Each Other's Business

Eboo's article showed a very important point about religion. Religion can be very important for many people and it is a great deal of many people's life. However, even though there are differences in religious beliefs and even cultural aspects that are effected by religious beliefs, we should not forget that we are still part of a community. And as part of the community, we must build good bonds with each other, at the least not discriminate other people base on religious beliefs. Judging people base on religious beliefs can lead to many different negative result and we do not want negative things happening in a community where we live and have fun in. One of the most important things is that people will be misjudged because what they believed as a religious belief is not who they are but what they are. Basing judgements on what they are instead of who they are is very mean and will almost certainly lead to misjudgment. Secondly, judging people base on their religious beliefs is not getting to know them and people will fee insulted when judged only by their religious beliefs. Also, lastly, many people didn't choose to believe in certain religion but rather forced to or naturally adopted at birth through influence of family and or authority. Eboo wrote this article because he felt guilty during his high school life when he didn't disagree on religious discrimination. He felt really sorry when he didn't stand up for his jewish friend when he got bullied because he didn't think it was all that wrong. Eboo address two form of literary art, one being the Norman Rockwell painting and another being a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. These two fine literary items very perfectly essence out the importance of not being bias about religion of different people.

Author's Attitude

The author doesn't assume the reader to know a lot about Islam because it is an newspaper article and it is meant for everyone to read and understand. This means that the writer can not assume people of all ages of all knowledge know certain knowledge. We can tell that the author did not assume we know a lot about Islamic culture and muslim because the author inform us about living as a muslim in America, Islam rituals, and even 911 which most people should know about. The author's attitude toward the subject, also known as the tone, is informing but is also a bit sad and frustrated by the fact that muslims are surrounded in discrimination  against them and after the 911 incident, Americans have bad impression on all muslims even though not all muslims are terrorists. The author want the readers to know more about muslim and not be scared of it because the author wants the reader to not be stereotype and discriminate against muslims and generalizing all muslim as terrorists. The author also want us to learn more about muslim because there are many muslims living in our community and we must know each other to live peacefully in harmony and be a big happy family. United States is built on freedom of religion and that means we should not discriminate people base on their religion. Also, the United States is called the Great Melting Pot because there are many people of different backgrounds living in America so we must not be hostile but embrace them as a big family.

Living Together

Almost every community is composed of different people with different background, whether it's difference in skin tone, culture, language, or religion. However, despite of the differences between each other, we still live in harmony in the same community. It's true that in some cases, different people fight each other and they have violent disputes that are settled with blood feud but still, there are many communities that lives in harmony. Take the United States for example; the US is one of the most diverse countries in the world regarding to race, culture, or religion, because the country is built on freedom. The US is often referred to as a melting pot or a cultural mosaic because it has such a diverse culture. A miniature example would be a school, especially in international schools, where people from all over the world can attend the school therefore adding more cultural difference into the school. The bad side of living together with people of different background is that the minorities are often discriminated for being different than the majority of the people and it can really hurt the feelings of the people discriminated upon. Also living in harmony can cause trouble and bad racism. For example, because of the Al-qaeda and the 911 terrorist attack, muslim are depicted and seen as being bad and evil and seen as the same people as the people that performed the terrorist attack when in reality, only about 1% of muslim are terrorists.

Narrator's Persona

Depending on the relationship of the narrator and the character, the narrator can make someone look very bad or very good. Sometimes if the narrator is not involved it could be neutral. A character's characteristic is projected to the reader by the narrator's word choice and what the narrator want us to know about the character. This means that the narrator has the sole power to introduce a character the way he wants and we can only know a character by the way the narrator shows us. If the narrator intended to let the reader think that the character is vicious or evil, the reader has no way of finding out otherwise. This is very important because the way the narrator portraits the character can deeply effect how the reader like the character and it will relate to the condone or condemn of character's actions. This is very significant to the plot and the story that we understand the character through the narrator the way he wants. It is almost impossible not to have a bias narrator even if the narrator is not conscious or intentionally being bias because every word choice, every scene the narrator decided to show the reader will be a deciding factor of a character. A narrator can't put all the scenes and every single details into a story because it would be too long and the narrator cannot use neutral adjectives throughout the whole story. In conclusion, many story depends a lot on how a writer want the reader to think of a character and the story would change by a lot if the narrator decided to show the other side of the character.

