Media's influence

1. What roles does the media play in our life?     We are surrounded by different media, most people may not pay close attention to it because it has become something so normal that it's like a part of our life. They play a great role in our life, effecting our thoughts, emotions, and belief. The words and idea spread through media will somehow influence at least 20% of the people, because that may be the only way they receive news.
     There are always more than one side to view things, but most of the time people will only show a few side of it through different media to let people belief that it's the only aspect to view that thing. Without knowing a lot about it, people may be led to believe so too! Media is like a fast and efficient way to spread a new, even though it may not be accurate, people might still believe it, we see this often in real life and also the movie, Hotel Rwanda. That's why we need to be careful with what we say and listen through these media, because it may not be true. One way to prevent from being deceive by these media is to understand it more from different aspect, so that we will know the story from different view, which is more accountable than just knowing one view of it.

2. Have you ever read/watched a news that mad you angry and that you want to take action?There are a lot of times when I watch and just read news that make me angry, because I think is not true! Politic news, economy news, and just news, there are a lot of them that I think is opposite than the truth. People will often twist the truth or exaggerate it so they can hide the fact or just make the topic more interesting, so a lot stuff they say is not really accurate. Taking the example from the movie we watched today, they spread ideas that the Tutsi are like cockroaches and that they murder the president, which they actually have no evident to support their words, but people still believe so because they have been brainwashed with this idea for the pass few years. I was just so mad when I hear them saying this, but even though I was one of them, I can do nothing to prove our innocent. (I didn't take real life example because it will be quite personal)

3. Who's accountable for the media?Many people are accountable for different media, including those that spread it and those that allow these news being spread. It is obvious that people who spread their ideas and belief through media should be responsible for the effect of it on the people who heard it, but beside these people, I think those that allow them to spread these news are responsible. If they know what they are doing and how it will effect others, but they still let them spread the news, they are definitely responsible for it too, for they know it but didn't take an action to stop it. There is a Chinese idiom that describe people who "support the wicked to perform wicked stuff", so I think they are also responsible for the effect of media on the people.

Country briefing

 

Genocide in Uganda Websites

Facts:

1.http://www.blackcommentator.com/93/93_otika_uganda.html

- genocide against Acholi people in Northern Uganda

- children are abducted

- the world did not really know about this because they are busy worrying about the war between Iraq and Afghanistan

- the government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) displaced these Acholi people

- only about a million and a half survived
- happened since 1986 when Yoweri Museveni came to power
- he order troops to kill these Acholi people

- thay blamed these people for rebel collaboration are not proven and they punish them cruely

- Museveni band the local and international media so the community wouldn't know about this genocide against the Acholi
- in 1996, the government order the Acholi to leave their homes and move to concentration camp
- if you delayed, they will bombed your house

- the camp contain more than 500,000 people now, everyone is treated cruely

- the LRA is another group that stepped in the genocide against the Acholi people, they cut off the legs of Acholi to prevent them from reporting to the government about the LRA
- they cut off their arms because they used to work for the government, they cut off their limbs to prevent them from working on Sunday
- they turns children into soldiers as young as 5 years old
-these children will kill those who cannot work with machetes and pounding sticks
- the UN estimates over 20,000 children being abducted and turns into children soldiers
- different non-governmental and humanitarian organizations report to rescue these Acholi

- the UN representative weren't really serious about this issue

- USA and Britain have been supporting Yoweri as he came to power in 1986

-USA and Britain start to rethink their support

-Acholi people have been caught between the government troops under Museveni and LRA

2. http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000290.html

This is a lecture on saving the children from war, focusing mainly on the genocide in Uganda

- inant mortality rate in Uganda is 172/1000 live births

- kids under five: 276/1000 die

- 25 kilos of corn flour & 6 kilos of pulses per family (each family contain 6-8 people)

- 2500-3000 people share a water source, often takes 4-6 hours of waiting in line to collect water

- a family live in a tiny hut of 4.5 square metres (smaller than the size of Mr. Webb's classroom)

