Today I will talk about a short story call “Aunty Misery”. This story is about an old woman lived in an old hut with no relative but a beautiful pear tree. She spend all her time taking care of it but the neighborhood children keep coming and steal her fruit and insult her as “Aunty Misery” . One day, a stranger came to her house and asks to stay for one night. She let the stranger stay and serve him with her hearth. The next day before the stranger left, he grants aunty misery a wish. She wish that anyone who climb up her tree who climbs up her pear tree should not be able to come back down until she permits it. And so, the children came to steal her fruit but they can’t get down until she permits them to. Time passed by, another stranger pass by but looked suffocated and exhausted, it’s Death. He said it’s time for her to come with him but she told Death to climb up the trees to get some pears before they leave but Death end up stuck one the tree. Aunty Misery would only allowed Death to come off if he promised not to come back for her. That’s why now Misery live forever. The story take place in a small hut of Aunty Misery, there are 3 characters but the main character are Death and Aunty Misery.
About Aunty Misery, we can see her as a very lonely and independent person, she doesn’t need anyone to take care of her, she can take care of herself. But as you read the story, we can see that she is also a selfish and a little bit greedy. The conflict in this story is just that when she capture death, there will be no more death in the world. No more job for the doctors, pharmacists etc. So people are complaining about her. After reading this story, I found different themes of the story.
The first one is there are two things that you can't escape in life: death and misery. Everyone have to face misery more than 100 times in their life. Death is something you can’t avoided, you have to face it once and once only in your life, but that’s the end of your life. Misery is something really bad, but you can get over it in time, so don’t give up, calm down and don’t be greedy and cause trouble for other people around you.
The second theme is that what you have now can be better than changing your life. Sometimes you want to change your lifestyle because you don’t like the way you are living right now. But in some situation, they can make your life upside down.Maybe you are not meaning to harm the people around you but if there is a mistake in your choice, then it can make everything worsen. So think clearly before you decide to change something that is going to affect a lot in your life.
In my opinions, this story is a really good written short story that fits for teens like us to understand misery and death.Even though it’s quite confuse at the beginning but from the small pieces of literature, the author teach and give the audience a lot of lessons, themes or you can call it moral too. I feel like learning that we shouldn’t fear misery or death because it’s not only myself that have to go through this, every single person in the world have to go through this. It’s a common thing; there is nothing that we should fear about. And don’t think only for yourself; think for other people after you think of yourself also so that there will be less misunderstanding and having trouble for other people.
Would the story be different if it was written in Don Anselmo's point of view?
Of course the story will be much different. It will talked more about the trees, his feeling of it and his life. Because it's from Don Anselmo so we can understand the conflict of the story better than the visitor or the person who bought the house. When he write as a first person, the story might be longer and the word can be difficult for 8th grade us to read, with much more details and more feeling into it but still, we will be able to understand the story better than other kind of perspective.
7) Do you think Terry made the right decision abot questioning hid father on his experience im Vietnam? Why or why not?
In my opinion, Terry did the right thing because he is a young adult and he need to know what's happening in his family, what's happenning around him that made his father acted weird. He was worry about his father, it's something that every child did for their parents. He is just like us, very curious and wanting to know about things that he didn't know by asking adults. But sometimes asking other people can be annoying...
Terry asked because he wanted his father to share with him what happened in Vietnam, share his suffer, fear and experiences. His mother may think it's good that Terry doesn't know what happened because it might affect his study. But I think Terry asked his father is the right thing to do. :D
Author: Angelia Bui Fandom: Axis Power Hetalia Category: Sadness, brotherhood Status: Complete Author's note: For all of my friends. I put all of my feeling into it, so please give me feedback. This is actually 3 pages. I don't even sure how old is Arthur is :"> Just make it up myself
UNFORGETABLE
My name is Alfred F. Jones. My parents died 12 years ago by a car accident in London, United Kingdom. After my parent’s death, I wandered outside the Street and it was super mega cold outside. My fingers, arms, legs were freezing, shaking violently. I couldn’t walk properly, when I tried to stand up, I fell down again. Everything became blurry and I flashback when my parents were still alive. “As expected from our family. Blond hair, blue big eyes! You are really cute Alfred!!” It was a sad memory, but right after that, I found a place that I can rest there in one night. I laid down, talked to myself: “This might be the end for me. I should die together with my parents…” Closed my eyes, waited for a peaceful death. Suddenly, a boy appear seems to be older than me. His hair is blond like me, but he has green eyes and a fuzzy eyebrow. He wore a torn off shirt and pant, look like he is poor too. “Boy, are you okay?” That’s how I met my brother, Arthur Kirkland. He took me in and take care of me. He taught me how to read, how to behave with other people, and also how to fight. But there is one lesson that I couldn’t forget it since I was nine. This is how it started.
