My Reading Journal 2 Team F 陳聖勳

In these two weeks I continued to read "Pride and Prejudice", and I finally finished it!

There are many characters in the story, and I often confuse someone with another. To tell apart their relationship, I surfed the Internet to Wikipedia, finding a picture of comprehensive web which is showing the relationships between the main characters in Pride and Prejudice. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pride_and_Prejudice_Character_Map.png)

In the end of the story, Lady Catherine discovers Mr. Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth, which threaten her long cherished desire for him to marry her daughter, Anne de Bourgh. She pays Elizabeth an unannounced visit and brusquely tries to intimidate her into refusing such an engagement. Unfortunately for Lady Catherine, her visit only serves to confirm Elizabeth's intentions. Furthermore, Lady Catherine later visits Mr. Darcy, and relates the entire conversation to him — giving him the hope that if he proposes to Elizabeth again, she may accept him. After ensuring the rekindling of Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennet's relationship, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth become engaged.

After she was married, Mr. Bennet missed Elizabeth very much and visited whenever he could. Eventually, even Lady Catherine de Bourgh visited Pemberley, while the Gardiners, of course, were always welcome guests. Both Darcy and Elizabeth love them, for they had brought them together.

The most impressive sentence to me is "…she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Perberley." ---extract from the last chapter. It vividly portrayed the happiness and a sense of satisfaction of Elizabeth, and I was deeply touched.

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My Reading Journal 2 Team I 林佳瑩

The second story called "Thank you M'am",it was written by Langston Hughes,an African-American writer,who wrote books,poems,and short stories.
The story began in a dark night,about eleven o'clock,Mrs. Luella was walking alone,when a boy,Roger,ran up and tried to snatch her purse.But the woman gripped him and he lose his balance,felling on his back.Rather than calling the police,Mrs. Luella dragged him home.She talked to him,telling him that she was young once and she wanted things she could not get,and she have done things,too.After a silence,she went to fix something to eat.There are times that Roger can escape,but he didn't,he chooce sit on daybed where Mrs. Luella can easily see him out of the corner of her eye.He did not want to be mistrusted now.When they finished their eating,Mrs. Luella got up and gave him 10 dollars to buy himself some blue suede,she said,"Good night!Behave yourself,boy!"Roger wanted to say thank you.His lips moved,but he couldn't even say that till she shut the door.

How can kindness change a person's behavior? Mrs. Luella said she was young once and done things,too.That means her childhood have been similar to Roger's,and maybe she have experienced the same thing that happened to Roger,so she told Roger that he is "going to remember her",she knew how to affect his criminal activities,how to change him to a right direction toward life.By rewarding him but punishing.
And the little boy have trouble saying "thank you" at the end of the story,I think he has few occasion to use this phrase,he might always be alone,no one to talk to,no one to love.But this time,I think,he will realize that there is beautiful love in this world,it exists.

RJ 2 J組 賴盈蓁

I think the book i choosed last week was to difficult for me,so i choose another one,
which is called "The Phantom of the Opera"
I started reading this book because there was a movie version of the Phantom of the Opera, and also a musical of it at the Broadway. It sounded interesting and attractive .
To tell the truth, I was rather confused by the story. Leroux had used first person tense in some parts of the story, as if he was there at the opera, trying to find out if the Opera Ghost really existed. Moreover, by weaving in the characters that actually existed in history into the story, Leroux made the story sound very realistic; however, it may not be a good thing to sound so realistic, because from time to time, I would have to think very hard about whether the Phantom of the Opera and this story had existed in reality, or just in one's imagination? All in all, I think I would rather choose to believe that the story is fictional, since it would be too awful if anything like this actually happened.
Most of the story's climaxes are at the middle of the book.I believe that Christine Daae loved the opera ghost, Erek, as much as she loved Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny. I felt the opera ghost is a person that worth sympathy.Despites his overwhelmed talents, he is ugly-looking,so he can only live underneath the theatrer, lives a dark life that no one knows him.However, the end when he still let the person he loves so much to pursuit her true love is so touching and shows his capacious heart to sacrifice himself.