- 85% in the camp suffer from severe trauma and depression

- is entirely normal for the government soldiers to rape and generalized sexual exploitation to the people

- HIV/AIDS is use as a weapon to kill the people
- some 40,000 children sleep on the streets to prevent being abducted
- Joseph Kony is the accomplice of Museveni
- Uganda is under a one-party undemocratic rule for 20 years, now...still

3. http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/01/22/african-genocide.html
- more people in Uganda died compared to the number in Rwanda genocide
- more than 500,000 were beaten up and arrested, raped girls under age 15 to kill them with AIDS

4.http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/genocides/uganda/UgandaWW2Melissa.htm#top

- the Lord's Resistance Army is made to overthrow the government

- leader: Joseph Kony

-95% of the population have been under violent abuse, the other 5% has been abandoned

- children abducted by LRA were transformed into child soldiers

- in concentration camps, the people's clothes were replaced with prisoner uniform

- children hid at night to prevent being caught by LRA, if caught, they were trained to kill, sometime they are even forced to kill their families

- LRA did not use many propaganda campaign so they didn't gain country's support, but they also kept all these violent act in a secret to other countries

- kill people for religious motives, they want to convert the country into a nation whose government is based on the Ten Commandments
- LRA forced the people they abducted and even their own army to obey the Ten Commandment and to not work on Sunday, if they disobey, their hands will be cut off
- the LRA doesn't have a clear set of goals compare to the Nazi

New Tiki-Toki timeline address

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/28479/Betty.Ls-Holocaust-Timeline/

First they Came...

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
(Martin Niemoller)

     This statement of Martin Niemöller reflect on the attitude of the people before the war a lot, and it also seems like a sarcasm to them. When Hitler first come to attack the Jews, people who were not Jews wasn't concerned, because they are not the target! Many people just let it pass because they are afraid to speak up, so they just silently watch these things happening and allow these people, the Nazi, to take the Jews, Gypsies, handicaps, and homosexual into these concentration camps and be torture to death.

     Pastor Martin want people to realize that a community and individual are not opposite, a person cannot survive by its own, they'll need help from other too! So when problems are coming after you, you need to work together with others too! You need to act, even though the oppressive is not on you, otherwise you'll soon face everything alone. He want the people that time to understand, just sitting and watching the bad guys oppressing on the innocent yet they are still able to make no sound is not reasonable! That's not how a community works! Probably even the Nazi show more team work then them!

With this said, it's reasonable to say that it's not ALL Nazi's responsiblilty for such a tragedy like this to happen, the whole community has responsibility too. How can you even remain silent during such a horrible time? Plus, you can say the power of Nazi was given by the people, because they voted on Hilter. Since they chose Hilter, you can say that they are expecting something good for the society from him, right? Or else why did they voted for him? So now Hitler was elected, and he form the Nazi armies and plan all these kind of terrible punishment on these certain type of people, how can the rest of the people still remain silent? They should speak up, because this is who they voted for doing something they are not expecting from him. But instead of standing up for these people, they chose to ignore it. Probably they are afraid of the power of the Nazi or whatever, but this is not a good enough excuse for these people to remain silent...they allow these people to come back over and over again until over 12 million innocent people were killed! And the final end and rescue for these victim didn't even come from the people of German itself...how sad?

The same ideas apply til now, even in my own life, I feel like I have full responsiblilty for what is happening now in my family and school, but a little bit less for what's happening in this city and the world.
It is obvious that each family member have full responsiblilty in what is happening inside the house, because family unit is the first and the base unit of a person's life (mostly). For example, responsibilities like the cleaness of the house, different chores, and the attitude and emotion of each other(sometimes). Sometimes an attitude or a belief of a person was influence by our family member, since that is who we are closest to.

