Prose or Poetry

  Personally, I prefer poetry better. Since the description is more concise and terse, I was so surprised that short words could be such meaningful, which fulls of romance and beauty. There are often special emotions and enlightenment hiding behind the words. It makes me associate a simple and elegant scenery, such as running water. Although I somewhat confused to get the message, I love the style very much. Furthermore, I love the feeling when I'm reading a poetry, smooth and fluent, which rolls down my tongue easily. Since the rhymes in the poetry are mysterious, I was amazing to find out the smooths behind the words. In fact, I have to admit that I preferred a prose better when I was small. Because the content is more interesting and easily to get the meaning, we could understand it and learn writing. When we start building our writing ability, we often learn to write a prose first. I think that writing is a way to express our feeling and opinions, not a pressure to chain us for writing in accurate grammar or perfect thinking. However, whether prose or poetry, I once love them before and present.

Outsiders Film v Book

 Outsiders is the first personal loyalty of brotherhood that interests me in a particular way. Since I was somewhat disliked the battles with blooding, it made me felt frightening and disgusting, I couldn't stand up for the image. ( because I'm a peaceful person ) However, I could truly support the steadfast friendship between the characters in the novel. They aren't the perfect students in school who always get high grades, in fact, they smoke and they fight. But, they fight for their self-respects. I love both films and novels for Outsiders, I feel better for the novels; parts of the reasons are that I haven't finished the film, parts of the reasons are that I feel quite tight for the film, though I had to spend more time on reading. Furthermore, there are some scenes that I feel quite differ from the novels, such as Darry was so agitated that he was almost exploded-- slapping Ponyboy. I think that the film presents so fast that I even feel that Ponyboy had ready to escape by turning his feet before Darry exploded.The film didn't capture the tension well, but it had released the emotion of characters by lively gestures. Anyhow, both the film and novel of Outsiders had truly interest me, and made me willing to think about the discrimination among different races; in reality, the story builds an exciting plot.  

Film v Print

   Both films and prints are my favorites, though they are quite different, they are both attracting me. Films are more easy to stimulate and excite our version, since they are made by gorgeous, special effect, and often need interesting plots to attract audience. Prints are described more exquisite and more elaborate by the authors. I could easier imagine the characters in the prints and created by imagination, but I might be disappointed when I saw the characters in the movies, because they might not be the style that I expected to look at.One of the con of prints is that the plot often gets twisted and is hard to live up to reader's expectation. I once have read a book, My Sister's keeper, which touched me very much and had changed the plots when it is shot into a movie. The movie changed the plot that the main character, Anna, was willing and volunteered to donate her organs for her elder sister; instead of accusing her parents '' consumed '' her body structures to safe her elder sister. ( Anna's body structures was totally the cloning of her sister, she was born for donating and keeping her sister's life )
However, whether films or prints, I was always looking forward to see or read.

Making a Choice

  Since this is the most difficult journal that I've ever written, I spent lots of time thinking what should I choose. Lingering among "killing three people" or "die together", I couldn't decide whether I should be selfish or kind; because everyone has his or her own life, own family, and people who love them very much would grieve the loss of them. If I choose to kill people in order to survive, I would feel sorry and being uncomfortable for my rest of life. Therefore, I would rather choose to die together. Although I knew that people didn't want to die without achieving their dreams and goals, dying together seems another kind of taste. However, it still depend on who you die together. If it was the last moment that I was alive, I would reminiscence the beautiful things in my life, whether a miss out of  smile, persistence of accomplishing goals, or the warmth of supporting and encouragement. I might lose something that I felt regretful and miss a bunch of things in the future that are exciting and interesting; however, I could forget all of the pain and tears in my life, looking forward for my next life and dying peacefully with so many friends. Anyhow, I still didn't want to die if there is a chance of living.  