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RJ2 張譯升

Book:Kite Runner
Amir described the childhood he had came through, the place he lived, his best friend and father. Amir was born in a extravagant house, but his friend Hassan in the shack. Hassan's father was the servant of Amir's father. Hassan and Amir grew together. There was a brotherhood between them had fed from the same nursing woman, a kinship that not even time could break. Hassan's father, Ali, had a miserable past. Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers after giving birth to Hassan. She was a beautiful but notorious. Hassan never talked about his mother, as if she'd never existed.
After this chapter, I finally knew the main character named Amir, and the scene flashed into my mind, the true friendship they cherished.

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My Reading Journal 2 H組，Pythia

Soon, I have started my second book named "Pride and Prejudice."The famous novel was written by Jane Austen who began her second novel, Pride and Prejudice, before she was twenty-one. In fact , interestingly ,it was originally titled First Impression because the novel was also concerned about the effects of the role's first impressions up others, that is their prejudice. Therefore, Austen found the title Pride and Prejudice more appropriate.

There are 20 chapters in this book , and the level of the book is 3000 words and 220 pages. I started at 3/12 and now (3/27)I have finished 11 chapters (page 112 ).

There were too many characters in this novel, and sometime I mixed with them! Mr. and Mrs. Bennet , Lydia. Catherine. Elizabeth…..,and so on! Although I have had read the Chinese contest and movie , I still thought that reading English novel was a great challenge to me. In the beginning , I felt frustrated .But . little by little , I was familiar with these complicated English names ,I found it interesting! Now . I kept reading it and I hoped that I could finished it quickly!

my reading journal 2 G組 鄭華漢

The book "Jane Eyre"was first published in 1847 and it was written by
Charlotte Bronte.The book mainly describe a girl who named Jane and her life.
She is a orphan because her parnets all died when she was a child.
She was adapted by her aunt but she was't treated normally.
All her aunt family memebers hate her but Jane didn't care.

Afterwards,because of fight with her aunt's son,she was send to a school.

In there she regonize Helen.I think Helen changes her a lot.Helen once said"Even if allthe world hated you and believed you wicked,if your own conscience is true and free from guilt,you will never be without friends"
Unfortunately,soon Helen died because of sick.This is what I read in these weeks.

my reading journal 2 J組 楊凱容

This week I have only read five chapters of my book – Charlotte's Web. The tests of Accounting, Calculus and history occupied most of my leisure time, so that I could hardly read it. During this two weeks, I have changed my way to read the book. Prior to two weeks, I consulted the dictionary as soon as I saw the word which I didn't understand. But I found that it wasn't fluent for me to read whole paragraph. Now, I mark the vocabularies by under line of them and consult the dictionary after every chapter.

The pig Wilbur in the book has a spider friend whose name is Charlotte. They talk every day and sometimes Charlotte show how she eat insects to Wilbur. There are lots of pleasant things happen in summary day in the farm which Wilbur and Charlotte live. For example , their friend ,a goose, have seven cute goslings. But one day, the old sheep told Wilbur a bad news that he was put on weight in order to be eat.

The story will develop splendidly and I look forward to the following chapters.

My Reading Journal 2 G組 吳中翔

These two weeks, I have read 12 chapters of the book that I choose, Charlotte's Web. I found that the story was more and more interesting ! At the beginning, the girl in the story, Fern, bagged her father not to kill the pig which looks weak and small. So his father decieded to let Fern raise it. Fern was so happy and gave the pig a name Wilbur. She took care of Wilbur almost all the time. But Wilbur became bigger and bigger day by day. Besides, he ate more than before. Fern's house could not afford to keep raising Wilbur. Finally, they give Wilbur to Fern's uncle who had a big barn that Wilbur can live in.
After Wilbur getting there, he became met many animals, For example, the gander and the goose who always stammer, the rat called Templeton who liked collecting everythings, sheep and his best friend, Charlotte,who is a spider. Charlotte always can reassurance Wilbur when he felt lonely. One day, Wilbur heard that he will be killed when he grow up. He was so sad, but Charlotte told him she can let him not to killed.

She used her intelligence to save Wilbur's life. She wrote letters on her web to make Wilbur become the popular star so that people would not want to kill him.

