Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

I truly believe that it is quite important to have our own place, a personal place, if we want to write or if we want to think about our most deep feelings and thoughts, because we need privacy in order to go deeply and have clear what are our real and true thoughts about any issue.

Some people would say that in order to have our own private place to write or just to think about life we need money, because it is not easy to spend time writing and have a quality life in terms of money. I agree with this idea, because writing takes a lot of time and people also need to work in order to have money to live and to take care of their families. It is not easy to be a writer if you do not have the resources to do it, because you cannot leave a side your quality life and your family, because, as I already said, you need a lot of time to write about issues that you are concern about and especially if you write fiction, because, in my opinion, you need more time to do it.

Oliver Twist...

Watching this movie, I recalled all the children that are forced to work by their parents, tutors or anyone who is giving them food or a roof to sleep in. The boy in the movie, Oliver, never met to his mother, because she die when he was born. He was always under the care of strangers that were very bad persons with all the children that they were “taking care”, due to the fact that they sent all the children, no matter the age that they had, to work in order to give them money.

Oliver’s experience made me think about all the children that work at a very young age, they are sent to sell or buy drugs, or even they are sent to steal in order to get money and give it to their “tutors”. Afterwards, most of these children are involved in the drug’s world, but some others are not, are stronger and they try to move on and get out of this tragic world that will take them to the ruin of their lives.

The Signal - Man

After reading this short story I could not avoid thinking about the movie "Modern Times" by Charles Chaplin, because it also refers to the Industrial Revolution.

I believe that the train has to do with the connections among different cities, because it is a mean of transport that it is used to move things, people, animals or whatever that you would like to transport to another city or to another place.

Going back to the story itself, I have to admit that I still do not understand the Ghost that appears in it, I still can not find the point of this Ghost. It really made me feel lost while I was reading this story.

Another thing that called my attention was how the main character appreciated society. He was seeing how the progress was passing in front of him and he just was a spectator that was not able to do anything about what was going on in front of his eyes.

Franky..

While I was reading Frankenstein I felt very sad, because his life was pretty difficult. I also thought about the many times that we have discriminated people because of any reason like colour of hair, clothes, thoughts and even because of the colour of the skin.

When I read that he was abandoned by his creator I thought about all the children that are abandoned by their mothers or fathers. I can not understand how a mother can abandon to her son or daughter, I truly believe that there are not excuses to do so. There is always a way to raise a baby, maybe you have to sacrifice many things in your life, but there are banal things if you compare them to a son, to the love that a mother or father have for her or his sons, it is a love that you can not describe.

This kind of stories are very touchy for me, because as I am a mother I can not conceive, as I said before, the idea of not ing with your son or daughter, it is something that I can not forgive, because there is always a way if you really want to be with them.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

In the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, the author talks about what he likes the most in the world, which are Daffodils. I also think that he refers to nature in order to explain that people do not realize how beautiful and peaceful it can be. People do not see this, because they are focus on their problems, they are always running, thinking in themselves and working, so they do not have the enough time to look a side and see the world. People is only worried in buy things and have more and more money. Doing this, we do not realize how bad is our planet, how we have destroyed it during the centuries only because of our greed and selfishness.

Also, people spend lot of money in therapy in order to beat stress, but they do not realize that if they look at mountains, flowers, animals or anything that belong to our nature they will get better, because our environmet is the best thing that we can have and it is FOR FREE, we just have to take care of it.

"When I have fears that I may Cease to be"

When I knew that I had to talk about Death, the first thing that I thought was: Ups!, because it is a very controversial and gloomy issue to talk about. On the one hand, it is quite difficult for some people to talk about Death, because most of us is afraid of it. Specially older people, because when you get to a certain age it becomes in something inevitable, lonely and eternal. On the other hand, for young people Death is something unknown, unthinkable and also, it is something that will never reach them, due to the fact that when you are young you are invincible, nothing can happen to you, nothing will hurt you. The author of the poem was young, but he was terminally ill, so Death was something that he had to think about, because it crashed him in his face at a very young age.

The feeling that overcome him when he knew that he was going to die, was the one of being remembered. In my opinion, this is a terrible feeling that we all are going to experience when our time comes, due to the fact that we all want to be remembered for having done something, we want to think that we did not live in vain.

Coleridge's Poem

“It is essential to poetry that it should be simple, and appeal to the elements and primary laws of nature; that it should be sensuous, and by its imagery elicit truth at a flash; that it should be impassioned, and be able to move our feelings and awaken affection”.



I chose this quotation, because, as we could read, during all the poem Coleridge talks about nature, but he does not talk about the nature that we know, an usual nature, he goes beyond our senses. He talks about a wanted nature, something that it does not exist in our world, it is like a Paradise that he is inventing and looking for. This Paradise, in my opinion, it is kind of weird, but it is because we all have different perceptions of what a Paradise is. I think that it depends on the moment that we are living in our daily lives. Maybe it is because he was used to take opium as a medicine his thoughts were a little weird and for him that was the calm that he was looking for.