Category: Reflections

Master man by Leo Tolstoy, I really don’t like the book of Master Man. In my opinion, this story was burning. First, I didn’t like the story; it wasn’t interesting. I think this novel was huge. I try to concentrate on the story, but all the story is mixed; anything is happening at the same time. Nikita always discusses alcohol and his alcoholic problems. For me, Vasily is too selfish.

This play is called Our Town and is written by Thorton Wilder. I really enjoyed this play, and I am happy that I got the opportunity to read and watch this play. I personally do not think that before I read it, if this book was on a shelf with many other books, this one would not have been my first pick. This book has so much emotion and is very realistic. It also has a narrator which helps you not get trapped into the play, by simply reminding you that it is just a play. A quote that really made me feel the emotions and made me think about them is a quote said by Emily Gibbs,

Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I’m dead. You’re a grandmother, Mama. I married George Gibbs, Mama. Wally’s dead, too. Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it – don’t you remember? But, just for a moment now we’re all together. Mama, just for a moment we’re happy. Let’s look at one another.

When Emily said this quote, she knew her mother couldn’t hear her, she knew she had passed and that she never truly just stopped and looked around. I think that is one think I have noticed in my life. We live in such a busy world, that we hardly ever get a chance to just stop and apreciate everything that we have , everyone that we have. I found it very sad that she now notices everything she did not notice before. She noticed how fast that morning went by, she noticed how young her parents looked. Time is such a valuable thing, because the truth is, you have no idea how much time you have, or how much time others have. Things can change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it is better to not blink, in hopes that you wont miss anything. You cannot slow down time, you cannot go back in time, or into the future. Use your time wisely, and wait things out. Good things take time.

In conclusion, this play really did make me think about things, it made me think about life. It made me dig deep and realize that we only really have one life. This play is very well written, and I would reccomend it to some people, maybe it could impact their outlook on life.

In Our Town by Thornton Wilder, we see some emotions in the act. This is a play that if it wasn’t of Mr.MacKnight I will never know about it. In my opinion, this is not my kind of book that I would rather read. I didn’t like this play because I don’t really like to read them, I prefer to read other things more interesting. The only part I enjoyed was that I got to sleep like two times, watching the movie. Although I’m Mexican and my English is not good, For me, this play is like about 3.2 stars. In this play I see some feelings as love, happiness, when the story progresses the story becomes more intense. One of the parts I like were the part when she gets merry.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of 2 families who are neighbours in fictional town called Grovers Corners, in New Hampshire, in the 1900s.  The teenage girl from one of the families and the teenage boy from the other family end up marrying, and in act three, the wife dies and explores what it’s like to relive a moment in your life through your eyes once you’ve already finished your life. I actually quite likes the play, I’ve definitely heard the name Grover’s Corners before, so I’ve heard of the play before, and I might have even started reading it in my old school. But anyway, I liked it, I found it interesting, I think it did a good job allowing me to picture how life was in the 1900s, and it also did a good job depicting what goes on in families and in households with kids or teens. I found, obviously since it was written way after the other 2 books we’ve read, it was easy to understand. I think they also did a good job with the acting in the actual on-stage play as well, the actors looks well-suited their role, and they all did a great job acting as if they were actually living their life. So, in conclusion, I would read this book again.

 

I really enjoyed the play and thought that it was interesting and I enjoyed that it showed different perspectives. It was different than most plays and stories because there is usually a beginning middle problem and end. Now, keep in mind there was definitely a beginning and a middle and also an end, but there was not really a problem that we saw the characters go through and resolve. I actually think that there was a problem that they had to solve and the supposedly “10%” of my brain that I use (its for like 2.5%) just couldn’t find it. If I look back on the play I feel like instead of having one central problem throughout the whole play, there were smaller problems and challenges faced on the important occasions. I really enjoyed the way that the stage manager told us about the town and the poele in it, but it did feel very weird knowing when and how they were going to die and what they were going to die from. It almost made me sad when meeting the characters because I knew what was going to happen and they were just stupid little people walking along the streets of their town. It feels mean to say that and it kind of is. But overall I really enjoyed the play and thought that for me at least it raised a lot of questions, mainly just little things, but there were also larger questions that lead to even more questions. For example in the end when they all die it makes you wonder what they are talking about that the living people don’t understand. Or the question of when the moon was large and bright why did everyone keep saying that it was potato weather? That is an example of an obvious question, but there are also the questions that are not as obvious as the others. One of the things that caught my attention was the stage managers use of “As the saying goes.” when he is describing when George and Emily realise that they are meant to be. What does that make us think about the stage managers opinions? And what different sorts of meanings could it have? Over all I would rate the play a 9.9/10 because if i gave it a 10/10 that would just be one whole and that is the same as just giving it a 1 and that would be mean.

Overall, I think the book is kind of pointless. I can see how to an adult it could be interesting  but for a bunch of teenagers, I feel like it has no real meaning except for the fact that 2 men get stuck in a snowstorm, and only one lives. personally, i would not read this book again, and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone either. I think it is interesting though how a book written so long ago could so accurately predict how rich people act. because all rich people or people with power want is more money, and it’s interesting to  see that the same was true from a book written almost 130 years ago. It would be a lot more interesting to me if the book was more captivating, and easier to read. The way the book was written, combined with the content, made me want to do nothing but put the book right back down. I also feel like if it had more engaging content, aside from them literally riding a horse and getting stuck in a snowstorm. I think it also could have been a lot better if it continued for longer, instead of just ending when it did.

After reading Master and Man, I realized that I did not understand it very well. I think this is because I didn’t understand some of the vocabulary. Personally I dont really read books like this but after reading it I would say it was an okay story. I think that this short novella tries to show what it was like back in the 1800s as in the importance levels. They showed that Vasili Andreevich was the master by his authority and wealth, and they showed how Nikita was the peasant by saying how he navigated in the storm and how his home life was, how he had run out of money for drinks so he sold his clothes. I think that I would have enjoyed the book more if I would have understood a bit more.

I think that master and man was a decent book but I didn’t like it that much. the end was the only part that I liked. I feel like they could have added more to it instead of them just being cold and getting lost all the time and I think that there should have been more action in the book. The character’s were good I did like learning about them and who they were. Some characters were pretty cool like Vasili and Nikita. I liked how Vasili changed at the end of the book and saved Nikiti by laying on him to keep him warm but that was basically one of the only parts that I liked. I probably wouldn’t read the book again. I might have read it again if there was more to the story.