Reading Journal – After reading the book “Rita Hayworth and the Shashank Redemption”

Hope is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. The very big theme flowing through the entire story is the importance of hope. This book and the movie reminded me how important it is to have hope in life. This movie taught me that if you lose hope, you lose your life. I felt similar to Brooks, about being ‘institutionalized’. KMLA and Shawshank prison share some common characteristics. Both are isolated from the society, have some strict rules to follow, and somehow the place itself restricts people’s freedom.

Only someone who has hope can improve and progress in life. Just like Andy dug a hole inside his cell to keep his hope and to prepare for the future, I determined to focus on my goals.

      

     Also, the detailed explanation of the setting of the story made the story seem real. After I finished reading the novel, I even felt that it might be a true story. The time setting of the story is around 1900s and the book shows many details of those days. Actresses who were really famous at the time appear in the novel. Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), the first actress in the poster, was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars. When Andy escaped, the actress in the poster was Raquel Welch, who is an American actress who won a Golden Globe in 1974.

The movie was also very impressive as the book. The movie added some scenes that were not in the book. Among those scenes, I really loved the scene where Andy plays part of Mozart song inside the prison. For a while, nobody talks or moves inside prison. Everybody freezes and listens to the music. Although it is not shown why they did, I’m sure that they felt like a free men for a while.

     This novel taught me an important lesson that maintaining hope is really important in life, and never settle and get used to the current status. If life seems boring, and hope for the future seem lost then I would sincerely recommend this movie.

Movie Review of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring

Movie review – personal anecdote

     The movie clip showed what people do without any bad intention can actually be harmful to others. The boy ties a small rock around fish, frog, and snake for fun. He didn’t notice that it can be detrimental to these animals. However, after the monk does the same thing to him, he realizes that it is a great pain, but it was too late.

    Until middle school, I made jokes with other people’s weakness and complex just to be funny. I didn’t realize that they felt ashamed and terrible because they also smiled at my joke. One day, a friend of mine began to tease me with my acnes and all the other boys in the class laughed at it. I felt greatly insulted but I didn’t know what to do except having some bitter smile on my face. Surely he didn’t made the joke to teach me a lesson, but he taught me a lesson that my careless words can actually hurt other’s feelings like a monk in the movie teaches little monk what animals would have suffered.

It was too late the moment I realized it, since I can’t pick up the words that were already spoken by me. I regretted what I did and never made such joke again.

     It is very important to think in other people’s position when I do certain things. You should always consider what I would feel if I were in the situation. The Golden Rule is a maxim states “One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.” By always keeping Golden Rule in mind, you can avoid mistakes you probably can’t fix , that you would greatly regret later on.

Hero's Journey - Cinderella story

Group Members: 박상언, 황인찬

Our Story: Cinderella

Why we chose it: We loved this story since we were young and we wanted to analyze Cinderella.



ACT I

1. Ordinary World:
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2. Call to Adventure:
Prince invites young ladies to the ball to choose his wife.
3. Refusal of the Call:
Cinderella’s stepmother orders her to stay at home and work. Although Cinderella wanted to go to the ball, she obeys her stepmother.

4. Meeting the Mentor:
Her fairy godmother magically appears.

5. Crossing the Threshold:
Her fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a golden carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen. She then turns Cinderella's rags into a beautiful jeweled gown, complete with a delicate pair of glass slippers. The Godmother tells her to enjoy the ball

ACT II 

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies:

She must return before the midnight. Also, Cinderella isn’t allowed to tell the prince who she is.

7. Approach to the Innermost Cave:

Cinderella meets with the prince, and the prince falls in love with Cinderella

8. Ordeal:

    Just before midnight Cinderella realizes that she has to return to her home. She accidently drops her glass slipper but she leaves it because she was in hurry.

She must helplessly watch prince looking for the owner of the slipper and given the opportunity to try it after her sisters do.

9. Reward:

The slipper fits! Cinderella ultimately marries the Prince.

ACT III 

10. The Road Back:

11. Resurrection:

Cinderella becomes princess and become free from her stepmother.

12. Return With the Elixir:

Cinderella becomes happy

Points of contention - ifs/ands/buts: 

Creative writing: Metafiction#1 - Chainwriting

     How can we define success? Success is a vague thing to chase. Many people want to succeed, but they can’t define what success to them is. Unless there is a satisfaction, there can’t be a success either. What could be some common standards that people use in order to define success? Fame and wealth are probably the top two standards which people are trying to achieve. However, we have to define success in other ways. Fame and wealth are not the most important things. True happiness should be the standard of success. Then, what is true happiness? Some people may say that fame and wealth is there true happiness. I don’t think that makes sense. Fame and wealth can’t be true happiness. For example, fathers go to work every morning to earn money. But earning money is not their final goal. Fathers’ wish is to live happy life with his family with that money. Going travel with family or buying special presents for sons and daughters, etc. Therefore, people believe that wealth is a means for happiness because it brings us a lot of things. Then, what about the fame? Being famous means being loved. At least, one can feel that way. Everyone wants to be meaningful and needed by others. Now we can think about success that is not about fame or wealth.