Catgut

                Catgut by Anna Gavalda is really interesting. Through that text, there are a lot of things that catch my attention.

                In summary, the story talks about a veterinarian who worked in an a small city where people don’t really trust a woman who’s taking care of their animal. If they bring their animal in,they have to wait and see what she is doing. Unlucky for her, a night a customer called her to come taking car of his animal who was sick. Once she got there, there wasn't any problem with the person's animal. They were drunk and the only thing they wanted is to abuse her. The doctor in her turn take revenge of what they had done to her. 

               

               In think anger and emotion make Dr. Lejaret to take revenge from the people who hurt her. Because not only people don't trust her to take care their animal but also they are not paying her well after she worked really hard for them. Now does what she did to the three men right after they raped her? No, for me the men and the Doctor shouldn't do a such of thing. But in my opinion, i think Dr Lejaret takes her one justice because it might be the only way she could get justice from these men. Waiting on someone else or a judge to give justice might take too long or she might not get it. So, because the men were drunk and harmless, she took the advantage to take out the testicles of one and graft the balls below the Adam’s apple of the other one. 

               At the end i think the doctor kind of feeling bad for what she did because it was really wrong. But she was not afraid to pay the consequence of what she had done. All she did is asked to her neighbor to take care of her pets and waiting for the police car.The last sentence actually catches my attention "I only hope that they won’t turn on the siren." I think she only fear that they don't put on the siren after she got arrested. Maybe she thinks that is a shamed for her as a doctor who have done a terrible action.       

    

                

Contentment

         This poem mostly talk about contentment and riches.

                  Health or reputation: which is held dearer? Health or possessions: which has more worth? These quotes are saying that nothing worth more than health.  A lot of people think if they have plenty of money, they don’t need anything else. But the thing is you may have all the riches in the world, without health your riches is useless. You cannot be happy if you don’t have health. Health is the most important thing someone need. If you have health you can work and have and enjoy anything you may want. However you may have everything but you cannot enjoy it because you don’t have health. Health is the most dearer than everything else. In other words these quotes are asking what is the most important to you. Your life or all the fancies you have. Do all your possessions mean something to you if you don’t have health? Money doesn't mean anything once you are on your deathbed that’s what these quotes are basically saying.    

“Great love incurs great expense, and great riches incur great fear, but contentment comes at no cost.” I think this quote means to possess some good stuff you have to pay for it. But happiness is cost-less; you don’t need money to be content. You have to spend a lot of money to have the perfect love. We tend to believe that if we have money we will be happy for the rest of our live. Experiences prove it wrong. Money don’t bring happiness, you may need money to give you fancy things like materialistic but not happiness. Now a day money talk, if you don’t have money there are some sort of things that will not possess. This means the society which we are living in force us in some ways to recognize that money is what count and you have to possess it in order to survive or have anything you want. However, you become fearful when you have a lot of money. You don’t feel secure, you mind isn’t in peace because you are worry about people who are jealous of you. Most of the time, people want to be rich because they think they will be happy and other people will show them respect. But they forget that money don’t buy happiness or contentment. That is the reason why most of the times people with a lot of money are stressful. You can be happy without money and once you’re happy you don’t have any stress and you are fearless. 

Motion and Use

                      I’ve read the poem Motion and Use of the Tao Te Ching. There are some quotes that catch my attention. But I’m going to give my opinion one, which is "The motion of the way is to return".

                    From what I understand, I can explain that this quote is referring to "Life." Life of any kind of living. When I think about "life", I notice that it is going in circle (not to say backward). In my opinion, life starts from a point and ends at this same point. What I mean by this is that before any kind of living come to life, I consider it was in rest which means it was dead. Once life gets into that kind of living, it comes with weakness and gain strength over the times, it lives, grows with the support of another kind of living if there is one. But as time passes, this kind of living has skills and does all sorts of things in its own. However, in a certain periods of times this same kind of living starts to lose its strength, it starts to be weakening again and loses all the skills it has. For instance, let’s take a baby who just born. Let's consider before the baby was born, he or she wasn't existed (the baby was dead). I take the words did not existed as same as the word death, because something who is dead means that something is not existed. The baby comes to life with nothing, it is weak, can't help himself, he need someone to depend on. As time passes, the baby begin to grow, gain strength, becomes an adult, he has skills and other stuff. As life is a circle and as it is approaching to end at the point it begins, the adult who was a baby at the beginning starts to lose all of his strength, he becomes weak, he loses all skills and the other stuff he has. This means the adult who was a baby become a baby again as he or she is closed to the end where his or her live started. The baby becomes old. However e to understand that it is not like this all the time. Not all kind of living goes all this steps, some of them goes straight to the end. In other words they live for a short amount of times; they don't have a chance to enjoy their life. But as I wanted to make my argument clear, I pointed all of these things out. The reason why I say the adult become a baby again is because there is a time where he cannot help himself anymore, other people have to take of him like he had been taking care of when he first came to life. When this person finally gets to the point his life began, he or she dies. Life is traveling to return to the point where it starts. I prefer to life is going backward, it is going backward because it takes us directly back to where it took us. 

Introductory Blog

                        Everything looks really strange when you leave your country to go a different one. All you put in mind is that it will be a great adventure and you will enjoy it. But once you get there you seem to be lost, and feel you are not in the right place. It’s like they put you in a game without knowing how it is played. All you know is you are here and try to figure out how things work. That was me the first time I came to the USA. I wasn't in my skin at all.

                         My name is Stevens Alexis, I was born in Haiti. I move to the United States not too long ago. I lived in Florida before I came to Wisconsin.  I speak three different languages, which are Creole, French, these two are my first languages and English is my third one. I’m a pretty cool person. However, people sometimes think that I’m a really mean person which I don’t think is true. I love to play basketball. It is my passion to reach a higher level like NBA if I keep playing and working hard.

                        I’m a freshman at Silver Lake College who’s going for Computer Science. This is second semester I’m taking four classes. World literature is one of them. I took French literature before, it was pretty interesting. I read a lot of poems and I learn plenty stuff about some writers. So, this semester I’m taking world literature, which based on all writers and theirs poems all over the world. I’m pretty sure that I will benefice a lot from this course. And I hope it enhance my knowledge with things I didn't know or recalled me of stuff I might forget.