Comparison of the book and the movie

  Today, we watched all the movie. I think the movie do not have lots of detail. For example, father and Ashmol lose Pobby and Dingan. Kellyanne was very sad, and she got sick when she knew this thing. Then, she wanted father and Ashmol to find Pobby and Dingan in the field. When they went to there, father got the problem, because other people think his father is a thief. Then, Kellyanne got sick, she wanted Ashmol to go field again, and find the Pobby and Dingan. In the movie, Ashmol rode the bicycle to their, and he just bring a flashlight. But in the book, Ashmol bring a sausage for dog. That is because, the dog is next to the hole. So, the book has more details. At the end of book, they have a very sad end - Kellyanne was die. That is because, Kellyanne got a very special disease. Ashmol made a funeral for Pobby and Dingan, because he wanted Kellyanne feel better. But it doesn't make Kellyanne get better.  But in the movie, Ashmol also made a funeral for Pobby and Dingan. There were lots of people in there. Then, the movie was end. The movie did't show us Kellyanne was die. I think the end is the most different thing between the book and the movie. We do not know Kellyanne's life when the movie ended. So, I think the book has more details. The movie  show us people's action and expression. It can help us easy to understand the story. But we can not see it in book, we just can imagine the story. At the last, the book and the movie has lots of difference. So, we can use movie to understand the story, and use book to learn the writing skills. It can help us a lot.

Fall Production of Galileo review

                            Fall Production of Galileo review
  Yesterday, John, Leo and I watched the drama of Galileo. After we are seated and door's closed, theater seemed to be quiet and dark. Suddenly beams of light appeard and main characters started to perform. The protagonist of the show is Galileo of course, he is an astronomy who believed in sun-centred universe or heliocentric. However almost nobody around Galileo listen to his idea nd follow his ideas. Even more, the Catholic church who believes in earth-centered universe started to trust him.  During the show Galileo is in the jail bevause of spreading his ideas to everybody. However, the show is much harder than I thought it will be. The dialogs were full of vocabulary and short phrases. Also, over the whole show some parts were really confusing and full of misunderstanding. If a person do not know what happened during that period of time, it was really hard to finish the show and understand the show. Luckily there was a water break during the show and there is some food in the gym. During the break we decided to finish the show because there is nothing else to do. However, on the second half of the show, it is more confusing. The only thing I know is Galileo was released from the jail for some reason and then he seems tired. Although the plot was hard to understand, the show still had a lot of good singers and actors. During the show there was a lot of singings maybe solo or song by multiple singers. There was a lot of local Cheshire's citizen coming to enjoy the show. Mostly they are old, but they seemd nice. There was also some young children watching the show, some children talked and interrupeted the show. There parents seem sorry and stopped there child or take them out immedietly. However during most part of show it was quiet and everybody focused on the show. After they performed, the characters thanked the audience and everybody clapped. Even more, there was somebody shouting "Bravo" and made a laughter. When we walked downstairs after the show was finished, we saw the main characters stand beside us in the hallway in two rows. They said thank you and shake hands with each person. In my opinion, I think if they hand us a plot summary it will be much helpful. I heard from other international students they complained about the show that it is really hard to understand. So do I, if they speak more clearly or just make an explanation of some scenes, it will be much excited. Or I shall improve my listening skill to understand the show. In conclusion, I still think they did a great work on fall production and if next show is easier I may come. 

about Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was born in February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, to a devout Protestant mother and aCatholic father. When he was 16, the First World War broke out. Initially enthusiastic, Brecht soon changed his mind on seeing his classmates "swallowed by the army". On his father's recommendation, Brecht sought a loophole by registering for an additional medical course at Munich University, where he enrolled in 1917. There he studied drama with Arthur Kutscher, who inspired in the young Brecht an admiration for the iconoclastic dramatist and cabaret-star Frank.Brecht's first full-length play, Baal (written 1918), arose in response to an argument in one of Kutscher's drama seminars, initiating a trend that persisted throughout his career of creative activity that was generated by a desire to counter another work (both others' and his own, as his many adaptations and re-writes attest). "Anyone can be creative," he quipped, "it's rewriting other people that's a challenge."[17] Brecht completed his second major play, Drums in the Night, in February 1919.In 1924 Brecht worked with the novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger on an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II that proved to be a milestone in Brecht's early theatrical and dramaturgical development.


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Galileo" life

Galileo  was born in Italy, in 1564. His father was a famous lutenist, composer, and misic theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority, the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation, an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm, as well as the illuminative progeny to expect from a marriage of mathematics and experiment.
Galileo was named after an ancestor, Galileo Bonaiuti, a physician, university teacher and politician who lived in Florence from 1370 to 1450; at that time in the late 14th century, the family's surname shifted from Bonaiuti to Galilei.Although a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marmin. They had two daughters, Virginia in 1600 and Livia in 1601, and one son, Vincenzo, in 1606. Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo's previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives.

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In class writing

  Kellyanne missed her friendswhen father and Ahmol came back. She can not find them. She wanted to find them, but she did't. Ashmol's father wanted to find the opal, but he did't. I think Kellyanne's imagery friends like opal. Kellyanne was die, she leaves this world, but she let everyone who lived in this town have imagery friends. Substance can find in this world, like opal. But absences can not find in this world, it is stay in people's mind, like Kellyanne's imagery friends.  

Blog 7

  It's been an interesting book to since the first day that I started to read it, I just love it so much. The genre of this book is quite unique that talks about imaginary friends, which is an unreal but common existing, especially to special groups of people like young children.The main characters in the book are exactly two kids - Kellyanne and Ashmol.
  Ashmol is the older brother, and my favorite character. The author used a special way to show Ashmol's view - first person narrating. It's a better way to narrate because third person narrating can't put readers in a vivid situation like that.I love to get into the plot and I even feel upset or happy for the characters.For example, when the father was caught and others thought he was a thief, I feel really angry and feel so sorry for him. And another example, when Kellyanne got sick, I almost feel like the whole story is over because she is such an important character.
  The author is from Australia so he puts a lot of Australian culture in the article such as slang like fruit loop. It's sometimes hard to understand them but they are still interesting and make us understand Australia better. However, he doesn't over use the Australian tone, so that most of the readers can actually understand it.
  The detailed descriptions on characters' language and body movements had became the highlight of the whole article. For instance, a quote from page 7: “My dad pulled a face. ‘Who? Pobby and Dingan? Ha!" He drained his beer can, positioned it standing up on the floor and stamped on it until it was a disc of metal. Then he threw a wink as if to say: 'Here comes the next wave of the attack, Ashmol!'