My Stuff

  Unfortunately, one day, if I was suddenly trapped at a small place like Anne and her family, I might feel painful, scared, and grieved under the blanket for few days. However, I won't make my exterior to look like I wanted to escape impatiently, because I knew that it was helpless and agitated, the people who trapped us would just sense my feeling and became more careful. The first things that I probably needed to help me accompanying through difficulties were my favorite novels. Since I required spirited supports, I had to read something that could distract from the terrible trapping in order to calm down. When I was reading, I could develop my imagination and pretended I was living in a wonderful, safe place, and nobody would bother me, unlike being trapped ( actually, it was quite difficult ). Second, I might need my cellphone, so I could affect that I had a stomachache which required to go to the restroom, for the purpose of calling the police secretly. Third, I might need solid food and water to provide the energy of living. Since our bodies need carbohydrates and other nutrition for working, my brand could work only when it has enough energy, so that I could think the plans for escaping. Although I might still need other stuffs, such as a warm sleeping bag and first-aid case, in order to have a good dream and cure the wound or illness at the first moment, I think the top three things are my top choices. However, I wouldn't like to be trap with terror and concern lots of stuffs, probably also my afterlife. [ I don't want to join mummification :)  ]

Who Do You Want To Be?

  Since I didn't really spend so much on reading Anne Frank's diary on the text book, I only knew information about Anne Frank by Holt Reader and concise summary from English class. Although I have read few diaries about Anne, I could observe and infer that she is an energetic and courageous girl. She could coordinate with her family at the right moment, not acting capricious by indulging in emotions and causing problems ( Ex. refuse to transfer and leave her friends ).  She was obedient and behaved herself very well. However, though Anne had so many good behaviors that worth for me to learn from, she isn't the character that I would want to be; since I'm not brisk nor active, I won't like to act her. The character that I decided to act is Miet Gies, not only helpful, she is also an intimate friend of Anne, and loves her a lot. She was the person who discovered Anne's diary and kept it till Mr. Frank returned. Except of Ms. Miet's kindness, I would choose her because she didn't require too many dialogues nor actions, unlike Anne Frank, I didn't have to energise myself by acting lively. That's why I love acting the characters in the background ( minor roles ), since they were sort of invisible!  

Teens

  When I read about the story of Anne Frank, I was pretty surprised that a 15-year-old young teenager could endure the terror of the Nazis and calm down with sort of courageous. Jews  had to wear yellow stars in order to show the difference between types of people, and their lives were in a prison, a prison with locks inside the door. Every time she heard a creck in the house or a step on the street outside, she had to worry about the Nazis were comimg for them. Fortunately, Anne was optimistic and stay positive to her life, she could see the hiding place as a peculiar summer boarding house, although she could never go beyond the door in the second floor and lost her freedom. Some of the modern teenagers can't accept never going out with their friends, but Anne tried to cooperate since she knew that they were a team now. Moreover, Anne was willing to keep writing her diary, unlike other teenagers who couldn't persist writing diary everyday. Since she knew that they were in serious danger of the Nazis, she was more independent than other teens. However, if I was a teenager in that era, I would like to be a friend with Anne, because she had lots if duties that worth for me to learn. Although our languages are different, we could still be good friends by simple gestures and learning their languages.  

Trapped!

  Unfortunately, one day, the World War III happens, since the discrimination between different types of people is serious, the citizens start running away and hiding in the depths of the world......If I was suddenly trapped in a few small rooms with my family, and I would never leave, I might feel painful, scared, and grieved under the blanket for few days. Since I couldn't phone my friends to divert myself from boredom, fear, and sorrow, I would pray to the gods in order to increase safety. However, I won't make my exterior to look like I wanted to escape impatiently, because I knew that it was helpless and agitated, the people who trapped us would just sense my feeling and became more careful. Although being trapped was truly terrible and terrified, at least, I was still staying with my family--this idea made me relax. For the sake of divertingness, I might image the novels that I had read before, thinking about the characters and their opinions, in which are so interesting that they could make me daydreamy all day long. I would muse about the stories and tried to create a new ending for them. Though I could find some fascinating stories to image, but I couldn't immerse for my whole life. Soon, I would sick by loneliness and imagination, and I might need psychotherapy! Anyhow, if I had no more choices, I might learn Anne Frank to write diaries about everyday life.

Why?