It was a very cold day in December, Arthur and I went shopping food for tonight and tomorrow. It’s nearly Christmas and people are everywhere, it was colorful and lively outside. I saw people smiling, talking and buying gift. On the way home, I saw a very pretty shirt; I stared at it for a long time and told Arthur “Big Brother, I really like this shirt… Will you buy it for me?” I used a very very and very soft voice to convince him, I also use puppy eyes technique to persuade him. His hand is covered the face and he was looking at another direction. Arthur said: “I’m sorry Alfred. I know you really like the shirt but it’s really expensive. We don’t have enough money right now…” I put my hand straight down, pouted and walked forward. That night for dinner, we didn’t talk much to each other. Whenever Arthur tried to talk to me, I ignored him. Tomorrow, I told him: “I REALLY want that shirt! Buy me one Arthur~~!!” He glared at me, pushed me away and walked up to his room. His fuzzy eyebrow pointed down sharply, I’ve never seen him like this before. From that time, Arthur spent most of the night in his room doing something suspicious. After washing up the dishes, Arthur went straight to his room, locked it up. But he didn’t know that I made a little hole to sneak into it, Days pass by; our daily routine is not as cheerful as before, I grew worried of Arthur kick me out of the house. He took me in and takes care of me, so he definitely can kick me out. I walked to his room nervously, my body is shaking and my head couldn’t think of any to ask him if he’s okay or not. I knocked and Arthur opened the door, I asked him: “Arthur, you’ve been acting strange lately. Are you okay?” He looked at me with no emotions answered: “Not to worry, I’m okay. Thank you!” and then closed his door again. What kind of reaction is that? I gather all of my will and went ask him if he’s okay, and this is how he response?! After that, I asked him a lot of questions about what he has been doing all this time. I saw his reaction, annoying. But I pretended I didn’t see anything and keep pestering him, but our case didn’t solve at all. I couldn’t hold back anymore and sneaked into his room while he went out. I found lots of yarn balls, a sweater that in middle of knitting lying on his bed. When I was looking around investigating, Arthur came home and saw me. That was the most horrible moment in my life. I shivered and shake. I thought my head is going to explode at that time. Arthur, the one who was standing at the front door, looking straight to my eyes, I can feel the pressure rising.
“ALFRED! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT PERSONAL SPACE IS?! GET OUT OF RIGHT NOW!”
I was so scared that I wanted to cry. This is the first time I’ve seen him angry like this. I never yelled at me before, maybe times changed right? I ran right away, straight up to my room without thinking, I cried. It hurts, it hurts so much! My chest is hurt; I could feel it to my palm. I couldn’t even hold a pencil and squeezes it, my eyes are always full of tears that I couldn’t see the color blue inside of it. I realized that, Arthur is the only person that I need right now. I really love him. Even if he hates me, its fine, I was so happy just to be able to live with him, I really meant it. I lost my parents already, I don’t want to lose Arthur, my only brother and my special person right now. But everything seemed to be hopeless when Arthur invited his friend to the house. I told me not to come down, but I couldn’t help my curious, so I went downstair. “Alfred is such a pest, he really annoyed me yah know! He keep telling me to buy him the expensive sweater even though we didn’t have enough money to buy them. Look at my hand here, I’ve been working to get the money, they are all callosities. Maybe I shouldn’t take him in that time; I don’t need him to distract me anymore.”
I could feel it, his hatred toward me. My heart beat so fast, I’m all sweating even though it was snowing outside. It was more painful that any of the pain I’ve felt before. I couldn’t breath anymore, I lost my only brother Arthur. You know, the most painful feeling is the hared from the person you loved most. Immediately, I put some clothes on and climbed down the window then ran away as fast as I can. My tears are all frozen from the snow, I ran away without thinking about anything. I ran, ran and ran, until I couldn’t feel my legs anymore. At home, Arthur walked up to my room, the window was open, some clothes are gone and there are footsteps on the snow.
