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 The Student - Anton Chekhov, 1894 남준표     The story was very interesting in that we can find the Hero’s journey in such a short story. The most interesting part to me was the third part, refusal of the call. In the story, protagonist refuses the call of adventure, not by his own will, but by his feeling that he doe not want to go home. I was a bit confused about considering this as a refusal, but, the decision was made by the protagonist. He did not want to go home, because of many reasons, he was hungry but there were no food to eat. In my opinion, there was a quick, a real short refusal of the call, which suddenly changed, and lead Ivan to his adventure.      What made me astonished was how Chekhov wrote this story, because it is really abnormal. A boy on a journey and achieves two women crying. To me I can’t understand the purpose of this short story.  Maybe that was because of my lack of understanding of how Russia was going on at that time, maybe...

A SOUND OF THUNDER - BY RAY BRADBURY, 1952    남준표     It is sure a interesting story to read, but in some aspects, it’s boring. The worst part was that the ending could be easily predicted. In the first part, the story  introduces unneeded informations such as who will be the president, and stuff. In addition,  mentioning people to be careful about changing the future during the expedition gives us a slight view of what will the ending be like.  It would have been a good plot twist without these evidences. When most of informations are given, it makes the ending predictable, which makes readers get loose. On the other hand, making readers thinking about how situations are going on keeps readers on track.      I really enjoyed the concept of Time Traveling. It gave me a feeling of watching an good episode of “Doctor Who”. It is really amazing to write about stories like this at that time, as subjects like these were recently popular. It ...