I go back inside the train; I carry out dead infants; I unload luggage. I touch corpses, but I cannot overcome the mounting, uncontrollable terror. I try to escape from the corpses, but they are everywhere: lined up on the gravel, on the cement edge of the ramp, inside the cattle cars. Babies, hideous naked women, men twisted by convulsions. I run off as far as I can go, but immediately a whip slashes across my back. Out of the corner of my eye I see an S.S.man, swearing profusely. I stagger forward and run, lose myself in the Canada group. Now, at last, I can once more rest against the stack of rails.

-What is going on in the example you share?  This is  a description of his life, and from this part, I can know his feeling, he has to face the dead body every day, and he is desperate.

-What about this example made a particularly strong impression on you?  The first sentence, “I carry out dead infants.”

–What is its significance within the context of the story? There are so many people dead, he wants to escape the corpses, but they are everywhere. Killing is not a serious thing in there, dead body all around. I can image from his description, there is a dark place, and people has no freedom.

–What questions does it raise? life is cheap in there, even the infants. All the sentences can express his feeling. I think this example include a lot of information, his daily life, the environment, the situation he faces.

First of all, I think the protagonists of these two stories are very similar. They were both women and betrayed by their lover. In the story of punishment, Chandara loves her husband, and she knows she is different than her sister in law. Also, her husband is not like Dukhiram. She knows her husband is charming, and there has a lot of eyes on her husband. From chapter 2, ” They quarreled sometimes, but there was  mutual respect too:neither could defeat the other.” I can know they love each other. When Chidam tells her to admit murder, she is dumbfounded. She can’t believe her husband could ask her to do this thing.  She feels betray, and from the ending, I can know she lose her trust on her husband, even though, Chidam tries to save her, there is no one would believe him. Chidam should know that murder is not an easy thing to get avoid, and he put his wife’s life in danger. After all, I can know the result of Chandara is death by the hanging. The other side, Du Tenth, she loves Li Jia, but in the end, she finds out Li Jia has betrayed her. Li Jia wants to sell her to get money and back to home to see his father. And Du Tenth can’t afford this betray, so she jumps into the river, and dead. Li Jia and Chidam betray their wives for the family, but Du Tenth and Chandara choose a wrong way to end the thing they have to face. I think Du Tenth and Chandara have similar destinies. They can’t choose their own lives, they have to listen to their husband’s arrangement. These two stories can reflect the social status of women. Their husband helps them to make the decision, no matter it would hurt them or not.

First of all, the beginning of the film let me more clearly understand the furnishings and decoration of the house. The combination of the film and the description of the text in the book gives me a clear picture of the character’s position and the direction of the story. The first act of the film I saw the home servant of Tesmans, she and Miss Juliane Tesman began to talk about George Tesman and his new wife Hedda Tesman. Maid is very concerned about miss Rina, because she is sick. but Miss Juliane Tesman thought George Tesman needs Berta more than Miss Rina. From the look of Miss Julian Tesmans and Berta, I can know that they are very proud of George Tesmans, and they are surprised that he can marry a wife like Henda, they are proud of this family. When George Tesmans showed up, I can feel that he and his aunt’s relationship is very close, and he likes his aunt. When Tesmans tried to help her took the hat, he looked carefully, and it indicated George Tesmans is care and respect his aunt. Their relationship is really close, and the film screen made it more real. Henda started out trying to avoid meeting Miss Juliana Tesmans, but when she found Henda and talked to her intimately, she had to join their family chat. From the movie, I can understand the character of Henda more clearly. Her attitude is arrogant, the expression is disdain. Later, Henda pulled the curtains, where I can see that she and Miss Juliana have different views. Although Miss Juliana was very embarrassing, she kept silent and say nothing. In the family relationship of George Tesmans and Henda, Henda has the right to speak, and she is aggressive. The book has a very detailed description of the opening, but the picture of the film made that description more clearly and better presented in front of the audience. After the watch of film’s opening, I have a profound understanding of the story.

