Prose o Poetry

I didn't really understand about poetry and prose, so I went up to internet and search for them. From wikipedia it says that prose is the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the sentence, rather than the line as it is in poetry. Poetry is is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. From the definition, I feel like prose is easier and less complex and poetry, because it is just basically stating something.It doesn't express some very thoughtful idea like poetry, but the idea is easier to express. Anyway, what I am saying is that people will know the prose easier. Poetry is different. It often expreeses very thougthful idea, which often confuses people a lot. Poetry contains many rhymes in it, some of them are like rap.Personally, I prefer prose instead of poetry. I choose prose, because I don't like complicated thing. Well, actually poetry and prose are both complicated for me, but I think prose is more simple, that is why I like prose more.

Outsiders Film v Book

Personally, I think the Outsiders book is very interesting. It mentions about every little details in the story, for example it describes about the church that Johnny and Ponyboy lived, the relationship between Socs and Greasers, and the accident that happened to Ponyboy's parents. The book has expressed a complete feeling, because it has full of details to describe about it. The movie of "The Outsiders" is totally different than the book. First, the movie shows a lot less detail compare to the book. You can see that from several parts of the movie. First, it hasn't talked about what happened to Ponyboy's mom and dad in the movie. In the book, it says that their parents die because of a car accident, but not in the movie at all. Second, the movie didn't really state about the relationship between Socs and Greaser very clearly. If I didn't read the book, I wouldn't be able to know that the socs are rich kids and greasers are the poor kids. I think the film maker is trying to create the feeling that the story makes, he is trying to express the story in his own way, not just copy the whole story. I think that is very good, it is good to be more creative. Totally, I think the movie is pretty good, but it just that people will know more about the story through reading.

Film v Print

I think the biggest difference between books and movie is that movies need actors, and books don't. Movies cost a lot of money, and books cost not that much. When you are reading a book, the book doesn't just show you the scene of that story, you have to have imagine the scene yourself.You can imagine the character's looking from the book description, and I think that will be very interesting. Also, books show the detail of that story, the details that people won't pay attention in the movie. The details can help the readers to understand or predict the plot of that story. Movies are different than books. In the movie, you don't need to imagine. The characters and the scenes of the story show up themselves. Also, movie doesn't show that much detail, sometimes they even skip parts of the story. For example in the book"The Outsiders", it spends about 1 chapter talks about Ponyboy comes home late, and Darry is very angry about that. In the movie, it only spends couple seconds to present that part. That shows the huge difference between books and movies. I think both movies and books had advantage and disadvantage. The advantage of movies is it helps you to overview the story. If you don't have time on reading books, you can watch movie instead. However, movies don't usually show the details. Books can help the readers to imagine, which makes them smarter. However, it takes too much time on reading a book.

Making a Choice

For me, this is the hardest journal since I start writing blog.It is very hard to decide whether I should kill three people in our class or we all die together. It is hard, because I afraid that my classmates will have strong opinion on my blog after they finish reading, which I don't like it to happen.After thinking a long time, I decided to choose none of them. I choose to all live together! I don't believe that we have to kill three people in order to make us all survive. If there is a way to make 9 people to survive, there must have a way that makes 12 people survive. It is just that everybody has to eat less food and drink less water. I don't want to all die together, because I don't want to die, becuase death doesn't mean any good for anyone. Death doesn't really make us get out off that room, plus it will be very scary that three dead body lieing on the floor, so I will rather that we all try our best to live together. We can knock door, stomp our legs, or scream as loud as possible just for getting us out of the little room. Anyway, I choose to all live together. That is not very possible, but personally, I think that is the best decision.