I hadn't finish the book yet. It still has 3 chapters. But I feel I made progress than before! I can read English book faster. Two weeks ago, I only can read 7 chapters. But these two week, I read 12 chapters! I am so happy to see my progress!

I really want to konw the end of the story. I think I can finish this book in this week and go to find other interesting books.

My Reading Journal 2 F組 朱慶元

This time , at the beginning , Oliver is being sent to be a apprentice(actually I think it's better use "forced" ) , but the consequence is the same as before , he still being treated as a slave , without free will and freedom , even worse , he can only eat meat which left by the dog , that's something what we can't imagine today . Do they know what human rights are ? Do they understand the value as a human being ? No , I don't think so. In that time , your life is being decided by a world we called "ascribe status" , it means everything depends on where you were born to , like Oliver , if he were not a orphan or were born in a rich family , he won't be what he like in this book , and he is not the only sufferer that time , those miserable than he are ever where . Through this , we could know the treasury of what we have , like human rights and free will , in modern society today and will always remember those who made efforts to pursuit what make us as a human being . I really appreciate that I am lucky enough to be a modern citizen and have better life today and won't forget it anymore .

My Reading Journal 2 Group I 陳怡婷

This week I finished the book"Alice's Adventrue in Wonderland".
I forgot to introduce this book before so I wrote it this time.
This book was written by Lewis Carroll and the story is about a little girl Alice have a strange dream.
In this dream, she meet the Mad Hatter,the Cheshire Cat,the Duchess,and the Queen of Hearts.
Alice follows the White Rabbit down a mysterious hole and lands in another world peopled with unforgettable characters and filled with fantastic adventures.

In fact, when I read in the middle of the book, I felt a little boring.
I think maybe the story is a little childish for a college student.
However, there are still some interesting plots.
For example, when the queen ask Alice to play the croguet, the croquet balls are live hedgehogs, the wooden hammers are live flamingoes, and the hoops consist of cards which can move.
How queer it is!
I admire that Lewis carroll can create such a imaginatve story.
If I had such a magical dream,I wouldn't want to wake up.
Althouth this book is about 2000~2500 words, there are still some words I don't know.
I tried to read it without dictionary but it's hard to understand the story.
And it made me feel impatient to look up the dictionary.
I think next time I would choose easier book to read.

My Reading Journal 2 K組 蘇郁玫

The book now I am reading is Lying Awake, and it was written by Mark Salzman. I borrowed this in our business building library. Why I chose this book is because the size of the word in this book is big and clear, it made me read very comfortable. But when I stared reading this book, I found that I have a little barrier. Because the word in Lying Awake has a little difficult to me, I can't realize the contents about this book easily. It was talking about a nut's life in a convent. And what would happen when religious commitments strike the tangled. I am trying to read

My Reading Journal 2 K組 莊清瑜

I have finished "The Sorrows of Young Werther " .
Well,it is very difficult for me to read .As a result,I read slower and felt bored about its context.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist , sent to his friend Wilhelm.

In these letters, Werther gives a very intimate account of his stay in the a village of Wahlheim . He meets and falls in love with Lotte, a beautiful young girl who is already engaged to a man named Albert.

Although Werther is very sad, he still makes friends with both of them. His pain eventually becomes so great that he is forced to leave . While he returns to Wahlheim , where he is more sad than he was before, because Lotte and Albert are now married. Out of pity for Lotte's friend and respect for her husband, Lotte makes a decision that Werther should not visit her so frequently. Werther is very sad and had realized that one of them—Lotte, Albert, or Werther himself—had to die. Unable to hurt anyone else ,Werther has no choice but to kill himself .

It's not a happy ending.Afer finishing it,I am very sad.I thinkWerther is very stupid,he dosen't have to give up his life . I don't know how strong the power of love is,but I know how important the life is.
Next time I want to choose the books more more happier.

RJ2 E組 吳曼綾

Now I have started my second book named "The Egypt Game."
It was written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published by Dell Yearling.
Besides, the book was three-time "Newbery Honor" winner.
"Newbery Honor" can be traced back to 1921,the first time it was given.
Because of an 18th publisher and seller of children's books in England named John

Newbery.
Therefore this is a nice book for children.

