Comparison of the book and the movie

After we finished reading the book Pobby and Dingan, we watched the movie of it in English class. It takes two classes to finish it, it's not that long but still has everything in the book. As we all know, in general the movie for  the book is just a kind of more emotional summary of book, but in this movie is a little bit different. When we have finished the movie, we noticed there are something really different from the book. Actually, not only about some details are different, the whole style to tell the story is totally different. When we read the book, we can feel like this a kind of book with a sad story, everything is bad turns to hopeless in the end. But in the movie, we can feel more about the kindness in humanity. Every characters bring more good feeling from movie. Ashmol's father is a kind, polite and caring about family, he doesn't get drunk anymore in the movie, which is totally different from the book Pobby and Dingan. Our main character Ashmol, he's not noisy at all. Oppositely, he cares more about his family and his poor sister Kellyanne. He is a brave, confident boy. He is not afraid to talk in front of a lot of people. Everyone expect for the Old Sid has a really warm, kind inside. They bring their kindness to the Willamson's, and spread that kind of emotion to the whole society. About the ending, I think the director just wants to make it a kind of happier ending, and be more confused. He doesn't choose to tell us about Kellyanne directly, but for the people who hasn't read the book then watched the movie, they are not going to believe Kellyanne is going to die. According to these points, I like the movie more. The kindness and goodness in humanity are always the best topic and stuff that we need to find and discover. 

Blog 8

For a long time, when people looked up at night, they always wanted to know more about sky, stars, and the space outside of earth. Human beings never forgets to get more imformation about the things outside of earth. Do you know how human started to know about astronomy and classify them as a completed system. It is because of a person, he uses his life to prove and protect the truth, even his enemy is church, and pope. He is Galileo. 

He is a Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Pisa, Italy. He was in a decline noble family. His father Vincenzio Galilei is a musician. When Galileo was 17 in 1581, he was studying medicine in the Pisa University, but he was interested in maths and physics. Then he started his way on them. He was poor to keep study in the university, but he studied by himself. He focused the study about Ancient Greek's scientific paper, he wrote thesis Balance in 1586, then he was called "the Archimedes of the time".

He kept focusing about mechanics, then his new thesis about center of gravity brought him a lot of honor, he came back to Pisa University and became the professor. He invented 40x telescpe, and his study gives a strong help about astronomy. From mechanics, physics, he doesn't think that's enough for what he wants to study more about. Then he starts to get in touch and give a system form about astronomy with the help of his invention, astronomical telescope. 

When he starts to know about astronomy, he noticed that another astronomer Copernicus's thoughts are closest to truth. Long time ago, human thinks about space is earth is the center of the space, everything inclued outside of earth goes around it. It got organized by Ancient Greeks, and the one which is the most famous one is Aristotle. The roman catholic church supported geocentric theory, because their viewpoints can protect and keep their theology world and their control power to earthliness. But Copernicus knows the truth is not like that and he proves that earth is not  the center of the earth, only sun is. His thought is called heliocentric theory, and his thoughts start to threaten geocentric theory, which is the roman catholic church supports about. The church and pope were afarid of Copernicus' thoughts, because it's the truth and it may take away all the benefits they have.

But Copernicus still decided to protect his own thoughts, the truth. Finally in the end he got burt, and he died. His soul gets reborn in the fire, the fire with sins. Galileo looked forward and he wasn't afraid of the roman catholic church and pope behind it. He stood up and against geocentric theory, and he supported Copernicus' thought, heliocentric theory.

The vile church's revenge came quickly and strongly. They gave Galileo life imprisonment, and they made him gave up about Copernican. Galileo's late life is really poor, he has nothing left, even his free to think. But I believe he never regreted. He was brave to face all the things that the church tried to persecute about.

Overall, what I learned about Galileo is all about being brave and protect truth is honorable, we need to live honorably that we can not waste our life. After we learned about Galileo, we will understand what under his heart, and the power that helps him to fight against sins until he died. That is courage.

research of Bertolt Brecht

Bertoly Brecht is a famous German dramatist and poet . He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria of Germany. He was supporting the labour movement, and then he was forced to leave his native land since 1933.  He went to United States by the way of Soviet Union, but after the World War II he got persecuted. Then he came back to Europe in 1947, and lived in East Berlin since 1948. In 1951 he got the national prize because of drama, and then he got the Lenin Peace Prize in 1955, which is his biggest prize during his life. He died in Berline in August 14th 1956. His family is not very good. His father is factory director of a printing house. He liked Lartin and human science as his favorite subjects. He went to join the war as a medic, but he doesn't like war and he doesn't believe they can win the war. After war he wrote poems and drama, and sent them to newspaper. His famous one Barr, and he wrote a book which includes China. He used his life to travel all around Europe for 15 years of his life. 