Now for my school, I feel like I have full responsibility in what is happening too! One reason is because our school is much smaller than normal academy. But things such as school events, rumors, and the reputation of the school, everyone is responsible. Sometimes it only take a person's action for a lot more others to do the same too! If one student decides not to go on SA Day, probably ten more students won't want to go, if one student decides to go to Saturday cinema, probably ten more students will go, this is how the responsibility of an individual comes in. If one person did something wrong and was kick out of the school, other people, probably other school or the parents will start wondering on the quality of the students in the school. The same way, if one student get to go to a really famous college, the parents and student from other school will start to think that the school is good! Same goes with rumor, if someone start a rumor of someone, it will pass to everyone's ear within a week! Another thing that I think we as a part of a school has responsibility for is the oppression inside the school . If a kid is bully by a group of students, we should stand up because it's wrong.

Now for a city and the world, I feel like as an individual, you have less responsibility. Because the world is too big you can't really know what is happening. Like the thing happening in Africa right now, you can't say a student in Taiwan has responsibility to it, because they don't even know about it! But the responsiblilty that I might give to the world is if I see and know about it but yet I chose to ignore because I believe my vote is not much of a deal, then it's my responsibility for whatever happens afterward. For example, now I know about this thing happening in Africa and I know that people are trying to let others to know through different media, if I chose to ignore, then I have a part of responsibility to what will happen in the future. Some other responsiblilty as an individual to the world are like the idea of littering and voting(I don't think I need to explain since we kind of discuss it after class). I think these three ideas also apply in a city and a country.

Anne Frank timeline

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/28479/Betty-Liao-English-II/

Point of View Videos

Group- Betty Liao, Kelly Chi, Eddie Jeng, Wade Feng

POV- First Person

POV- third Person Limited

POV- Objective

POV- Third Person Omniscient

Point of View Video Trailer

POV-An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

     Recently we've been studying about different point of view in English II. There are basically three catogory of point of view-first person point of view, third person limited point of view, third person omniscience point of view, and objective point of view. After learning about these different point of view the readers are more likely to see who's perceptive are they reading from and how accorate it's. We even read and watch in class, An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, as an example to demonstrate how these point of view works. So now I'm going to break down different examples that occured inside the story's video to help explain these different point of view.

1. First person point of view
     From this point of view, the narrator participate inside the story as one of the characther, using "I" and "me" to express thier feelings and thoughts. But this recounting from the narrotor might not be the objective truth, it could be a lie from them since it's what they "think" from their own perspective.

Ex: Inside the story, the main charactor got a rope tied around his neck and was ready to be killed, but luckily, he escaped and start singing and praising, saying, "I am living..., a living man..., I want to be a living man!" It seems like from his point of view he has escaped from death and is living now, but in reality, we really don't know is this true or not, and that's how it works with first person point of view.

2. Objective point of View
     From this point of view, the narrator does not participate in the action nor did they get inside one of the character's brain. They just simpliy look at the whole sotry from the outside, like it's through a video camera and say according to what they see and hear.

Ex: Inside the story after the man escape, the background music starts to play. We can hear a man singing, "He moves around, he turns around, the birds fly and creatures are moving and living around this world." We can see from these lyrics that the narrator is decribing the action and looking of the whole scene, he did not talk about their thoughts or feeling, but just simpliy what it will look like from a video camera.

3. Third person Limited Point of View

     Like the name, this point of view limited the narrator inside one character's brain. They did not participate inside the story or control the whole story, they just say the action, thinking and feelings of the character. It's like they are inside the person's brain to tell the reader what happened.

Ex: Inside the story where we see the first imagination of the character of his wife and kids, we hear him calling his wife's name, "Hebe, Hebe, Hebe...", as the clock ticks slowly. It may not be as clear because it does not use any he or she to explain the character's action, but we can see it as he call out his wife's name. From this narrating we can see only what the main character is thinking (his wife), doing (calling her name), and feeling (time was slow because he can hear his watch ticking).

4. Third Person Omniscient Point of View
     Similar to the third person limited point of view, this narrates from a third person's point of view without participating or controling the story. The only difference is that from this point of view the reader can see the whole action, thinking, and feeling of all the characters instead of just one.