This book is not like my first reading book.
This is more difficult for me because there are many words that I'm not familiar with.
Especially this book has many proper noun about Egypt.
Moreover,the book has 215 pages.
I think it is a nice challenge for me and it can discipline my patience.

The book described two girls,April Hall and Melanie Ross.
Both of them like to play imaging games,so they start to play Egypt game.
But strange things begin happening.
Even though I haven't finished this book yet, I can also feel nervous now.
I will keep on reading it. Go!

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My Reading Journal 2 G組 高千涵

I finished reading the book " Charlotte's Web" yesterday. The end of the story is so moving and warm-hearted that I cried. I admire the spider, Charlotte, for she sacrificed his life to safe her good friend, Wilber. Despite the fact that Charlotte was pregnant and she knew that she will be unable to act as well as usual after she made the eggs. The most impressing dialogue in the story："Why did you do all this for me? " Wilber asked. " I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "I wove my webs for you because I liked you." When I read the sentences above, my tear can't help but rolling down. And there are also some funny dialogue: "You would live longer" said the old sheep, "if you ate less. "Ha Ha Ha.

After Charlotte died, Wilber promised to take care of her children and let them know—their mother was brilliant, beautiful and loyal to the end.

I see the power between Wilber and Charlotte's friendship. I think none of the new spider ever quite took her place in Wilber's heart.

g5102b i組 施得翔

The book I reading is THE SCARLET LETTER.

So far as I am concerned,it depict a backward-looking

country.

The woamn who wears the scarlet letter on her bosom

is a woman without friends,a woman has sinned.

Fingers point at her,respectable people turn their faces

away from her,the priests speak hard words about her.

Shame follows in her footsteps,night and day.

Because this is New England in the 1600s.The Puritans

have crossed the sea to the shores of America,building

their new towns,bringing their religion and their

customs with them from the old country.And in the

early years of Boston,in the state of Massachusetts,

the church is strong and unforgiving.Anyone who breaks

the laws of the church,and of God,must be punish.

All in all,I expect that I would finish it recently.

My reading journal 2 D組 楊雅婷

Because I had to prepare some tests last week,I only read 11 pages this week.

I have read 2 chapters.

Chapter 1.THE WORST BIRTHDAY

Because of summer vacation,Harry Potter had to go back to the Dursley.And this day was Harry's twelfth birthday,but the Dursley not only forgot about it but also asked him to stay at the garret where ha lived for the Mesons' visit.To Harry's dispointment,he didn't get any letter from his friends at Hogwarts(霍格華茲).

Chapter 2.DOBBY'S WARNING

As soon as Harry entered his room,he found something strange sitting in his bed.It was Dobby,a house-elf(家庭小精靈).He warmed Harry not to go back to Hogwarts because You-Know-Who (那個不能說出名字的人)was waiting for him.Therefore,he used some ways to try to keep Harry stay at home.Because of Dobby's appearance,Harry got a warning letter from Ministry of Magic(魔法部)which made him locked at his room.

My Reading Journal 2 B 組 卓咨廷

I read the "Jane Eyre "this week.

Jane Eyre is a famous story in the world.

I have read this book when I was a senior high student.

However, this is my first time read it written by English.

I reviewed this book and found a lot of interest in it.

Jane Eyre loses the parents since childhood, hers aunt

adopted her. But she was treated abusively by her aunt

and cousin . Jane was sent to an orphanage after she has a big

quarrel with her cousin .After Jane graduate from the school,

she found the work of the private teacher in Edward Rochester's

house, where she fell in love with Edward Rochester. But there is

a big secret on Rochester…

Until the wedding day, Jane knew the fact that Rochester was

already married. Rochester's wife was a psycho and was locked

in an attic. It was so shock to Jane. She felt sad and ran away

from Rochester.

Rochester's wife set the fire in the attic and was died by the fire.

In order to save his wife, Rochester broke his right hand and

was blinded. Afterward, Jane forgave Rochester and helped him

recovering. At last, they got married.

I find the true love in the novel, although there are much interference

between Rochester and Jane. I hope everyone can read this novel to feel

their true love.

