I read a book named “The Sun and the Wind”. It is very famous story. I think that most people know the story. It is one of the Aesop's Fables. Everyone likes those stories. The book was very easy for me because it was very short. So I had finished a book soon. It was very easy.
The sun and the wind tried to face off. So the sun said that which can take off a man’s coat. The wind blew hard and tried to the man’s coat, but the wind could not. Because the man held his coat hard to did not be blown away by wind. And he took the shelter. Next, the sun beat down. The man got hotter and hotter. Finally, he took off his coat. So the sun won the duel. I thought that it was very interesting story. But I felt that it was no wonder. Because we hold our coat if we ware cold and we take off if we ware hot. It is natural. It was very interest thing. (177words)
2010年1月9日土曜日
2010年1月6日水曜日
Whale Rider
I watched a movie called “Whale Rider”. It was second time for me to watch it because I have watched it in the cross-cultural understanding class last year. But I didn’t remember the story. Because I didn’t watch it much. This movie is a dark.
The main character is a girl named Paikea. The place of the story is a village of Maoris, New Zealand. There was a tradition that a man become a patriarch in the village. But the patriarch’s eldest son had only a girl. That is Paikea. Actually, a boy was born as twins, but the boy and their mother dead shortly after delivery. So Koro who is the patriarch and Pai’s grandfather was very sad. Because he had no boy who must been the next patriarch. So Koro didn’t receive her, but he had a her love as a ground child, such as he took her to the school and meet her there by bicycle when they come back. Pai loved her grandfather too.
One day, Pai’s father came back to the village from German. But he refused to be a patriarch. He had a child in German, so he tried to go to German with Pai. But on second thought she decided to stay the village on the way to leave there. But Koro gave lessons to boys of the village to transmit a tradition to posterity. It was to someone of boys of the village is make to be a patriarch. He thought that the clan became unhappiness because she was born. She couldn’t take part in the lessons because she was a girl. So she watched the lessons secretly and got learn the tradition.
But Koro witnessed she won the boy in a taiaha, he was very very angry. After that, he throw a necklace had been passed down in their clan in the sea, and gave a test that a boy who could take it and be the patriarch. But anyone could not take it. He was shocked very much and he felt ill. She found the necklace and could take it. One day, a lot of whale washed up. Everyone tried to back them to the sea, but they couldn’t. but she sat astride it, a whale came back to the sea and the others came back too allured by the first whale. Koro assented she is a next matriarch, and she went to a maiden voyage to be a new matriarch.
I was impressed the end. But I didn’t like the movie because it is very dark and difficult. I thought that it is very difficult to save traditional culture. (448words)
The main character is a girl named Paikea. The place of the story is a village of Maoris, New Zealand. There was a tradition that a man become a patriarch in the village. But the patriarch’s eldest son had only a girl. That is Paikea. Actually, a boy was born as twins, but the boy and their mother dead shortly after delivery. So Koro who is the patriarch and Pai’s grandfather was very sad. Because he had no boy who must been the next patriarch. So Koro didn’t receive her, but he had a her love as a ground child, such as he took her to the school and meet her there by bicycle when they come back. Pai loved her grandfather too.
One day, Pai’s father came back to the village from German. But he refused to be a patriarch. He had a child in German, so he tried to go to German with Pai. But on second thought she decided to stay the village on the way to leave there. But Koro gave lessons to boys of the village to transmit a tradition to posterity. It was to someone of boys of the village is make to be a patriarch. He thought that the clan became unhappiness because she was born. She couldn’t take part in the lessons because she was a girl. So she watched the lessons secretly and got learn the tradition.
But Koro witnessed she won the boy in a taiaha, he was very very angry. After that, he throw a necklace had been passed down in their clan in the sea, and gave a test that a boy who could take it and be the patriarch. But anyone could not take it. He was shocked very much and he felt ill. She found the necklace and could take it. One day, a lot of whale washed up. Everyone tried to back them to the sea, but they couldn’t. but she sat astride it, a whale came back to the sea and the others came back too allured by the first whale. Koro assented she is a next matriarch, and she went to a maiden voyage to be a new matriarch.
I was impressed the end. But I didn’t like the movie because it is very dark and difficult. I thought that it is very difficult to save traditional culture. (448words)
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