Ex: At the every end of the story we finally hear the narrator talking directly about the whole story. He said, "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, in two forms, as it was dream, as it was live and die, this is a stuff of fantasy and a threat of imagination." Now everything is clear to the audience, the whole "story" in the middle is just an imagination of the man. He did not escape, he just thought of all the escaping plan because the time is moving too slow (for him).

This is a great fantasy story as we see the narrotor jumping from different point of view when he was telling the story. It's just amazing how Ambrose Bierce led the reader into thinking that all these imaginations of the main character is real, and it's only until the last paragraph of the story we realize this shocking truth of the who story...it's all fanstasy.

Three changes in Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis: a change in physical form, character, or circumstances

     In the book, Metamorphosis, we can see changes, many changes, like the meaning of the title of the book. After reading this book, there are three major changes that stood up clearly to me, and I categorize them into physical form, character, and circumstances, as below:


1. The effect of Gregor's Physical change on his mind

     Gregor woke up one day finding himself transform into an insect. We don't know why and how this happen and even at the end we still have no clue. But I don't think that's the main part that the author wants the readers to focus on. As we can see, the transformation cause Gregor unable to communicate with his family, although he still understand them, they can't decode his words, so to them, Gregor is a complete insect, when in reality, we as readers see this whole story in the view of Gregor so we understand that there is still humanity inside of his mind. It's just that the mind and they body are not in harmony. Although he continues to think with a human mind, his actions follow his body's desire, he can't reconcile between these two part of him. We can see this clearly shown when his mom helps him to move the furniture so it would be easier for him to crawls around, but he still want to leave some "furniture" inside his room because he's afraid that it will turn into a cave! He need the furniture inside to provide emotional comfort that help reminds him of his former life.

There are still humanity remains inside
of Gregor's bug-like body.

From this part of the story we can see the choice he's struggling to make between physically comfortable or emotionally comfortable, but at last he chose emotional comfort, that's why he cling to the picture so much. His family didn't understand that this is a sign which means Gregor isn't able to give up on his humanity completely yet, even at the end he is not able to give up too, although his body still remain opposite from his mind. Through these details we can see how our physical lives affect our mental lives, not the other way around, like Gregor's transformation, he start to behave like an insect although he still has a human mind.

2. Grete's changes from a girl to a woman
     Grete go through her own transformation too, both physically and mentally. From Gregor's perspective, we see Grete as an innocent little girl who relies on her family and has this dream of going to music school, but after Gregor's transformation, she begins to take adult duties, such as getting a job to help support her family or caring for Gregor.

She starts to think differently and understand more. She support her parents verbally  and she even stood up at last so they could get rid of Gregor and end this burden. In the last few sentences of the story her parents realize that she has grown into a beautiful young lady, this show the readers that she is now an adult emotionally also physically. 

In zoology, metamorphosis also means a stage of an insect/amphibian developing from an immature form into an adult after experiencing a physical transformation. So after Grete had experience and overcome all these things due to Gregor's change, she finally gets to stretch out her young body, like a butterfly just out of the cocoon, and fly out to reach her dreams.

3. The changes in circumstances of the family

     The last major change that happened inside the story is the whole circumstances of the family. They use to rely on Gregor for the money income after his dad had fail in business, but after the transformation, they start to take more responsiblity for the house. Grete starts to find a job and take care of Gregor, the mom start to help and even the dad start to go to work.

Even though at last they cannot bear anything from Gregor anymore, they overcome their financial problems and prepare to move, sent Grete to school, and find a husband for her. They found relief after Gregor's death because they no longer need to deal with his presence and they also completed an emotional transformation as they experience through all these troubles and find hope at last.

