— Anonymous Part 1 The play “Love Suicide at Amijima” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is a tragic love story of a young prostitute(Koharu) and a business, family man (Jihei). They both fall in love with each other but that is impossible to be together. Because the first reason is that jihei was a married person and […]
death
A lens for analyzing the world and how women in general are perceived by Society
— Anuradha Rampersaud For the final reading response, I chose to write and reflect on The Arabian Nights. The beginning of this story with the two Kings; Shahrayar and Shahzaman. I felt like I connected well with this story because of the turning of events between the Men and the Women, something that has been […]
Life wisdoms and society problems
— Anonymous Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” impressed me significantly since he narrates the thoughts, feelings and experience of death so vividly, and more importantly, he reveals life wisdoms and society problems beneath Ivan’s death. It reminds me of Cao Xueqin’s words about what is a great work “a grasp of mundane affairs is […]
With just words you feel all these emotions
— Anonymous One of my favorite readings so far is “This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen”, by Tadeusz Borowski. It is an easy to read text that is about events that happened, not this specific story but the history around it. It gives us, with plenty of details, about how those people lived […]
This text can connect to how people are feeling being quarantined during the Covid-19 pandemic
— Sumi Paul Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, is about a man who spends his whole life trying to get higher and higher in his career path. However, it is only when he is in his deathbed that he realizes the mistake he made throughout his life. Instead of focusing on the things that […]