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RJ2 E組 林家綾

I choose a book which is "Silas Marner". This book was written by George Eliot and published by Oxford university press. And it is a novel with 1400 headwords.

The story took place in a quiet, simple village of England in the early nineteenth century. In this village, life followed an unchanging pattern.

Silas Marner is a sad, lonely man. Because his miserable past, he didn't trust God and had no family, no friend except the bright gold coins that he earned for his weaving and kept hidden under the floorboards. He work hard everyday even on Sunday, when he should be in church. Every night he took the gold out and counted them again and again. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. Every villagers suspected that he was a friend of devil.

Squire's two sons whose name were Godfrey and Dunstan shared a secret. Godfrey was the person who was going to inherit all of Squire's property, but he had a secret marriage with a lowly woman(Molly) rather than the gentle lady(Nancy) that his father wanted him to marry. Dunstan knew this situation and threatened to tell Squire if his brother didn't give him money and it could make Squire disinherit Godfrey. Therefore, Godfrey had no choice but to let Dunstan sell his favorite horse. Unfortunately, the horse died by accident in the halfway and Dunstan did not fell miserable at all. On his way home, he passed Silas's cottage and Silas was not home. Dunstan entered the cottage and found the gold hidden under the floorboards. He was glad and took the gold away.

When Silas Marner returned his cottage and wanted to count his gold, he found them disappeared. It almost drove him to crazy. After that, he usually moaned to himself as he sat weaving.

But this disaster had one good result. Little by little, Silas's neighbors understood his past and realized it was wrong to be suspicious of him. They tried to be friendly to the poor, simple, harmless man, who needed their help. But Silas still make himself lonely.

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I don't finish this book yet.

My Reading Journal 2 Team L 林孟萱

In this two week I finished my first book "Frankenstein" which I have simply introduced last time. And I start to reading another book named "The Secret Garden". This time I would like to talk about what my feelings are after I read "Frankenstein". Next time when I finish "The Secret Garden", I will share something about it.

At the moment I finished reading the book, "Frankenstein", I really felt sorrowful and miserable about what are described in the novel. Victor Frankenstein is a young and intelligent scientist, who at beginning thought he found the secret of life and then created a "new man" by taking parts from dead people and piecing them together. But after Victor did finish his "work" and made it alive, he was filled with fear at what he had done and escaped from the creature he made. As a creator, just like a father or a leader to the creature, Victor didn't do any thing for it, except gave it life. I think that is an irresponsible behavior. The creature is like huge baby who need someone to give him love. He tried hard by himself to learn every thing to being a human and helped people if he could. But people hurt him again and again just because he looked frightening. I think it is very unfair to judge a man/woman just according how he/she looks. Although people always like beautiful things, the appearance can not represent what a man/woman is. The creature became very disappointed and began hating human especially his creator. Then he started to kill people in order to make his creator painful, but he also felt disheartening. Victor became more and more distressed when his beloved families and friend died, so he also hated the creature he made. In the end of the story, Victor and the creature who didn't have a name both paid much for those, and they died for it. I think if everyone could consider in others' place, then many things will not go so miserable. More than that maybe the world will be more wonderful.

My Reading Journal 2 E組 薛文婷

I have finished this book this week, actually I have delayed four chapters last week,I feel very embarrassed about my laziness.

The story main role King Arther is born in a dangerous time,and his father took him to Merlin,a clever man and know a lot of magic.

When Arther was a young man,Merlin went to London.He visited the Archbishop,the most important man in the church.
In his visiting journey,he met different kinds of people,and they also can be his teacher,they like Socrates also can teach him something he have to learn in his life .
I did not like the ending.King Arther finally have left his bosom friends"Round knights"and his lovely country.I like his character:brave.sagacity.just.
His personality cohere with chivalry of the Middle Ags.

I find that when I finished a book,I am too impatient to wait next book's coming.

This time,I want to roam secondhand book shop to choose some I like very much .

By the way,I must challenge my ability,last book only 600 words level.I will choose higher level next time.

I hope I can own some extracurricular reading book.In this way,when I feel bored or have spare time,I can read them at random and kill time.

Reading can help me escape from bustle and hustle.I except to myself:Do not cut off this good reading habit.Keep going!

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