After reading Mitsuye Yamada’s Bedtime Story‚ I feel like I do “get it”. In my opinion the point of the story is to try and get a message out to the readers. I think the message is when one door closes another door opens. As read in the passage an old Japanese woman was walking around many small villages seeking a place to rest for the night. Everyone opened their doors to the elderly woman but denied her a place to stay for the night. After having no success with the people of the villages she decided
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In “Bedtime Story” by George MacBeth‚ he demonstrates the dumb violence of humans. Our primal‚ mindless habits to hurt lead to the destruction of ourselves and other species. Many times‚ when humans hate or fear an animal for hurting them‚ it only acted in self-defense‚ but people look for excuses to take out their anger from everyday stresses on other living things. MacBeth demonstrates the idiotic and primal nature of our violence by using a tribal human character‚ and shows our needless violence
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Once she arrives home all she can hear is‚" Mommy‚ mommy your home!" " My beautiful babies‚ how are you?" They run quickly to hug and kiss their mother. Jen asks them‚ "Were y’all good to grandma?" The little girls nod their head and beg their mom for a bedtime story. "Alright‚ girls it’s time for bed." " If you’re in bed by the time I finish talking to grandma‚ I’ll read a bedtime story."‚ Jen yells out. The girls go running as fast as they can. Jen‚ thanks her mom and walks
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content. I belong to this category. I enjoy reading good books particularly novels‚ short stories‚ plays‚ etc. The world famous literary works of great authors such as‚ Charles Dickens‚ Tolstoy‚ Dominique Lappiere‚ Rabindranath Tagore‚ R. K. Narayan‚ Arundhathi Roy‚ Salman Rushdie‚ etc. have always charmed and thrilled me‚ giving waves of delight‚ leisure‚ relaxation and mental refreshment. My favourite book is ‘City of Joy’ written by Dominique Lappiere. The book is a touching description
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My Favourite Book It’s hard to imagine our lives without books. We learn a lot of interesting things when we read books. Books are our great friend‚ teachers and advisers. They teach us how to take the next step when we are in a difficult situation. They help to shape our life. It is impossible to become an educated person without books. Besides‚ books play an important role in upbringing our feelings‚ views and tastes; give us a lot of useful information. Frankly speaking I’m not a bookworm but
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My Favourite Book My favourite book is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. This story is one of the well-known works of the writer. The author depicts the characters of the old man and the boy and their relations very vividly and skillfully. Santiago‚ the old man‚ was one of the writer’s beloved characters. The old man was a born fisherman‚ but he was not a butcher and fished only for a living. He was very lonely. He had a devoted friend - the boy‚ Manolin. The boy loved the old man for
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Topic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher‚ Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival‚ which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia‚ I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign‚ of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat‚ ox‚ tiger‚ rabbit‚ dragon‚ snake‚ horse‚ goat‚ monkey‚ dog and
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My favourite film. Among a variety of films most of all I love comedies and romantic dramas‚ because such films cheerful and optimistical. I do not love horrors. My most favourite film is Titanic. It is the most beautiful love story. Titanic is a history of the present feelings of two young hearts which cannot be together. Titanic is a picture‚ forced to look millions spectators with a sinking heart. I will not be afraid to tell that it is James Cameron’s the best work which I had
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My favourite actor MEL GIBSON Mel Gibson is one of the greatest actors from Hollywood. He is smart‚ intelligent and a very handsome actor (in my opinion). He is very good in what he’s doing. He is a special and talented actor‚ situated in the firsts 50 actors from Hollywood. He is a director and a script-writer too. He was born on 3 January 1956 in Peekskill‚ New York‚ USA‚ in a Catolic Irish family. He is 50 years old (but he doesn’t look like). His real name is Mel Columcille Gerard
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My favourite film is “The Pretty Woman”. That is a romantic story about a millionaire‚ who accidentally drove into a strange and poor district of New-York‚ where he met a poor girl in the street‚ where she decided to earn money for her living. She has the aim: to study at the university and to obtain the profession‚ but she doesn’t have money for it. The millionaire got interested in her for her behaviour and knowledge of cars. He asked her to spend some evenings with him and offered her a good
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