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PR#4 Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare wrote the drama Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are the two major characters that drive it. My attention was drawn to Romeo’s intense desire to win Juliet over with his words. Even if the drama uses some antiquated language from the 16th century, overall, I enjoy it. My favourite scene is when Romeo enters the masquerade party covertly and Tybalt merely looks at him as if he were a stranger or a criminal. I admire how Juliet and Romeo fell in love at first sight. I adore the way the play is plotted, and there are several plots that make me feel both terrified and like I’m a part of the action of the play. I’ve never seen a romantic film that ends tragically for both families, so the play made me hesitate. I was depressed after watching this play because most movies had joyful endings. 

I’m curious as to how Montague and Capulet initially got to be rivals. Is there a history behind it? If Romeo had never met Juliet, would Mercutio still have died? Would Romeo have drunk the poison if they didn’t become enemies in the first place? Would the ending be different if they lived happily ever after? Well, I guess it’s all a mystery now. 

PW#7 Bob

Bob was an ordinary person in a lonely town in Houston, Texas. Bob was a lonely kid since he had a square head but other Bobs have oval face shapes. And you guessed it everyone here names it ‘Bob’. Bob is so crazy in love with Bobberly. She is a pretty girl with a long hair and slim body. That is every Bob’s type. She the most precious Bob anyone can find. Bob have to try to find a way to get Bobberly attention during school. He try to give her chocolate, flowers, love letter. Everything he tried it seem like it didn’t get Bobberly attention at all. But little did he know she have her eyes on Bob all along.

IRJE#6 The Maid

I’ve recently started a book called The Maid by Nita Prose. This book is a novel and it tells the story of Molly Gray, a socially awkward maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, who becomes a person of interest when she discovers a prominent guest dead in his bed. I came across this amusing passage in the book.

‘Molly, what are you doing here?’ Mr Snow asked when I showed up from work after Gran died. ‘I’m so sorry for your loss. Mr Prestion told me that your grandmother passed away yesterday. I already called in a replacement for your shift. I assumed you’d take today off.’
‘Mr Snow, why did you assume?’ I asked. ‘As Gran used to say, when you assume, you make an A-S-S out of U and ME.’
Mr Snow looked like he was going to regurgitate a mouse.
‘Please accept my condolences. And are you sure you don’t want the day off?’
‘It was Gran who died, not me,’ I replied. ‘The show must go on, you know’ (p10)

This book paragraph gave me the impression that I was in an obscure comedy performance that would make me chuckle. The line “It was Gran who died, not me” was the one I found most endearing. It seems as though Molly is emotionless; she dismisses it and carries on with her life.

PW#6 Little Tommy and His Starfish Friend.

Once upon a time, in the depths of the ocean, there was a little green tomato named Tommy. He had a vibrant green colour and a friendly smile. Tommy lived in a cozy little house made entirely out of seaweed with other creatures village. He had a best friend named Sandy the Starfish, who lived right next door. They would spend their days exploring the colourful coral reefs, playing hide-and-seek with the mischievous seahorses, and having underwater picnics. Tommy loved making seaweed sandwiches, and Sandy always brought her famous sea cucumber salad. They would laugh and have a great time together. The ocean was their playground, and they cherished every moment of their underwater life. The little Tommy loves to sing! He started to sing “Under the Sea” by The Little Mermaid. 

“Under the sea darling, it’s better down where it’s wetter Take it from me..”

Since he felt like he didn’t belong there, Sandy always tried to make Tommy feel like he belonged there. After a while, Sandy decided to join Tommy in a little singing session. They both believed that friendship and fun could be found in the most unexpected places, even in a green tomato Tommy living under the sea with Sandy.

IRJE #5 Someone Is Always Watching

I just finished the book, Someone Is Always Watching by Kelly Armstrong. As you may expect this is a horror book. I found an interesting horror scene that gave me goosebumps.

Dear Blythe,

You clicked the link, right? After making absolutely sure it seemed legit, of course. Did you check the URL? Type it in? Be certain I wasn’t scamming you?

I’m not scamming you. I wish I was, but I’m not.

So, you read the article, and tgen you went looking for more, didn’t you? And the only thing you found was that second article. WHiips, it’s all a mistake! Poor kid just accidentally died in a field, naked, with his throat slit!

Yes, none of that was in the article. But that’s what happened. I can send crime-scene photos, but I’ll spare you that. For now, you need to take my word for it.

It wasn’t an accident. Wasn’t a perv, either. The police dropped it because they couldn’t very well say that the murderer was an eight-year-old boy. Clearly, the kid didn’t know what he was doing.

How do you slit a boy’s throat, strip him to make it look like a perv, and not knowing what you’re doing?

You don’t.

