A
COUNTRY BOY QUITS SCHOOL
(By:
Lao Hsiang)
CHINA
SUMMARY
The story begins by saying that a
nine-year-old boy in the country is at least half as helpful as an adult
because he can help with multiple chores, so the family didn't want to send him
to school.
LEARNING
Just as it concerns how important
education is, this story also addresses how not only books and teachers define
education.
SILK
(By:
Alessandro Baricco)
ITALY
SUMMARY
Hervé Joncour travels around the
world buying silkworm eggs and eventually travels to Japan. He buys eggs from
Hara Kei, a French-speaking nobleman. Joncour falls in love with his mistress.
On his second visit to Japan, Joncour learns about the exotic bird aviary that Hara
Kei has built; he leaves a glove to find Hara Kei's mistress in a pile of
clothes.
LEARNING
His communications with this woman
are totally wordless. In all but two instances, they take place in the presence
of a man with whom she shares her life.
MALINCHE
(BY:
Laura Esquivel)
MEXICO
SUMMARY
In Malinche Laura Esquivel
reimagines the relationship between the Spaniard Hernán Cortés and the Indian
woman Malinalli, his interpreter and mistress during his conquest of the
Aztecs. She was also a slave, trying to rebel against the barbarous culture of
her masters.
LEARNING
In this story the saying “Love is
the death of duty” is a one mistake Malinalli believed. Mixed feelings but
mostly anger came out from my heart after reading to this story, it gave me the
basis of a cruel and also a brave and wise characters.
SEVEN
AGES OF MAN
(BY:
William Shakespeare)
ENGLAND
SUMMARY
The speech compares the world to
the stage and life to the play, and catalogs the seven stages of a man's life,
sometimes referred to as the Seven Age of Man: infant, schoolboy, lover,
soldier, justice, pants and old age, facing imminent death.
LEARNING
His description of the seven stages from the birth of man to the death
of man only makes it easier to understand how our growth and choices in life
affect and are linked to anything and everything we do.
A
THOUSAND SPLENDID OF SUNS
(BY:
Khaled Hosseini`s)
AFGHANISTAN
SUMMARY
It is a heart-wrenching tale revolving around the worlds of two Afghan
women whose destinies, or rather misfortune, filled with suffering,
insufferable pain and misery, brought them under one roof.
LEARNING
Everyone in this story is a three-dimensional person; none of them is
perfect, but each of them can be a beautiful sun shining in the sky.
SHE
WALKS IN A BEAUTY LIKE THE NIGHT
(BY:
Lord Byron)
ENGLAND
SUMMARY
This poem is about a woman who is
anonymous. She is quite striking, and the speaker compares her to a lot of
beautiful, but dark, things like "night" and "starry
skies." The second stanza continues to use the contrast between light and
dark, day and night, to describe her beauty.
LEARNING
You can sense his feelings flowing
out of the page when you read them. "She walks in Beauty" is pretty
happy, focusing on all the things she loves about this woman. "When We Two
Parted" has a much more dramatic feel, reflecting the heartbreak felt in
the break-up.
THE
VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT
(BY:
Amy tan)
America/USA
SUMMARY
These notes have been contributed
by members of the Grade Saver community. We are grateful for their
contributions and we encourage you to make your own contributions.
LEARNING
It was a story that inspired me a
lot. This story encourages us to be patient, to love and to embrace ourselves
as we are. Most people will be embarrassed and afraid of how they look, move,
speak, and so on, and are unaware of their "special" features.
CORALINE
(BY:
Neil Gaiman)
ENGLAND
SUMMARY
When exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline discovers a secret
door behind which lies an alternate universe that closely mirrors her own, but
is better in many ways. She rejoices at her discovery until the Other Mother
and the rest of her alternate family try to keep her there forever.
LEARNING
The independent themes in this
story are family, love of what you've got, and bravery. In the novel discovers
that her house, though imperfect, was the one she loved and would never leave.
She also learns how to be strong and how to lean on herself to fight for those
she loves.
TELEPHONE
CONVERSATION
(BY:
Wole Soyinka)
NIGERIA
SUMMARY
Summary & Analysis of telephone
conversations. "Telephone Conversation" is a 1963 poem by Nigerian
writer Wole Soyinka that satisfies racism. The poem describes a phone call
between a landlady and a black speaker about renting an apartment.
LEARNING
We need to communicate in other
people in a good way and respect them so that you respect you also.
THE
BOY NAMED CROW
(BY:
Haruki Murakami)
JAPAN
SUMMARY
The boy called the Crow. Kafka on
the Shore is structured around the alternating stories of Kafka Tamura, a
fifteen-year-old boy who runs away from home to escape the terrible oedipal
prophecy, and Nakata, an aging and illiterate simpleton who has never fully recovered
from wartime affliction.
LEARNING
The child is waiting for him out there. Crow tells us about the problems
that people face and the consequences of facing reality. And no matter what
happen don’t give up.
