Entry 1_Đinh Thị Huyền Trang

Entry 1_Đinh Thị Huyền Trang

Entry 1

Item 1: Story

Two seeds  

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.

The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust above me ... I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring ... I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!"

And so she grew...

The second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts ... what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe."

And so she waited...

A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it. 

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

Rhetorical devices:

• Metaphor: the first seed (that aspires to grow in order to enjoy the beauty of life) represents the ambitious people or optimists; the second seed (that fear for its safety in life) represents the passive people or pessimists.
• Repetition: I want to... ( to express the intense desire of the first seed).

Message:

Seize the day! Men need to live ambitiously and grasp at opportunities. If not, you will not be able to exist in society.

Item 2: Poem

Dreams by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-2/

Rhetorical devices:

• Assonance: die-fly; go-snow.
• Metaphor: a broken-winged bird (when the dreams go out, our lives are deadlocked); a barren field ( our lives will become insignificant without dreams)
• Repetition: Hold fast to dreams (to emphasize the necessary of dreams in life).

Message:

People need to have dreams in order that life is more meaningful.

Item 3: Proverb

“A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder”. (collection)

Rhetorical devices:

• Simile: a child without parents – a ship without a rudder (a child, who is not educated by parents, is very easy to deviate as a ship without a rudder can’t control its direction).

Message:

The children are born to be brought up in the love of their parents.