Oliver Twist... From the past to these days...

If I think about what really called my attention while I was watching the movie Oliver Twist, I can say that people, but especially orphan children had to steal because if not they could not be able to live in that society. That was the way of thinking of so many people, but was that appropriate for people or children? Obviously not because stealing is not a way of living in excellent conditions, as it is known a better person is the one who try to improve his/her life, but working.

The movie made me ask me if adults did not think about the damage that they were causing to young people. Besides it impacted me a lot that abuse on children, because I would not like to see that near to me. For example I started to imagine as if I was Oliver, and I think that I could not support that.

Even today, it is easy to see children who are 10 years old or even less, and they are stealing at supermarkets, stores or in the street, and that is something that we should stop, because children are our future, and we have and need to help them to be better people.

Interpreting life through literature

The signalman is a short story which was written by Charles Dickens during the 19th century. In this book was easy to see the impact that mechanization and globalization had in the signalman´s life. I realized that he was focused just on his work, without taking care of his personal life.

From my point of view, another important aspect was the train the one represented how life was passing in front of his eyes. In that sense this short story gave us a message behind; it tells us that we cannot permit that life goes and we have not done anything different. We need to enjoy life and to profit it.

I strongly believe that literature shows us what really happens in our lives and also makes us think about real issues. For that reason it is necessary to try to interpret what a text tries to tell us. Through literature we can understand real life situations because everything is being shown from a different perspective. In some cases literature can be poetic, but the most important aspect is that we have to know how to analyze it, and how to put in practice the learnt message.

How can you be a person if you are discriminated by everybody?

In Frankenstein story, it was easy for me to see how much impact can have discrimination in someone. As we all know, Frankenstein was an experiment, but even though he had his own feelings and he wanted to be loved and to be respected by the rest of the people. I strongly believe that nowadays there are hundreds of injustices around people, and sometimes we tend to discriminate someone just because of their appearance, but we do not pay attention on their thoughts and feelings. It does not matter how someone looks like, because the most important thing is what he or she is.

While I was reading Frankenstein, sometimes I felt that some pieces of the text were related with what was happening to me at that moment. For example when Victor Frankensteind said "...endevouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness...", that was related with my feelings. If I think about this, I can notice the impact that a reading can have in the reader, and how could it be related with him or her. Forgetfulness and loneliness were concepts that called my attention in the text and also touched my heart.