March 19, 2009

Introductory Note

Filed under: The Black Cat — christon @ 6:09 am

The Black Cat

The main character in this story is called Salahadin.
He is an inspector in the Egyptian police. His job is to protect Egyptian antiquities. Antiquity is something which is very old

There are many antiquities in Egypt. Most of them are valuable. Many of them are in museums in Cairo or in Europe. But there are many others which have not yet been found. These Antiquities are buried under the sands, in tombs or in Continue reading

April 20, 2009

Why Si Kabayan Never Became Rich

Filed under: Folk Tales — christon @ 12:15 pm

Si Kabayan and his wife went to Mountain Gede to spend some time as astetics, praying and fasting and meditating, so that their wish to become rich might be granted them. One day, in the midst of their meditations, a god appeared to them

“Kabayan,” said the god. “I granted you two wishes. But only two. You had better talk it over with your wife before you make them.”

Kabayan and his wife had a lengthy discussion about what they should wish for. It had Continue reading

August 19, 2010

Wear a Tie

Filed under: Words — christon @ 6:40 pm

by Kostas Springfield

–”My father is a mirror in which I can only hope to catch a reflection of myself. He is the one I strive to model myself after.”–

“Where would we be right now if I did not have the restaurant? How else would I be able to provide for our family? Who would give me, a man without an education, a job?” My father would say these things whenever we had a father-to-son conversation. We would usually have these talks on car rise Continue reading

June 24, 2010

A Legend of Love

Filed under: Words — christon @ 11:29 am

— If love does not know how to give and take without restriction, it is not love, but a transaction. —Emma Goldman

Edward Wellman bade goodbye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family’s savings hidden in a leather satchel. “Times are desperate here,” he said, hugging his son goodbye. “You are our hope.”

Edward boarded the Atlantic freighter offering free transport to young men Continue reading

June 23, 2010

My Apple Tree

Filed under: Words — christon @ 9:26 am

Condensed from “Eighty Acres”

Ronald Jager

–Year after year, it bears the fruit of blind faith…

That June evening I was about ten. As I stood on our front porch, my eye caught an unusual plant, not more than five inches high. It was the merest seedling, but my father identified it as a young apple tree. Immediately I adopted it. I would transplant it, care for it as my own, and it would thrive. When I was a man and farmed this land, it would bear Continue reading

June 22, 2010

A Soldier’s Homecoming

Filed under: Words — christon @ 8:26 am

The powerful thrust of jet engines drove me deep into my seat as the plane rose into the Georgia night. It was July 15, 1969, and only 35 minutes remained of a journey that had begun two days earlier and a world away. First Lt. Hugh Weldon, Infantry, United States Army, was coming home from Vietnam.

As I stared vacantly at the disappearing Atlanta lights, I realized I was different from the fun-loving youngster who had reversed this route a year earlier. Thanks to an unrelenting Continue reading

June 4, 2010

The Story of An Hour

Filed under: Words — christon @ 12:21 pm

Kate Chopin (1894)

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Continue reading

May 27, 2010

BLOODY MARY

Filed under: Words — christon @ 11:36 pm

I would like to analyze bloody Mary’s story. After I read the story, the first thing that I want to analyze about the exposition. this play in city street corner. There are five character play in this story. The setting on the street corner in spring. The raising action happened when Joe a man who with one leg and one arm comes and falls in front of Mary.

They introduce them self each other and Mary ask him to make a tourniquet for stop her blood. The conflict happened when Continue reading

April 23, 2010

Tale of Cat Sellers

Filed under: Folk Tales — christon @ 2:01 am

This is a tale about a greedy and like to copy others action without thinking.

Once there was a poor but hardworking farmer. His name was Abdulah. His land is just a patch but he had a wife and children to live. That’s not enough. So he planned to work to Java. His wife agrees and supports him.
He went to Java with only 10 gobang money (1 gobang = 2.5 cents). It is only for the cost of sailing to Java.
On the way, he meets a poor woman who was holding her child, who Continue reading

April 18, 2010

An Extremely Good Day

Filed under: Storybook — christon @ 12:10 pm

Gregory Allen was a tall, thin boy about fourteen years old. Like most boys in their teens, he was either very happy or extremely unhappy; he either talked too much or he didn’t talk at all. One day he would do everything right and on another day he would do nothing right. Gregory had trouble with his family, too. No matter what he did, his parents were never pleased with him. They argued with him about the way he dressed, the way he talked, the way he forgot to do things. They argued Continue reading

April 16, 2010

The Silver Elephant

Filed under: Storybook — christon @ 2:10 am

From the first time he saw her in the office where they both worked, Eric Warren liked Janet West. Eric rarely went out with girls from his office, but Janet was different. She was not only pretty, but extremely interesting to talk to. They had lunch together several times and Eric was pleased to learn that Janet liked the same things he did. Before very long, they were having dinner together, and going to the movies and to the theater. After a few months Eric knew he wanted Janet to be Continue reading

March 11, 2010

The Origins of Limestone, Box, and Pinang

Filed under: Folk Tales — christon @ 11:13 pm

In the life of the Malays are known for a tradition known as betel-chewing, the tradition of chewing betel nut mixed with lime and betel nuts. This tradition is also known by the Malays in Vietnam. In fact, among the people of Vietnam Malays spread an interesting story about the origins of lime, betel and areca. It is said, lime, betel and areca nut is an incarnation of two twin boys and a woman looking beautiful. Why are they transformed into lime, betel and areca nut? The story you can Continue reading

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