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Eveline-By James Joyce(1914) Rating:8/10 For me, I was wondering about the character Evelyn. She lives diligently and takes care of children, but lives under a violent father. If I were in that situation, as I am still young, I would like to do what I want to do and live more freely. But even Frank allowed her to get out of this life, was it really because of her obligation to protect the house? Of course, that's true, but to be honest, I thought she didn't really love Frank. Was she attracted by the expectation that he would take good care of her, that he was a sailor, and that she would get out of this life by leaving for Buenos Aires? If he hadn't told her to go to Buenos Aires, and he wasn’t a sailor, would she have spent time with Frank then?  Also, seeing Evelyn reminded me of the current situation in Ukraine. The reason why people who could escape to a safe country, staying in Ukraine and fighting with guns is because they have a family they want to protect like Ev...

  Araby-By James Joyce(1914) Rating:7.5/10 I put myself in the shoes of an adolescent boy, as I did in the past . Not everyone, but someone must have liked a girl around them in adolescence. I don't know why, but from that point on, the ordinary actions that the girl has done seem special, and the greeting she gave me, like other people, feels special. However, as you can't always succeed, you face a wall of reality. It may be a conclusion that the friend was already dating another boy, but in this story, it was a shabby reality with the cold shopkeeper he faced at the bazaar he had gone to. From this point on, the child has realized the reality, so his fantasy about her will be gradually broken. It may feel sad, but I thought it was also one of the most important experiences of adolescence. This is because I can't always look at what I want to look at and believe fantasy as reality. In this respect, there were some parts that I sympathized with, and I think I enjoyed r...

The Sisters-By James Joyce Rating 6/10 I focused on the narrator (young boy) and priest(Flynn). When I look back on what Cotter said about the priest, "Priest was something strange, and children should spend time with people their own age rather than with people like a priest." I was a little cautious about this, but I thought it might be because the clergy was sexually oppressed at the time, so they had an inappropriate relationship, or that the child was still young so Cotter just wanted him to play with his peers rather than these religious things. Also, if I were to think about the word paralysis, I wondered why the place was set in Ireland, and why there was a priest. Perhaps he wanted to say that these religions were paralyzing Ireland at the time, that such religions were not completely clean and that corruption had spread. The last thing I thought about was the narrator of this story. Why would the author set the narrator as a child? The reason why the narrator was se...

Gooseberries-By Anton Checkhov(1898) Rating:6/10     After reading this, the first thing that came to mind was about Ivan and Nikolai. First of all, thinking about Nikolai, Nikolai married his rich wife for money, and eventually succeeded in buying land and planting gooseberries in the countryside. However, Ivan thinks he is deceiving himself that he is arrogant and happy. However, from Nicolai's point of view, he achieved ownership of private land in the countryside like his childhood dream and was satisfied with eating gooseberries planted himself. In this regard, it is questionable whether it is right to say that this is Nikolai's delusion and pretending to be happy. Subsequently, if you think about Ivan, Ivan says he is disappointed with Nicolai, who has such a dream, but says he is happier when he lives in the country than in the city which is quite contradictory. In addition, other people, including Aliokhin, are told to do good deeds and live, but Ivan, who says t...

  The Lady With the Dog- By Anton Chekhov (1899) Rating:8/10   The first thing I thought of after reading the book was that it was very different from the story I first imagined when I saw the title. The more I read the story, the worse I thought of Gurov. He didn't seem to treat a woman as a single person, and I was disappointed when he ate a watermelon while his opponent was talking. I think the reason why Anna seemed attractive to Gurov is because unlike other women he met, Anna seemed ashamed of herself and the meeting between the two was suddenly cut off by Anna's husband. One thought came to my mind as I watched him coming to Anna, Anna promising him to visit Moscow again, and even lying to her husband. There may be people who think it would be the happiest for them to just meet from the beginning, but I think they were attracted to each other because of the situation of Gurov, who lives a dual life, and Anna, whose husband is away. Also, like a realism novel, I fe...

The Student - By Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating:7/10 The scene that was the most memorable is when Ivan met who women who were both widowed. As a son of sacristan, and who is willing to become a priest, he told a story of denial of Peter, Peter finally betraying Jesus as Jesus predicted. Mabye the reason why Vasilisa cried after the story is because the kind of comfort that religion itself gives and the sadness accumulated since she lived alone are combined or because she really realized something. Anyway it seems clear that meeting with the two women had a great impact on Ivan. Cold winter he saw later changed and made him think of inexpressible sweetness etc. It is good to think about cold winter in connection with the situation in Russia, but personally it was also fun to focus on a single character named Ivan. Looking briefly about structure, I think Ivan being quite desperated but later being transformed fits in 11th stage of hero’s journey, resurrection. Mabye stage 12, returning wi...

  A Sound of Thunder, By Ray Bradbury (1952) Rating: 8.5/10 I think It's my first time seeing a work about time traveling since the movie 'terminator'. Plus, I was interested in the fact that it also included elements such as Jurassic Park. The most memorable thing for me was the one about Eckels, butterfly effect and the time safari incorporation. Eckels was a lot different from the hero I learned in hero's journey. It seemed like he is a protagonist but a troller. It was also fun to see him confident before hunting and him being embarrassed and afraid when he saw the dinosaur. However, If you think about all those things carefully, it seems like the reason for all of this is time corporation. On the outside, they talk about all kinds of precautions and tell hunters to be careful but eventually, they are taking all those things to make money. This story is enjoyable and also have many factors to think about but the reason why the rating is 8.5 may have been because ma...