World Lit Journal _ Piljung

  Rating: 9 / 10 I could not feel bored because the subject matter of this story was 'love' and 'playboy'. Also, the fast and dramatic development of the story helped me not to feel bored, too. The first thought I had after reading this story is the idea of marriage. In the book, both Gurov and Anna were married, but they met each other and realized that they were true love. I think marriage is something that can only be done after meeting true love, and I wondered if it was okay to get married if love also changes, just as there is no "true love" and people's feelings always change.  Marriage is a pledge to love each other forever, but it is also a restraint against oneself not to love others. It can be seen as a kind of precommitment. If love is a momentary emotion and has an easily changing personality, I thought about whether it is okay to marry which has characteristics of self-restraint. (165 words)

 Rating: 9.5 / 10 I really like this story. I've had a chance to read this story before, and I was really impressed when I read it again for the class.      First of all, I really liked the sentence expressions used in this story. For example, the sentence "the space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towers it of the lamps of the street lifted them of the febrile lanterns" made me feel like I was seeing a colorful sky in front of my eyes. Also, the expression "I'm a harp, and her words are her fingers" was unique.      In addition, I think this story shows the boy's psychological state well in a short story. He had to overcome many obstacles to get to Araby, and in the end, he didn't get a good result even though he struggled. He always realizes that life doesn't go the way he wants it, and I liked how the boy realized the truth of life.     Therefore, I think Araby is a complete and organized story that descri...

 Rating: 9 / 10 I didn't understand this story at once, so I searched for interpretations. However, when I read the book again after seeing an interesting interpretation that Father Flynn treated the narrator sexually, I could found that James Joyce had hidden so many interpretable symbols and expressions in the story. For example, the word 'paralysis' keeps appearing, Father Flynn who broke Chalice, and a man who tells the narrator that Father Flynn is a strange man and so on. Also I enjoyed this story as it could make a lot of different interpretations. I enjoyed the process of reading this story without being bored. I think this is because the story does not describe the entire story perfectly, but provides limited information, making more behind stories curious. So I wondered what had happened between the Father Flynn and the speaker, how and why he was emotionally unstabled. Continuously, the story suggests that Father Flynn was in an unstable state, but does not dire...

Rating : 7.5 / 10 After reading this short story, I thought about what makes life happy. Few would say 'money' to this question right away. This is because the phrase "money can buy happiness" seems somewhat hypocritical. Nevertheless, we all agree with the proposition that money can lead us to a better life. While reading the story, I realized that excessive obsession with money is rather bad because it would make me a greedy person and want more things. Through Ivan's Tale, I vowed to avoid excessive greed for money in order to live a life of self-satisfaction and a free life. Also, I have come to rethink how significant past events in childhood have an impact on shaping myself. In the story, Nikolai became obsessed with life of nature because of his childhood experience of running freely. And he comes to marry a rich widow he doesn't even love because of his desire. This has taught me that memory of childhood could make desire within us, for example, pe...

 Rating: 7.5 / 10 The story is about epiphany, which is realization or moment enlightenment experienced of the character. If a character realized something or recognize the truth of world, we call it there is an epiphany in the story. In <The Student>, Ivan went through the experience with Vasilisa and L ukerya: and realize that the tale of Peter from the Gospels relates to all people living in the present.   I have read  James Joyce's <Araby>, which is also a novel dealing with epiphany, and I realized that epiphany is not always good. I realized that it is not always profitable to know the truth of the world. Knowing more about things we didn't know, or knowing unpleasant things we didn't want to know, can be a pain for growing characters.  But don't we really grow only after suffering like that? We say that growing up is bitter and painful. However, through such a process, I think we gradually becoming an adult. (159 words)

 Rating: 9 / 10 When I noticed that this book was written in 1952, I was surprised that the theme of time movement was used for creative activities for such a long time. Then, I got the question. Why did people reflect their desire to go back to the past in books? I think the answer is related to 'regret'. I think many creations reflect the human desire of blaming and regretting oneself in the past and live better in the future. However, including this book, there are many cases of tragedy in novels dealing with time movements. Isn't this giving us a unified message to be satisfied with the present and plan for our future lives rather than regretting what happened in the past and trying to change the present through time movement? Also, I liked that this book as it penetrated the theme of Butterfly Effect that small changes in the past lead to big changes in the present. When we applied the "Butterfly Effect" to our daily lives, we had to choose everything in our...