2022 World Lit. _Yubeen Kim's Blog

  Title: The Student Author: Anton Chekhov Rating: 6 / 10  Since <The Student> is a realist novel, it contains a story that would actually happen. This made me follow the storyline easily.  However, it was too difficult to understand what the author wanted to say in the book. I read this book 10 times, and also read lots of book reveiws and analyses to understand it. I understood that it means human's feelings, mistakes, and lots of other events repeat through history, but I really couldn't understand why Ivan became optimistic in the end, and what does it mean.  It was interesting to read considering "hero's journey" though. The depiction of miserable reality in the beginning is 'ordinary world', and when Ivan sees widows is 'call to adventure'. His mentor is probably Jesus, and talking with widows is 'special world'. Vasilisa's tear is 'reward', and when Ivan thinks by alone in the end is back to the 'ordinary world...

 Title: <A Sound of Thunder> (1952) Author: Ray Bradbury  Rating: 8 / 10 <A Sound of Thunder> was very fun and ingenious story. It depicts 'the butterfly effect' by the change of language and even the president after Eckles killed a single butterfly sixty million years ago. After reading it, I searched on internet about the butterfly effect, and I was very surprised that the idea of 'butterfly changing the future' was first introduced in <A Sound of Thunder>. Also, it was interesting to read it considering the 'Hero's Journey'. However, Eckles was not the kind of hero I like. He was too irresponsible and careless. He chose to go time travel but he ran away and eventually got out of the path. It caused gigantic change. Even though he was killed in the end, his fault is irreversible. He shouldn't run away even though he was scared, because it was his choice to go for a dangerous journey. The company was irresponsible too. They should have...