     The whole story of Metamorphosis is base on changes in physical body, character, and circumstances of the family. Although it's really sad to see Gregor die at the end after all his investment and sacrifice, it's still nice to see the whole family start to grow and get going with life. Even though it seems like they didn't realize the sacrifice Gregor had made for the whole family since they lack communicate and lose sympathy of the whole family. They even take Gregor's death as a new start of their life and a relief for them! They are happy with the start, but they will never know the whole sacrifice of Gregor and how they had torn his hearts into pieces with their thorn-like words and leave him dying so painfully and lonely at the end. They never understand the sacrifice, and we will never understand why did he sacrifice.

This reminds me of someone who sacrifice at first for people who didn't understand his sacrifice, and will never truely understand the "LOVE" of him that cause him to sacrifice for us. I believe after reading this story the fourth major change will take place, which is in the reader's itself, both mentally and physically.

Furniture = ??

     Recently our English II class is reading a story call Metamorphosis, and inside this story, the main character, Gregor Samsa transformed into an insect, but this transformation took place in the very beginning of the story, which says he woke up and realizes that he had turned into an insect.

     Gregor Samsa is a travel salesman. Although he spent most of his day doing his job, he doesn't seems to enjoys it that much. The reason that he is taking this job that he disliked so much is because he has this burden to pay his father's business debt and to support the entire family. He actually can choose not to do this tiring job if his family didn't rely on him that much. Even after his transformation, he is still worring about how to get to work and what should he take so he won't be late! Of course he realize the fact that he can't go anywhere with this body so he just stays in his room and hope that everything can go back to normal.

     As we were reading this story, we begin to see the influence of Gregor's physical body has on his mental thinking and psychology. He starts to hide under the dark sofa, and crawls on the ceiling and the walls. As a result, he realize that he is more comfortable if his room has no furniture so he can just crawls around freely. But his humanity never disappeared entirely, because he had this struggle inside his heart when he sees his mother moving the furnitures, he even ask himself, "Had he really want to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out with the nice furniture he had inherited?"

Symbolism alarm!! So...

Without furniture = cave

Furniture = room

Furniture= ??

     So what is furniture according to all these "equation"?? Well, as we read on, we see how Gregor is recalling his childhood memories from these furnitures. Like the desk reminds him of the time when he was doing his assignments as a boy. As he is recalling these memories, he suddenly felt desperate to hold on to these few reminders of his childhood memories, futhermore, the memories he had when he is still a human, the memories that remind him of his humanity, so he clings to the picture of the woman muffled in fur.

     Now we know, that furniture = to humanity, the character inside of him that was not gone yet, which is also the thing that brought up the argument between our class in whether we should call him a human or a bug. But he know it himself that with the furniture inside his room, it is still his room, the place where he grew up as a boy, but without the furniture inside, he know that he will transform it into a cave, to something strange and different, although in reality it is still his room.

So we can also conclude that the room itself represents Gengor's physical body; without the humanity inside his heart, which is like the room without the furniture, he is transformed into a 100% insect, something strange and weird which is also like an empty cave inside his heart; but with the humanity still remain, like the room with the furniture, he is still a "human" somehow. In the same way, he is still him even though he is transformed into a bug, but because it is the same, we can tell the struggle inside his heart between the room, which is him as a human, and the cave, which is him as a bug. We can also see how his humanity is slowly covers up by his transformation and how it is slowly disappearing even though he is trying to hold on to it.

Three things I learned

     There are a few things I learned in English two as we were editing the stories. The first thing I learned is about number writing. If the number is less than three words, then we should write it in word, for example a hundred; but if the number is more than three word then we can write them as a number, for example 101. This is really interesting and important because if we follow this it will be easier for the readers to read the numbers.

     The second thing I learn is about grammer, and there are two things to it. The first thing is that we need to make sure we are using the same tense inside the story, this is quite obvious but this is a really common mistake that writes will have. The second thing is that well is an adverb and good is an adjective. So well is only use when we are describing a verb or another adverb, for example: she draws well; and good is use as an adjective to describe other noun, for example: he is a good man. This is another common mistake that people will make as they are writing, so it is to effect and affect. Most of the effect is a noun and affect is a verb.

