Junyoung Ro World Lit Journal

  The Lady With the Dog, By Anton Chekhov (1899) Rating: 6/10 I could see a hero's journey in this short story. Gurov is becoming a hero. At first, I think he was not caring to Anna. Just because he loved him, he met her a lot in Yalta and when they met in the hotel, he just ate watermelon and said nothing. Gurov looked too clumsy and careless to me. When Anna went back home, Gurov went to her town, and started to wait her. It also looked careless, because he could have seen to Anna's husband. However, at the end of the story, Gurov and Anna started to think about their future. In this part, I though Gurov has grown a little and became a hero himself. The reason I gave this short story 6 out of 10 is the ending is too opened. If the author had gave more information about their future, it would be easy to understand. But the structure was easy to understand, and it felt like a model of a love story to me. (169 words)

  The Student, By Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating: 7.5/10 I think 'The Student' does fill the 7th stage,  Approach To The Inmost Cave. It's because Ivan didn't want to go home, so he had to do something to pass time. To start telling the story to Vasilisa can fit in this step. The reason why I rated this short story 8 out of 10 is that Ivan is more like a hero than Eckels in the last story. Ivan made the two widows realize and made them impressive. The story of Peter was really familiar to me. So it helped me to understand this story more easily. Like Peter denied Jesus three times, Vasilisa and Lukerya's trauma came back up. I think this was the reason why they both cried. In the end, Ivan felt happy. I think this is because he made both the widows sensitive using the story in the bible. He wants to become a preacher, so he must practice telling the bible and he made it. He felt like cold winter and in hunger in the beginning, but telling the story successively could m...

  A Sound of Thunder By Ray Bradbury (1952) Rating: 7/10 The part that I was fun but also not quite interesting was when Eckles and his team came back to the "changed" future. Killing one butterfly has changed a lot in the future. I was fun because I didn't know that the theme 'butterfly effect' came from this story. However, I was not quite interesting because I knew what the butterfly effect is. If I read this story with not knowing about the butterfly effect, it would have been more interesting.  I think this story would be a good moral to modern people. This story's moral is to warn the butterfly effect. When we do something, it will be related to our future. In nowadays, I think many people forget this. They just say and do what they want. So this story would be very good to people who do like it. These are the reasons why I rated this story 7 out of 10. (155 words)