Entry 1_ Lê Thị Ngọc Mai
Item 1: The cookie thief
She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see that the man beside
her, as bold as could be, grabbed a cookie from the bag between, which she tried to ignore, to avoid a scene.
She read, munched cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy “cookie thief” diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I’d blacken his eye!”
With each cookie she took, he took one, too.
When only one was left, she wondered what he’d do. With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other.
She snatched it from him and thought, “Oh brother, This guy has some nerve, and he’s also rude. Why, he didn’t even show any gratitude!”
She had never known when she had been so galled, and sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate, refusing to look back at the “thieving ingrate.”
She boarded the plane and sank in her seat,
Then sought her book, which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise. There was her bag of cookies in front of her eyes!
“If mine are here,” she moaned with despair. “Then the other were his and he tried to share!” Too late to apologize, she realized with grief that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief!
(Chicken soup for soul)
Rhetorical devices
- Metaphor: Cookies - all the thing in our life that we should share together.
Message: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Item 2: A minor bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
By Robert Frost
Rhetorical devices
Metaphor:
- "a minor bird" is a metaphor for the thing of beauty.
- Rhyme : away - day, me - key, wrong - song.
Message : Keeping everything in nature in its place that it belongs to.
Item 3: Carton
Rhetorical: Irony
Message : Cutting waste makes us more competitive.
(2) http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-minor-bird/
(3) http://www.awarenessideas.com/1-Energy-Posters-s/9.htm
I think the message of first item is:
ReplyDeleteTime is gone by and it's impossible for it to return so when you do anything, you have to consider carefully in order not to regret.
Item 3:
ReplyDeleteI think in this context,leaks refer to steam leaks, air leaks or any other leaks within your facility. Therefore, i think the message here is: lock all leaks and save energy to guarantee your future because energy, in general, is not an inexhaustible resources.
Two comments is good. Howerver I think that the meassage of the first item that the writer want to say with the reader is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"(Treat the others as the way you want they treat you).
ReplyDeleteI think in the item #1, I agree with Hồng. And I also want to add one more thing: We shouldn't judge people by their appearance
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