Friday, October 24, 2008

Virginia Woolf


While men were creating, thinking, learning, writing, reading we were cooking, washing, raising children, and sending them to the world. Women were in darkness for many centuries. Thanks to the women who started feminist movement, they achieved a lot of things and the reading of this kind of text is moving, I feel proud of this kind of woman who was very objective at the moment of evaluate women writers of those times. The 20th century was complicated for women and to be a women writer was more difficult. There were many obstacles, society wasn’t prepared but finally at the present time we can see the changes. However, gender discrimination still exits but we are in the right way.

Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest women writers also Jane Austen, they are fundamental in the women readings because helps us to understand the path that the feminist movement did.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Correction

Good Luck or richness?
This short story is about the complexity of belonging to a certain social class. In the story the family does not have enough money but they must keep on the expensive style although. One of the children realizes about the luck of money. Consequently this issue was in the child’s mind, he asked his mother why they have money problems and the mother answered because your father is unlucky. This part in the short story is fundamental because it determined the central topic of the story. It is very important to be a lucky person more than to be rich. If you are lucky everything is going to be easier, you will know the right people at the right time in the correct place. Opportunities are going to be everywhere, any decision that you will make has positive consequences in your life. Great ideas will come up easily to your mind when you are a lucky person.Finally if you are rich and luck is not in your side you can loose your richness. Maybe you have a lot of money but you are lonely. In addition good luck is more important than richness because money without good luck is useless.



The invisible Japanese gentleman
This short story is related to the realism movement because it is a simple story full of common details. The comments of the narrator are fundamental in this short story for understand some important details about the characters. For instance through the narrator’s comments the reader can knows that the beautiful lady belongs to upper class. The role of the Japanese people is very important because the author tries to show that the lady does not have the power of observation. On the other hand the lady thinks she is an excellent writer with the power of observation. Nevertheless she does not have this power she is not able to see the reality she is always thinking about herself.
I think the main point of this story is a satire about romantic writers who are up in the moon instead of being focus on the reality. In addition the satire is concentrated on artists who belong to the aristocracy and their works are useless with cliché titles.