The Lottery

"The Lottery" is a not-so short story written by Shirley Jackson is 1948. The story starts off in a village on the 27th June. The village always had a lottery held for a ritual for a sacrifice to fertilize crops in the village. The head family chooses first for the lottery and Bill Hutchinson's family is the chosen one and the sacrifice is Bill Hutchinson's wife, Tessie Hutchinson. Therefore, she was stoned to death and a hint of her dying was shown in the story. I find the story exciting because the prize wasn't told until the end of the story but it turn out that the prize isn't a prize for the winner but it is for the village.

War Horse Summary.

War Horse the movie starts off in 1912, with the main character, Albert Naracott or Albie for short, looking at a mother horse giving birth to a Foal. The foal was half-thoroughbred and and was still wild. However, a few years later, the foal, that is now  the horse, was sent to an auction and Albie’s father, Ted Naracott, was fascinated by the sight of the horse, which is the foal and bought him for 30 guineas. The landlord, Lyons, wanted the horse to but lost to Ted because he desired to spite Lyons and retain his pride. He bought the horse, which is colt for 30 guineas which means, he is unable to pay the rent  to Lyons. Much to the dismay of his wife, Rose Naracott, he is still willing to keep the colt and Albie is willing to train him to plough and soon, the colt became Albie’s best friend and is named, Joey. Lyons threatened Ted on taking his farm away if he does not pay 30 guineas to him by autumn. Ted was shown in wanting to kill Joey because he coudn’t pay to Lyons but, Rose stopped him. Albie trains Joey to plough and all his neighbours were astonished on the sight of Joey ploughing and preparing a field to plant it with turnips. Rose then showed the Regimental Pennant that Ted received during the war and Albie took it with him. That night, a storm came and ruined the field, causing the Naracott to remain hopeless.

The World War I was about to start and because Ted wasn’t able to pay the landlord. He sold Joey to a young cavalry officer named Captain Nicholls. Albie came and  pleads the captain to get Joey back but Nicholls can only promise that he will keep Joey safe in his care and will try to return it to him as soon as the war ends. Joey is sent for military operation and befriended a horse named Topthorn, a black horse who is also trained for the military. Topthorn is under the command of Major Jamie Stewart while, Joey is under the command of Captain Nicholls. The English then attacked the Germans while they’re undefended. However, they weren’t exactly. The Germans prepared machine guns and shot the English soldiers. Captain Nicholls and most of the other soldiers were killed and some of the horses made it out alive including, Joey and Topthorn.

          A young soldier named Michael convinces one of the soldiers to take Joey and Topthorn to the ambulance wagon, and he and his brother, Gunther drive them. Michael was assigned as a front but Gunther didn’t want to go so, he took Joey and Topthorn with him and took Michael from the front army. They stayed in a windmill but was caught by the German army and they had their death penalty. Joey and Topthorn wasn’t caught by them so they were alive.

The next morning, Joey and Topthorn was found by a young French girl named Emillie and she took care of them. She wanted to ride them but she has a kind of disease that disables her to do so. Her Granpa does not allow her too. Nonetheless, she has the priveledge to ride the horses on her birthday as a gift from her Grandpa.She rode Joey and Emillie raced to the top of the hill. When Emillie didn’t return immediately, Topthorn raced off toward the hills and Emillie’s grandfather follows. He sees that she has run into the German soldiers who ransacked their farm earlier. The German soldiers take the horses, despite Emilie's protests. The Grandfather keeps the pennant. Joey and Topthorn are put to the German artillery and is under the care of Private Henglemann.

By 1918, Albert fights alongside his best friend, Andrew in the Second Battle of the Somme, under the command of David Lyons. Some of the soldiers that were involved in the battle made it through the deserted German trench and some of them died.

Joey and Topthorn, under the hard service of the German army, survived years in there but Topthorn died of exhaustion and dies. Henglemann was taken away from Joey and Topthorn and leaving Joey to run away. Joey ran into the no-man’s land but was caught in a wire and he was unable to break out.

            Corporal Colin, from the England army saw Joey, being mistaken for a cow, caught in a wire and waves a white flag as a sign that he will give “no harm”. In his attempt to rescue Joey, he met a German soldier named Peter and they both helped Joey. They flip a coin on deciding who will take Joey and Colin wins. He guides Joey to the British trench and have formed an unexpected friendship with Peter.

            Colin then went to the army doctor to heal Joey’s bruised legs but, he said that the injury is serious and they don’t have a vet. Therefore, the doctor instructs Sergeant Fry to shoot Joey to end his suffering. Meanwhile, Albert was seen being treated because he was temporarily blinded. Andrew was killed by the gas attack so he didn’t made it. Albert heard about the “miraculous horse” that was rescued and so, called Joey with his call and Joey recognizes the call and approach Albert.  Albert then explained that he raised Joey and explains the exact identity of the horse. Having marks covered in mud, the army doctor washed the mud away and was astonished with exact description of what Albert has described of Joey. Therefore, Joey wasn’t killed.

            Albert was then not blinded anymore and the war ended on November 11, 1918  on the 11th hour. He then found out that the only horses that were going to be shipped home are the officers’ horse and Joey needs to be sent to the auction. However, his fellow soldiers help him to get Joey back. They then bid against a French butcher, reaching 30 pounds but, entered a bid of 100 pounds as Emilie’s granfather was bid against. The grandfather then, took the ownership of Joey. Albert pleads to get Joey back but, the grandfather refuses to, for the sake of his granddaughter’s memory.

