Chronological Order

The story "There Will Come Soft Rains", the story describes what happen in August 4, 2026 when humans become extinct because of nuclear weapons. First, the clock calls for get up from bed and breakfast, the breakfast stove gave a sigh and eject toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, and two coffees, and the robots clean the food that no one touches. Second, a dog comes inside to the house to look for human, but found no one. Then, it turns crazy and dies. Finally, a poem is played at nine-five, and the house starts burning. These events happen in time order in August 4, 2026. I think the speed of the house is destroyed has some significance. This shows that how useless a perfect matter will be without a user. If humans are still existed, the house may not die. The people can help on extinguish the fire. But now humans are extincted, no one is going to be able to help the house anymore. The house continues to live on after the human, but is eventually destroyed by the fire. This can be a representation of humans are completely extinguished. Not only themselves, but also the object they made. Mabye there will be some other kind of creature exists on earth later, but they won't be able to see humans or human's contributions to earth anymore!

Irony

In the story "There will come soft rains", humans have lived in a ideal life in which that every need is already satisfied. However, they ended up destroying themselves in a nuclear war. People fight for money, territory, resource, religion, an right. One of the reason is territory. The more territory that a country has, the more space that the people of the country can live. People may have war with the others, because their life was too harsh. They were looking for a better life. People fight for resource, more resources that a country got, a better life can be made in that country. People fight for money, which can provide a better life for them. All of the reasons for having a war is to have a better life. Then why still people fight, when everything is already satisfied? That is because not everything is satisfied, some improvements can still be added in. It is very hard to make people satisfied. When they get this, they want that, and when they have that, they want this. We called this greed. I think this is actually pretty ironic. People were looking for a better life and the thoughts of want to have a better life have brought them destruction. I don't think the countries in the modern day won't dare to have war. Well, at least for the countries that have nuclear weapons. Cause if they started a war, the world is gonna be ended.

Thankful

November 25 is Thanksgiving, the day that you drink and eat a lot. But not only eat and drink, Thanksgiving is also the day you being thankful. People can be thankful to many things, for examples : water, food, air, person, building.......you can be thankful to everything. I am thankful to my parents, because they raised me. They provide me a warm and comfortable house. They sent me to the expensive American School, because they want me to have higher achievement than the others. My parents had helped me a lot, I am very grateful. I am thankful to my teachers. That include the teachers in local school and Pacific American School. They have given me knowledge and intelligence. Without my teachers, I would have become a dumb, silly person that got mocked and scolded by the other people. My teachers had helped me a lot, I am very grateful. I am thankful to my friends. They made me felt better when I wasn't in a good mood. They kept me happy and active. I am thankful to my neighbor. I play chess with him a lot, and I have learned some tips from him. I need to be thankful to God. Without god, the world will not be like the world. It will be the world that is empty and blank, which is unimaginable. Anyway, always be thankful. 

My Invention

If I am inventing something, I will invent a flying car. The modern day cars are pretty good, but they can have some improvements.  One good thing about inventing flying cars is that the problem of traffic-jam can be solved. Almost every time when there is a raining day, traffic-jam occurs, and that makes people piss, cause that is wasting their valuable time. If flying cars are invented, there will be no more traffic-jam, that way, people will be able to get to go to school or work on time, they will be delightful. Second advantage about inventing flying cars is less friction on the wheel. The modren cars are always having frictions with the ground. The wheels can be broke because of the rubbing. Also, if the floor is very wet. The wheels will get wet, and accident will occur. Cars will be out of control and bump other cars. If the car can fly, friction and rubbing will not happen, and that maintain the wheels in good condition. Third advantage about inventing flying cars is the cars can just go through the pond, lake, or mountain.  They can just pass through them instead of taking the winding routes. Even though flying cars are extremely useful, danger can occur. Mabye someday when you were driving a flying car, and suddenly you found out that the car has no power. The car will fall and smash the people on the road. So if you driving a flying car, make sure you check the power of the car constantly.

