weekly review

This week i have read 2 very interesting pieces of writing from Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 and Golden Kite Silver Wind. while reading, i have noticed some similarities and differences from these two works. one similarity that stands out the most is that both stories play with the stereotypes of the culture it is describing. he describes Americans as an lazy nation which does not want the complexity of reading and falls within the grasps of television. similarly, in Golden Kite Silver Wind, he describes Asians as a culture that believes heavily on omens and signs. Both stereotypes are true to an extent, like how we think of Americans as couch potatoes and the fact that in Taiwan, people don't use the number four just because it sounds like death, but Bradbury greatly exaggerates them to make it more obvious.

reflective post

Romeo and Juliet- what is true love?

A few days ago in class while reading Romeo and Juliet, we stumbled upon the question “What is true love?” I look up the definition of love and I found out that the literal meaning of love is “strong passionate feeling towards another. This definitely fits Romeo’s description of falling in love. But just wait on sec, real life is not just a play of words. The connotation we associate with love now is somewhere along the lines of being “mutually fond of each other”. Now we look back at Romeo’s case, his first “target” was Rosaline. He loved her deeply, but we do not know if she loves him back. Technically he is in love, according to the literal meaning of love. But then again, he is in the real world, or at least his character is, and since Rosaline did not visibly love him back, we can say he was not in love, but just very attracted to her. Later on he met Juliet, which is a different story now. They both are deeply attracted to each other, causing this love to be mutual, thus filling the requirement of “true love”