     The third thing I learned is about punctuation, including comma and apostrophe. Comma was invented during Shakespeare time to help the actors to known when to pause in the story, so we should only use comma when the sentence is too long and the reader needs to take a break from reading it, but a period can be use if the sentence is completed. Now for possession apostrophe, we write 's after the noun to express their possesion to something, but if the name ends with a s already, then you don't need to add another 's to show their possesion, all you need is an apostrophe, for example Betty's and Jones'.

     Something else that was brought up during our discussion is this question, "Should the beginning word inside a quotation but after the comma be capitalized?" And we were confused about this, so I did a little research and found out that the answer is yes, you should capitalize the letter after the comma in a quotation mark. Here is one link that demonstrates the basic rules for punctuation:

http://www.northland.cc.mn.us/owl/quotation%20mark%20rules.htm

The Gift of the Magi rewrite

A word of advice, don’t lie. Even though there might be a situation that you think it is necessary to tell some white lies, but still, don’t lie. Why? Because someday it’s going to backfire and leave you battered and humiliated. The feeling is going to be really horrible and I knew it, because that’s what I’m about to go through.

    My story dates back to the beginning of the semester, I was a new student in this class. I’m not normal, in fact I’m different, but not in a good way. When I was eleven, I was in a car accident that made me crippled , my parents still believe this condition is not for life, they think all I need is a good doctor so they’ve been trying their best to find one in the past five years, but they hadnt found the right one yet. I was afraid that I might not blend with the class not because I am crippled, but because I came in the middle of the year. But it wasn’t as I thought, everything was fine, I fit in well and I made a lot of friends. School was fun and I enjoyed it, and it was this time that I met my best friend-Ryan.

     We were pen pal friends every since the beginning of the semester. We wrote a lot to each other and we found out that our characteristic and interests are really alike. The only thing different is that I’m more of a sporty guy and he’s more of a musical guy. You may wonder how can I play sports when I am crippled? Well, I wasn’t born crippled, before the accident happened I was one of the best member in the soccer team! I really love soccer, even though it’s all history now. I really hope that I can just forget about it and go on, but in reality I can’t. So when Ryan asked what’s my hobby I told him my story and my love towards soccer, and it turns out into a lie that I’m still playing soccer and I’m still one of the best player. You may think it’s not a big deal to tell a little lie about yourself to someone you never met and will probably never meet, but you’re wrong, because that’s what it leads me to now.

     After five months of writing letters he suddenly told me that he’s coming to visit me around Christmas! Now what? If he comes he's going to find out that I am crippled and I was just lying to him the whole time! But I can’t just go up to him in a wheelchair and tell him another lie that I broke my leg a few days ago and it will take me one month to recover because it never will and I knew it! I am so troubled right now and I really don’t know what to do. Should I tell him the truth or just leave a message to him and tell him I can’t make it, but how many more lies do I need to tell? I really don’t know, but he’s my best friend and I don’t want to end this friendship. I guess the best way is to tell him the truth and apologizes to him.

     It took me a long time to come up with this decision, which makes it really fast for the day of his visit to come. On that day, I bought a headphone for him because I know he likes to play and listen to music, so he’ll probably forgive me when he receives this gift. We’ve seen each other’s picture quite a few times so we can recognize each other. I’m so nervous, the time has come, five o’clock in front of the park, I look around and I saw him sitting on the beach under the tree, reading a book. I take a deep breath and walk towards him.

     “Hi,” I said. He look at me with amazement. He carefully looks at me and his face express a sign of depression. It seems like he’s trying to say something, but he can’t. I knew I’m going to receive some kind of reaction like that, but I wasn’t quite ready for it. Suddenly, he hands me a well wrapped box and just smiles at me. I took it over and ask, “For me?” He nodded his head, so I opened it. Inside the box is a beautiful soccer shoe with black strips on the side. I’m so touched, although I know I can't do anything with it, and my heart sank after I recognize it. He looked puzzled and he sense the trouble on my face, I really don’t know what should I do, suddenly, I remember I prepared something for him too, so I handed him my present and he received it happily. We smile as he open his gift, but by the moment he see it, he starts to cry. I panic and ask him why, he look up at me with shame and took out a piece of paper and pen. He starts to write something on it and after he finishes he shows me what he wrotes. I am shock as I read it, then I write something back to him, he read it and we both laugh…sarcastically.