My Stuff

If I were stucked in a little room like Anne Frank, I will need five things. They are computer, books, chess, cards, and basketball can help me pass time. The most important that I need to pass my time is computer. With computer, I can almost do every thing I want. I can use it for watching TV and movie, checking email, contact with friends, and playing video games. Computer is very useful on killing time. You will feel time passes so fast when you are using computer. The second thing that I need to pass time are books. Well, even though I rarely read books, but if I find the book I like to read, it makes me feel that time passes fast. I like to read history or mistery books, because personally, I think they are very interesting. The third thing that can help me to pass time is chess. I can play chess with my dad a long time, mabye 3 hours. That help my brain to exercise, cause I need to think of a stratergy to defeat him, and it will change every time. The fourth thing I need is poker card. I will play poker cards with other people. We can bet for drinks or food, I am sure that will be very fun. The last thing I need is a basketball. Well, I can practice dribble and passing while we are staying in the room. I don't think that is very fun, but it kills time.

What Do You Want To Be?

After finished reading the diary of Anne Frank, I felt that it was very hard for me to choose a character. Honestly, I don't mind to be any charcter in the play, but if I must choose, I will choose the one's with simple work and easy job. I will choose narrator first. Personally, I think narrator has the least and the easiest job in this play. Narrator doesn't need to act. In that case, he or she won't be involved. That's so cheap! The only thing he or she does is to read the lines properly. Well, I don't think reading is hard for any students in our class. If I can't choose narrator, I will choose Mr.Meip. He was the Dutch man who was helping Mr.Frank and his family to escape from the Nazis, he transported the things that Frank family need during their evacation. I choose him, because of several reasons. First, he doesn't speak much in this play. Also, he only appears during the conversation with Mr.Frank. Second, he is a male. Don't ask me why! I just feel that it will be better if the genders are the same. Last, he is helping the Jewish. It feels better for me when I am acting the positive side. Anyway, these are my choices.

Teens

Anne seems very sad and mad about followed the rules that the Nazis had given to Jews. At the very beginning of the story, she just started complaining about the rules that Nazis had made for the Jews. In some part of the story, it mentions that Anne likes cat. She talked about her friend Jopie in her conversation with Peter. She was thinking about what Jopie was going to think if she didn't show up on their date, it seems that she didn't really understand what was going out there. She stayed positive in the story. She tried to think the room that they were hiding as a peculiar summer boarding house. Anne had some difference with the modern teens. First, she wrote diary. Most of the modern teens don't write diary, they felt that it was boring and annoying. Second, she stayed positive. Most modern teens in Anne's situation will be very pissed and uncalm. Even though Anne had some difference between between today's teens, they still have similarties. First, she complained about the rules that Nazis given. Well, if I were her, I will complain about the rules too. Second, she didn't like her mom to treat her like a baby. Most of the today's teens want to be more independent, and didn't like their mom to treat them like a baby. I don't think I am able to be friend with Anne, because she spoke German, I don't speak German!

Trapped!

If I were trapped in a tiny room with no TV, ipod, video game, or cellphone like Anne Frank during World War II, I will feel despair and sadness. Well, not only because that I can't go out and have something fun and interesting, I have to stay in this tiny room and live under the fear of being killed by Nazis. My family will probably have the same feeling same as me. They could have gone insane and want to suicide if they stay there too long. The good thing about staying in this tiny room forever is you don't need to go to school, market, or hospital. Everything will be solved in this little room. Also, you will be able to stay with your family together, it's better than being seperated and send to concentration camp. The bad thing about staying in this little room is that you will live under fear, live with no protection. That can drive people insane. Also, you are not able to go outside and breath some fresh air and take a walk. You will turn sick if you stay in a tiny room for too long.What I will do to occupy my time in the room is I will read books, mabye books about history and war. That is the only thing that I am able to do in that situation. Second, I will play chess or cards with some body else, that can kill a lot of time. We will probably play about like 3 or 4 games. Also, I will draw pictures, any pictures that I think of. Well, I am not really what other activity that I can do.

Why?