Motivation for Telling a Story

In The Storyteller the aunt's motivation to tell the story of a good girl kidnapped by a bull and saved by her friends is to shut the kids up and maybe teach them some moral lesson. The bachelor's motivation to tell the story of Bertha is to prove the aunt's idea that kids cannot appreciate good stories wrong and to tell a totally opposite story of the aunt's to the children. He told the story also because he doesn't like the aunt and wants to make teaching hard for her by telling a story that expresses the idea that good is not always rewarded and is sometimes dangerous. The bachelor and aunt's story both has a moral and r both directed to the kids to teach them something but it is the total opposite of each other. Also, the bachelor's story is way better with more details and answered the children's question with creativity and swiftness unlike all of the qualities of the aunt's story. The aunt just wants to tell a story fast and get it over with so the children will be quiet and maybe learn something. The bachelor was telling the story mainly to oppose the aunt and the aunt is telling the story mainly to shut the kids up so they told for a different purpose and made the kids kind of confused about whether or not good is always the best way to behave, which is what the bachelor intended to do.

Satire

My pet peeves are people getting furious by really small things or incidents, constantly annoying and lecturing me about useless information, people being nosy, and Facebook spamming/stalking. These traits are generated from the annoyance created from constant annoyance, for example, spamming and annoying lectures are all caused because of the enormous quantity.

Once upon a time, there is a monster in the Banana Kingdom. The monster's name is unknown and people usually referred to him as the Master of Annoyance, Moa for short. Moa's greatest talent is that he could annoy people to an extreme that the target will explode into ashes. On a regular Sunday, Moa would roam through the kingdom, rubbing crap and urinating on people's walls. However, today was not a regular Sunday, the Banana King XII has spoken and had paid a huge amount of money to Apple Mercenaries to destroy Moa. During the first wave of attack, Moa wiped out a whole town during the battle, he unleashed a cry of nonsense that destroyed buildings, people, and toilets. He caused massive damage and he thinks the people of the kingdom deserved it. When the second wave came, the mercenaries tied him up and break every single bone in his body. Moa yelled in agony and instantly killed 3 people. When the Banana King issued the death penalty, Moa burst into rage and condemned the king for making an unfair judgement of punishing innocent citizen, namely, himself. Then, Moa was executed.

Saki's Purpose

The way the author describes the characters is very important. Different purposes are the criticizing or praising of characters, informative or just writing for fun, what the writer want's to tell you, or if it's persuasive. Sometimes a writer can be criticizing of something in the story but praises another. This means that a story does not have to be purely for criticizing something or it does not have to be written just for approving of something. However, a writer doesn't even have to make judgement or give opinion in a story, the story might just be informative and the writer has a neutral point of view toward it. As long as it is not a biography or autobiography or nonfiction, the writer can freely bend the settings, characters because he is making it all up without any standards. This way the writer can make his point clearer and make the reader fully understand why he wrote about it, why he chose the setting, why he describe certain characters certain way and others using a different way. Saki does not like the aunt, she pointed out how aunt's story is boring, uninteresting. By pointing this out, Saki successfully tackled the point she is trying to make and her purpose is to criticize the aunt. When Saki point out that the kids always asked why, I think she is trying to tell the reader that kids are curious and they would ask why to anything against their will.

Influence of Childhood

A writer's childhood effects a lot on the story of the writer because usually when a writer writes, he includes emotion and experience that he had into his story to make it more believable. Childhood memory effects the most because it is when the writer don't remember that much that makes the writer include the elements of his previous experience into his story unconsciously.  Childhood memory can have a huge impact on a story also because that it is very hard to forget major events when you are small and it's hard to avoid them being written into the essay. All writers are influenced by their childhood and it is unavoidable. Maybe some hides it well and but they are all influenced and some might not even know. It effects one's writing style. For example, if you are tortured a lot when you are a kid, your writing style might be filled with sympathy toward the protagonist or maybe the protagonist might be a portrait and a projection of when you're small.On the other hand, if you are very lucky and your parents love you a lot and you've never had any trouble in life, your writing would not be about the suffering and conflicts in life because you don't know them and it would be fake if you wrote about something you don't know. Writers write about what they know about and usually what they learned, especially at a young age, and when a writer doesn't follow this rule, he will be writing a bad story. One's education also affects one's writing style, one with royal or rich education might write with eloquence and big fancy words whereas normal people write with normal words and uses dialects better.

