miércoles, 8 de septiembre de 2010

The California's Tale by Mark Twain

This short-story tell us the story about a man named Henry, that was a gold miner and went to california because of the gold rush for finding a lot of gold and having many wealth.  He moved to California with his beautiful wife that decorated an old cottage and make it a nice and sweet home.  Henry and his wife were so in love that for her didn't matter the gold.  Henry's wife was a very young woman of 19 years that obviously needed her family so she went to visit them but in the way she found an Indians tribe and they killed her.  After this Henry finds out that the real happiness is the love so he entered in shock that make him loose his mind and believed that his wife went on a travel and she would be back soon.
Henry's friends, Tom and Joe, find out that their friend needed a lot of love and compassion so they give them to him for a lot o years decorating his cabin for a party. Until they made him realized that the truth was that his wife was dead and affront the idea.
What I learned about this story is that the only thing that makes us happy is the love of your family, friends, the one you chose for being your lover and also could be the love that a pet gives you. Without all this people loving you life would not be the same as great we see it.

martes, 7 de septiembre de 2010

What is Literature?

At the begging of junior high I thought literature was only a suffering school class in which you have to read boring stories for getting a good grade but when I started reading some pieces of literature I was interested in I started loving it.
Literature has to be a creative writing that people can enjoy it when they are reading it.
The original meaning of Literature is:
"Literature is the art of language"
As the meaning says is the art in which the human can communicate his ideas and emotions of his own universe.
I love the variety that literature has for all types of persons. (novels are the ones I personally love)

The Interlopers by Saki

This short-story personally left me surprised at the end because I never expected that happened such a bad luck expirience to George and Ulrich after they forgot all the hateness they had each other.
It all begins with the feud between two guys named George Znaeym and Ulrich vonGradwitz that had been enemies since they born because of a problem that their grandparents had because of a piece of forest land.  As they were enemies they wanted to kill each other so one day George found Ulrich but never shoot him, they got trapped under a tree and had the opportunity to talk and solve their problems and also could George told Ulrich instead of enemy Neighbor.
At the end they saw some shadows and they thought were persons but they found out that were wolves.  I think they dead after that.
I liked the story because of the surprising ending because it does not ends on a typically happy ending.