The Ant and the Grasshopper

Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper?


         In the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper described that the ant succeed to spend great time in winter because the ant was hard-working, and the grasshopper who just took the rest in summar at all did not have food in winter. However, Maugham's story explained that Tom who was like the grasshopper and an attractive person had a chance to live a great life even though he was lazy and spent a lot of money. On the other hand, George was a serious person, and he respected others. Moreover, he saved the money like the ant, but he could not be happy in the end of the story because Tom had a marriage with an old women, and he received all of her money after the old woman died. In my opinion, the message in Muagham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper because the Aesop's fable and Muagham's story had a different result, and I realized that people who enjoyed their lives when they were young could be more successful than other people who concentrate to only work in the future.

The Friendship Bond ( Christian and Miyeon)

The Friendship Bond by Mary Brown Parlee

 

 

 

1.       Because of the dislocation and isolation now that people are always moving from part to part and because many people choose to live alone without commitment with anybody.  The critics were wrong because friendship is important for Americans.

2.       Loyalty, the ability to keep confidences, warmth, affection and supportiveness. Our order would be : loyalty, the ability to keep confidences, affection, supportiveness and warmth.

3.      The two reasones for ending a friendship are feeling betrayed by a friend and having opposite ideas about important issue. For us the first reason which is feeling betrayed by a friend is the most important because this is the principal quality in a friendship.

4.       The 3 principal activities are having an intimate talk, helping out a friend and turning to a friend for help. Trust encourages people to reveal intimate aspects of themselves.

5.       The two rules of friendship are confidence in each other and the right for help.  Yes we follow the same rules with our friends.

 

6. The respondents limits put on friendship is that when a friend try to commit suicide, most people reject friend's opinion, but few people help to commit suicide.

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"As It Was in the Beginning" Question Number 3.

"As It Was in the Beginning"
Question Number 3. How did Father Paul convince Laurence? Do you gree with Father Paul's reasons?



            According to the article"As It Was in the Beginning" was about homesickness, and discrimination. Laurence who wanted to marry Esther talked about his possibility marriage to Father Paul, and  Esther heard that Faher Paul and Laurence's conversation. Father Paul convinced that he disagree about the marriage because he said that Esther had red skin and half-breed.
           I strongly disagree with Father Paul what he said because people must not discriminate against anyone based on race or religion, and people should receive an equal treatment even though they have different skin and mixed-blood. In my opinion, At that time, there were not many mixed-blood peole in the Western world, so Father Paul would have discrimminated against Esther. However, nowadays, it is impossible to do discrimination. Esther was not treated as a person and a woman. I do not have about a discrimination experience, but if I were a victim of racism, I might be really upset. Moreover, Esther felt a homesick, so she might be so lonely and easy to get hurt from Father Paul's saying. Father Paul tried to make Laurence believe that Esther was not a good person to get married becasue she was red skin and half bleed, so Laurence changed his mind.