Point of No Return

Usually there is 2 possible reaction when you found that you are in a point of no return and especially in a bad situation that you can't change. Generally, a good reaction or a bad reaction. The good reaction would be something like calm or peaceful response and mental state because you know that there's no changing the situation and you have to face the problem rationally. Then we have the negative reaction, emotional breakdown, depression, cursing, and doing all sort of things that expresses your furious state of mind but you wouldn't face the problem. When you are facing the situation with the negative reaction you do not solve the problem which is a bad thing but the bright side is that you might not be angry anymore after you have expresses your anger. However if you go to the dark side and got violent it might harm the people around you. Hurting innocent people is against the law and one should never do that no matter how angry and furious you are. The key principle is that it's OK to express your anger and maybe sometimes in a violent way if you have to, for example you might find shooting a pillow helpful for your anger management control. However, bottom line is that if you express your anger in a violent way, be sure not to harm anyone and violate their nature rights of life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness. On top of those, you can not break the law by expressing your anger and this might be something very difficult to control. I personally thinks that remaining calm and thinking of the bright side and being optimistic is always the best way but I can never go to the bright side.

My Favorite Stories

The story I thought of first for my favorite stories is Tarzan. First of all, the music in the movie is awesome and I love all the songs in the movie. However, the story itself is really good. The main character, Tarzan, went out on a ship but then the ship crashes at the beginning of the story and his parents went on a lifeboat and got drifted by current onto an island. On the island, Tarzan's parents built a tree house and raised Tarzan there. But one night, Tarzan's parents got killed by a leopard, leaving Tarzan, still a baby, in a basket. Then a mother gorilla lost her baby too and she went out and found Tarzan. Then the gorilla clan raised Tarzan. I loved the story because Tarzan's parents cared about Tarzan so much and it is very sad that they got killed before Tarzan can remember them. Then the mother gorilla wandered into the forest and hear Tarzan crying then she adopted him and raised him. Another part of the story that is very appealing to me is that he protected and saved the gorillas from the hunters instead of helping the human. However, he fell in love with an archeologist's daughter and was going to leave the gorillas. But he came back for the gorillas and I think it is a very touching ending. I still watches this movie if I have free time and got nothing to do because it is a very good movie and again, I enjoyed the song a lot.

What I like About This Class

This class is very helpful and useful. The Greek and Latin roots quiz are also very helpful in memorizing vocabulary through the roots. It helped me a lot with my English skills, learned lots of new vocabularies. The readings from the text book and Holt Readers are very helpful in improving my critical reading skills. These critical reading skills are direct help for comprehending articles, passages, or essays. These skills that I gain from the class is will benefit me a lot in SAT, PSAT or other tests in the future and I am passively building up in this class. I am also amused by the jokes the teacher, Mr. McCool throws in from time to time. Although the jokes might be meaningless or nonsense but it's still very good to have fun once in a while in an English Class. Although English classes are boring because of the reading, analyzing stories, tests, quizzes, and other boring things that we just have to do in English class to help us, the jokes make the class bearable. I think the novel choice of Fahrenheit 451 is very good and I think the story is very interesting. Overall, this class is a great success and because of Mr.McCool, the boring English class sometimes has some flavor of entertaining along with the course.

Buddhist Doctrine

The Buddhist doctrine is...

1. Life suffering
2. Suffering caused by ignorance and attachment
3. Suffering ended by overcoming ignorance and attachment
4. Follow the Eightfold Path

The Buddhist doctrine is the very key principle of Buddhism and it must be followed strictly by Buddhist. It is how a Buddhist can achieve enlightenment and by following this principle completing each step you will become the Buddha, the enlightened one. However Siddhartha does not believe that you have to follow this doctrine to achieve enlightenment and he has his own way of achieve enlightenment. He thinks that these are only just a guideline for people that will not fully achieve enlightenment. The true relevation will only happen with self experience and find a way yourself for the perfect enlightenment. I believe the doctrine is just the foundamental but many people view it as the ultimate thing to do and after you're done, you're done. I think one should base this doctrine to begin his spiritual journey and that would be the real way to become enlightened. Buddhism is a very complicated religion because there is no specific way of following it. Everyone has its own interpretation. The Samanas have beat themselves up and feel as much physical pain as they can and they think this is the way to acieve enlightenment. Gotama, on the other hand, is so peaceful that every motion he has is so graceful and peaceful, when siddhartha sees him, he knows he is Gotama.

