Eveline by James Joyce(1914)

 Rating: 9.0/10

 The story 'Eveline' well shows the inner conflict of many women in early twentieth-century especially in Dubliners. Eveline Hill, who represents many women at that time, conflicts between her domestic life and her desire to go abroad. She first wanted to go Buenos Ires with her lover, Frank, but soon realizes the promise she had made with her dead mom and refuses Frank's calling. She's tied up in the past and gave up her desire. She only thinks about happy memories with her dad, which is clearly less than his cruelty. Most women at that time, would have act like Eveline. They are powerless and too faithful for their family. It was a 'moralful' story that made me think again about women's earlier life. 

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Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov (1898) Rating: 8.5/10 "Behind the door of every contented , happy man there ought to be someone standing with a little hammer and continually reminding him with a knock that there are unhappy people~"  This phrase is basically what Chekhov is trying to say through this story. I couldn't 100% agree with Ivan's saying, but I liked the theme of this story. The part that Ivan said "there is no happiness" seems contradict, because even Ivan looks happy when he swims in a river. However, it is true that people these days sometimes forget how we are enjoying this freedom. They just focus on their own happiness and ignore others' pain, like Nikolay did.   When I first read this story, I thought Ivan was too pessimistic. People tend to focus on my happiness, not other's pain behind the happiness. However, I realized that the happiness is from the invisibility or silence of those who are unhappy. There are lots of people behind ou
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After reading "A Sound of Thunder"

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 and on, expanding it
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