It’s ironic, how this story ends. After all, we were both hiding something from each other. He was actually deaf when he was born, he never learned how to play music nor he ever gets to hear it. He always dreams of one day he can sing and listen to the beautiful melody of Chopin and Tchaikovsky, but he never can. I told him my story, which he kind of guesses it when he saw me, but it’s just ironic how it ends. At least we learn something from each other, and how to face the true reality of life without running away from it or just hiding it with lies.

The Bet

By Anton Chekhov

     In The Bet, we see the arguement between a young lawyer and a banker on the topic of capital punishment, either death penalty or imprisonment for life is more immortal. So they have a bet of two million dollars, and if the young lawyer can stay in the jail for fifteen years then he gets the money. This imprisonment is different than compulsory imprisonment given to the criminal, because he gets to read, write, drink wine, smoke and to have a musical instrument, the only think he can't have is the contact with outer world.

     They both have confident in their bet in the beginning, but as time goes on a change took place in both of their heart. The banker saw the perserverance of the young lawyer and he begins to worry, he start to have the feeling of enviousness and angriness inside his heart, for he know that he'll not just loose the bet, he'll always loose everything he own to this young man who can still enjoy life, get married, and mocked him for his success for the rest of his life. So he decide to take a step before the bet ends.

     On the other hand, the young lawyer, after all these years of studying the outer world through books, despise the world and everything that was in it, to the point that he is willing to give up the two million dollars of his dream, the goal that he was striving for the past fifteen years. He wrote a letter and leave it on his table, and the banker read it while he sneak into his room to kill him. After reading the letter, the banker has a heavy feeling inside is heart, he left and weep almost all night.

     The next day the young lawyer left the room before noon and was gone forever, and the banker locked the money and the letter at his home.

The young lawyer and the banker have a bet with each other. During the years inside
the prison, the young lawyer read a lot and learned a lot about life, world, and what's in it.

Question 2 pg. 660

a. The banker's plan to murder the lawyer is a type of situational irony, because it turns out differently that what the character itself and also the reader expected. In the beginning the banker believe that he will win, but towards the very end he realize that he's going to loose the bet, and the readers are likely to think so too. And this is where it's unexpected to both the reader and the character, because the banker knew he's going to loose the two million dollars which is like all of his money to this man that can still enjoy his life, he decided to end the lawyer's life the night before the winning. Which he himself might not expect (the decision) fifteen years ago, and also the reader might not expect so too.

b. The physical description of the lawyer is a type of verbal irony, because in verbal irony the write says one thing and means something quite different. At the end when the banker sneak into the lawyer's room he realize that he was different from before, much more skinner and dreadful. He described him as a half-dead person dreaming of his two million dollar to-be that will be murder in the next few minutes without any sign of violent death. But it was like what he was decribed physical, his heart and body was wary and half-dead, it was different than what the banker thought (happy, exciting, waiting to enjoy life and gamble his money on the exchange...), instead he was really torn with all these things he comprehend as world and lfie in the past 15 years.

The banker sneak into the room and read the letter he wrote.

c. The locking of the lawyer's letter in the safe is a type of dramatic irony, because only the reader knows the truth of the situation, when other character can only judge by what it seems inside the story. Other may think that the end is just simply the young lawyer gave up and walk away from the room, when in reality it is something more and we can see this in his letter. He realized that everything that belongs the world isn't good and he despise it so that's why he decided to give up and leave five minutes before the time fixed. No one will never know this because he's gone forever, no one beside the readers and the character itself.