Entry 9

Fire & Ice

          When I first see the title of the poem “Fire & Ice” by Robert Frost, I was thinking about an image of an enthusiastic man chasing after a woman who feels indifference about everything. And, the poem is totally not about what I imagined. It’s interesting that the author says the world may end in fire or ice, but I think the world will end in water since 71% of earth surface is covered with water. The part I like in this poem is the tone or the style of the author; it made me feel like someone is directly talking to you and his words are easy to understand. The part that I dislike is that I believed there might be some deeper ideas that Frost is trying to express but I couldn’t find it. I would like to recommend this poem to my friends since I want to hear different interpretations and opinions of the poem.

Entry 8

The Lottery

            “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story that has a much unexpected ending. When I first saw the title of the story and just started the reading, I was expecting a scene of a lucky person who wins the lottery and a celebration for the winning. Instead, this is not a story with a happy story and it ends up with the death of the lottery winner. I like how the author describes the stones and uses the stones as a foreshadowing for the following plots. The ending is the part that I don’t like at all since it shows that cruelty of the society which is the idea that I’ll never like to face in our real life. I would not like to recommend this story to a friend because I don’t like it so much.

Entry 7

Young Goodman Brown

           “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a very religious story. By just reading the title, I was expecting to read a story about a good young man who named Brown. However I was partially correct, it is a story about a young man whose name is Goodman Brown. Same to the author of “To a Locomotive in Winter”, Hawthorne also uses early modern English to write this literature. It is hard to fully understand the story but I still like his way of using early modern language since it gave me a chance to be similar to this kind of literature. I also like how the author keeps change scenes between dreaming and the reality. The part that I dislike is the ending, because I personally hate tragic endings and the ending of the story is about Goodman Brown’s mind of suspecting everybody around him are evils. I would like to recommend the story to my friends who believe in god since the protagonist has a very strong believe on god.