Entry1_Bui Thi Hoai Thuong
Item 1: Story [1]
The donkey and the little dog
A man had a little dog, and he was very fond of it. He would pat its head, and take it on his knee, and talk to it. Then he would give it little bits of food from his own plate.
A donkey looked in at the window and saw the man
and the dog."Why does he not make a pet of me?" said the donkey. "It is
not fair. I work hard, and the dog only wags its tail, and barks, and
jumps on its master's knee. It is not fair."
Then the donkey said to himself, "If I do what the dog does, he may make a pet of me."
So the donkey ran into the room. It brayed as loudly as it could. It wagged its tail so hard that it knocked over a jar on the table. Then it tried to jump on to its master's knee.
The master thought the donkey was mad, and he shouted, "Help! Help!" Men came running in
with sticks, and they beat the donkey till it ran out of the house, and they drove it back to the field.
"I only did what the dog does," said the donkey," and yet they make a pet of the dog, and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair."
Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor: The monkey: A person always envies despite of his stupidness.
Message
"Do not envy and try to imitate the others because every people have their own personalities and responsibilities"
Item 2: Cartoon [2]
Rhetorical devices:
Overstatement
Irony
Message:
Do not overuse online shopping.
Item 3: Poem [3]
Be glad
your nose is on your face
By Jack
Prelutsky
Be glad
your nose is on your face,
Not pasted
on some other place.
For if it
were where it is not,
You might
dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if
your precious nose
Were
sandwiched in between your toes,
That
clearly would not be a treat
For you’d
be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose
would be a source of dread
Were it
attached atop your head,
It soon
would drive you to despair,
Forever
tickled by your hair.
Within your
ears, your nose would be
An absolute
catastrophe,
For when
you were obliged to sneeze,
Your brain
would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose,
in stead, through thick and thin,
Remain
between your eyes and chin,
Not pasted
on some other place
Be glad
your nose is on your face.
Rhetorical
devices:
Repetition
Rhyme
Message:
You should
be glad to be a normal person, not a disable one.
Source:
[1] http://www.kidsgen.com/short_stories/donkey_littledog.htm
[2] http://funny-picture.org/funny-cartoons
[3] http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/be-glad-your-nose-is-on-your-face/
I do not have the same idea with you in the first item.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the message of the story is that: Every people have their own personalities and responsibilities so trying to imitate others doesn't make things go well.
For me, I agree with Ngoc's view,I suppose that the message of the story like that is more suitable
ReplyDeleteoh, in the item 3, maybe each person has their own significant
ReplyDeleteHi, I think I have some different ideas on your entry.
ReplyDeleteIn item 1, I think the message is that under any circumstances, shouldn't you let the envy make you lose your own personalities. Just the way you are.
In item 2, I suppose it should be more than "do not overuse online shopping". It could alarm that human are becoming too dependent on modern technology to live normally as they are supposed to do. Modern technology is taking away more than time and money of human but they seem not to prioritise it properly.
In item 3, I have a different point of view. I think the message should be related to something like "poke one's nose into something".
hi, In the 2 item, I think the message is: the overusing of online shopping has destroyed some ''social standards'' of people when they take part in social situations. Your message, in my oppinion, like a call from the author: Do not overuse online shopping.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your helpful comments. In general, I found out some weakness of my very first entry thanks to your comments but I do not really agree with all of them.
ReplyDeleteIn item 1, I think both Ngoc's comment and V.ANh's one are right and I quite shallowly understand the story's message. If we combine all of them, it will be the best message: "Do not envy and try to imitate the others because every people have their own personalities and responsibilities"
In item 2, i partly agree with V.ANh's comment and Nhan's one but i just think that the messages you raised are good but too long. Look at the picture, it's so logical that each person has his own thoughts. From my point of view, this picture is such an irony one. Really,we can have so many different ways to understand it and we can even write many different long writings also but above all, the purpose of an irony picure is to draw a lesson. So,personally, I am still for my own message. It is the lesson we can easily draw from the picture: "Do not overuse online shopping."
In the last item, I somewhat don't agree with V.Anh and Nga. I am for my idea. The poem's name is "Be glad our nose is on your face" and it is also repeated in the ending sentense of the poem. To some extent, the poem's name point out the main theme and make the reader curious about it "Why should we be glad our nose is on your face?". In three first sentences, our curiousness are cleared up:
"For if it were where it is not,
You might dislike your nose a lot."
The next sentences are cases our nose is pasted on other places such as between our toes and atop our head. These cases prove the poem theme ""Be glad our nose is on your face". The four last sentences affirm the firm reasonably.
"Your nose, in stead, through thick and thin,
Remain between your eyes and chin,
Not pasted on some other place
Be glad your nose is on your face."
The poem has a so tight structure, which make us, the readers, completely persuaded. We are really agree that we should be glad our nose is on our face, not on any other places. But, cover the whole of the poem is a wider meaning. "Your nose is on our face" symbols our normal appearance, not a disable one. Thus, the deep meaning of the poem is "You should be glad to be a normal person, not a disable one."
:"> I had a mistake in the above comment, it must be "The four last sentences affirm the theme reasonably", not "The four last sentences affirm the firm reasonably" :">
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