“The Secret life of Walter Mitty” is a story about a man who called Walter Mitty, he is a day dreamer. He always dreams something heroic, but all the plots in his dreams are opposite from the real life.

                In his dream, he is a hero, a superman. He can do everything, he has super skills. He has a lot of brilliant advantages, such as brave, confident, capable, a great leader and a genius. People in his dream are not as super as he. Everyone needs him when they have trouble, nobody can solve the problem except Walter Mitty himself. He wins the trust of everyone, so that everyone in his dream depends on him a lot. When he was driving a car on the way to Waterbury in Connecticut, he was dreaming that he is flying a plane. His crew meet a fierce hurricane in 20 years. As a commander, he is calm and imperturbable. He expertly commanded his crew to function the machine. Most of them thought they have no chance to go through, but the fantastic commander Walter Mitty created a chance for them to go through, and they successed. He saved all his crew’s life. When he was driving past the hospital on his way to the parking lot, he was dreaming that he is a thinking agile surgeon. He was going to have a operation. A complicated machine, connected to the operation table was broken. No one can fixed it in the East, but super Walter Mitty did it! He solved a hot potato that nobody can hold it. He was a hero.

                No matter how great Walter Mitty is in his dream, he can’t change him in the real life. In the real life, he is just an old man who is dull, clumsy, weak and forgetful.  People around him are smarter and more capable than him. In his dream, people depend on him, in the real life, he depends on other people most time. When he was dreaming he was flying the plane, he was driving his little car. His wife sat beside him and yelled at him because he drove too fast. Under his wife’s command, he couldn’t drive faster than 40. He was not a super commander, he was not that great. He was just an old man who obey wife’s command. When he was dreaming he was a great surgeon, he was parking his car in the parking lot. He even couldn’t park his car in the right position. His car could park in the lot at last, because the parking-lot attendant helped him. He was not a super surgeon who can fix a complicated machine that nobody in the East could fix it. He was not a superman anymore. He needed help from others and people treated him less respect.

                People who like to daydream have a lot of reasons. Maybe the real life can’t make they satisfied. Maybe they relax themselves by dreaming. Maybe they can’t make their dreams come true, so they can only realize the dreams by dreaming. Maybe the society, law or people around them give them too much pressure, so that they can’t be themselves in the real life, they choose to become a day dreamer to be themselves in the dream. I think Walter Mitty daydreams because all the reasons I mentioned above. His is a man with strong heroism, but he can do nothing heroic in the real life. He even forgets the things he wants to buy. The truth proved that he can’t be a hero. Daydreaming is not bad, but always daydream, this is a serious problem.

   In the article, Harrison Bergeron behaves pretty brave and audacious. Although he is shot by Diana Moon Glamper, he was still a hero.

   He is the first one to stand out and shout “I don’t need handicap, I don’t want to be limited, I want to be the emperor.” He is the first one dare to revolt the government which his father would never do. The success of his revolt was transitory, but at least he tries to fight and he also make people experience a different feeling. If he doesn’t do these heroic stuffs, how can people how beautiful the Ballerina is. People feel a different world after Harrison standing out.

   He is not only fighting for himself, but also fighting for everyone. I believe, in the deep of his heart, he hate the red nose, the thick glasses and other handicaps on him. He hate the life in the jail and hate the way people live. How can world be like this? He is a really brilliant super human, he is seen as the most dangerous human by government, but he gets rid of the chains. If he just fight for himself, he can go away from this city, or even this country. He can find a place that nobody can found him and keep going his special life, but he doesn’t fly away. He stays and declares that he want to be a ruler, emperor. He want to change the word and liberate everyone.

   If he can be an emperor, he must be a democratic ruler. He gets rid of limit, so that he can think he can create. He can lead all the people to create a totally different world. He is strong enough, I believe he can lead his fellow people. The first thing he would do after he being an emperor must to ask everyone get rid of the stupid handicaps.

   Maybe the society would full of competition, but that is ok, because at least everyone is trying the best to reach their goals. If he were in charge of the society, the literature and art must be developed. There might be invented some new technology. He may govern the whole society like our society, Different and not always equal.

There are five main characters in this short novel. They are Harrison Bergeron, George Bergeron, Hazel Bergeron, Diana Moon Glampers and Ballerina.

These five different person represent four different parts in the article. Harrison Bergeron and Ballerina are brave and abnormal from others, they represent freedom and noncompliance. Diana Moon Glampers is cruel, she represents government. Hazel represent government follower. George follows the government but he still has his own thinking ability, so he represents half-government follower.

The conflict is between government and the mutineers.

 All the article is talking around “equal”. Everyone should be equal, not only equal before God and the law, but also equal every which way, such as IQ, appearance, ability, etc. If someone is abnormal like Harrison and Ballerina, the government takes action to stop they develop their talent. For example, George, his intelligence was way above normal, so he was asked to put on a little handicap radio in his ear to send out some sharp noise in order to stop he use the unfair advantage of their brains. This is absurd. This society is pathological and deformed. Equal is that everyone has same rights and ability, not to kill the talent of different people to make people same in all the ways. That is not keep equal, but murder.

Equal is good, but life is not equal, and that is ok, because this is what nature is.

HOTEL TRANSSILVANIEN

Exposition

    A vampire duke runs a special hotel. Specially take in some fearsome monsters, because these monsters hate human as well as afraid them, although they are fearsome. Another reason why the duke wants. to build this hotel is because he tries to protect his daughter, and prevent her daughter from touching the human or fall in love with the human, so he doesn’t allow his daughter to go outside the hotel. His wife wanted to protect their daughter, so she was killed by human.  In this hotel, human is not able to come in, because the environment around the hotel is horrible. In order to celebrate vampire duke Drucula’s daughter Mavis’ Birthday, Drucula invites Frankenstein, mummies, werewolves, invisible man, etc.

Big event

    During the party, a human boy accidentally intrude the hotel. In order to protect the fame of his hotel, Drucula has to make the boy who is called Jonathon to disguise like Frankenstein's monster to deceive her daughter and guests, and prevent his daughter and Jonathon fell in love.

Rising action

a.       Jonathon is told as a party planner by Drucula, so he plans a lot of interesting activities and has fun with everyone           include Mavis. All the guests like Jonathon very much.

b.      Drucula wants to make the boy leave, so he takes the boy out of the hotel and tells him to leave, but when the                     Drucula finishes his warning and leaves, Mavis appears. She brings Jonathon to the roof. Jonathon sees the sun rise          with Mavis. Unluckily, he falls down from the roof and drops into the hotel again.

c.       Drucula has no idea so he only can let Jonathon continue disguising the party planner. They have fun time together             and Drucula tells him his story and the reason of building this hotel to Jonathon, Jonathon feels guilty and decides              to find a chance to leave this hotel.

d.      Mavis has feeling to Jonathon, so she kisses him. One of all the guests recognizes that Jonathon is a human,                         Jonathon has to leave although Mavis doesn’t care. Jonathon says some words that really hurts Mavis in order to let           him go. Mavis’ life fells into the dumps.

Climax

    Drucula cannot bear to see her daughter so sad, and he also thinks Jonathon is a good human boy, so he decides to back to the human world and find Jonathon with his guests.  He tells his real identity and purpose to the human. They accept him easily and they make a road with shadow in order to prevent Drucula hurt from the sun shine and convenient him to go to the airport to stop Jonathon leaving. He finds the plane which Jonathon is in. He chases the plane and tries to control the pilots.

Falling action

    Drucula finally brings Jonathon back after exhausting himself under the sun for a long time.

Resolution

    Mavis and Jonathon married and live together happily forever.