2009년 8월 20일 목요일

A Raisin In The Sun


Title: A Raisin In The Sun
Author: Lorrane Hansberry

The book I'm reading is a....play.. may be and the title is "A Raisin In The Sun". Actually... I'm not enjoying it but I'm reading it for my homework for English academy. However, I feel this book is going to be more interesting.
This book deals with racism and sexism. A black family is living with their white neighbors and feels the racism by them. Also Benethia, who is a daughter of 'Mama', had to fold her dream. Her dream was to be a doctor. However, the family members says that the female doctors are not respected and force her to fold her dream.
At the end, the family moves to new place and the last scene is 'Mama' put on her coat and opens the main gate.
Words-exasperation-Anger,wrath,rage
s-defiance-resistance,ignore

2009년 8월 17일 월요일

The Separate Peace


Title: A Seperate Peace
Author: John Knowles


When I first read this book, I thought " This can be used as fuel for people to endure the coldness of winter!" This book was that kind of boring. Each ten pages I read, I wanted to tear the book.

I read this book for 2 times. I did not wanted to read this again but I did and I felt the difference. I could find out a lot of foreshadows, and kind of suspense during some specific scences.

This book is about hate and love between friends during the time of WWII. Finny was a naughty boy who were loved by every one in the campus. He was good at sport, talking to the others and listening to what others say. Gene was also popular but he usually focused on his study. However, they were best friend to each other.

One day Finny, Gene and Leper, who is actually Lepellus(Leper is his nick name), form a committe. The committe is called "Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session". The members had to throw themselves from a hight tree to a river beside the tree.

Here is the problem. Gene thinks that Finny is disturbing him to lower Gene's grade. However, Finny says it's not true and stop disturb Gene when he is studying. Gene realizes that Finny is a great guy. However, as he hated himself and felt guilty for his behavior, doubt of his best friend, he shakes the branch when Finny is up. Finny falls down and he was sentenced to stop doing physical activities, which was his only pleasure.

Later, when the court was on to find out the truth of the incident, Finny realizes that Gene was the one who did and he refuges to believe the truth.

At the end of the book, Gene narrates that Finny is dead when he was fixing his bone and 15 years have been past since that incident.



2009년 8월 13일 목요일

And Then There Were None


Title: And Then There Were None
Author:Agatha Christie
This book was very exciting. The genre of this book is detective story wrote by a famous author in that genre. May be this is the first book I really felt the flow and the suspense of the story.
There are many characters in this book. Anthony James Marston, Mrs. Ethel Rogers, General John Gordon Macarthur, Mr. Thomas Rogers, Emily Caroline Brent, Justice Lawrence Wargrave, Dr. Edward George Armstrong, William Henry Blore, Philip Lombard, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne are the ten victims.
Every those ten were gathered on an island. Every day, people started to die one by one and every time someone die, one of the ten Indian figures disappears. The victims try to find out who the killer is. However, they all fail. The story does not tell who was the murderer but there is the truth of the whole story on the epilogue at the end of the book.
I really love the suspense and the twisting of the story. I will reconmend this book to everyone in my class. I am not going to tell who the murderer is.