“Mr.Fore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving Demby an additional call, raised his musket to his face, taking deadly aim at his standing victim, and in an instant poor Demby was no more, his mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.” — Chapter V

Douglass described Demby’s death very clear, and this part makes me feel sad. Mr. Fore didn’t give an additional call for Demby, it reflects their life that they can’t bargain with the master. Also, the master didn’t care about their feeling. “His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.” I can image this part from his description. A poor slave was stand in the water, and he tried to get more time in the water, but the master was cruel, he wanted his slave back to work as soon as possible. Slaves have no rights to speak, and they have to suffer the pain and whip.

Although this is only a small fragments about a slave, but it really impressed me. Slaves could not help each other, though their companions died, they feel fear and they could not resist. Slaves and the master have different class and identity, but both of them are human. The master didn’t treat slave’s life as the same with them. The master treats their slaves like animals, and if animals against their orders and they can kill them.

I think the description of this part was very dismal  and his death deeply engraved on Douglas’s mind like a picture. At the same time, I  can felt the despair and fear of salves.

After I read this poem, I did some research online. It is hard for me to understand this short poem fully from the surface. As we know, William Black has two collection songs of innocence and of experience. “The Lamb” is from songs of Innocence. From this poem, I can see some words, like delight and rejoice, and those make this enjoyable. “little lamb, who made thee?”, William Black keep asking this question in the poem and answer by a sentence. “For he calls himself a lamb, he is meek & he is mild.” So I think Jesus creates lamb and presents himself as lamb. Also, Jesus tries to use lamb to reflect himself, he is mild and meek. William Blake though this poem to express his perspective on Jesus, and this poem is like a child’s song, it uses two parts to state question and answer. The image above shows the relationship between Jesus and lamb, also give an answer to the question.

This picture described the women who hold an umbrella under the rain. And it reminds me when Toyo-o first time meets Manago. Toyo-o meets Manago in a shabby house, he is surprised by her beauty. He thinks Manago must be a woman from Kyoto, and come with the high station.  “Toyo-o saw her off as she spread the umbrella and left, watching until she vanished from his sight.” Toyo-O borrows an umbrella to Manago and this umbrella make a chance for Toyo-o to meet with Manago again. When he back to home, he is dreams of their second meeting, and he can’t sleep. After that, Toyo-o goes to find Manago, because he wants to see her and he pretends come for the umbrella. The rain and the umbrella  make this story begin, and people are always involved in something especially under this condition.  The title of the story is “bewitched”, people are hard to discover the real face when they bewitched by someone. When Toyo-o first time meets Manago, he thinks she is a beautiful girl who gets wet, and he has to help her. So this makes the story more interesting and reasonable.

From Act I and II of Moliere’s Tartuffe, I can know Orgon is crazy on Tartuffe. Even though Tartuffe didn’t show up in the first two act, Orgon trying to marry his daughter to Tartuffe, and he does not care about his family’s opinions. Tartuffe is a pool guy with nothing, but Orgon believes Tartuffe is the best guy in the world. In the Act 1.5, Cleante  trying to convince him,and help him to make a right choice. But Orgon says:” You just don’t see him in the way I do, but if you did, you’d feel what I feel, too. Every day he came to church and knelt,., and from his groans, I knew just what he felt. Those sounds he made from deep inside his soul, were fed by piety he could not control.” And Cleante thinks Orgon is out of his mind, all his speak are nonsense. Dorine thinks Orgon is intoxicated with Tartuffe, as she said:” he calls “brother” and loves more than one, more than daughter, wife, son.” Tartuffe made Orgon lost his mind, he cares about Tartuffe more than his wife, his family. This is ridiculous. If Tartuffe is a good person, he should help Orgon, not divide his family to a part. I don’t understand their relationship, I have a lot of questions, Orgon is just like a fool, and why he trusts Tartuffe.