Why Be A Prodigy

In the story Two Kinds, the mother wants the daughter to excel because she had lost everything in China, family and money. She took Jing-mei to America and wished she can raised her into a successful kid to raise money and have a better quality of life. She wanted Jing-mei to succeed in her life because she didn't for herself. Jing-mei's mother is in some degrees living through Jing-mei and trying to get everything she didn't get when she was a young child herself. Jing-mei wanted to succeed and be a prodigy just like her mother asked her because she wanted to impress her mother. Kids usually don't know what's the right thing to do but know what to do to please their parents. In this case Jing-mei wants to exel for her mother. Parents tend to push children hard because they know if you don't work hard you wouldn't succeed. I think strict is reasonable but if parents just keep ranting on about the same thing it would be quite annoying. Although I understand that by scolding us, we would do better but by repeating the same thing, there's not much improvement because we know what they'r trying to express, It's not that we don't understand or didn't hear. I try to resist but still follow the instructions. I follow the instructions because deep down in my heart I know the juice is worth the squeeze and that studying hard would get me a better quality of life but also because I want them to stop talking.

The Influence of Others

Influence from other people can both be good and bad. Influence can be good or bad. A good physical influence is when someone take you to do a plastic surgery. A bad physical influence is when an orange crushes an apple. In which case the orange is physically influencing the apple in a bad way. An emotional influence is when someone or something influences your emotion, your thinking, your principle, or your reasoning. If someone hit you on the head with a skateboard or cause you to grow a brain tumor it is still physical influence because although you have a brain damage and becomes an idiot and can't function or think normally, it's still physical. However, if someone scared you everything you walk out of a bathroom and cause you to fear the bathroom entrance every time you see the door, it is emotional influence. This is an example of a negative emotional influence and a positive example is when a bear excels in every subjects in the school and beats you in every single test, you will be motivated to work harder and try harder. This motivation will eventually get you into good college and sell gum at a better place instead of the train station. We all have different interpretations of negative or positive influences but by the normal standards, I think my examples are just right.

Character Traits and Making Inferences

Mama is a tough woman in the south. She can do whatever a man can do such as killing a cow and eating its liver, and doing farm works. Mama has to do all these things because she has to feed her daughters, Dee and Maggie. Mama is very proud that she could do what a man could do. Mama is a fat woman and she wears farm clothes such as jeans and rough clothes. She is not very elegant and it is resulted because of her economic status. Mama faced a conflict of deciding who to give their family treasure to, a quilt. She doesn't want to give it to Dee because she felt like Dee has a distance with the family and tradition because she went off to school in the city. Mama also thinks that Dee would not make the quit bigger and pass it on so it would destroy the family tradition. However, Dee wants the quilt. Not because she thinks it is valuable or warm to her but because she wants to show other people that she had earned her way up to the city from the countryside. It shows that she is from a poor family but she made it through. Dee wants to make it a decoration. Mama is angry about this fact. Although Mama is angry at Dee because Dee wants the quilt as a decoration, Mama still loves both of them. On the other hand, Maggie does not care who got the quilt. Mama decides to give the quilt to Maggie because she will honor their family tradition, make it bigger for the next generation and use it for the right purpose, warmth and a sense of family.

Literary Analysis

Mama is the narrator of the story. She is the mother of Dee and Maggie. She is a tough and proud woman living in the countryside. She can do everything a male farmer does and is proud because of it. Mama dislike the city because she felt like the city people had think of them as inferiority but she had to do all the dirty work for them. The characters in the story are all defined through Mama because she is the narrator of the story. Because all the characters are being shown by only 1 character, it can and most likely will be biased. Mama thinks sending Dee to study in city is a bad idea because when Dee came back, Mama felt insulted when Dee read and tell her things that she didn't know. Maybe Dee wasn't trying to showoff but Mama had felt this way because after Dee come back from the city, she is suddenly smarter and knows more things than Mama. Mama also thinks that Dee hates the house, she said she should dance beside the burning house of theirs if she hated it so much. Maggie, on the other hand, is extremely shy. She got burnt in the fire of their old house and if shy ever since.She moves sideways and doesn't look people in the eye because she is ashamed of herself because of the scar on her. The three unique characters makes this story interesting. Mama's dream about going on a show and surprisingly meeting Dee shows that despite disliking Dee because she is citified, she still loves Dee.

