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.

Final Essay

Women’s Rights.

The following essay will expose a point of view regarding women’s role during XVI century. I will take the example of Portia, from the movie The Merchant of Venice. I will explain they way she lived, how she was treated, and what her rights, as a woman, were. After explaining these topics, I will make a comparison with the actual situation that women live in our society. At the end of the essay, I will write my opinion about the exposed theme, and the conclusion of the presented work.
In the movie The Merchant of Venice, there was character named Portia. She was a girl who belonged to the royal family. She was destined to get married by his father and by the society. The problem with this was that she could not select who her husband will be. The reason of that was she had to wait until a prince went to her castle. There, they had to choose among three chests, and if they pick the one with Portia’s image inside they would marry Portia. Even if Portia did not want to marry the prince, she had to because that way the way in which princesses get married in those times.
Every time a prince went to the castle, she was thinking she did not want to marry him. She could not do anything regarding this situation; she was obliged to marry the one who choose the right chest. With this example, I can appreciate that women’s rights were absolutely left away. Their marriages were used as politics issues. Fathers were not interested if his daughters wanted to get married or not, they just leaded them to this condition.
On the contrary, nowadays women’s rights are absolutely different. Now, girls can decide if they want to get married or not. They can decide who her husband will be, and also, they can decide when her marriage will be. There exist a very respectful way of thinking regarding women’s rights. In our society, fathers do not intervene in his daughter’s marriages. They just help them to choose a good man, to make good decisions, and they advice his daughters. If women want to do the opposite of what their fathers say, they just do it. There is not a legislation that hinders women to make their own decisions.
Although our society respects the decisions of women, the law interferes if there are certain conditions that women do not accomplish. If an under age girl want to get married, she will have to ask for a legal permission to access to marriage. This permission must be signed by both of her parents. If they parents regret of signing the document, she will not be allowed to marry. In this sense, there are still restrictions for girls, but the reasons of these impediments are that sometimes girls are not mature enough to get married.

In my opinion, women’s rights were very ignored during XVI century. They should be allowed to decide whether they want to marry or not. Their thoughts were not taken into account, girls were just leaded to what their fathers thought was right. I believe these actions were absolutely incorrect. People cannot make decisions by someone else. We are free to decide what our future will be, even though people do not share our decisions. I think the society developed during XVI century was wrong because its way of thinking. It did not respect women and I think this is serious. It can not happen again. We are all human beings and differences because of sex can not occur again.

To summarize this essay, I want to say that societies have changed a lot with the pass of the time. In the past, women’s future was decided by someone else. They did not have the opportunity to select what they thought was correct. Many girls were sad because of these actions; they had feelings and thoughts, but they could express them. Women were really oppressed by many factors; fathers, families, society, people, etc.
Fortunately, things have changed. Nowadays women are absolutely free to take the decision they feel or think are rights. Now, girls can get married if they want. They can be mothers, even if they do not have a husband. They are family head if a man is absent. Our society is very different than in the past. Now women are respected by people, even though there are still differences between man and women.