“Oh Damn it! He heard me! I really should go and look for him! He will die in this condition of weather! Why do you decide to run away, Alfred?!” The weather was really cold outside, snow made me can’t see and feel anything. I’m so hungry, maybe Arthur is happy that I’m gone. Even though I couldn’t feel anything, but I have a feeling, it’s getting near and I could feel it. It felt so safe, warm and gentle. Just like the feeling when I first met Arthur. And it came true, Arthur found me, sitting on the doorstep. He was tired and out of breath. We looked at each other, until Arthur called my name: “Alfred..?”
I stand up and tried to ran away, but Arthur caught my wrist and pull me back.
“Listen Alfred! Let me explain!”
“I DON’T WANT TO HEAR YOUR EXPLAINATION! IF YOU HATE ME THEN JUST LET ME GO!” I shouted
“I don’t hate you!” As he said that, I tried to pull away from him as hard as I can, but it’s all useless because he was way stronger than me.
“But I heard it with my ears!!! I don’t hate you Arthur, I care about you instead. I care about you even more than myself. I want you to be happy!! I just want to be with you! I lost my family…. So that’s why I don’t….*sob* want to…. *sob* lose you!” I cried as I talked, he let go of my hand and hugged me.
“I’m sorry…. I’m so sorry for not understanding your feeling. I don’t know how can I make it up…but this is a gift for you, I handmade it myself. I hope you like it!”
Arthur pulled out a sweater that look exactly the one on his bed. Now I understand everything. Knitting, spent all the night inside the room, his hand got injured…
“Merry Christmas, my dearest brother, Alfred F. Jones…” Arthur said it and smile, my tears truly didn’t stop falling, he did it all for me, I’m a terrible brother. Arthur smiles, wipe away my tears: “Come on! Be strong and don’t cry!” But I couldn’t stop crying, I glomp at him, hug him tight:
“Thank you, my big brother Arthur Kirkland. Merry Christmas. I love you more than anyone else.”
That’s how it ended. I learned many things about Arthur and gain experiences. I’m 15 years old right now and Arthur is 20 years old. We’re living happy together, and I’m gonna make sure I’ll never going to make that mistake again.
My brother's eyes are like stars from the sky shining and glittering. When he's crying, his eyes are like crystal full with water, looking at people with his innocent eyes that no one can't resist. When he go out of a street, a lot of people mistake him as a girl and they all pinch his cheek and hug him. Actually, his personality is not what you'd imagine. He played soccer basketball and tennis, he also can play piano, violin and more musical instrumentals. He always in the top 10 of the school and never fail a class. I'm so far behind...
1) Rehabilitate - restore to good standing; training yourself to become a food person.
Example - All the people that are now in jail are the people that are rehabilitate themselves to become a better person.
2) Clemency - mercy; forgiveness
Example - There will be no mercy if you kill someone with a purpose.
3) Elusive - Hard to catch
Example - Jimmy is elusive because he only robbed the bank at night
4) Anguish - Emotional pain
Example - We all have an anguish when someone from our family pass by.
1) Rehabilitate - restore to a good standing; training yourself to become a good person Example - All the people that are in jail are rehabilitate them to become a good person.
2) Clemency - mercy; forgiveness
Example - There will be no mercy if you kill someone with a bad purpose
Quick note: I did use photoshop and I draw it by hand and all I did is to color it. I think it doesn't look very good. But I try my best on drawing these and create character action and expression. =)) I tried to draw it in Western American Style, but I can't......
There was the time that changed everything about me, the time that I struggled and thinking about it too much that I lose weights and lack of sleep. It happened when I was in 7th grade at AIS, when Zad, (the 8th grade student that I knew and became sister with her) is still at Nguyen Huu Canh campus. It’s all started in the ICT room when I started to talk impertinent and angry of my friend on the internet because they insulted my favorite comic book. I didn’t even understand my feeling at that time, I felt like fire are burning inside me and even water can’t calm it down.