Hitler and the Nazis felt that they were supposed to elimanate many different kinds of people, that is why he started killing jews. Well, I don't understand why he was doing that, so I am just going to make some hypothesis about it. Hypothesis 1: He blame jews for German's great depression. After World War I, many countries asked German to pay money. That caused depression within German. I didn't know why Jews had something to do with that, but mabye he thought that German lost World War I because of them. Hypothesis 2: He thought that Jewish people were the disaster. Jewish people brought bad things to them. He elimanated them, so that the world will be peaceful (mabye, who knows?). Hypothesis 3: Hitler didn't like Jews. This is the most possible reason that he killed so many jews. He just distested them, he thought they were freak, idiot, or monster. Anyway, these are just hypothesis of why Hitler wanted to elimanate many different kinds of people, he thought that different kinds of people would destroy German. Well, I am glad that he's plan didn't succeed. If his plan succeed, all asians will be killed, including Japanese (they would against each other eventually if the war was longer). I think it is better to have many kinds of people exist on this world. People can learn from each other. Killing doesn't any problem, it only make problems.

Luck?

I don't think that Brian's survival is depend on luck more than anything else. The knowledge he learned from show, school, and play has helped him a lot for the survival. The knowledge that he learns from his life are making shelter, finding berries, and making weapons. Without the knowledge, he won't be survive a long time. He won't be able to know that the fire, he won't where the berries, and he won't know how to keep the mosiquitos away. Well, luck helps him sometimes. Like the airplane crash, not many people are lucky like him. Also, he landed on the correct place. The place with food and water that can keep him survive. Even though luck is very important for survival, it doesn't mean anything. It is impossible for people to survive all by luck, you need to have some kind of knowledge and informations to live. God is fair. He or she doesn't show favorism. OK, mabye some people have more, but everybody won't make any huge difference luck.
You still need to have the potential to succeed. I have never gotten out difficult situation just by the luck. Mabye luck helps me, but it doesn't help me to get off difficult situation.For example: when I made my dad angry. I need to act very good to cease my dad's anger. Luck doesn't appear. Well, personally, I don't really believe luck.

What Makes Fire?

The people that had taken survival class or watch some kind of survival shows should get a basic idea of how to make fire. Even though Brian didn't actually go to any class that teaches how to make fire, Brian knows how to make fire from TV show, playing, and school. Brian knows that he can't make a fire without any materials. The first method Brian tries to use is rubbing the sticks together. He tries to use the friction of rubbing to produce fire. That method has failed.Why has Brian fail making fire the first time? Mabye he didn't rub the two sticks correctly, or mabye he's using the wrong kind of sticks.Well, it is very usual for him to fail, because he had never lived in the wilderness himself before, also, rubbing two sticks is really hard to make fire! Actually, it will be a miracle if he succeed the first time! Making fire require pratices. The second method Brian uses is hit the hatchet to produce sparks, and the sparks will make fire. This method requires a lot of strength. He needs to hit the hatchet enough times and strength in order to make enough fire. Also, wind affects the fire. After sparks are made, Brian blows them. He does that, because he knows that fire gets stronger by wind.. He tries and tries, and finally fire appears.

My Winter Hoilday

Well, basically, I didn't do any really significant or important thing in this winter break. I have wasted my time usual, but I actually enjoy wasting my time. Even though it is very quite painful that you can't think of anything to do, it is still better than go to school and do your homework. Like I don't have to this blog thing during hoilday, and now I have to. I went to the Flora Expo. It was very crowdy. So crowdy that I can barely move! Many flowers could be seen there (of course!), cause is something do with flowers. People were busy on taking pictures. The flowers weren't sooo pretty, I mean it is not ugly, but it is not amazingly pretty also. Anyway, I didn't have very much joy in the Flora Expo. Mostly because that too many people were there, too crowdy and noisy. I went to visit my grandpa (dad's dad) and my grandma (mom's mom). Grandpa was ok, he still got a lot of energy. He is a healthy old man, and so as his cat. I like his cat, I play with it a lot in my grandpa's house. However, my grandma wasn't so good. She was lieing on bed, and couldn't speak. She looks pretty faint.Well, I really hope she can get better quickly! For New Year, I didn't go to Taipai 101 to watch the fire work. I was watching TV news.