ENTRY 1 - Phương Ly

Item 1: Cartoon

1. Rhetorical device:

v    Metonymy:

·        The buildings: the urbanization and the population explosion.

·        The green trees: the habitat and the natural resources.

v    Metaphor: The sets of teeth

·        The destruction of nature to extend the living space of human being.

·        The using natural resources up of human being.

2. Message: The warning of destroying the nature which is resulted from population explosion and urbanization.

3. Source: http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/1173

Item 2: Poem

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends

And before the street begins,

And there the grass grows soft and white,

And there the sun burns crimson bright,

And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And watch where the chalk-white arrows go

To the place where the sidewalk ends.

                                                                               

Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

For the children, they mark, and the children, they know

The place where the sidewalk ends.

1. Rhetorical devices:

v    Rhyme: white- bright- flight; grow- slow- go; slow- go- know

v    Repetition:

·        the place where the sidewalk ends

·        walk with a walk that is measured and slow

·        where the chalk-white arrows go

v    Metaphor:

·  ‘white grass’, ‘peppermint wind’, ‘crimson bright sun’: the beautiful imaginary world of children

·  ‘black smoke’, ‘dark street’, ‘asphalt flowers’: the real world that people are living

2. Message: Sometimes the adults should set their mind free to give children spaces for finding the passion and enjoying their lives.

3. Source: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20541

Item 3: Story

The three little pigs

Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes. Before they left, their mother told them “Whatever you do, do it the best that you can because that's the way to get along in the world.”

The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do. The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house. The third little pig built his house out of bricks.

One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig.

The wolf then came to the house of sticks. "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But the wolf blew that house in, too and ate the second little pig.

The wolf then came to the house of bricks. "Let me in, let me in" cried the wolf. "Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" said the pigs. Well, the wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house. But the wolf was a sly old wolf and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house. The little pig saw the wolf climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace and placed on it a large kettle of water. When the wolf finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down and kersplash right into that kettle of water and that was the end of his troubles with the big bad wolf.

The next day the little pig invited his mother over. She said "You see it is just as I told you. The way to get along in the world is to do things as well as you can." Fortunately for that little pig, he learned that lesson. And he just lived happily ever after!

1. Rhetorical devices: Metaphor

v    The first little pig and the second little pig:  lazy people

v    The third little pig: successful people leaning on their attempts

v    The big bad wolf: the difficulties people have to cope with in life

2. Message: if we spend more time and attempts on our work, we can easily deal with difficulties and succeed in life.

3. Source: http://www.shol.com/agita/pigs.htm