He knew exactly what he was doing. Killing a kid who had the nerve to be nice to the guy’s little sister. That was the dead boy’s crime. His only crime. He was an eighth-grader who was mentoring a second-grade girl, and her brother killed him.

She saw it. The sister, that is. Got there after the kid was dead, and she saw what her brother had done.

Can you imagibe what that was like for her? How much it changed her? Damaged her?

Do you know any damaged girls, Blythe?

I think you do. (p63-65)

This whole part of horror kind of traumatized me and it can connect to the real world. This part makes me feel like the person who sent this email is some kind of stalker. Since there are more emails sent by an anonymous person. This connects to the title that the authors created.

Amusing OurSelf To Death and Brave New World – Personal Response

In “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman, the author reviews and correlates his ideas to the concept provided by Aldous Huxley in “Brave New World”. Melville contends with Huxley’s future depicted in “Brave New World” where there is an infinite consumption of goods and instant gratification that is more relevant to society than in 1984 by George Orwell. Postman, however, like Huxley, thinks so, according to the depiction of the world as nearly full of entertainment and instant satisfaction. He believes that his words are similar to what we are living now. He expresses his worry that our obsession with entertainment and the distribution of information through media can result in forgetting to be able to use critical thinking and hold deeply meaningful conversations.

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” shows that Postman knew that it was necessary to have a sort of self-awareness and evaluate the media that we see which can be distractive rather than a blind trust. He thinks that if we just get our acts right on the issue by recognizing the dangers of Huxley’s utopia and taking part in the concerts held in our communities then we would have a world which goes beyond just the smooth way.

PW#5- The Second Home (Pt.1)

The smell of that fresh breeze blows onto my face as I walk through the door. The scenery of the crystal clear water and the sound of the waves washing onto shore. Bringing me the childhood memories I have. As I explored the new home there was something that shook me. There was a body a dead body on the ground. I scream as loud as I can and it seems like no one can hear me. I sprinted to the door and tried to open it but the door didn’t budge to open at all. It felt like it had been locked from outside or someone might glued it shut. As I tried many countless ways to take the door down it still looked perfectly normal. So I just gave up. As I walked towards the body I saw that the body’s eyes had been opened. It gave me goosebumps. All of a sudden, I heard random noises like cracking and the stove turned on by itself. As I looked around everything seemed fine until I looked down at the body. The body isn’t there anymore there is only the blood. On the floor there a bloody handwriting. Which said…

IRJE #4 The Love Hypothesis

Right now I’m reading a book called The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. This book is a combination of science and love which is a Romance Fiction.

“Are there actual studies?” Jeremy asked.
“Mmm?” Anh was pulling her hair up in a bun.
“On the link between freckles and skin cancer.”
“I don’t know.”
“Feels like there would be.”
“True. I wanna know now.”
“Hold on. Is there Wi-Fi here?”
“Ol, do you have internet?”

This quote helped connect to reality since the “wi-fi” that Jeremy and Anh ask for.

 

PW#4 Under the Sea

Once upon a time, in the mysterious dark sea. Below the surface, there are 2 crazy, mischievous-looking creatures. As you expected it was a sea monster, well we don’t know what the creature is but it possibly could be anything in the world but the possible thing is a sea monster right?

Well, the sea monsters that are under the sea, they doing something that is the same as the human being. They are not using their phones but instead, they are playing UNO. Yes, UNO likes the games that kids play possibly adults too. Well, that’s crazy that underneath the surface monsters are playing UNO.

Well, if someone going below the surface I hope you take a picture of the sea monster playing UNO and bring some more cards so the sea monster won’t eat you as their dinner meal.

IRJE #3 Book Lovers

I’m currently reading a book called Book Lovers by Emily Henry. Overall it was quite fun but I’ve noticed that when there is a quotation the author loves to make it as funny as possible. This is one of my favourite quotations from the book.

After paying for my iced Americano at Mug + Shot, ask the chipper barista with the septum piercing for the Wi-Fi password.
“Oh!” She gestures to a wooden sign behind her reading, Lets unplug! “No Wi-Fi here. Sorry.”
“Wait,” I say, “really?”
She beams. “Yep.”
I glance around. No laptops in sight. Everyone here looks like they came straight from climbing Everest or doing drugs in a Coachella yurt. (p.g116)
After reading this I feel connected to the real world and how everyone these days actually needs the internet. Feels like the internet is taking over control of us but it is also in good use for technology and the internet. But sometimes the internet is too addictive. But overall it is quite a funny quotation from Book Lovers. I recommend people who love rom-coms read this book.

 

PR#2 All Quiet On The Western Front

“All Quiet On The Western Front” is a book about World War I. The book perspective is from Paul Bäumer. This book is filled with mixed emotions from good to bad. If I were on the front line with the fearless soldier I wouldn’t be able to move from side to side hearing those sounds of guns and shell explosions. The pain in their eyes from our minds made us feel the same way. Their brotherhood and friendship bond were the most eye-catching. How strong their communication skills were. 

