Children's behaviour... time ago and current time.

The story of Oliver twist shows many facts that belong to the same reality. One hand, the story is developed in a crowded England, in which the opportunities were not so much. On the other hand, the story developed the idea of a child who used to steal. Taking into consideration both topics, I can infer that, in a way, the society could be responsible for Oliver’s action. I am not saying that Oliver’s actions were right, but they may be occasioned because of the problems he had to face.
In today’s world, specifically in our country, there are some features that are closely connected with the English’s 19th society. Our city is very crowded. Most of people have a car and because of that streets are full of them. Related to public transportation, the problems that Santiaguinos had to live were several. There were not enough buses to move to the quantity of people that the city have. This problem showed to society how much people need to get a bus for many reasons.
Probably, England does not have this problem today, but there are others countries that are facing these problems now. I think every country have their time to face radical changes.

The signal man...

After reading this short story and discussing in class, I could appreciate how people were living during those days. On one hand, the population increased very fast, on the other hand the space for people to live was not big enough. However, people continued immigrating from the country side to the city.
The signal man represented the other side of this process. He preferred to live in the darkness of an inhabited place. Instead of spending time with the rest of the people, he lived his life by himself. With this fact, it can be understood that there some people who did not share the way the current society was being developed.
Nowadays, it is hard not to be in contact with people, at least the way he did, because we lived in a very cooperative society. Everyone has a role to do; we are all part of a balance. It is difficult to imagine someone living underground and not sharing with others. What we can see are people who are very selective with their friends. They do not like to have relationships with many people.
I think we are all different. If someone decides to have a reduced group of friends, then that is OK.

Little Frank!

After reading this book, what called my attention the most was the discrimination that it has behind. In the moment that Frankie was born, the society immediately started to highlight his differences. It is very unfair that people judge others just by their characteristics. It is common to see people making fun of others, but the problem with these actions is that they do not know the way their “victims” may feel.
I am not sure about others countries, but at least in our reality people use to make fun of others without any consideration.
Nowadays, there is a definition called bullying that deals with problems; especially at schools. Every day children are more and more disrespectful with other kids. They embarrass them because of any feature they have. These features may be considered as “not common” by their classmates and this characteristic is enough to start bothering his/her.
I strongly believe that parents and teachers should work to eliminate these actions, because they are starting to be more common day after day.

daffodils...

Wordsworth bases his poem on nature features. He talks about daffodils, clouds, trees, etc. He tries to express his feeling through these elements. I feel he writes this poem with the intention of showing to people he has another option, in terms of sexuality. Probably, he is not accepted by people as he would like to be. Maybe, he compares himself with platns, which are always with other plants around, whereas he is not as surrounded of people as he would want.
Clearly, homosexuality is an issue difficult to develop. In todays' world, discrminiation sound loudly when people refer to the persons who have deceided to take others ways. I think this option is up to everybody. If someone decides to take this alternative that's fine, anyway, that's his/her life. The only thing that I do not like of some homosexuals it's when they pursue to other people to change their status. I do not share these sort of attitudes, apart from that, they have their life and I have got mine...

Loneliness

When I read this poem I try to imagine the way the author felt when he wrote this. It can be appreciated that he was not living a good moment in his life. He related his words to the fear of death. I think it is so common that people feel fear about death because it is something almost unknown. The only thing we can be sure about is we will die someday, but How about next? would it be good? bad? happy? hurtful? peaceful? No one knows it, and this is what frighten people. In a way, I think people feel alone when they face death. When we have to be in front of situations that may include any death feature when need to concetrate and try to be quiet.
I think we have to be in peace when we think about death. If we start to try to guess what happen after life, we may beacome insane, and this is not good for anybody.

Nature and poetry.

Kubla Khan tried to show something he felt about love. He showed how he appreciated romantic features in nature. He used to relate the nature with his feelings. In a way, nature plays a crucial role in his poems.
I can appreciate the capacity of imagination that the writer develops. He always relates tacit features with intangible characteristics. I think this is what causes a difference among him and some others poets.

The sun rises on both sides.

Trejo (2007), in his poem “the little black boy” points out some features that make a black child think about the differences that he lives in contrast with white children. The black boy tries to find the reasons that lead the human beings to act the way the act in front of white person and in front of a white one. The black boy asks some questions to his mother and she tries to explain him that the differences only occur in the tangible world, which is the one they live. She says in the intangible world, every single person will be treated the same way; there will not be any differences.
The author relates the tangible and intangible characteristics of the world to god. He states that the differences people may live will be experienced just in present live but not in heaven.
I appreciate the way the author refers to discrimination as a good way to deal with this issue. It has been seen along years that people who suffer this problematic situation experiment horrible psychological problems. So, as a way to help them to overcome this awkward situation, they can believe in god and all the benefits they will get once they arrive to heaven.