Narrator’s Persona

To be honest, i hated the story, however the author did gave me a feeling to the story. I hated the story on the killing of the dog and the boring dialogue and thoughts. The narrator did however give the thougth of the feelings toward the subject of the camps. The narrator hated it and you can feel a bit of hopeless and a bit of blaming the U.S feeling. I feel the emotions on the victory garden and the packing of things. As the feeling all crumbles together slowly, the reader feels the large burden that you are leaving everything you used to have back in this place. The feeling that they might lose everything is successfully convey in the narrator's voice. However once again, this story is hella boring and sad. It's so sad that it becomes boring where there is no twist except a cute white dog was smashed dead without even knowing why or have one of his best meal he ever have. The killing of the dog senselessly really got me angered and depressed. After the dog, the way the children talks to the birds are even more annoying, this story took me a week to finish it as its dumb plot and dislogue couldn't let me sit down for 20min straight and get down with the story.

Life-Changing Events

I believe that changes in people's lives depends, this question could means by the whole human race or maybe just one person. In history, humans have to cope with the change of climate, their resources for lives. A huge natural disaster could devastate a society around the world as they have to learn to adapt to new things and live off new foods or ways of survival. To just regualr people right now, i believe death of a close family member would be a great change. Imagine the people who lost their parents when they were young or maybe their awesome grandparents. Dang that would suck. For me, nothing made a big change except the expierence that i was stuck in the elevator. I can live off anyhting that involves meat inside, enviromental issues doesn't affect me, people problems doesn't affect me at all too. I used to change school every year or half a year due to the diffrent school my mom like and i was having fun with it. I don't want to think about the biggest even that might change my life, last year i almost have to deal with it but fortunatly it didn't happen. I hate to lose anyone i know in my family, and i don't like to predict what would happen if i loses one of them,

Satire in “The Storyteller”

In my last journal prompt, i have talked about the things that Saki have been poking at somehow. In the story, the bachelor's story, the aunt, and the kids are all poking at the behavior of parents and the soceity. The aunt is a image of modern parents, trying to tell the kids to behave all the time, and in the end its not really helping anyways. In the bachelor's story, it shows a contrast of the view of aunt. Bertha was behaving well and doing everything that her parents order to do. In the end she was devoured by a wolf. I believe this story is a satire on the society, goodness and obediance are not always rewarded. Bertha could be a innocent being in the soceity, and the bad people would use this obediance as one of your weakness and turn it back to you. Such as a rapist and a innocent girl, the rapist will look at your well being and possible give you a candy and lure you onto his car. A very friendly manner can result in a terrible consequence like the history of the native americans, their goodness to the spanish caused them a disaster as slaves and killed. The goodness can be turned back to you and obediance are not always rewarded. The kids can also be referred to the kids of modern society, we ask why, we don't take stupid answers like that's better. The words shown in the story also shows humor. In the discription of the pigs, he use some odd descriptions such as black pigs instead of regular pink pigs. A phrase horribly good, pulling the children's atttention and the reader's attention. The storyteller consists of lots of great thoughts and satire is one of the main. Goodness and obedaince are not always reewarded.

Motivation for Telling a Story

In the story" Storyteller" diffrent characters have diffrent motivations. The bachelor and the aunt's motivations both include similarities and diffrences. the bachelor and the aunt both wanted the kids to be quiet and stop talking. The bachelor's way of making the kids to be quiet is quite diffrent from the aunt. The aunt wanted to tell a story that can teach a lesson while the bachelor want to tell an interestign story. The two person's feelings during the story telling progress were both diffrent as well. The bachelor was actually quite enjoying the process of the telling as the kids are quiet and appreciate the story in the end. The aunt was annoyed by the kids, the boring story that consists of the same things all the time and the lack of details couldn't fill the children's imagination up. The lessons that each story also differs. In the aunt's story, a stupid and over repeating lesson is taught again and again and it kills the children's interests. In the bachelor's story, it sounded like a lesson wasn't implied however one important is in it. I would view the story as an satire on modern parent's however it also talked about civil obediance. Being good isn't ususlly appreciated and you have disobey to be successful sometimes.

Omniscient Point of View

The way the omniscient point of the view shows each character's thjoughts make us like a supreme. We will know all thjoguths of a character and we can know their motives and some of the things that might happen before a character inside know. if you have told the story from the aunt's view, it is probably filled with the thoughts of the aunt and how a disturbing man the bachelor is. While from the bachelor, the thoughts would be how to show off to the aunt or how the kids are annoying. The story will go only one way while maybe the words and sentences the author can use may also affect what we thought about the people in the story or the events that happened.