I still can’t believe that it took place in an actual World War and is based on a true story. How everyone’s life just disappeared in front of them. Everyone’s life just got taken away within seconds. How the book just straight up said that “Paul died”. I wish he didn’t. I feel so connected with them like they are one of me. Feel like they are my friends. 

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front…(p.269)”

This quote made my heart sink to the bottom of the earth. Everything stop. My eyes started to fill with tears. One by one slide down my cheeks. Overall this novel was the most I enjoy of all the books I’ve read.

PW#3 Happiness

It is crazy isn’t it that happiness will never leave. Every memory you look back it all happiness with those special people. ‘Friends’. They always help you from highs and lows. Keeping you close not let anything happen to you. The smallest thing that they will do is to keep you safe. Happiness at every step. Even though they won’t be here with you in real life they will always be in a memory somewhere.

IRJE #2 Book Lovers, Emily Henry

Over the weekend, I started a book called Book Lovers by Emily Henry. The book is about 2 strangers Nora and Charlie. It is a rom-com book so it would be quite interesting. The quote from the book I’m picking is something Nora is describing.

The city is baking. The asphalt sizzles. The trash on the sidewalk reeks. The families we pass carry ice pops that shrink with every step, melting down their fingers. Sunlight glances off buildings like a laser-based security system in an out-of-fate heist movie, and I feel like a glazed donut that’s been left out in the heat for four days.  (p. 15).

I love this quote since Nora is just telling the reader how she felt when it was summer time. When she said “The asphalt sizzles.” It is just a metaphor that the weather is so hot it is like the asphalt is sizzling.

PW#2 ‘Love Bombing’

Every day you showered me with gifts that started from the smallest thing that made me happy and slowly turned into something expensive. You always say ‘I love you’, asking me where am I, and always get angry when I don’t answer. I thought it was normal. until you did it every second for months. You started to get angry for no reason. I guess it all because you were love-bombing me. You start to get dry and call me names. From ‘love’ to ‘annoying’, ‘pick me’ and ‘ugly’. why… just why did you fall for me? what did I do to deserve this treatment from you? A few months later you come back acting normal and love bombing me. like nothing ever happened until I blocked you.

“Did you kids eat all the Cheetos?” IRJE #1

I’m currently reading the book called The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.  The quote perspective from a girl (Belly). Her mom was at her friend’s house during the summer and she needed something. That was kind of important to her mother, her mother’s friend (Susanah), and her brother (Steven). Since this book has many perspectives it can get confusing sometimes.

‘”Did you kids eat all the Cheetos?” my mother asked, rummaging through a cabinet. “I’m starving.” “Yes,” Steven said. He couldn’t even look at her. “What about that bag of Fritos? Get those,” Susannah ordered, coming up behind my La-Z-Boy.’ (p.g. 56)

The quote “Did you kids eat all the Cheetos” the quote that I’m picking is a quote that made me crackle non-stop until the end of the chapter. It reminded me of one time I was at my friend’s house and she ate all my snacks which made me quite mad but it was all fine.

They Shall Not Grow Old

   I can’t imagine how they risked their lives in that horrible place for years. I can’t believe those teenagers who lie about their age wouldn’t have a future if they lost their lives during the war. I’m stunned that even non-experienced soldiers/teens have to go to war no matter what happens. I know that many people are glad that they don’t need to experience that horror sight. 

   Even though we are still in the same world and there a new differences some are still the same. Like lying and judging people. But still, they could make some new changes. There are different and many different things that stand out to me. The most outstanding thing was the military and the soldiers. 

   How many military soldiers have to train and work hard day and night which is non-stop work! That they only have ONE uniform for a year-long, inedible food and artillery stuff. I’m so thrilled that nowadays we don’t need to worry about the shell-explosion, poison gases, and infection. 

   The tones of the voices of the soldiers sound really depressed, enthusiastic, surprised and scared. Which was actually eerie and flabbergasted because if I got put/forced to fight for my country. I would be frightened to even see my opponent/enemies and the dead bodies that were on the No Man’s Land. 

   I couldn’t imagine if I got put in the soldier position my knees would feel really weak and trembling. How the pain I would feel and how much I would miss my family members back home. I bet all the years would go by slowly and really tired. And I’m glad no one needs to go through that anymore.

My Amazing Random Blog Post!?

I’m from Thailand, I’ve attended Brookes for about 2 years now and, my biggest interest is Travelling.

 

If I have to describe myself as a reader I would be like a romantic person since I love romantic books.

 

If I describe myself as a writer I would be a short story writer since a short story I would focus on a lot of details rather than a wider and endless ones.