“Calm down! You are being very rude you know that?! Stop bouncing up the wall because of something so small! Grow up a little don’t you?” Zad said with her voice raise up. I could see inside her are fill with fire, her hands clench to hold back her anger, I could see them clearly. But still, at that moment I couldn’t control myself spurt out
“I don’t need you to teach me that! You are not even my real sister! I can say whatever I want and THAT doesn’t concern who in it!” That was the most horrible thing I’ve ever said in my life. I felt horrible, I regretted it. Zad is the one that teach me how to stand up, how to fight back. And now, I’m the one that say horrible things to her. There were like something that crush through my heart, my legs were trembling. I might faint and fall down. From that time, Zad began to avoided me and stay away from me as hard as she could. I tried to talk to her but she didn’t answer me, she walked away. I couldn’t stand it so I started to think what did I say back then. Why did I say something like that? Do I really have to be angry about that? I come up with all of those kinds of questions, and then I realized that I was a jerk. No, even worse than that. So one day after school, I called her outside and the back of the school to talk. But since I’m not the one that could express my feeling by words well, I said:
“I know I’m wrong and I’m really a bad girl. So just be normal again okay? It’s nearly Tet and I don’t want our relationship of sister to be like this.” I said in a clear and loud voice, but I’m actually was trembling and really nervous inside. I took a deep breath and stared at Zad. She said:
“You know, I don’t wanna to be angry at you, but you are being very impertinent. I hope you learn something. You know, I still have a feeling that you didn’t learn a lesson, you just say it just for make up with me! If I forgive, you will never learn your lesson!”
“I don’t need to learn a lesson! I’m just being impatient and can’t control myself at that time! Do you have to be angry over something small like that?! You are the one that told me to calm down in every situation and now you are the one that being angry over a tiny thing like that!” THAT is another horrible things I’ve ever said to her. I know it’s really bad, but I just can’t stand her at that time! The laughter of our friends playing became a crying sound and the wind passed through feel freezing. We were both stupid for arguing! She was right, I should learn my lesson is to calm down and think before I talk. But it looks like that she doesn’t get me at all. From that day on, we changed our perspective of each other. I started to think again, I didn’t eat and sleep much. I was too worrying so much, every time I saw her, I tried to talk to her, but she still didn’t listen to me and still trying to get away from me. Now I’m seriously regretted what I said to her at that day.
But then a couple days later, she suddenly bought me a poster of my favorite comic book. At first, I was surprise and I couldn’t believe it!
“Well, both of us had a lesson to learn! Sisters can be arguing sometimes right?” Zad said, her face is looking another direction. I understand her, even thought she is not my real sister, but she is older than me and she have the right to teach me. I accept those gifts from her as a make up gift.
From that big event, I learn my 3 lessons and they changed my whole life. The first one is I have to be calm at every situation. No matter how bad it is, always stay calm.. Another one is that, don’t ever make Zad mad. Because when she is mad, it took a really long time for her to recover. The last important thing is to think before you talk, but don’t talk all you think. We don’t have to buy words to speak to each other, so choose the right word before you speak.
In my opinion, to pulls a Charlie Gordon means to acting stupid and dump like Charlie because he had a mentally problem. In the story, Charlie had a much lower IQ than a normal person have so they took him for an experiment for him to became triple time smart. But the operation is kinda fail and he didn't get any smarter, so when he return to his home, people making fun, played dirty tricks and laughing at him. But he didn't get it at all when people say "to pull a Charlie Gordon"
But ACTUALLY when people say "to pull a Charlie Gordon" is to prefer to people that doing something stupid or reckless, people compare those people to Charlie.
So that is my opinions on what it means "to pull a Charlie Gordon"
Welcome you all to my blog! This is my blog for Language Art this year. I study Mr.Sullivan at AIS (American International School). I hope we have a lot of fun reading and study. Best wish for everyone!
A little thing about me that I didn't tell you in class. + I'm a crazy fan of Manga/Anime +I love to go Cosplay
They are my idols. His nick name is Bummy
Đen Thui
Genie
Kaoru (Left) and Sui
Francis :x
Lishrayder
Ruyuha and ....
Aeris - my best friend :D
So! I love writing fanfics but I have to looks after my grammar a lot! Because I'm not really perfect at grammar and spelling. I do draw manga but I don't have to upload it :) So bear with it :))
+ I hate mice but I don't scare of them. I hate insect and scare of them.
+ I usualy forget my homework so I have to write them down. I take notes a lot in class!
+Just thinking about Anime/Manga/Cosplay/Den and Bum gives my strength and energy! :)
Anyway, this is a Language Art blog so I'll just write some word :)) See you again....................................... maybe =))
