Journal:28 My Tell Tale ending

        …Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!

The people were still sitting on the chairs and drinking, didn’t they hear that? Or maybe it’s just because I’m feeling guilty. Finally the police were leaving; I brought them to the door and watch their actions specifically, look like they are not feeling suspicious about the sound, or are they trying to fool with me? This is really annoying. I cannot handle this anymore, I ran into the room, the sound was still there, it’s even getting louder and louder, it is as loud as a big drum. I have nothing else to do, my head is almost about to explore. The images of the old man and his eye are keep appearing in front of my mind. Yes, I am feeling guilty right now; maybe I am actually a mad man, I am insane, I picked up a knife, and dig out my heart. I lied down on the floor, the sound has stopped, everything has ended, the old man appeared, he was looking at me, but his eye has gone, he’s not scary anymore, but the only different thing is, he could fly, but I am keep getting in to the ground, like a hole was keep expanding. I suddenly realized that the way that the old man went to is the heaven, for me? Yes, I am going to a place, which gathers the mad men. Hell. 

Journal 27: Hints and Foreshadowing

In the story “ The Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator who is also the main character keep telling us he did the right things for the whole event and he is absolutely not an insane. However, when we see more inside the story, you will realize that this narrator is not saying the truth. He is totally an insane. But what conditions make us discovered that this narrator was actually not telling the real things to the audience? Why is he an unreliable narrator? First of all, I think the type of the story is quite important because this is a kind of scary story and the narrator is the character plus the murderer inside the story, this makes the audience suspicious. Second of all, when we are going through the story, we saw that the narrator’s behaviors became more and more weird; he killed the old man because of his eye and sort of things, what kind of normal people will do this kind of things? I think this is the biggest problem that deserves us to put in to the consideration. All in all, I think some of the story make the narrator like this is actually for the atmosphere in the story and make us feel scary! Sometimes when a story is not telling the truth, it does not necessary means that’s not good for the story.  

Journal 26: Unreliable Narrator

In the stories, we read it by what the narrator says. However, there are a lot of types for the narrator, sometimes the narrator can be the third personal view who is not being inside the story or they can be they can be the first or second personal view that is one of the characters in the story, even the main character can be the narrator, but for the type of narrators in the first point of view, you can’t exactly trust the story they tell sometimes, because they are one of the character in the story! But why does the author try to create an unreliable narrator? Maybe, the author is trying to make the audience become more realistic inside the story, so they created an unreliable narrator to hook the audience. Of course, the unreliable narrator does not necessary has to be inside the story, they could also be in the real life, especially the people that surround you or people want to show you their advantages,  for example, I had a classmate who likes to make friends, he will always tell different things to each person and even make lies, tried to make us think how good is he, this is also a kind of unreliable person to let us see his point of view. 

Journal 25: Scary Stories

        To create a scary story you have to know what makes the story become scary, most of the story have a lot of scary conditions, sometimes the story of the scary movie will including darkness, some places that have been abandoned, no people and quite places or any other things that will make you feel suspicious.

        We have a garden in our house and there is a swing in the middle of the garden, every night when I went in to the house through the garden, I won’t take any look at the swing because I will always imagine there might be a little girl sitting on the swing and starring at me, and that kind of scares me because how count there is a little strange girl will be in your garden in front of your house at the midnight? Although this situation looks kind of impossible and no any way to happen, but I just cannot stop imagine about it. However, another thing that scares me a lot is frog, this can be the most scary thing in the world except other supernatural things, I thing frog is the worst thing in the world ever, no offensive, but it is just way too scary.

Journal 24: Suspicion

        Sometimes when the people around you did something that they were not use to be, makes you field weird and uncomfortable, this kind of feeling calls suspicion. If sometimes people got strange behaviors or did things in a wrong situation, you might wondering why did he or she do that, did this person do any wrong things or going to do some bad things? Or maybe this person got mental problems. However, these situations will definitely make you think about more because they are too suspicious, but what kind of examples might let you make sure that this person is suspicious?

        One day, you went home and saw a strange person was in your house, there were no anyone else inside the house but him, he wore a mask and a cap, brought a big bag and looks heavy, you saw the decorations in inside your house became a mess, these situations and conditions can almost make you sure that maybe this person is a thief or robber, and this guy is going to steal the stuffs or even money in your house, this makes you feel suspicious, and normally the first reaction that people do is call 911 and tell the police about the situation, because of the suspicion, you’ll know this guy is stealing things in your house, then you’ll know you have to call the police.

Journal 23: What's worth the effort

In the story “Raymond’s run” Squeaky always complaining about the job she had is to protect her brother who has a mental problem because his brother often does things to bother her and even get her to troubles, and the girls were also laughing at her. However, does this job really worth Squeaky to being responsible? What is it worth the effort then? I have a nephew, he is only five years old, obviously, this age is usually the most annoying part in the people’s life. So I kind of have to endure his behavior for many times, he always took my stuffs as a mess and out of control, sometimes his behaviors even make me want to punch him as hard as I can, but his a part of my family though, I still love him, even his a little devil in our family, but we are still at same side. All in all, although Squeaky thinks protecting her brother is not the job she likes, but this job can only make their relationship become better. At the end of the story, when Squeaky was about to win, the one who was cheering with the loudest voice is Raymond, the most exiting person during the race was also Raymond, Squeaky and Raymond love each other. So what worth the effort to protect her brother? It’s their love.