Beautiful Rachel

 The lady with the dog, By Anton Chekhov (1899) Rating: 7/10  This story is basically about an affair between Anna and Gurov. This is why I gave 7 ratings. Even though the author tried to show the pathetic relationship between Anna and Gurov, anyway they are having an affair. In the story, it is said that Gurov is married at a young age but he calls his wife unintelligent, narrow and inelegant. He was tired of the marriage and kept meeting other girls.  It was same for Anna. Having love with an unknown girl, was quite interesting for Gurov. They began to know each other for a long time and Anna suddenly felt guilty for herself and for her husband. She cried and cried, saying that she is a bad, low woman.   A long time passed and they continued meeting and leaving. The last time they met in Moscow, the story ends in an open ending. Like 'The student', Chekhov's other story, he did not make a clear conclusion and let readers think of it. For me, I think Anna and G...

The Student, By Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating: 8/10 H.W: Tests, Allies, Enemies in "The Student" Cold wether and Ivan's poverty is a test to himself. Also, in the story that Ivan told, Peter and Judas are the enemies to Jesus.  Ivan, the student who is reflecting the author's willing, is the protagonist in the story. Anton Chekhov wrote this story in Russia, and tried to show Russia in the story.   Ivan is a poor student who is experiencing poverty and hunger. In the first paragraph, we can find out that  Ivan doesn't like Russia because it's too cold and nothing has changed compared with the past. However after he saw the widows crying, he figures out that the present and the past is connected with invisible chain, showing similarity between the past and the present. He became more joyful and optimistic after he finds out the lesson. First and last paragraph's mood is completely opposite as Ivan decide to think positive. He learned that one day he will cert...

A Sound of Thunder, By Ray Bradbury (1952) Rating: 7/10  This story is just a cliche science fiction story. It has a clear storyline that main character Eckles get on a time machine, fight with dinosaurs, but comes back to the ordinary world at the end. This kind of story line is nothing different with other sf stories. That's why I gave 7 rating out of 10. This story is a good story to entertain, but it's nothing more than entertaining.   One thing I really liked about this story was 'butterfly effect'. Butterfly effect means that small things can effect on huge things. In this story, the butterfly that Eckles killed, changed the result of the president election, alphabet and even the smell of the air. We might think that there's no relationship between them. However, if we think more complex, one butterfly means thousand and million butterflies in the future. No butterflies, no frogs, no birds, no wolves, no tribes and no countries. It goes on a...