Odour of Chrysanthemus

About this story I would like to say that it has many contemporary issues. For instance, alcoholisim, loneliness, pooverty, social pressure etc. During many years these issues have been presented in our society. At the same time, they have distroyed many people's life because human beings have not known how to face these problems. In addition, Elizabeth who is the main character in Odour of Chrysanthemus story, she had a deep pain because her husbund had alcohol problems. she also had two children who were younger and every time they needed her attention. For that reason, she had not much time in thinking about her relationship or about herself. In my opinion, In many families we can find that problem. Where woman spend all their time concerning about their children, the home's duties, the job etc. With all of these problems women forget the real meaning of being alive. A good example of this is when Elizabeth's husbund died. In that moment, she started to pay attention to her husbund's features and she could appreciate the beatiful he was. when I read that part of the story I felt very bad. Because people should loose someone or something in order to realize the important that person was for them. In conclusion, the pressure of life makes people lost their happiness like this story which poverty and alcoholism made Elizabeth and her husbund forget their love.

The rocking- horse winner

In class we anilized some themes as ambition, selfishness, please, worring etc. In my opinion, these words describe very well the short story called the rocking - horse winner. For instance, the child's mother was very interested in money and her ambition was so big that her child started to worry about that. Her oldest child always tried to please her mother. However, he never could it. In addition, the little child was very anxiuos about get his mother's attention, but she was so selfish and her love for him was so few that the woman never realized that her own son only wanted to see her happy. For that reason, he all the time was thinking about the race because he knew that it was the only way to get a lot money in order to catch his mother attention. Additionally, his worring was so deep that his desesperation for knowing who was the next winner finished with his life. Apart from that, he never could achive his wish because when he was in his bed sick he said to his mother "I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I'm absolutely sure - oh, absolutely mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky
and his mother's answer was no you never did".

Comment about the invisible japanese gentlemen

I think that the woman was only interested in her own happiness and she also had not the capacity of observation. Also she only thought in the money or be a famous writer. About that point, the narrator said that when someone wants to be a writer that person ought to develop her or his own power of observation because it is very important to analize in a deep way the stuffs which are around us. For instance, the narrator describes all the characters in detail. However, he had a wrong opinion about the girls' fiance. To emphasize this point, sometimes our observation about something or someone can fail us. For that reason, sometime it is essential to know people before to give an opinion about her or him. About the story's title, I can say it has relation with the woman who never saw the japaneses who were sit next her. In conclusion, it is very important to develop our capacity of observation because in this world there are a lot of people apart from us and we are not alone in this planet. Additionally, we need to see and analize what it is happend around us because If we do not do it we could be egocentric and superficial people as the woman who does not care anything only her.

The Evolution as a Destruction

Human beings have created many things such as: transportation, computers, technology etc. In order to improve their life. I can mention several things that people built in the Industrial Revolution. However, people never thought that this evolution would bring a lot of consequences as: social problems, depression, loneliness, pressure, fear, etc.
In addition, the dream of having a better quality of life is very beautiful because that means that everyone can have the opportunity to see the world in a positive way. Moreover, there is something that I do not understand, if human beings transformed the world in order to have a good life and they also created every element with the intention to improve their conditions of life, I can say that their purpose had not good results.
For example, if we traveled to the Industrial Revolution and we asked someone the next question: Did your quality of life change with the creation of factories, transportation, economic policies etc? I think that her or his answer would be not.

Likewise, there was an important period which was called the Industrial Revolution (1760-1850). In that time, fundamental changes occurred as: In agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, economic policies and transportation (Montagna1). This revolution had an important meaning to people’s life because many of them believed in this process as a good alternative in order to achieve their happiness. They thought that with the creation of technology and more opportunities of jobs they could have an improvement of their life. Thus, it is very sad to say that this period had not positive results in quality of living.

For example, there is an article which explains very well what Industrial Revolution meant. It says that the revolution’s importance was in the great increase of the production of goods but the overcrowded and unsanitary housing and the terrible working conditions were created by rapid industrialization (“Industrial Revolution” 5).
About this point, I would like to mention a story called the Signal man. When I read this short story I asked myself how a man could work in those lack conditions.
Additionally, this man worked in a station train and he lived under the ground where the light was very poor. He also did not have family and his only friends were the railway and his loneliness. That issue did that the signalman sees his future with fear and suspicion because all his life was focus on the job.