New Technology

Technology can affect use very easily. They affect the way and qualify of our life.Today's life is already very convienent, people can call people with cell phone or telephone, they can use transportation machine, such as cars, trains, and buses. People got computer, they used computer in searching informations, doing work, and also for entertainment. There are light bulbs almost in every streets, so that when it is night, people can still see other objects, unlike before Adesine was born. Even though, most of you may think that there is no improvements for techonology anymore, techonology will never stop improving. In a hundred years after, life is going to be very different. There will be no car on the road anymore, they will be flying on the sky. Because that can solve the problem of traffic jam and slippery. A lot of things will become automatic, such as door, air condition, dryer, and water box. You can make the thing automatic, but some times autobatic stuff can be inconvienent. People may not actually bring their books to school. They will all be using computer, but they will also have a writing class, the class that teach students to write words. A lot of robots will be made in the 2110. You can see robots every where. They helped human being to do something, such as checking homework, throw the trash bags, and clean the dishes. Mabye robots will be used as military too in the furture, like Start Wars.

Setting as a Character

The setting will definitely take a role as a character sometimes. In most of the stories, there will be someone who is actually against the main character. They have interactions with the other characters. Some of the stories don't really have someone who making the conflict, for example, "In Trouble". In "In Trouble, there isn't acual person who is having the conflict with the main characters, is the setting that makes the story intresting. The harsh weather condition and the elevation of the hole make the readers curious about what will happen later on. The setting can kill the main character if nobody comes to save him. You can think the setting as a killer in "In Trouble". There are some others story that the setting plays a role as a character, such as "The Cay''. "The Cay'' is about a boy and a old man were stuck on an island. They have no way to get out of that island unless someone comes to sav them. Before the people rescue them, they need to survive. They need to collect the food and conserve the water in order to make sure that they can live until a boat comes save them. They also need to watch out some diasaster, such as hurrican and storm. Anyway, setting is not just the background of the story, they can also be used as a role.

Compare and Contrast Dogs

I got three dogs. They are our family's pets. Their names are Happy, Dogu, and Wofu. Some of you may think their names sound strange and funny, and I agree. Two of my dogs are female, and the one been excluded name Wofu is male. All three dogs are very different even though they live together more than a year already. Two of dogs have the most differences, and minium list of similarties. They are Dogu and Wofu. First, Dogu is much cuter than Wofu. All of our family's dogs were street dogs before. We adopted Happy first, and after about 2 months, we adopted Wofu and Dogu. They were only about a month old when we adopted them. The first time when we family saw Wofu, we thought "Oh My God! Why is this dog so ugly?'', and then we saw Dogu, and then we thought "Oh My God! This dog is super cute!" At first, we were only going to bring Dogu back home, but we have sympathy on Wofu, so we brought him back.
Other differences are Dogu is much smarter than Wofu, and Wofu eat much faster than Dogu. We spent about a couple months to teach Dogu how to sit, but we spent over a year to teach Wofu how to sit! Even though Wofu is dumb, there is one thing he is super good at, eat! He eats a lot and eats them with super high speed. He eats so fast that he can finsh a plate of bones within 15 seconds! That is also why he throw out a lot, cause he eat too much. Other differences that I won't explain it very detail are: Dogu runs faster, Wofu is way heavier, Wofu barks more, and Dogu sleeps more. They have a few similarties, such as they both like to play and they like delicious food.

Knowledge of Dogs

In "In Trouble, Paulsen said " They had great, old knowledge; they had somthing we had lost." I think that means that dogs can do things that human can't do, such as they got great hearing and smelling ability. That is why they are used for searching things. They are also used as a guard. They know who should and shouldn't  attack. They can distinguish the difference. I think people can learn a lot of things from animals. For example: they can learn from dogs. Compare to human, dogs are very easy satisfied, like their food. Most of them won't ask for eating hamburgers or french fries. They don't drink beverage or alcohol. They just eat normal dog's foot and meat. Also, dogs know how to live by itself. You can see that the homeless dogs, they don't live in a comfortable house, they live in street, but they can still live very well. First, they can go look through the garbge can, they eat the things in it. Second, they can sleep every where they want, it can be in a box, in the park, or even on a rock. Third, they know how to find their companies. When a group of dogs is formed, they will go search for food and water together. That is why dogs are not easy to die even though they are homeless. I got three dogs in my house. Even though they are all very silly and stupid, they are nice pets. What I learn from my pets is that when someone is treating you nice, you should pay back.   

