How life can affect people`s perceptions

"Odor of Chrysanthemums" and "The Rocking Horse Winner" are two short stories which were written by D. H. Lawrence, a British writer.

After reading the two stories, I realized how did Lawrence`s childhood impacted him. While I was reading “Odor of Chrysanthemums” I could notice that the story had so many events that were very similar to Lawrence`s life. This reminds me about realism, because the writer tries to focus his works on his own experiences and how difficult was for his family to stay in the world. One of these two stories tell us about a family in which there was a minner man and also a woman who was a teacher, both characters were very similar to his parents. In this tale we could see how many problems this marriage had.

Furthermore, the other story which was named “The Rocking Horse Winner”, also depicted a family which did not have enough money, and they wanted to have more. Maybe this was also related to his own life, and as it was difficult, for that reason he wrote everything that he lived once he was a little boy.

In short, I can say that both stories are showing us how difficult life is, and how can this affect us in our future development in society.

Virginia Woolf

Writing is art, as it is painting, dancing, singing, etc. Every time I think about art, I analyze how important could be to have his/her own space for the artist. For example, if a writer wants to write a book or a poem, he/she may need to have privacy in order to feel to think and to do whatever he/she wants to do. That is why I strongly believe that to have our own space makes us feel more comfortable.

As it was easy to see in Virginia Woold`s essay, women`s role was not important, so for her it was essential to have her own room to write, to think, and to be free to express her ideas and thoughts. I think that our own room is our best space, and it is unique, our room is the only place in which we can rest, because it gives us tranquility.

Having a room for our own can be difficult, so what happen when someone does not have his/her own room, and he/she needs to have it? In Virginia Woolf, she did not have any money to buy her own room, and she need to have it because she needed to reflect on what she wanted to write. Spaces give us the chance to reflect, think and analyze our lives or whatever we want to, and each person must have that time.

People should have their own place to reflect on themselves!

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.

When I have fears...

When I have fears, I know that I am not alone, that even though I have been living so many important issues in my life which have been scaring me, I have my family and my boyfriend with me. They are always giving me everything that I need; if I need someone who hugs me, they do it, if I need help, they do it. I strongly believe it does not matter how bad are you feeling, or how many bad things had happened to you, because everything is going to work well if we are being supported by someone who is really important for us.
It is crucial to keep in mind that we have to accept when we have committed a mistake, because if we do not do it we are going to become in mediocre people. People have to fight for what they desire, because it is known that sometimes it is difficult to fight when we want to get someone or something.
People have to do what they want, it does not matter what the rest think about that; feelings, family, friends, dreams, are essential in everybody`s life, and we cannot lose those important aspects, because they help us to be stronger.

Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge

“Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”.

After reading this quotation and having read the poem Kbla Khan written by Samuel Coleridge, I can say that poetry needs to be part of our lives. There are many things that can be related to poetry, for example we can make a poem about our own life experiences`, or we can create a poem based on our dreams and plans for the future. If we would like to have a different and better world, we can make it in a poem. Poetry helps us to express ourselves in a way that everybody can feel something once he/she reads that piece of writing. As it was mentioned in the previous quotation, "Poetry is an art...of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections..." It is important to say that it does not matter who you are or what you like to do, the main idea is that anyone can write a poem, but you have to say what you really want to. You have to express your thoughts, ideas and feelings.

A poem has to be real, fluent and sincere, in order that this can provoke any kind of expressions and feelings in the reader.