Ho Ching Yu
YUHD1403
Thursday night
Closing reading: The paragraph of the close reading picks from the novel “Children of the men” and the focus will put on the ideas, tone and the repetition.
In this paragraph, it was using the first person to be the point of view which the paragraph mainly describes the saw and heard of the character Theo and also his thought. The ceremony held in a small town which was the place he had lived before. The memories caused Theo more fretful. What Theo saw was the process of the ceremony and the police supervise them. In the reading, it did not mention clearly what the ceremony is.
Firstly, let talk about the repetition of the story. In the reading, it keeps repeating the band playing the music. Theo …show more content…
The betrayal between human and the betrayal of the personal value holding. The two short story will use to discuss. In the story “Lottery” the betray appear when human facing the stress of surviving. In the story, Bill drawn the paper with the black dot, Thessie want to protect Bill so she argue the fairness and claim her daughter(married) to draw the paper again. "There 's Don and Eva," Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. "Make them take their chance!".(Page5) Draw the paper again can create a different result which put all the family members into dangerous. To increase the opportunity to survive, Thessie betrayal the relationship of the family which claim the other family members draw again. This action is selfish which focus on personal benefit and disregard others benefit. The other type of betraying appear in the story “The Ones Who Walk Alway From Omelas”. “the beauty of their city, depend wholly on this child 's abominable misery.”(Page3) To confirm the happy status that can unchanged, most of the people betray their personal value which ignore the darkness side of the city. “They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom”(Page3) This is the process human convince their self-recognize on the right and false and they finally ignore the real value
YUHD1403
Thursday night
Closing reading: The paragraph of the close reading picks from the novel “Children of the men” and the focus will put on the ideas, tone and the repetition.
In this paragraph, it was using the first person to be the point of view which the paragraph mainly describes the saw and heard of the character Theo and also his thought. The ceremony held in a small town which was the place he had lived before. The memories caused Theo more fretful. What Theo saw was the process of the ceremony and the police supervise them. In the reading, it did not mention clearly what the ceremony is.
Firstly, let talk about the repetition of the story. In the reading, it keeps repeating the band playing the music. Theo …show more content…
The betrayal between human and the betrayal of the personal value holding. The two short story will use to discuss. In the story “Lottery” the betray appear when human facing the stress of surviving. In the story, Bill drawn the paper with the black dot, Thessie want to protect Bill so she argue the fairness and claim her daughter(married) to draw the paper again. "There 's Don and Eva," Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. "Make them take their chance!".(Page5) Draw the paper again can create a different result which put all the family members into dangerous. To increase the opportunity to survive, Thessie betrayal the relationship of the family which claim the other family members draw again. This action is selfish which focus on personal benefit and disregard others benefit. The other type of betraying appear in the story “The Ones Who Walk Alway From Omelas”. “the beauty of their city, depend wholly on this child 's abominable misery.”(Page3) To confirm the happy status that can unchanged, most of the people betray their personal value which ignore the darkness side of the city. “They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom”(Page3) This is the process human convince their self-recognize on the right and false and they finally ignore the real value