The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" is a short poem of a traveler who's encountered two roads, and he wonders which road should he choose.

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 

An both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

This poem teaches us in the world you don't always have to follow other's steps, if you're who you are be yourself. In the poem the traveler chose the way that's different than others, so in life there are many choices you can make and it always depends on yourself. I believe following behind others isn't what we are, we should really represent ourselves by choosing the choice that we want. We shouldn't be afraid for the choices we make, people should be proud of the choices. People might be scared that others will laugh at our decision, we should never be afraid. The choices we make really do make a big difference in our life in the future.

The Girl in the Fireplace

In this episode of Doctor Who, I've learned that we always have to cherish every second we have in life, even if it's a short time. In the episode Madame de Pompadour cherished the seconds with the doctor, because whenever Doctor leaves and comes back it's passed 3 or more years. So whenever Pompadour sees Doctor she cherishes her time between her and the Doctor. You might always regret  the short time you spend with this person, when you find out they're dead. It shows us that we have to cherish, and use our time wisely with one another. Also we need to learn to trust the people that we love, Pompadour trusted Doctor so much she even believed that she would die just for the Doctor. "TRUST," is always needed in the world, people can support each other and have each other when there's trust.

Lamb to the Slaughter

This is how I would defend for Mary Maloney in "Lamb to the Slaughter."

There are many reasons I believe that Mary Maloney isn't the murderer of Patrick, her husband.

First of all, Mary left the house to buy groceries because her husband as usual is tired, and so she wanted to cook dinner for him. Mary went to buy the groceries from Sam, and when she came back her husband died. She had no idea why he died, and it's not her fault. No one witnessed that she killed, or act in a strange way. Sam from the grocery shop can prove that she went shopping, and how she was acting normally, or strangely.

Second reason, even if she did (which she didn't) we shouldn't blame her because her husband was going to leave her, and which kind of dad would ever leave his wife with an unborn child. I for instance would definitely kill my husband (if I had one), how possibly can someone be so cruel and cold hearted. I really don't understand, when someone is having a baby that's the most important part when they need someone to rely, and support them.

The Lottery

The Lottery is a short story, basically talking about how the villagers in the village has The Lottery Event. Each villager will pick a lottery ticket, and the person with the name on the paper will be killed by stone killing. But it doesn't say the stone killing until the end of the story, the beginning and middle described everything about The Lottery Event.


Predicting the Ending of "The Lottery"

I believe that The Lottery will end up by the people who gets chosen will have tons, and tons of money. But a part of me thinks it's not going to end up like this, I'm not sure because it seems like it'll end up unexpectedly. So, personally from what I know about lottery's you get to have money. Maybe my other prediction to the people who gets chosen is that they'll get the power to rule the village, since it's such a small village.

Response

The Lottery really surprised me at the end, I never realize that people can be like this just because of "tradition." It was so powerful, that when it got passed down people still didn't realize that stone killing is a bad thing to do. In the front of the story it basically tells how the lottery works, and what the villagers talk about the small details of the lottery rules. The villagers really don't care about the death, they're all used to it. So sometimes traditions aren't always a good thing, sometimes it may be bad. There's another thing I realized about Tessie the one being killed in the story. When she first came to the place for the lottery she start making jokes, and was chatting. But at the end she started panicking because his husband's family is being chosen. Which tells me that people usually don't care when nothing is going to happen to themselves, but when they have something happening to them they care a lot. So if Tessie wasn't picked for death, she won't even care if others die. I realized this when Kassy told me Tessie is trying to change, and stop using the tradition in the village, but apparently Tessie cares only about her and her family.

This world has to change, we can't always be the same and learn these things from the past. The villagers from The Lottery are using the thinking ways about the past, they need to change to new thinking ways that're more reasonable. I believe that even if the tradition is passed down, we should try not to always use what they do, the world can have changes.