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My Friend Luke by Fernando Sorrentino


        This story is about the writer's friends named Luke.And actually,this story it funny and very interesting because of the character has a weird style of life.Luke is very shy person,always being humble,kind in heart,hardworking to achieve what he want.Even though he is working in a small company but he always do his work fluently and successfully.Luke also had a wife and son.However,the two of them have always agreed that Luke has little to offer the world and therefore choose to ignore his scarce and rarely expressed opinions.Beside that,in the bus Luke is a patient person and not rushing,he a well-manner in that bus.It is a some characters of Luke and story about him.



         Based on the question one,why I think Luke's personality with the people who are close to him differ from the passengers on the bus?.it because Luke is very shy and sweet personality and he just shows people is really close with him only.that way Luke personality change when he meet a new people or stranger.anybody will change the personality and not to show own personality to others.Luke have a different personality from normal people because his always be the shyest and humble while being around public people.



         In my experience,I have a friend that same characters just like Luke.Her name is Maisarah.She always spoke with a thin and smooth tone when asked by people around because she is a very shyness person.Her attitude always make a people around her angry such as at the canteen she accidentally pour water to my friend.Maisarah's personality same as Luke's personality it so annoying for me.Then,at class she always submit her homework late even she do it properly same like Luke when he at office.


    To Luke

My name is Erma Izana.I already read about you and I want to advise how to be a better husband,father,employee and bus passenger.Your characters very funny after I read because it a same like my friend personality.


   Dear Luke,

   Firstly,you must be a good husband for your wife.As a man,you have show what  to manage family properly so your wife not controlling everything because you must act like leader for the family.You have change your attitude towards people.If you shy and not talked to them anybody will apathy about you.

  Secondly is to be a good employee you must know your right as an employee.As to be a good employee you should to do the faster way and wisely.It is not about you do overtime work but you does not finish it.


  Lastly.about being a bus passenger,you must think about others too and you should provide a enough money to pay the bus. Furthermore,do not expert the bus driver will have the highest patience that you would purposely try to get into his nerve and place respect other people on the bus.I suggest you should learn more about respect,courtesy and common manners.I hope you change your attitude and learn from mistakes.

     

ELC 150 (PRL 2)

 ELC 150 (PRL 2)


A FAMILY

             "A FAMILY" written by Guy de Maupassant it is one of the best short stories that I read.This story most telling the readers about life in families and also tell about friendship between two friends it is Simon Radevin and author.They are so close and always share anything together but they are separated after Simon decides to get married the girls from provinces with come to Paris in search of a husband.This situation show how the relationship in friendship never be endless.I am feel so sad because they are broken friendship just about him marriage.After fifteen years,they are meet again and author also amazed to see his friend Simon because he change a self then have loyal wife and have five children.Then,Simon also want show at author his family attitude to their grandfather.For example,Simon's family gave the food was not liked by his grandfather when he was having dinner.Their attitude was highly disliked by author.

             

        

           In the sentence,what does the author mean by:There was nothing left for him to do in this life,nothing whatever.He had one single wish left,one sole pleasure why not grant him that last solace until he died?The author means we should do something that very precious in himself before he died.Then he had nothing to do in this world and in he life.it's maybe make he happy than their don't trick him like that.Do not forget to give a good service for him.

              

          The character that I like in this story is friend of Simon Radevin because it's a good person.when come in the Simon house,the author observing children's behavior.The author also give a good manner to the old man.Then,the character I dislike in this story is Simon because he like to playing he grandfather.He take care about he grandfather but he like not serious to take care of him.When they dinner together,Simon show to his friend how they give he old man eat.The author also not satisfied when Simon do like that.

         I think the author is female because in the sentence'The train stopped at a small station,and as I got out of the carriage,a stout,a very stout man with red cheeks and big stomach  rushed up to me with open arms,exclaiming;"George! I embraced him,but I had not recognized him,and then I said,in astonishment" it's loo the author is a female.Then,based on the first paragraph,they most intimate friend and share to tell one's secret love affairs and who seems to draw out those rare,ingenious,delicate thoughts born of the sympathy that give a sense of repose with him.In the paragraph five,what would he be like when I met him again?still lively,witty,light-hearted and enthusiastic,or in a state of mental torpor induced by provincial life?A man may change greatly in the course of fifteen years!.This show the author is female because she called 'A man may change'.

         As conclusion,they are all he had in this world that cannot be trade into something else.George don't understand a friend marriage.He need to try to accept that his friendship is already changed and has family to take care.Besides,family is all important to him.George does't have to feel sad about Simon's life.I am sure Simon knows how to handle it.

     

ELC 150 (SHORT STORIES)

Erma Izana binti Abdul Wahab . 19.UiTM Puncak Perdana,Diploma in Faculty of Film,Theater & Animation. I create this blog for education purpose only regarding my course Intergrated Language Skills : Reading (ELC15O).

The Secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

      Answer 1

     Based on the story "The Secret life of Walter Mitty",the moral value that I have learnt is Walter should put the same energy he uses to daydream into transforming his social world and his marriage.Then,we have take a good care of an old man.add more if they are having a memory problems who that can be our patner or some one that closed with us.We don't have to scold they because it is not their fault.We have to support them by giving them medicine or take they to see the doctors.

     Answer 2

   The character I like is Walter Mitty because his analysis in real life, Walter Mitty isn't anything special. He gets bossed around by his wife a lot. He can't do simple mechanical things. He's forgetful. He's not a great driver, and people always seem to be either screaming or laughing at him for one blunder or another. To compensate for his failings in the real world, Mitty creates an entire "secret life" for himself, a series of fantasies in which he is a powerful, decisive man admired by those around him and everything he is not in reality.


Answer 3

     
   The alternate ending for this short story is Mrs. Mitty steps into the drugstore to grab some last minute item, Mitty stands against the wall outside and imagines that he is standing before a firing squad. This is the last of his five fantasies. 

     It's important to note that "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" both begins and ends inside Walter's fantasies; in this way, you might argue that the plot of the fantasies themselves and not the plot of the real world dominate the text's action. Another way to interpret this is as a sort of victory on Mitty's part, as far as the story is concerned. He uses his fantasy world to combat what he dislikes about reality, and it would seem that his fantasies are winning out, at least as far as this story is concerned. They dominate reality.

    On the other hand, Walter is facing a firing squad hardly, victorious he's about to be shot. You could view the firing squad symbolically, as representative of the people in the real world who hassle Mitty about being a dreamer. In this sense, the ending seems like a defeat for Mitty. He can dream all he wants, but there are always going to be people who "shoot" him for it.