Halloween and Fair Tales

I went shopping this afternoon. There were so many people around shopping mall and shopping for Halloween party. I saw some girls dress like Little Red Cap, while other girls dress like Snow-white; also , I saw a boy about 11 years old, he picked a prince dress, and his friend dressed like a doctor. Anyhow, it is so interesting for me to getting to know about the holiday. Besides the interesting dresses, it also remind me of those tales we have been discussed in class such as Cinderella, Snow-White, and Beauty and Beast. Although those tales have been told for decades, it still popular today, it still influence people’s life deeply in today’s society .

Beauty's character

What makes Beauty so different from other characters? What makes her special? This is one of question we discussed last Thursday. It’s quite interesting question for me. On one hand, I believe Beauty is trick person even more evil than her sisters; on the other hand, I also think she is pretty and kind for some reasons. So, it really hard to determine Beauty is a devil person or an angle, perhaps it is the reason why she is so different from another characters.
As mentioned last Journal, the essential reason she goes to castle to meet Beast with her father is because she wants to pursue her own dream-being a princess. Through the conversion of her and her father, I can assume that Beauty has already knew that Beast is a rich and powerful man, so there she goes

Beauty and Beast Continue

I feel so happy today because professor announced a great news which give all of us a hope to bring up our grades by doing well on presentation part. Everybody in class cherry up and said that “ we love you more now”. Anyway, it’s so nice of her to make this kind of wise decision. Thank you, Professor. Your decision really saves me from the hell. I was so depressed when I had a “F” on my first essay because I know there is no way I can bring up grade even I work hard, but the miracle really happened now. Finally, I can see a hope from this class. Thanks again.

My journal today is about the reason that made Beauty changed her mind and marry the ugly Beast. Beauty said to the Beast that “I would like to marry you, but I am not too candid to allow you to believe that could ever happen. I will always be your friend” (Tatar 38). So, what is her motivation for marrying the Beast? Why would she want to marry someone she even does love? Some classmates believe the reason Beauty decides to marry Beast is money, and others think she wants to escape from the humdrum life with her sisters and live in the opulence of a castle. I believe she wants to marry Beast because she is selfish and avaricious. Beauty is selfish because, rather than live with the guilt of not marrying such an ugly creature, she is marrying him to escape from this guilt. She does not really love Beast, but feels respect, friendship, and gratitude toward him. If she made him unhappy, her lack of appreciation would make her feel guilty for the rest of her life (Tatar 40). Also, she never said the words “I love you” to Beast, although she gave her hands to marry him and swear that only belong to him. Therefore, I consider her an egocentric character based on her self-centered behavior. Now, let’s explore her avaricious nature. According to one of our classmates, Beauty loves the life Beast provided to her, all the accoutrements and luxuries life. I agree with this idea because I think this is what Beauty eventually wants to get. She is just like the character Belle in the Disney’s version of “Beauty and the Beast.” According to the article “culture review”, it says that Belle pretends to be a funny and good person when she stays with those villagers. In fact, she never fit in because she considers herself are different from those villagers: Her dream is to be a princess. So, she is looking for someone to take care of her, spoil her, and give her the finer things in life. True, Belle rejects the role of the traditional housewife: she does not want to clean up after, cook for, and tend to a husband. Domestic work is not on her agenda—ask not for whom this Belle toil—but her rejection of domesticity and its associated labor is not in the name of independence and equality. Rather, Belle is the one who wants to be pampered, to have a husband rich enough to have a staff work her. Both Belle and Beauty are obviously looking for a rich man and willing to marry them; therefore, their dream will come true—they will get whatever they want without any effort. Once again, the first time Beauty heard the story of Beast from her father, she knew that Beast was a rich and powerful man. She goes with her father to the castles to pursue her dream of marrying a rich man. Belle had the similar situation. She knew the Beast is the one who could make her dream come true, so she took a risk to rescue him from the curse. Considering all of these elements, I feel that Beauty and Belle are both sophisticated tricksters.

Feeling about writting.

I like writting this blog a lot lately, therefore, I have spent a lot of time and worked hard on my E-journal site . However, I feel really sad about the fact that no one even visits my site. Perhaps, the reason people do not visit becasue I am really a terrible writer.

Although Enlish is not my native language, it cannot be an excuse why I cannot write well. So, I will keep trying hard to write as much as I can from now on, thats why I have created two blogs besides my diary: one is for the English Class, the other one for training my writting skills. Also, I will take two hours a day to compose essays through a variety of topics. Hopefully, it will help me to improve mywritting skills.

