Seo Yeon Kim World Lit. Journal

After 1st reading)  Rating: 5 /10  <The Student> written by Checkov has a vivid description that expresses the atmosphere of cold deep winter. However, I couldn’t get the author’s message at all. It was hard to understand the message, especially Ivan's enlightenment after he talks the story to the window and her daughter. Even though this very short story has a sharp depiction, getting into the story and understand the author’s message was hard.  After 2nd reading) Rating: 8.5/10 In the first reading, matching this short story with a hero's journey was tough. After having discussion time in the class, I could understand the hidden message. The story seems blurred when I didn't catch the hidden meaning, but after reading it twice, the story was interesting. Especially the scene of Vasilisa's tear made me imagine the unknown story of the daughter and mom. To compare this story with hero journey stage 6, which is a step of enemy and testes, Ivan testes Vasilisa and h...

 Rating: 8/10 I've read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and liked the author's imagination and the way how he describes the scene. Therefore I anticipated the short story 'A Sound of Thunder' before I read it. The story didn't disappoint me, but there was a thing to improve. The story talked about the “butterfly effect” with the concept of time travel, since this story came out before the butterfly effect is introduced to the world, I was surprised at the author’s imagination. One thing to improve is that this story is short. The concept of the butterfly effect showing the responsibility of our actions and time travel is so creative that the author could write a longer story. It would be more interesting if this story was long. This is the reason why I gave score of 8 out of 10.