Week 4: Famous Last Words

In this blog post I want to talk about this week:

This week I was so busy. I had three tests and I had work also, so I did not get the chance to finish both portions of my reading. I just ended up with the half-reading option. it was so interesting to read about Arabian Nights unit and read a story talks about Scheherazade and how smart she was to let the king keep listening to her stories for a thousand and one nights. In this story Scheherazade saved her life and others lives from killing.  I wanted to write a story that can answer all of my questions that I had when I was reading the story. I was wondering how the king discovered his wife betrayed and I wanted to start my story answering that question like creating a story to show us how he knew that his wife was cheating on him .

image information: This is Scheherazade

in addition, this week i met a new people in this class and I read their stories.  it was so great to read  what they wrote for this week.  I learned from them how they write the stories. Each one had different style in writing, but it so interesting when I read stories like that with too much detail in it because that let me imagine the whole scene and enjoy the story.

  Also, I start to know how to use the punctuation marks correctly in my writing because knowing how to use them when writing in English can change a lot in the meaning and the understanding of the sentence. I am still not professional in using them, but I am working to do my best to learn how to write correctly because i know that will help me in my other classes where I have to write essays.

 I hope this week goes well and I can do both portions of my reading about interesting stories that written in different style so I can know more styles of writing.

Week 1: Famous Last Words

In the first week of this class, I read more than one story. There were short and interesting. the great thing after reading each story is there was a moral where everyone can learn from it something and make him think more deeply. I remember I did my reading over a story about a friend left his friend alone when he needed him. The title of the story is “Two Travelers and a Bear “and it talks about two men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them. One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a tree. The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead. He had heard that a Bear will not touch a dead body. And the moral of the story is “misfortune is the test of true friendship”. I really liked that we had the opportunity to change whatever we want in the original story to create our own. That is gave me some space to extend the story in the way I felt it could be useful to give the same moral for the original story. writing in this style keep me comfortable when I am writing, where I tell the story without going to tell every detail in the story like how the characters look like or describing  how was the bear look like or if the day was sunny day or rainy day. I always like to focus in the idea of the story and try to tell it to the reader in the shortest way I can do because sometime when I read a very long story or novel and it has many details I feel bored very quickly. I do not like to spend like five minutes reading details where they do not add anything to the idea. The reason I am doing this right now because I still not a very good writer and have enough experience in writing stories, so I cannot attract the reader’s attention for to many time just to read details in my writing. But overall I loved this experience of writing and I will keep working in that during this semester and trying to learn how to do different styles of writing.

image information: this image from the story that i read this week