Reading Journal-13

The wonderful story of Henry Sugar by Roald DahlPublished by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London wc2r, England

*Genre: Fiction

*Source: Form Borders

*Rating: 5 out of 5

* I haver read whole story

*2 new vocabulary words:

1_) disciple: noun. a person who believes in and follows the teachings of a religious or political leader

2_) crouch: verb. to lower your body close to the ground by bending your legs under you

* Roahld Dahl is my one of favorite authors. The reason why I like his stories is his fantastic descripnations. Actually, it's first time to read his story which is written for teenagers. I have read only his stories which are written for children such as charlie and chocolate factory, Matilda,Fantastic Mr. Fox and BFG....etc.

* Question14 : Start as what you want to.
My question for everyone is 'What if you can see everything without hiding your two eyes completely?
If I were a girl who can see with my eyes closed, I will first try to figure out what happended to me. Of course, as everyone can imagine firstly, there are many advantages that I can get from sepcial ability that I got. But what people recognise is that closing eyes also have some advantages. We can close eyes not to see something while watching scary movies or sleeping. Also, my habit is to close my eyes to not to see something but dark so that I can concentrate easily and think deeply. However, if I can see with my eyes closed, I can't make doing that.
So, think carefully what you want to be.

Reading Journal-12

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

*Genre: Literature

*Source: From Mrs. Farrer

*Rating: 4 out 5.

* I have read whole story.

* 2 New vocabulary words:

1. Exultant: adj. (formal) feeling or showing great pride or happines especially
because of something exciting that has happened

2. petulantly( petulant): adj. (written) bad tempered and unreasonable, especially because you cannot do or have what you want.

Many vocabulary words from this story was very hard and some words are not familiar to me. So I had to look up my dictionary to understand the whole story.
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Actually, I have already read the story before, so it was easy to understand more than before while I was reading.

The author is Guy de Maupassant who is from France.
This story is very famous and still, read by many readers.

The story is simple enough to understand for readers. However, what the author and the story want to tell readers is complicated and deep enough.

From the story, the necklace, which is the symbol of this story, represent desire and vanity of many humans. So, the author is trying to say how humans' desire and vanity are hopeless, and how only one mistake can change human's life through the necklace. Also, the author is trying to say how human can be changed so easily by the many kinds of environments.

From this story, Human is shown as a greedy existence which always follows hopeless beautiness not seeing the beautiness of the inside.
The greed and desire can take away discriminating power to see the real truth from human.
So, without having any discriminating power to see the real truth of something, it is hard to discriminate the real and fake things for humans.
The desire and greed of human can't eliminate easily.
However, the author ask a question to the readers 'If Matilde didn't lose her necklace?' at the end of the story so, that the readers can think deeply about the story.

Reading Journal-11

PLUGGING INTO THE SUN - SUNLIGHT BATHES US IN FAR MORE ENERGY THAN WE COULD EVER NEED

by GEORGE JOHNSON
From NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SEPTEMBER 2009: VOL. 216 . NO3

Publishing Group President John Q. Griffin

* Genre: Magazine

* Source: Bookstore Magazine

* Rating: 3 out of 5

* I have read all article

* 2 New Vocabulary words :

1. Plateau - an area of flat land that is higher than the land around it

2. Deluge- a sudden very heavy fall of rain ; a flood

* The image at the top is the picture of solar power energy.
And this website is the youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DboEhc5D9aE
This video explained well about solar panels, history of solar power and efficiency of solar power.

* Question 16: Design a starter of your own

CAN SOLAR SAVE US? - PROBABLY, EVENTUALLY, WITH LOTS OF GOVERNMENT HELP.

Nowadays, there are many efforts to find efficient ways to save the environment. Since humans have used some parts of science worngly, they think it's time to cure the Earth. AFter scientists researched many studies, alternative energies were found and used society.

One of the most efficient and good alternative energies is uing the sunlight which is called 'Solar Energy'. Since people have used fossil-fuels too much, the environment became worse. Using fossil-fuels such as coal or oil emits lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) which results in golbal warming. So, peopl are studying more about Solar Energy which is renewable and can be used a s an alternative.

Another benefit of solar energy is that there is no limitation. Since the Sun will always shine on the Earth, solar energy is free and there is no limitation to using it. So, excluding the worst hypothesis-if the SUn stops shining on the Earth foreever, this is a very good solution to global warming. Solar Energy is also Independent and it doesn't require much work from jumans since the Sun shines by itself. Of course, this energy is not as harmful as using fossil-fuels.

However, there are also side effects from this source of energy. Solar Powered equipment is the most expensive to build from all alternative energies. Humans also have to consider the area which they might install solar powered machines in and think about the fact that a tnight, there is no production of sunlight.

We don't know how much help that Solar Power Energy can help us instead of using fossil-fuels yet, but I'm sure that the environment won't worry anymore since there is much effort by humans for it.

Reading Journal-10

BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by HELEN FIELDING
First published 1996 by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmilan Ltd Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf road, London N1 9RR.

*Genre: Fiction

*Source: From High School Library

*Rating: 4.7 out of 5

*I have read 3 chapters

*2 New Vocabulary words:

1. Tabloid- Newspaper that has small pages, short articles, and lots of photogrpahs. Tabloids are often considered to be less serious than other newspapers.

2. Fraudulent- A fraudulent activity is deliberately decitful, dishonest or untrue.

*Question 16 : Design a starter of your own

As everyone can see from the title, which is 'Bridget Jones's Diary', all the story is organized as form of the many diaries. So, the reader can know the whole stroy from Bridget Jones's 1 year diaries. I think this form of the story is really special for the all readers. Not like every other stories, the narrator is the main character who tells the whole story of the book. So, the reader can easily see the main character's feelings or mind because Bridget tells about her everything to her own diaries.

Reading Journal-09

"Truth Or Dare" by Celia Rees
published by Macmillan Children's Books 2000 in the New WIndmill Series 2001.

*Gnere: Fiction(horror, mystery)

*Soure: High School Senior Library

*Rating: 3 out of 5

*I read 8 chapters from this book.

* 2 New Vocabulary words :

1. Minnow - A very small FRESHWATER fish

2. Tarry - (old use or literary) to stay in a place, especially when you ought to leave; to delay coming to or going from a place

*Question 14 : If you disliked or found something you read very boring, explain why?

This book has interesting story in it, but I disliked how this story unfloding. The reason why I disliked how the story unfloding because the book unfold the stroy too slow. Of course, unfolding too fast is also bad, but still, the specific story didn't come out even though I have read chapter 8. The book was concentrated to tell the reader about the setting, main characters and main character's history and past. So, if the story unfold faster than now, I wouldn't dislike or bored while I reading this book.