Read With a Purpose

The conflict between Mama and Dee is between their family and is about family tradition, or heritage. Mama honors the family tradition of their house but because Dee does not live in the countryside with Mama and Maggie, she is citified. Dee lives in the urban and has a different lifestyle there but Mama doesn't understand and is upset about Dee not following their family tradition. Take the quilt as an example, Dee took the quilt as a decoration to show that she had come from the countryside and she had worked her way to what she is now. The quilt is made to keep her warm and not to showoff and Mama is angry about this. Mama is angry because she is showing off the quilt that should be part of the family tradition to keep her warm. Mama is also angry because at first Dee doesn't even care or want the quilt and now because she needs to showoff, she wants the quilt that her family had made for her to keep warm. Mama thinks if Maggie had the quilt it would be better because Maggie, who follows the tradition very well, will make more quilt and leave them as heritage to the next generation of the family. Maggie truly understands the quilt ore than just a decoration and something to showoff. Mama have always believed that Dee had been too urbanized and should lave the family heritae, the quilt, to Maggie.

Reading Focus Quick Check

Dee is different from Mama and Maggie in that she doest not think of herself lower than Caucasian and she herself being an African American. She does not think of herself inferior to white people so she is not afraid of talking to them. This is primarily caused by her life in Urban instead of in the suburb instead of Mama and Maggie. Due to the urbanized lifestyle of Dee, she has forgotten the true purpose of the quilt of her family tradition, which is to provide warmth just like a family instead of a decoration. Maggie on the other hand still kept the tradition and used it to warm herself. The title of the story is very significant in that it illustrates an everyday use item for a family as a tradition, a quilt, for Maggie and Dee's family. Although Dee had used the quilt for the wrong purpose, a decoration, she and Maggie had still been using the quilt everyday.

Character Traits and Making Inferences

Making inferences means to make an educated guess or to assume something. Implying something is almost the opposite, to hint someone or to say something with a hinted message in it. Usually in a story of any kind, we make inferences of characters base on what we read. Our inferences can be constantly changing because we are constantly receiving new information from the story about the character. Informations that help us infer the character's characteristics are the action of the character, the emotional and physical response it has toward a situation, or sometimes we can know what's going through the character's mind. A character's thought is the best way to define a character because a character's action can be totally different then who he is. For example, if a hypocrite saved a puppy just for the reward promised and we don't know what he's thinking of the reward, we might think he is a hero without flaw with a good heart. Knowing a character's thought can really help define a character and help readers make inferences about the character. Even if you know the thought of a character, it doesn't necessarily means you understand it because a character's thought can always change throughout a story. The best way to identify and infer a character's trait is to know its actions and thoughts.

How Does Heritage Contribute to Character

Character is generally defined as the set of characteristics that defines a person. The character of a person has several contributing factors, physical appearances and personality. A heritage is a key factor that influences a character and has the following components, gene, inheritance, and tradition of the family or region. Gene is the most important factor in that it shapes your physical appearance the most, almost all features of you are shaped by your gene passed on to you by your parents. Another part of gene that shapes your physical appearance is disease or sickness passed down through heritage. Gene can also shape your personality in that you might have similar personality with your parents. Inheritance is a key factor because depending on how wealthy you are, your personality is going to have major differences and maybe even your physical appearance. Lastly, tradition of the family or region taught to you or practiced by you when you are young can greatly shape your personality. Characteristic and heritage are very related because most parts of your character are shaped because of your heritage.

Analyze a Folk Tale

A folk tale is a story passed on through oral conversation and once it's been written it's not a folk tale anymore. We can say a story comes from a folk tale and sometimes it contains some key factors of a folk tale such as the explanation to an aspect of nature or a moral. In Coyote Kills the Lion the natural phenomenon explained was the wood tick being flat. In the story, when the Coyote tried to get the people out of the giant's stomach, the last to come out was the wood tick. The wood tick got squished by the giant's teeth and became flat for the rest of his life and all wood ticks are flat now. The folk tale also expressed a point that the time when people told the story, people are interested in the shapes and features of animals. They chose the wood tick to be written into this interesting story. We can tell that the people have interest in wood tick and maybe other animals that we did not read about.

Compare and Contrast

John's purpose for going on the journey is that he was very curious about the East, the Place of the God, and he also wanted to return as a hero. Coyote on the other hand does not have a purpose at the beginning, he was just walking around. When Coyote heard about the giant from an old lady he decided that he wants to kill the giant. Both character's motivation was curiosity and believe what they do will bring them fame.In Coyote Kills the Giant, we don't know about the first setting, but we know the second one, when Coyote's in the giant's stomach. In By the Waters of Babylon, the setting is also unknown, but we know by a brief description that it is after some kind of disaster where the metals are radioactive. The settings for both stories are very similar in a sense that it is not clear to the reader when and where it is but we can tell that there's not much in the setting. It is also different because in Coyote Kills the Giant, it's more like a place full of nothing and he just travels to meet the giant, whereas By the Waters of Babylon, we will think of a town and there's many people.