Describe a Place You Know

The place I am very familiar is my bedroom. My bedroom is not very big but not small either. The room is kind of messy. The materials and tools are put in radom places, the books are not straight, and my clothes are every where around the room. There are 1 computer, 2 desks, and 2 chairs. Green curtain and square window can be seen in my room, and there are two tubs of plants outside the window. Sometimes, you can hear the sound of wind, Ohh-Ohh. It is very loud and creepy. It is like the wind was infuriated. When it is morning, you can hear the sound of swallow very clearly. You can, because there is a nest sticks on the outside wall. The mother is feeding the children, and the children are shouting for the food. My room's smell always change. Sometime, my room was pretty stinky, because my bed didn't wash for a very long time. Sometime, my room smelt ok, because my bed was washed. The floor of my bedroom is pretty smooth. It is very easy to walk, but you have to watch out the season. During winter, the floor will be cold like a ice cube. During summer, the floor will be hot like sun. So wear a pair of shoes during winter, and walk with your peer feet during summer.

The Setting of "In Trouble"

The setting tell the readers that it is freezing over there. It says that your thoart will start bleeding,and  your toes will be frozen. There are no animals under this cold climate, even the animal with very much fur. The snows cover every matter in this world. The only thing you can see is the snow,  the only sound you can hear is the wind. The setting helps the reader knows that the place is freezing. The readers can infer that there is not gonna be many people live there, cause it is too cold over there. Or the story happens during winter time. Mood can be built from the setting. From the words and setence, reader can understand is this story happy, funny, sad, or scary. For the setting in "In Trouble", I feel it's kind of creepy. It makes us wonder where is this freezing, cold place. The coldness of the setting in "In Trouble" is terrifying. What place can make somebody's thoart start bleeding?   

The Chinese Cinderella Summary

The main character in the novel is Wu Mie. Her english name is Adeline. She was born in a rich family of China during the War World II. She got 1 elder sister, 3 elder brother, and 1 younger brother and sister (kids from Niang)od grades in school, so that in the furture, they could leave this house, and built their own house;.  Her mom died from given birth to her, and that caused the other family members hate Adeline. The only perosn who was treating Adeline nice was Adeline's aunt, aunt Baba. She encouraged her to study hard and get go lived without cruel Niang and mean father when she grown up. Niang was Adeline's step mother. Niang treated cruel to all the kids in the family that was not her child. Big Sister, the three elder brothers, and Adeline didn't like Niang. But right now, Big Sister had turned to the "other" side.  Adeline liked school. Adeline liked school, because she got many friends there. Her best friend was Wu Mei Chu. Adeline was even elected to become the president of their class, thanks for Wu Mei Chu. Adeline got good score at school. She got straight A except for art and PE. Niang didn't allow any kids in the family to go to other people's house. However, Adeline had gone to Wu Mei Chu's house for celebrating Wu Mei Chu's birthday. Niang was very pissed after she found out. She thought that was all because of her aunt. So now she decides to seperate them.

The Influence of Setting

Setting can influence the story a lot. For examples, if the story takes place at a ancient palace. We can predict the story will be about a prince, ministers, or a king. It won't be about a business man, police officer, or a retired boxer. The setting can help us guess who and where are the characters. Discriptive informations can help the reader make a guess about the story. For example, the smoke was dark, the smell was bad, the palace had been ruined, the new owner of the palace laughed sonorously.  From the information, we can predict that the palace had been ruined and conquered by somebody else. Events and settings of the story have to be matched. Otherwise, the story will be weird. For example: an elephant is eating his lunch, and the place takes at the beach party. Why will an elephant be in a beach party? So we can see that the event and the setting are unmatched, that makes the story become strange. Sometimes, writer makes the character and the setting unmatched, in order to produce a cool and unique way. For example: a police man from the modern world gone back to ancient China to capture a criminal. That is like time travel, which makes the story become very intresting, and makes the readers become curious about it.

Setting

One of the setting that made me a great impression was the traditional market. I went there with my gradpa and sister duing the weekend in Taipai. The place was very noisy. I heard the people shouted "Come here! Only cost 10 NT each! Come here!" Also, some taiwanese (台語) were spoken, and I didn't understand. I heard people dealing money, conversing, and swearing. It was kind of unpleasant.
I saw people making food in the traditional market. The meat seller was cutting pork or beef into several pieces, pack all the pieces into a box, and then put the box into the plastic bag. I saw the shops that were selling fruit, meat, vegetable, fast food, drinks, and also hot dogs. There were many people, and it was very crowdy. If you didn't follow your family or partner close enough, you would get lost. I smelt something bad. It was like the smell of chicken or pee. Well, I could be wrong, but that was what I felt. The flavor just went directly into my nose, and I felt sick after that. I held my breath soon. I thought that I just didn't get use to shop in the traditional market, because the other people look natural and fine. Traditional market is a market with long history. It isn't like cosco or sogo. I will suggest you to go there.