clear instruction for words in the book to attract readers, make words vivid and give readers imagination. Some words in the book are boring, but drawing can make readers understand the topic and important plot in the book and make them feel pleasant during reading. People like imaging, even create a new story through a picture.

Shanhaijing is a ancient Chinese book, it records a lot of myth beast. In the picture, there is a beast looks like leopard, which has four tails and one horn, as it is described in the book. If we just read the book, it's really hard to know what it is, how it looks like. Because of these drawings, people can know the image of myth beast and creat more new stories. These drawings make the book easier to understand and interesting or people won't like reading a book which is all written in Classic Chinese style and without any drawings to explain.

Collage--- The Reader I Am

I'm a fast reader...     

 I' m a fast reader because I like reading the books with excellent story plot. I always read as soon as possible, then I can know what happened in this story and the ending.                                   

My favorite books are...

First one is Gossip Girl. This is a campus youth novel.

The second one is The Rocking-horse Winner which is written by D.H Lawrence. It's a short story.

I like ? Books... 

I like read novels and short stories. Just as what I wrote before, I like the book which has good storyline. This book Girl With A Pearl Earring       is what I recently read. It's called ekphrastic writing. It is based on the art.        

the book which has good storyline.              

Who is my favorite author?

I think he is O.Henry.

He was an American writer. His short stories are famous for the twist ending. One of my favorite story is The Gift Of The Magi.

Where do I like to read?

Of course..... In bed!!!

I think reading in bed is the most relaxing way. When I'm tired, I like lying on the bed and reading my favorite book. Also sometimes reading books help me sleep well at night. Although reading on bed is not beneficial for eyes, but I think it's soooo comfortable !!!