"THE GOOD BODY"
                                                                       by: Eve Ensler


     To me, when I think of “the good body” I think of models. To me, a “good body” comes from taking good care of yourself and trying to realize that you are not always going to look the way you “feel” you should look, or how you want to look. For myself personally, I like to dress up and wear outfits that make me feel good about myself. I’m sure that as I get older my idea of how I should look will change.  When I’m forty, it will probably be about losing all the baby weight, then when I’m sixty it will be about not getting too wrinkly or fat, and eighty will probably be able looking healthy and feeling healthy– should I live that long. Body image is a huge concept. Although it is generally the same for most people: be skinny, but not too skinny. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be a certain color, a certain shape, a certain size. Everyone has different desires for themselves, but at the end of day we all want the same thing. We all want to be accepted, loved, approved of. However, not everyone wants to be happy with who they are in the here and now.

 

 

 

                                                            
                                                               "SILK"
                                                              by:Allesandro Baricco  

Silk is a great novel for me, a romance and dramatic kind of story wherein you can still see the practicality of the real actions the characters did. The very lesson in this story has taught me when to let go of people you love, even if you love her in your fullest. Actually it’s not from the protagonist but from his wife.The story is somehow hard to picture, about a man, Herve searching for silk for his business and by searching he then reached Japan and met a girl there, then he had a relationship with her. For that reason he then always went to Japan saying to his wife it is for business, in short he started lying. But when Japan was experience civil war, he never saw the girl. His wife knew all of it all along that he was having mistress.  For me it was the bravest and greatest thing I’ve ever known in my life. To know that the ones we love the most does not love us back the way it used to be   It is so realistic that the man has another lover because life now is like that, and that made the story practical for me and at the same time eye-opener,  but you have to know that you can answer such problems like these. Tradition and culture of Japan and Europe made it interesting and literature material. And theme, romanticism, borderless love, made the story really touching and heart-warming.

                                                         "THE VALLEY  OF AMAZEMENT"
                                                                       by: Amy Tan                               

                     

I was impressed in the story “The Valley of Amazement", because I’ve learned so many things  in this story, being brave, giving values and others that I can relate to my own life, and it’s what made this so good and interesting for me. I’ve learned one great thing in here and that is the need to imagine the great image of future, live the moving present and learn from the historic past. As a student I dream of a huge future, like every child, I dream  of bright tomorrow, that’s what keeps me running right now. Just like Lulu , she  had dream of living life at its fullest but there are always rocks on the road as always that needed a bit of sacrifice. But she is brave to face it. I want to be like her.

 

                                                       "THE STRANGENESS OF BEAUTY"
                                                                           [Excerpt]
                                                              by: Lydia Minatoya
                                                                           (USA)

      The Strangeness of Beauty is a quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II in Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko’s mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in an absorbing tale where mothers are childless, warriors are pacifists, and beauty is found in the common and the small. 

"A LOW ART"

                                                             [Excerpt from The Penelopiad]
                                                                      by: Margaret Atwood 
                                                                               (Canada)


                 

               "Even I believed him, from time to time I know  he was tricky and a liar, I just didn't think he would play his tricks and try his lies on me", said Penelope. I relate this line in my rel life. In this story, if Odyssues the husband of Penelope betrayed her, in my life my one and only best friend betrayed me. I don't know what happen to her, but one time when I wake up in the morning everything has changed. All of our neighbors were talk bad things about me behind my back. Because my best friend make a story about me, she tell everybody that I give my virginity to that guy. But I didn't. But that's issue would not took so long, because the story she invent about me, happens to her and the worst thing is she got pregnant. So if I were you avoid making stories to others, because there is a possibility that it will happen to you too.





   

Malinche Reflection

"MALINCHE"

[Excerpt]

by: Laura Esquivel

(Mexico)

Words could be weapons, the finest of weapons." This is what I've learned from the story. "MALINCHE." I do believe in this saying as it was proven by Malinali and even in real life . In this story, Malinali was a girl who was called as " The Tongue". It was an enormous responsibility for being the translator of both the Mexicans and Spaniards. She had  the power to control information, and it was said that whoever controls meaning, acquires power. She can control the situation, she can ever cause a war to both nations. This can happen in everyday lives. For example, I may cause a problem at home. I may lie to my parents that I haven't done it but my siblings did. And as being the elder sister , I have the knowledge of the right words to convince my parents that my little brother did who was clueless. And so this really prove that words are powerful, and the one who controls information has the power. So let us use word wisely, let us think first before we say things.