I love writting because I can write down whatever comes to my mind. Also, It is a perfect place where I can express myself well. This is the reason why I have enjoyed writting SO MUCH since I was ten. Wheneve I feel sad or happy, I always come to the site where I write dairy , once I transfer my feeling and emontion into the words, I feel much better. Therefore, writting for me is more like a friend that I can share my life, feeling , everything with. But Iwas sort of forgetting the feeling last few weeks.

Few weeks ago, I lost the feeling of writting due to the plagiarism thing occured. I forgot how I enjoyed writting before. I was kind of scaring to write any things down because I feel myself like a looser. I even started to hate writting despite I have had a habbit to write a dairy for more than ten years. Anyway, It is really tough experience becasue it is the hardest lesson I never had before,

Monster & Life

With the next discussion question, “When the word, “beast”, comes to mind, what types of characteristics that you think that defines “beast”? Are ugly beasts the only monstrous living creatures in this world?” This is a good question I would like to talk about today. The first time we I heard the words “Beast” the first image appeared on my mind is that giant and hairy body, big ears, head, and a ugly appearance. Also, I had a terrible feeling that the beast has scaring voice as well. However, after I read “Beauty and Beast”, I realize that although Beast does not have a favorable outer appearance as well as his intelligence, he does have a favorable personality. He is kind, gentle, thoughtful and naïve. Comparing the characteristics of Beauty’s two “pretty” sisters to ugly Beast; I deem that the two sisters are much more gruesome than Beast. On page 38 and 40, it shows that Beauty’s two sisters are not only feeling happy to lose their sisters, they also set Beauty up to breaking her promise from Beast, then, Beauty will more likely to be eaten by Beast (Tatar). Sisters, in general, mean the ones we can depend on and trust. Sisters suppose to take care of each other and love one another, but what the two sisters’ behaviors. Despite they have a good looking, dress elegantly, their inner essence are as dark as devil. Indeed, It is also occurred in our society as well. There are a minority of people in our society usually portend to be nice to everyone; in fact, they have an evil inner essence. The reason caused them to be sin is because of jealousy or greed. For example, Jerry Skilling, was one of the top guy at Enron, the electron city company in California. He was been called “Death Star.” The reason he had been called “Death Star” was because his vice behavior although he graduated from the business school of Harvard University. In order to make a considerable profit, he encouraged his employee to be good traders, which means they should contained any value except making money. In other words, employee should make a good profit for the company as priority, it does not matter how evil they would be. Therefore, they raised the electronic price frequently. If people did not want to pay, they would shut down the power or moved power to others. This is a typical example of how evil our human could be due to their Greed. Also, there is some other instances regards to the devil people because of jealousy. Such as, people envy other’s beauty or wealth, so they are unfriendly to each other. The worst thing is some monstrous living creatures even act more than AN EVIL like the two sisters in the tale. So, I firmly believe that there are some monstrous living creatures in our society for sure. No matter what kind of reasons people act evilly, I think they should feel shame about themselves. We are all human being, why there are always some attacks and painful things happen, like the war in Iraq. Besides, life is short, why some people would waste their time being an devil, but not Angle.

Outer Appearance and Inner Essence

We had a great discussion this afternoon especially the last question regarding to the issue of beauty. The question is that which is more important to our society today? Outer appearances or inner essences? Every student seemed to have a lot to say so we all provided opinions on that topic. Some students agree with that outer appearance is more important, however, others think that inner essence is more imperative. For me, I agree with the later one, inner essence is important for following reasons.
The reason I think inner beauty is more important because only inner essence is the beauty will last- long. As we know all people look pretty in different ways when they young, but when they aged, they look differently perhaps more ugly than before. Conversely, If they have a good qualities in them, no matter how old they are they would never look ugly. For example, ZhaoyaZhi, who is one of superstar in my country, admired by most people? Though she is fifty years old and has three sons already, I still feel that she is the prettiest celebrity. The reason I have liked her that much is not because she is perfect beautiful, but her inner beauty. She is kind, friendly, and quite candid with people. In 2008, my country had huge disaster called “Sichuan earthquake “, so many people died on that adversity. During the time, all the famous people or celebrities donated funds to be help. However, Zhao is the only celebrity who was not only donated money, but also stayed the place for a month as a servant. Actually, there are many examples of her well-behavior stories; I will not explore all of them. However, my point here is that beauty is not only the way how we look, most importantly, it’s the way how we act. The people who have good qualities inside of them, they would be eventually rewardeded, such as the miracle in the tale,” Beauty and Beast”. In the story “Beauty and Beast”, we can observe that how essential the inner beauty of Beast is. If he did not have the inner qualities in him, he would not be able to obtain Beauty’s heart based on the way how he looked . When Beauty met Beast at the first time, she was scared and never wanted to be friend with him. When the time passed by, the more Beauty stayed with Beast, the more good qualities Beauty discovered in Beast. In the end, she changed her mind to marry Beast. Because of Beauty’s kindness that she preferred virtue to outer appearance and intelligence, the miracle happened. She ultimately deserved a fortune and charming prince who was the ugly Beast turned to be. Among those reasons above, I strongly believe inner essence is more important than outer appearance

