ESLII Journal:28 My Tell Tale ending

Those three polices were still chatting happily.  How can they still chatting like nothing happen? Didn’t they feel strange? No! It’s impossible! Is the old man still alive? Yes,I had killed him already. But maybe he’s alive. It’s his heartbeat! I had to killed him again. It would be the ending for his life show. And those of polices...I can’t let them out. They knew this terrible treat, they had heard the heartbeat. I will let them chatting with the old men for ever and ever. How kind I am! I added some snack for each of them. It’s the special snack that can kill the mouse. Soon, they won’t breath any more. I opened the wood floor again and killed the old man again. I cut his heart! And gouge his vulture Eye! Suddenly it become quietly. Very very quiet...then I heard the drops sound, it’s from...my chest. My heart were gone! But I heard the strange sound again. The old man’s vulture eye were in his chest. Then he smiled, also three of police! Didn’t they already die! I scream and jump out of window, wether it’s not in the first floor...

ESLII Journal 27: Hints and Foreshadowing

“ How can people said I’m insane?” I’m not “crazy”. It’s the first thing that the narrator told us in the story “The Tell - Tale Heart”. But we can found out the truth just in the next paragraph, that he is really a crazy man. He said he was “wise” that he planed the very carefully plan to killed the old man. He even used an hour to open the old man’s room door at night. Why he wanted to kill the old man? He had already said that the old man treated he very good, but why? Just because he though the old man’s eye looks like the vulture ‘s eye. His reason can’t even be a reason for killing people. He said he is very “clam”, also he could heard the sound from the heaven, earth, even the hell. It usually made people thought that he was really geting close to the death and geting crazy and crazy. We can just see there is a crazy and nervous person, who stand in the dark and told his confession about his killed plan.Even without any rue but been very proud of himself. Those of clues that we could find for the event, can made us discovered the truth without the obstruction from other’s opinion.

ESLII Journal 26: Unreliable Narrator

When you are reading, you  won’t felt the narrator is the cheater that most lose to you. Narrator can control most of reader’s thinking. But how about when the narrator doesn’t telling the true. The wrong information take the reader focus on the wrong way, but it also can make the reader had read the other side of the story. Until the reader discovered that the narrator is unreliable, reader still can re-read the story by knowing that the narrator wasn’t right and find out the doubt, it could bring other kinds of intrest. Sometimes, the writer used this kind of narrator was telling us the big secret. Like the story,” Tell - Tale Heart” the the writer tried to express that the narrator was already crazy. But the writer didn’t used the common way to tell the reader about this important information. The writer gave the little doubt to let the reader found the true by looking through the whole story. It is a way for the writer to lead the reader used the different side of view to read the story, and then make the reader focus on the story to find out who were not telling the true.

ESLII Journal 25: Scary Stories

What part of the scary story would made you absolutely horrified？ If I stay alone in the big bleaker building,and the building is old and quiet, I must tremble with fear. In this time, all the things you would imagine to the scary organism or it even isn’t the organism. The blurred sound that you heard, you won’t  knew who made it. I scary of the big building with no body, like the place used to be the school, hospital or military base. This kinds of place just like the ruins, it used to have many people stay in so it also can be very big and bleaker, then you would felt you were the only one who were still here. Because this place is so different than your acknowledge. 

When I heard or saw somethings in the ruins, I can’t know that isn’t it came from my imagine. Even though I wanted to find out where is it came from, my eyes was already find out that there is no people here. And it would made me want to get out from this place but I can even move my foot. In the bleaker place, the sound of breathing could be heard very clearly, and my first wish would be get out off this place!

ESLII Journal 24: Suspicion

What will you feel when the stranger came close to you? Most of times I’m scared of the stranger. Even they are just the people who passing the advertisement. Maybe it’s cause like the event few years ago. When I was in the fifth grade, I went to the stationary store with my cousin, she is the little girl,too. Mt mom left us stayed in the store to but the things we need, but there were a groups of boys pushing their partner close to us, if I knew that it was the things about me, I just ran away at that time, but it’s too late. They pushed a boy out of group and get close to me, than he asked me somethings. After that I started to ran, and festally called my mom. But she didn’t answer the phone, but the group were still finding us in the store, I was scared but no place can hide me. I asked my cousin to pay the bill by her self, and I asked the women guests to borrow her phone, but she didn’t bring it. The group was geting closer, so I grasped my sister out the store and cross the street to the supermarket. After that event, I can only go to that store with my mother or brother. And sometimes it also made my scared of boys. 

ESLII Journal 23: What's worth the effort

The girl Squeaky often helped her brother Raymond to solve the trouble that he made. Of carouse it made Squeaky oftenly complains about her “Trouble maker”. But Squeaky doesn’t really hate her brother, if there are some people bully Raymond. She will still saved him without reason. For me, I have an older brother. Although we often fight with each other, but he still is my family. One times, my brother hadn’t been responsible. He borrowed motorcycle with other, but he forgot to give it back and he just went to other country. So I became to solve this problem, because I was the only one who still in Taiwan at that time. I came home and found the key for about one and half hours, but the key was taken away with him to foreign. Then the owner started to curse my brother in front of me, and he even cruse to my parents about they didn’t teach my brother well. At first I already been very unhappy,  but I knew it was my brother’s fault and he is a senior so I kept my patient. But it seem to nonstop. I had instead him to offset problem, but the key can’t’ come back right away. How can he just kept abusing to my brother. Just with the mood that he still is my brother, he is my family and you don’t have any rights to abuse him. Then I direct leave without any words. I thought it had a little bit partiality, although we often got fright, but I can’t bear he got abuse by the stranger. I believe Squeaky and Raymond just like me and my brother.

ESLII Journal 22: The Resilution

Kestrel was very tried when she arrived to the mountain. Her friend didn’t do anything, he just wait for her until she felt better. Kestrel started to explanted why she came here late very quickly. Because hr friend hadn’t said any words to her, Kestrel though he was angry at her. But he just touched her head and told her don’t worry. He said today is an important day. He was very happy that she had came here today. And, he would told her every things. 

Kestrel was surprised and scared, she wanted to be more understated her friend, but she felt like if she knew it, he would dissipated. The sun was getting down, Kestrel could felt it’s not as warm as before, today was getting to the end. He touch her head again, she could felt the warm temperature from his hand. He asked her to held out her hand, he put something on Kestrel’s hand. And the soft wind went through, her tears came out. She felt her friend had leaved, his rough hands just like the frist time she came to this mountain. Kestrel gently touched a leaf in her hand, it was the last and the first gift from her dear friend. Although there were still the tears on her face, but she smiled. She made a promise again, that she would never forgot him in the future.