Blog prompt for Mar 25

My topic of the research paper is "The world under Cao Xueqing's writing". Actually it was written hundreds of years ago, but right now there are still so many scholars studying this novel. It is not only because this novel has potential meanings of life, but also this novel describes the whole society in that dynasty. Until now, almost no writer can write as Cao Xueqin did. The most important reason why I choose this book as my project is that most of the scholars believe that "The Story of The Stone" represents the top of the Chinese writing. It describes hundreds of people's personalities and the family's rise and fall, which potentially represents the rise and fall of the dynasty and its different kinds of people. Today, there are many directors who want to make a movie of this book, but they are afraid that probably they won't make it well because when people read "The Story of the Stone", everyone has different images about it. If the directors make movies, they would limit these images by the actors and actresses. Also, when people perceive a book as classic, they also compare it with "The Story of the Stone" automatically. Therefore I think it is valuable to make it as my project.

Blog prompt for Mar 12

I think writing is a very simple thing. If the author writes an article, he or she wants his or her readers to think. Probably the authors' writing styles are dfiferent, but they are pushing people to think what they write about. Otherwise they won't write. Patrica states that the authors shouldn't write their own view directly and they should use evidence to make the audience to think step by step. If they state their statements directly, probably the audience would have no interest to keep reading the articles. I think a good writer can do that without using "I think". He or she can use different evidence, examples and analysis to persuade their audience to stand on his or her side. When people write novels, we can see that the description of a person. From that description, we can see the comments of the author on this person. If he or she is positive, the author would describe the positive side of this character. Otherwise he or she won't do this. I am trying to stop using the word "I" because I believe that it would make my article more objective without "I".

Blog prompt for Mar 5th

I think it is obvious to see the the similarities between Chris's heroes and Chris himself. They all had desires to be into the wild and they all believed that they could survive in the wild. However, the biggest difference is that Chris died. Before Chris did this, he trusted himself that he could survive, which is sort of over-confident. None of them expected themselves would die, so did Chris. However, he died. These people who entered into the wild all meddled death. Chris choose a different way to finish his own trip. He cut the conncetion with his family even his favourate sister. I admit that these people also suffered difficult enverionment, but they survieved. Probably their destinies were totally different. Chris's destiny was death.