            When the grandfather was about to leave, he was surprised to see Joey returning back to Albert’s side. The grandfather then, took out a military pennant and ask Albert if he knew what it is. Albert’s recognition of the pennant convinces that Joey is really Albert’s horse and returns Joey to his care. When the grandfather was about to leave, Albert asks who his granddaughter’s name was and he stated that it is Emilie.

            The final scene shows Albert returning back to his farm, where he was greeted by his mother, Rosie and father, Ted showing respect to his beloved son and hugged him for the first time shown in the movie.

            The themes that was shown in the movie was basically war, loyalty,friendship and trust. The film is focused mainly during the World War I and there were a lot of war scenes shown. The war also seperated Joey and Albert but reunited and their friendship bond grew. Joey was also loyal to Albert, despite having a lot of people taking care of him. Before seperating, Albert promised to Joey that they would meet again and take him back to his farm. This happened and they went back to Albert’s family farm.

What I Have Learned: Argumentative Writing&Debates

On the second unit, our grade learned about argumentative essay and debates. We started the unit with argumentative essay. I learned a lot in this unit but for me, it was pretty hard to understand. I learned that an argumentative essay must have an introduction, thesis statement, format, conclusion and a reference list. I didn't really do well in this unit because my score for the summative assessment was just average and not amusing. I need to work on my skills in writing argumentative essays especially, the way I citate the resources, disapproving the counter argument and showing more evidence. However, I did well in the format or the structure of the essay, making the thesis statement with two reasons and submitting the assignment on time. Overall, it was an amazing experience to make an argumentative essay and I hope it can be useful for me in the future.

After the argumentative writings, we continued to debates. I'm not exactly a fan of debates because I don't really like talking in front of an amount of people. I learned that in a debate we must have a good argument, confidence and expressive. I was not very expressive during the debate so, my score is also average and not very amusing. However, the debate ran well and it was good. Overall, I think the topics are fun to learn and I could gain more knowledge from the two topics.

Should the father of the 13 year old boy who killed seven people and injured others in a car accident, be held responsible for allowing his son to drive a car underage?

The accident of a 13 year old boy injuring himself and killed seven people in the process has spread widely throughout Indonesia. It is a case that has been discussed among various people and different judgements came out from each of them. It doesn’t matter what opinion they have because I strongly agree that the father must be held responsible for his son’s action.

The chronology of the accident started with the boy driving his girlfriend home at Bogor. It was early at dawn. The boy forced his girlfriend on taking her home but, the girlfriend didn’t want him to. However, the boy took his girlfriend home anyway. The boy took her home without any driver or parents to accompany him. He told his driver to go home. He went home from Bogor to Jakarta taking Jagorawi toll to go home. On his way, he lost control of his car because he got sleepy. He crashed two cars and killed six people, at the moment. Another person got sent to the hospital but died there. It was also said that the boy’s car was in a bad condition.

There are facts that indicates why the father should be responsible for it. First of all, the father lets his son drive. It is okay to drive when you have your driving license already but the boy is doesn’t have his license yet and is still underaged. It is illegal and it is a parent’s job to tell their son and not letting him. The law also states that underaged people will take half the responsibility and their parents or adults will take the other half of the responsibility. However in my opinion, the father should take full responsibility because his son is still young and needs guidance. Sure he got the approval but, people underage are usually controlled by their emotion and surroundings. If their parents don’t allow them, I’m sure they won’t do it.

Therefore, I strongly agree that the father should take responsibility of his son's actions. This could also remind the parents all over the world to pay full attention and monitor their children(s).

What I Have Learned: Blogging

Reflection:

During LB class, we learned Blogging for this unit. My strength for this unit is that I am able to create posts that are creative such as, making posts about tricks in life and a post about myself. My weakness would be writing a comment. I sometimes don’t make compliment the post and only compliment the content of the post or vice versa. I also tend to forget to add more information and asking a question in the post because I was too careless.

I find blogging interesting but boring at the same time. I am not a big fan of writing posts or writing a comment to other people’s posts but also, it is interesting because I get to see the posts that are made by my followers. Some of them are interesting and some of them are just plain but, it is fun to read the posts. Commenting other people’s post for me, is a drag because my followers and the people I follow are the people I meet at school and instead of typing, you can just tell them what you think of their post through telling them.

I have learned a lot of things in blogging such as, making a quality comment, making an interesting post, setting up a blog, and a lot of things. I like doing them all and I actually had fun when, I am not actually a big fan of writing blog posts. I really like making posts because your ideas just started popping here and there and the thing I dislike is making a quality comment because I tend to forget things I want to write.

Lucid Dreaming&Steps to do it

DREAMS.

I'm sure everyone reading this have ever dreamed about something but, have you ever been aware that you're dreaming? By that, I do mean that you know you're dreaming during your dreams. If you are, this is what is called lucid dreaming.

You are aware that you are dreaming and not only that, you get to control your dreams too! Although, you do need to do this over and over so, you could be able to control your dreams better.

Here's how to be able to do it!

I did say that you need practice! So, keep practicing and you will be able to control your dreams sooner or later!

Life Hacks

Hello there!
Do you guys know what life hacks are? Well, they are ways to make your life a little bit easier and better. I'm sure that most of us want something to be easier in life. Life hacks are very easy tricks to make that happen. Therefore, here are 10 life hacks that can be used in your life!

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9. NINJA FOLD!

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HOPE THESE LIFE HACKS HELPS! :)