Conflicts - Internal and External

A conflict is an opposing force to the protagonist to go to it's "happy place". A conflict is classified into internal and external conflicts and a good story will consist of both kinds of conflicts. Internal conflicts are problem that's caused by the character's own state of mind, its feelings, emotions, or principle. An external conflict is cause d by factors around him, nature or interaction with other characters. John, the protagonists, faced many conflicts in the story, internal conflict being if he wants to travel to the East, being the Land of the Gods, which meant a possibilities of not being able to return but will be enslaved by the Gods. It's a difficult decision because if he returned, he will be a hero. The external conflicts came when he decided to take this journey, and he faced conflicts caused by nature, climate and wild animals. It is the internal and external conflicts that made this and so many other stories interesting because without the conflicts, stories will be like the Teletabies where they just say hi and hug each other.

Unfamiliar Place

HAS was the first American school I go to at 5th grade and everything was so new to me. We didn't have to speak English at all times but it's the only way to communicate with the teachers. There was only 5 students in our grade at the time when I entered the school and it was so different since we have 30+ students in each class and 3 classes a grade.The teachers are weird looking because I've never seen so many foreigners and nonetheless, constantly talking to me in a language that I am not good with. The food was as terrible but there's desserts such as fruits or eggs for afternoon and there's a vending machine downstairs so I lived through it. Now, in PAS which is almost the same as HAS, I'm use to everything, crappy food, foreign teacher with English, even teachers that speaks English with really weird accents.

Quickwrite - By the Waters of Bablylon

Of Mice and Man, both movie and novel, is a good example of someone going on a journey because it is both physical and spiritual.. The main character, George, went on many journeys with Lenin, his best friend, because Lenin gets into trouble all the time wherever he goes.At the last stop, George realized painfully that Lenin is a burden and does not bring good to anyone and he should end it for the best, so he, other people, and Lenin himself won't get hurt anymore. He learned that from a old guy whose best friend is a blind stinky dog and he made the painful decision of letting it get killed. The old guy made a mistake of not ending his old pal's life himself. George made a painful decision of ending Lenin's life and all his troubles.

Making Time Move Slowly

The Contents of The Dead Man's Pocket


It was eight minutes ago since he left his house and into the freezing outside world but it seems like hours have gone by. The author Mr. Finney made it seem like a long time by taking a lot of time describing about feelings. He takes something that is happening simultaneously in Tom's mind and present them sequentially to the readers. Also, the use of punctuation and comma series that makes something fast into a long paragraph and long sentences can really make time move slowly.

Values

Values:

• Time
• Family
• Friends
• Money
• Fame

I think all the non-materialistic values should be much valuable than the materialistic values. I think Time is the most important of all the values because it goes by the fastest and there's no coming back. It's the most important thing in life and we all need to cherish what's so valuable. Family stands next because family usually what cares the most about you. Friends are slightly less important than family because friends' meaning is just a miniature version of family's support. Money is of the most important materialistic values because it is the foundation and base that helps you obtain other materialistic values. Fame is right behind money because it's not a comparison between what money gives you but it competes with what money gives you. Some people get fame with money, some just get it. There's debate about whether fame's better or money.

Picture Description

House of Flying Daggers Movie Scene

The picture is full of vertical objects such as the bamboo and the stealth ninjas hanging upside down in the background. The horizontal ground had a contrast to the scene. The setting is in a bamboo forest full of green and light in the front but the background was covered by heavy fog and darkness towards the end contrasting the front of the picture. The space between the bamboo created negative space that makes the audience focus into the bamboos.

The setting of the scene seems to be oriental with the ninja, Asian fighter, and the bamboo forest, and it seems to be in the past with the weapon choice. The tense facial expression and the dark background, creates a suspense mood. It felt like somewhere there's going to be an action.

Collection I - Human Stories

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before"
                                                                - Willa Cather

• birth
• childhood
• adolescence/unruly
• work
• marriage
• journey(spiritual or physical)
• death
• happy time <---> bad/sad time

Stories repeats a cycle of the main character being unhappy in the start or turns unhappy during the story and then goes through a journey of spiritual or physical. Eventually the main character goes back to the original state or maybe better. This broad cycle can be fit to almost all stories but there are some stories that don't follow the cycle. Usually if a story does not follow this routine, it is a bad story because this cycle has a introduction, conflict, and usually a climax, then resolution being that the main character goes back to how he started, or better.