Goodness

No, being good all the time definietly is nto something to follow for the rest of your life. Every men have to face a time of disobediance, where they have to fight against authority or other people. The story of the aunt is bad, it might be good in some direction but i believe her intention of just behave is wrong. When you behave all the time, your inner thoughts can be covered, and become over flowed. In real life, society values people with free thinkings, people with great thoughts and ideas that can lead people and do things incredible. Look at the guy that made facbook, he dropped out of harvard, and so with Bill Gates, i don't believe that they followed what their parents want to succeed in life like this. I believe that the bachelor's story is a reflect of the real world. When you are too obediant, you can attract the wolves and bite you back for your obediance. In life, one have to be strong about their thoughts and mind to fight the wolves back.

Saki’s Purpose

I believe that Saki uses the aunt's story as a sorta old style of thinking. Teaching people a lesson however it doesn't make the story interesting and leave a hard impression on the children's mind. It might wbe a warnign or a showing of how old style of thinking and the new type of thinking. In the situation of don't, that is what mostly the adults say to a child. Don't do this, don't do that, is what most people or kids hear. It is heard often times to kids and they can get annoyed. The story and all these hintss is like a appeal for the author discussing the clash of the two thinkings. The bachelor answers the children's imagination with lots of discription, rather than shutting it down, he explains it and added another color or layer to his story.

Influence of Childhood

I believe that expierence is one of the key event for a good book. A writer with lots of expierence will most likely know what to write in the book and make it interesting and fun for people to read. Childhood expeiernce often changes a person's behavior as it leaves a big impression in people's mind as the days goes pass. The bigger the influences are, the greater the diffrence of material will the writer write about. Childhood influence doesn't just change how a perosn writes their story, it can also affect their lifestyles. For example, i was stuck in a elevator for 4 hours before and now i hated riding the elevator alone for the fear of being stuck once again. I would try to walk the stairs most of the time if there isn't anyone going to ride the elevator with me. Such example could be used to writing. If the author lost a family member in a war, most likely they will base their story on war, sorrows of war, or maybe try their best to avoid war in their story as it may bring back unhappy memories. When using a memory that the author had, the story could be written in a more interesting or realistic way.

Point of no return

I beleive that msot people back down and panic when they meets a point of no return. For me, te situation differs for my point of no return. I often face lots of point of no return, moving to a new school, a mid-term, a report card, the hour before my competition of taekwando or even going on a rollar coaster. These are all points of no return for me, however i just chill out and relax. If there was no one behind my back shouting for something, i ususlly just chill for everything. Such as the mun conference i went recently, i'm fine going up the podium with jeans and sport shoes, as long as pamala won't be at my back shouting at me for not having the suit, I don't really care. I aslo like to imagine myself in the times of a character in a novel, their points of no return also gets me thinking of what i will do when i'm in times like that.

My Favorite Stories

One of my all time favorite story book is "the grave robbers secrets". This is one series that i will never forget or even show my kids. The best series that i read when i was little was "The Lighting Thief". In the series the lighting thief, it included lots of greek gods and myths. Special weapons and awesome scenaries are used and i espacially love that. I have lots of imagination on things, i espacially love creating the views from the things i saw form books and picturing myself fighting beside those people. With all the gods power such as ligthing swifting all through out the book and my heart pounding all around as the plot of the story twist and turns everywhere i get more and more excited on whats going to happen next.
My possibly all time favorite and probably no one can beat the series is the "The Secrets of Grave Robbers". The best and most fascinating thing about this series is that it is hella long. The story is nothing like you would imagine, starting from the descriptions of the graves, the ancient chinese grave robbing secrets and all that codes between the experts. The clans of the people, the wierd and mysterious tombs and settings of the place. There just seems to have endless things in the book that you can just grab and read until the book ends and it can leave you requesting for more and more. The series are still running right now and it would be best if this series could continue all the way towards my graduation year. Everything about the book is fascinating, the characters, the places, the tombs, the conspiracy behind the people, the legendary stories of the people. The places are the most tension grabbing and breath taking places. The author's imagination on the palces are just endless, you could be imagining this ancient prehistoric tomb that is carve right in the middle of the himalayis and the diffrent tools that are used to kill the robbers and how the leader or a little figure on the sides would suddenly turn their backs on the team and suddenly cracks open a jar or so and escaped leaving the people to their death. All kinds of thing could occur in the series and the plot is fascinating. This series is absolutly flawless and i wish you, Mr. Mccool to read this novel if it ever came out in english.
I read alot of book to be honest, i read lots and lots of book outside of school. I have a three big shelves with books that i bought with my own pocket money and i would travel to specific book stores just to check out the newest books and the most interesting series that are around.