Research of Galileo

Galilei Galileo, he was born in 02.15.1564, and died in 01.08.1642.  He is a Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Pisa, Italy. He was in a decline noble family. His father Vincenzio Galilei is a musician. When Galileo was 17 in 1581, he was studying medicine in the Pisa University, but he was interested in maths and physics. Then he started his way on them. He was poor to keep study in the university, but he studied by himself. He focused the study about Ancient Greek's scientific paper, he wrote thesis Balance in 1586, then he was called "the Archimedes of the time".

He kept focusing about mechanics, then his new thesis about center of gravity brought him a lot of honor, he came back to Pisa University and became the professor. He invented 40x telescpe, and his study gives a strong help about astronomy. He supported Copernicus' studies, which was forbidden by the Christian Church. Then the Inquisition gave him a trial which made him a life imprisonment. After that he became blind, and had a poor late life. 

In class writing

After I read about the quote in the front of the book, at first I don't understand what it means. It is really confused that it uses this sentence here. A secret of an opal's color lies not in its subtance but in its absences. Later I start to understand that there is some thing related with the book. As we all know, opal is one of the most rarest gems all around the world. The Willamson's just came to Austria to find opal. In this book opal is in lots of places, there is an huge opal in Dingan's bullybutton, they try to find their opal in their field and so on. Also in this book, the melody is sad. From not the early of the book, Kellyanne was sick becase her father lost Pobby and Dingan, and half of the book they tried to find and finally give them a funeral, even Kellyanne died in the end.  But Kellyanne and her imaginary friend Pobby and Dingan gave a lot of influences to others around them, and then the whole town. They were not that powerful at the first of the book. What they influenced pepple I think is about sadness, how a 8 years old girl cares about her imaginary friend. In the end of the book people of the town said Kellyanne is a brave girl, and her story really make the relationship of the people of whole community so much better. Their beauty of defective attract people to change. Just like opal, people don't think they are attractive because it is perfect, because the unperfect side are storical. 

Blog 7

Pobby and Dingan is one of the a little books which is about kids and their thoughts. Last one is Persepolis. At first, when I read about this book, I didn't really understand what is really about. Two imaginary kids are the title of the book, and some parts of the main characters. I even didn't understand how people's reaction. They act really strange. But words by words, pages by pages, I have already read about half of the book. Then I started to understand a little bit about what the author tries to tell us about. All the fake and strange parts in this book have relationship with psychology, and the kids' world. The words in this book are really simple, but there are enough emotion in the words. Some of them really surprised me. When Kellyanne asks Ashmol to make a funeral of Pobby and Dingan, and she says that Ashmol can use the huge opal as the cost to pay of funeral, in Ashmol's thoughts there is a sentence: I never thought Death is such important. That one really shocked me. I can understand and know every single words here in this sentence, but I still can feel that kind of strong and powerful emotion and confusion. That is the first time to let a 8 years old kid starts to get in touch about death, which is the problem that human beings tried to figure out about thoudsands of years. Of course no one gets the answer, and it is still one of the biggest fear in human being's mind. Whole of the book when the author starts to talk about emotional things, he uses the same style with this. Simple words with strong meaning. I although can say the style of the whole book is just like a young kid is telling you a story, he even doesn't know well about vocabulary to describe and modify, but he uses his pure emotion to tell you what he thinks. I like this book because it was just like an epitome of my childwood. I can hardly remember what it was about, but after I read this Pobby and Dingan, it refreshes my childhood memory a lot. For example about the imginary friend. I think everyone would have this kind of special experience. When people were young, some of them are quiet, or maybe the environment doesn't allow them to have a well-connected community. So they have to play and spend their time longly, maybe their parents don't spend a lot of time with them. That makes them have a habbit to be alone, but they still want to have some friends. For the kids, the mostly happen thing is they always talk with themselves. Then they start to imagine if there are some friends near them, and they will care about them, and show their friendship, and spend their time with them. When I was young, I didn't try to have an imaginary friend, but I tried to make some of my toys become my friend. I did for the things like this is I made my shoes like a god. I respect them, and I pray to them for fortune of next day. I can feel the same in this book, which shows the desire to be socialized. 

Goals

This is the first marking period of my second school year here, and my classes are getting harder. In last year my English class was not that good, I didn't understand what the class went on and I didn't talk. So in this marking period, I tried to talk more in class and get more participation about class. I focus more in class and I tried to write better essays, although writing is the worst part of my English learning.  I think I already improved about my reading skills, especially about poems. I think I am getting started to know more imformation about poems, in the past I didn't really understand this kind of form of literature. I think I still need to improve about writing, which is my weakest part. I will improve myself to do more valuable writing works. I don't know about my grade in this marking period of English class, but for my goal about next marking period is getting at least 1/3 letter grade, and I wish I will reach A- . 

Although I am not good at English class. For next marking period, I will try to care more about homework, and do them especially blogs on time, not like this ( I am already late). I believe I will get better day by day.