 Since I'm not good at psychology, I couldn't really understand why Hitler and the Nazis felt the need to eliminate different types of people. One of the reason that I could think of is that they are racists who believe their races are the best, such as Darwin's theory-- The survival of fittest. In fact, that is pretty unfair to the other people, because everyone is worthy and precious, we can't deprive the chances and eliminate value by races nor appearance. Another reason that I think of is that Hitler and the Nazis had been bullied by the Jewish in their childhood, so they started to revenge after they gain forces and power. Actually, it's no fair to the other Jewish, too. Because it wasn't other Jewish fault for treating them roughly, and they couldn't think that all of the Jewish is as rude as the Jewish who bullied them. However, I couldn't think of a rational answer, whether Hitler and the Nazis had encountered bad things that involved Jewish, they couldn't eliminate people's value. I think that the world would be better if there is more races and more groups, because the more types of people we have, the more creative and developed that our world would be. 

Luck?

  Except Brian's bravery roused him the willing of survival and his wisdom suddenly remembered the knowledge that he could apply in the woods, he truly depends on luck. He's so lucky that his dream  communicated the information that his father and Terry could help him, the birds guided his way for picking the delicious berries by the colors, sounds, and actions, and the bear even intended to share the berries with Brian. However, I didn't mean to displease the readers who support Brian. I couldn't deny that he is intelligent and courageous for survive independently, but I think that his luckiness almost promoted at the peak while he encountered difficulty. Therefore, I'm sort of jealous and sympathize with him, because I wouldn't like to lost in the woods. For me, I don't think I'm pretty lucky, since part of the reason is that my name is Angela and part of the reason is that I often appear at the wrong time with the wrong place. During the Christmas break, my parents have been driven me to the hospital for checking my eyes, and then we had a car accident abruptly. Since there was a horrible traffic jam, and the car behind us was hurrying in time. Unfortunately, it then collided our car, causing a conflict between us. On the other hand, I'm glad that I had survived, not staying on the bed in hospital.     

What makes fire?

  While Brian lost in the woods, he tried his best to survive. Since nobody would know where he was, he had to bestow his knowledge whether from playing or watching TV show. For the sake of survival, he required to have fire, which could warm him up, having cooked food, and even glowed his way. Since he haven't made a fire before, he figured out by himself. First, Brian tried to make fire by friction. He intended to rub two sticks together until there was enough heat for a fire. Unfortunately, his speed wasn't as fast as enough to be-- it was failed. Through an accident, Brian was attacked by a porcupine, but he suddenly found another method which might make a fire--hatchet. Therefore, Brian tried to produce sparks by hitting the hatchet, and the sparks will make fire. Because it required a lot of strength, he needed to hit the hatchet enough times in order to make fire. Although he was tired and exhausted, he knew that how significance was that to light up his life.......Finally, Brian achieved the goal, he made a fire successfully, and he truly warm his heart.

My Winter Holiday

  I'm pretty excited to have a jolly vacation, and plan to relax by listening to music or reading novels, since we always had tutorial classes in local school though it's winter vacation. During Christmas break, I kept watching book trailers on YouTube, because I love the novels so much, not only Fallen and Torment ( by Lauren Kate), but also Hush, hush and The Dark Divine ( and I expect that I could buy The Lost Saint and Crescendo in English ).  I couldn't believe that I would love the novels so much, and even hid them behind the textbooks while my parents enquired my room, so that I could pretend that I studied hardly. Moreover, I downloaded the 12 chapters of the Midnight Sun from Stephenie Meyer's official website, so I could observe the actions and thinking of the other character; I wish that she would publish the book as soon as possible, too. On Christmas day, I went back to Taoyuan and visited my friends in Shin Shing International School. We cooked chafing dish and exchanged the Christmas presents. Although the distance between us is far away, there is an invisible thread that ties us together, such us my friends in PAS. This Christmas, I truly had beautiful memories with my friends. On the other hand, I also exchanged the presents with my best friends in PAS, both of them are sincere to me also, they support me and accompany me whenever I encounter difficulty. I'm so glad that I have such great friends and kind classmates. Wish that I could have a warm and cordial Christmas break evermore ~