Wuthering Heights

I read the first three pages of Wuthering Heights, and thought that it was the most difficult first three pages that I had ever read. That is because I can never sympathize with anyone in the scene. Everyone seems to be so selfish and self-centered that they don’t have kindness and don’t behave friendly. My teacher said “horrible people are horrible to each other.” I think that it really makes sense.

The author, Emily Bronte was born and grew up in Yorkshire, where there isn’t anything gorgeous or showy but is vast nature. She was likely to write this novel in the silence surrounded by green. I wonder what led her to create such horrible people. Did she have something trouble with human relations? I searched on the Internet, and found that this story was created almost by her imagination: no model or experience. It was amazing that such complex human relations were made only by imagination. However, this novel was criticized severely while she was alive. So not knowing the admiration, she died. Moreover it is regrettable that this is only long novel of her works. If she had written another long novel, what would have been it like?

Music

I like music. I had taken electronic organ lessons for more than ten years and played a trombone because I belonged to a wind-instrument music club. If I hadn’t been interested in English literature, I would have taken a music course after I graduated from high school.

When I was a third-year student in high school, I borrowed a CD album named “Fearless” from my friend. That was my first time to listen to songs of Taylor Swift. Since then, I have been a big fan of Taylor. I really studied English hard with her songs, and I passed the entrance examination in December. Thanks to passing the exam earlier, I could go to her live concert in Budokan in February. It was wonderful time for me. I saw her directly with my own eyes! I extremely want to go to her concert again.

Recently, I found a song which I have heard on TV but I didn’t know the name. It is The Rose. I was impressed with the melody and the lyrics deeply, so I looked it up on the Internet and found that the song was used in a movie, “The Rose”. I really got interested in the movie, so I will watch it this week.

Rule of Three

We often find a three-piece set in literature, speeches, and movies. Oh! I have just used the three-piece set: literature, speeches and movies. I used the set because it’s more rhythmical to use three things to give examples of media. But some sophisticated writers add other elements to rule of three and make sentences more powerful and memorable like Ursula Le Guin did.

There is rule of three not only in English but also in Japanese. For example, fairy tales such as Momotaro and Sanmai-no-ofuda. In both English and Japanese books, there are usually trios (mostly two boys and one girl or siblings). The most famous example is Harry, Ron and Hermione. Also, there are lots of proverbs related to three; What had happened twice will happen three times (nidoarukoto-wa-sandoaru), Preseverance prevails (Ishi-no-uenimo-sannen) and so on. Three seems to be a basic point of things and generally a symbol of something powerful or good.

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I laughed at your comment on The Wrath of Titans because my mother told me the same comment. And, don't you like The Lord of the Rings so much? I like the actors of the movies and its ending. But I don’t remember the details because I watched them nearly ten years ago, so I will watch again.

Movie

I love seeing movies. I have seen a lot of movies especially for the past one year because I started to live by myself and had more time to see them.

Yesterday, I wanted to see a bit old film like Stand by Me or Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and rented Leon, which I didn’t know at all. I was just interested in Natalie Portman’s acting in her childhood when I saw the package. I started to see the movie with a soft drink and as a result, the 500 ml drink gushed out of my eyes. I can’t express how sad I was. I don’t want to talk about the content because it is too painful for me to recall it (this does not mean I hate this movie, and I won’t regret seeing it). If you got interested in this film, I tremendously recommend you to see it, but you need to prepare yourself to accept shock.

Recently, I studied The picture of Dorian Gray and I thought I had seen this kind of story somewhere. It is a movie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In this movie Dorian Gray is one of main characters, but actually he is... Anyway I enjoyed the movie!