Junyoung Ro World Lit Journal

 Caring for Plants, by Hye-Young Pyun (2017) Rating : 9.7/10 This story was the most interesting short story that we have covered in World Lit. First, I liked the arguments which the readers could think differently. For example, about the hole's role. I thought that the hole which mother-in-law was digging at the corner was a hole to put Oghi inside and kill him. It was because mother-in-law saw Oghi in very suspicious eyes, tried to hide the hole in front of other people coming home, making people near Oghi leave and forget him, and talking about money and her difficulties of caring Oghi to him. However, on the other hand, some say that it's just Oghi's delusion. Because of his accident, he became to sensitive to others. To the mother-in-law, it may be just a popular behavior but Oghi brought it too sensitively. Second, it's a Korean story so the background culture was easy to understand. Husbands get afraid of their mother-in-law in Korea. This background was appeared...

 A Manual for Cleaning Woman, by Lucia Berlin (2015) Rating: 7/10 This story was not very interesting to me. Especially, the writing style did not satisfised me. Its writing style was the reminiscences of the narrator, by looking at the buses passing through her. This made the short story complexed. Short stories are too short to know about the sub characters, especially like these madames in theins story. Their description is not very long to know about them and how the narrator felt about them. If there were more specific descriptions, I think thw story would have been fun, because there are some funny episodes like finding the puzzle piece etc. And also, it was difficult for me to understand the theme of this story. The narrator thinks about her past, and watches the laundry room and the people riding motorcycles, and she cries. At first, the final ending developed too fast to understand. After listening about the discussion, I realized that she felt a lot of things, for example...