Entry 1- Nguyen Thi Bay
                                               Entry 1
                                        Theme 1: Poem

What Is Success

                        by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is success

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded

Rhetorical devices:
+ Rhyme: intelligent-children; live-succeeded; honest-false....
+ Metaphor: laugh, the respect, the appreciaton, the beauty (happiness)
                     the betrayal, the critic (sorrow)
Message:
Success includes both happiness and sorrow. The most important thing is that we should be satisfied with the reality and try to make our live become meanigful.
                                                 
                                              Theme 2: Story
                                   The man who went to Heaven
A man died and because he had been a good person, he went to Heaven, where Saint Peter greeted him at the door.
Welcome! he said. You can enter Heaven right away, but, because you lived such a good life, you can also go and check out Hell first, if you like.
The man was rather curious and said - well, why not - and he went down all the stairs to reach the door of Hell, which opened before him.
Behind the door, he saw many people sitting around tables with delicious food! But they were all very sad, and suffering, because instead of hands they had long knives and forks as arm extensions and they did not manage to put any of this great food in their mouths.
The man went back up to Heaven and said to Saint Peter: Wow, am I glad that I can go to Heaven. That is really some punishment.
Welcome to Heaven, Saint Peter said, as he let the man in.
What did he see there? He saw many people sitting around tables with delicious food, just like in Hell! And just like in Hell, they also had these long fork and knive extensions on their arms!
But in Heaven, the people weren't crying or cursing, because they were sticking the food in each other's mouths! "Try this", they laughed. "And this!", and they had lots of fun in the process.
Rhetorical devices:
+ Metaphor: heaven (happiness)
                    hell( sorrow, suffering)
                    People in heaven stick the food in each other's mouth( the care, share)
                    People in hell do not put food to others) the selfishness)
Message: Happiness comes from making other people happy. Don't be selfish but care for other people, and you will be taken care of as well           
                                      Theme 3: Picture

Rhetorical devices:
+ Metonymy: the ice cliff- the edge of dealth
                        the falling ice- the global warming
                       the rope around the penguin's neck- the danger, the dealth of polar creatures.
Message:  Polar creatures are on the edge of dealth because of ice-smelting- the global warming effect.

Sourse:

http://go.webassistant.com/wa/upload/users/u1000057/workspaces/30stories/#heaven

http://www.vn-zoom.com/f270/nhung-buc-anh-biet-noi-2034028.html

 

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/England/English_poets.html