His activity also was so demanding that he felt a high pressure about it. This problem provoked a several changes in the signalman’s behavior. For example, he started to hear a strange noise and a rare figure appeared in front of his eyes, who was warning him about something.
In addition, his concerned about this issue was so deeper that he asked himself some questions as:
What is its warning against?" he said, ruminating, with his eyes on the fire, and only by times turning them on me. "What is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger overhanging somewhere on the Line. Some dreadful calamity will happen. It is not to be doubted this third time, after what has gone before. But surely this is a cruel haunting of me. What can I do?"

I believe that these visions (the noise and the ghost) came to the signalman’s conscience, which tried to advice him about something bad. To emphasize my thought, I have been thinking that he could predict his destiny. For that reason, he was so worried because he knew that this new period would not bring happiness as he thought in some moment of his life. In other words, the signal man explains to us the negative transformation that people suffered in that age. Moreover, that period only brought terrible consequences because many people had to spend all their life in factories as slaves without happiness and dignity. At the same time they did not have the chance to choose their destinies because they were manipulated by a minority group.

Apart from that, many history books explain that the industrial revolution was essential for the economic and cultural transformation. With such information, I can think that this evolution was created without the intention to improve people’s life. That improvement was only for a little group of citizens who felt and lived the positive changes of that evolution. In addition, it is so embarrassing to see how that people could full their pockets with money through people’s exploitation, who worked in terrible conditions and they had to sacrifice their dreams and faith by a selfish and desconsiderate group.

Althoug, those people could become rich; there was something that their avarice did not let them see the disadvantage of this dangerous evolution. Return to the signal man, in the last part of the story, this poor man had a terrible accident where his body was cut down by engine. I understood that final as a kind of advice about human beings’ ambition. Because evolution did people can not control their own life because it was complete manipulated by that process.

In conclusion, I would say that people should control their ambition about technology because it can manage our minds and at the same time it can destroyed our life as the signal man, who believed in progress as a good opportunity to change his life. However, his life was destroyed by it.






Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Signal man.

“Industrial Revolution”
http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/fall/industrialization/1/industrial_revolution.htm

Montagna, Joseph. The Industrial Revolution.2008. 13 sept 2008
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html

The signal man

Outline:
1- Evolution like a opportunity to have a better life (Industrial evolution)
2- social problems that this technology brought. for example:
the people's pressure about this evolution (connected with the signal man)
human beings' fear (connected with the signal man)
social rights.

the signal man

In the age which Dickens was born, many social issues began to develop . In a deep way the short story tells us how modernity can destroy our life. In this point I refer that in a modern world, technology is most important than human beings values. For instance, in that period thousand of new things started to appear like the train, this invention allowed that many people from different parts of the country had the opportunity to be in contact with others. However, those different news only did that people forget their ethic and moral. In my opinion, technology distroyed the people's minds because they did not know how to control their axiety for those new elements and at the same time they were only interested in their personal concerns. Apart from that, this issue brought many social problems because people did not care the pain or sadness of others ( Oliver Twist). In conclusion, this problem is something that we can see in our society too,where selfishness and individualism are part from our feelings and thoughts.

Frankestein

When I started to read this book and some articles about the author, immediately I could understand that the writter in some way she invented this criature beause she felt in several moments of her life how a monster. For instance, Frankestein could not know what did love mean because his inventor avoid him in the first day when frankestein born. Mary Shalley had a similar destination as him because her mother died when she born. The another common pattern between them is, Frankestein began to lenght his knowledge and he understood people's behaivour. This issue also allowed Frankestein to comprehended why people avoid him. Apart from that, when Mary was a child an important period of her life she dedicated to find out new things throught readings. Those books gave to her the capacity to saw and understood many issues that before she did not conprehended. For example, she realized that society can distroid human beings' dreams. In addition, she had to face many problems in her life, one of them was her marriage to a married man. For that decision, people rejected her and ,Mary's father too. In conclusion, the knowledge sometimes can be very harmful in beings' life. For that reason, we should ask our-self some questions as should be the knowlegde limit? should we know everything? or it is better to know some limit things in order to have more happiness in our life.