Reflection of Beauity And Beast

We have discussed several fairy tales in the past few weeks, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Bluebeard. Each tale has its own highlight for example through the tale LRRH we have learned that how different between Perrault’s version and Brothers Grimm. Although they have some similarities, they do have different places like the intended audiences. Moreover, what is the difference between each tales and how different between each ones. Now, I am going to examine the difference between the tale “Bluebeard and “Beauty and Beast”.Basically, these two tales have a common place such as both main male characters have an unfavorable appearance, which scare people away, but they both are wealthy. Also, they both have power and both have violent part. However, they also do have different places and the major difference between the two tales is that the main character in “Bluebeard” is horrible man and the other one is a kind and charming prince indeed.

Relection of Mistake

I just came back home from school, it’s a tough day for me. This afternoon, I went to school and had conference with professor at Starbucks. Be honesty, the outcome of conference turned to be what I had not expected to be. I was shocked, shame and scared by the result. Because of the mistake I made, I got “0” for my analysis paper due to plagiarize. Although I worked hard I still get “F” at the first term of class. I really want to cry now; I do not know how to deal with the result and how to face it. This is the first time I got “0” from school since I have attended school at five until now.
At the same time, I am also wondering how LRRH is feels about her mistake when she realizes the fault she has had. Because she does not listen to her mother, then it results her and her grandmother have been eaten by the wicked wolf. If there is another chance, does she still do the same thing, enjoying those beautiful flowers and playing with butterflies and talking with the” friendly and charming “wolf on her way. I strongly believe she will not do that again. However, what she feels about when she finds out the huge mistake she make. What is her reaction, it does not show quite clear among the all of versions after I reread it. But, I believe she would definitely regret it and feel depressed, and also hoping to have another chance to make it up her mistake.
I called my mother this afternoon and told her what’s happened. She did not censure me to have the mistake, but she told me a story of my aunt’s. My mother said that my aunt used to be the smartest girl in her school, but she made a huge mistake to marry a wrong guy who does not have any responsibilities for their family after they marriage. He does not want to take care of bills; he does not want to go to work just reply on my aunt’s tiny income. The worst thing is my aunt even cannot get divorce because the guy warns my aunt that once she divorces him, he will kill all of our family members. Therefore, my aunt has to stay with him. In other words, she still has to stay with her mistake. After the story, my mother also told me that we all humans, nobody is perfect, so we do not have be sad or depressed because of one time mistake. The most important thing is learn from your mistake and how to avoid making the same mistake.
After talking with my mother, I have thought about my aunt’s story and LRRH’s and mine, one thing I have learned is that I can do nothing for the mistake I made, but I have learn from the lesson before I make a huge one. Though it is really tough and hard to accept, I have to face it, and attempt to overcome the depressed feeling and do what I should do for tomorrow class. Otherwise, I will be fall behind another class.

Reflection of Bluebeard

On Thursday’s discussion, we had continued discussed the scaring tale Bluebeard. During the lecture, we talked about the similarities and differences of each version of Bluebeard, and the audiences as well as the effects on children of the story. Most of versions, bluebeard, as usual, disappear as a rich ugly man and as a serial killer. Moreover, the story always turn to happy ending from a blue (dark) side, and there is constantly a key or egg and forbidden chamber in each tales. Despite those, the main idea of the story is still almost same no matter which version of Bluebeard is that curiosity. As we had last discussion on Tuesday, the wives action of opening the door is similar to discovering the door to the truth. Although the truth can be hard to accept, the truth is better than lies and deception. Therefore, as a rational human, people should choose explore the truth instead of keeping secret from others because there is no concealing the truth. The truth will come to light sooner or later eventually.