Young adult fiction note week 7: Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart"

• Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6, 2000. 

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nation's prime federal law enforcement organization.

amateur: not have enough ability to become professional

• A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

• The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical sports drama film. It was written and directed by John Lee Hancock.
• based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.

• Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

• "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

• King Arthur was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, 
• led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD.

Young adult fiction note week 6: Continue "Finding Forrester"

• Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed byGus Van Sant.

• The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

Jamal: 

• peer pressure--> unwilling to confess that he'd read The Raven.
• Good academic performance--> get basketball scholarship in the prep school
• humble

• Letter opener: the knife used for opening the letter

• The Mitsubishi Group is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies^[1] covering a range of businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark, and legacy.
• During the Second World War, Mitsubishi manufactured military aircraft under the direction of Dr.Jiro Horikoshi.

 

• Written by Forrester
• It isn't real.

Young adult fiction note week 5: 捕手系列:Finding Forester心靈訪客

obsene: Foul; fifthy; disgusting.(resourse: https://cdict.net/q/obscene)

A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
                                --Dryden(Aeneid, vi. 417).

obsolete: No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused

obesity: more than average fatness 


Smoke gets in your eyes

Always is a 1989 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg.

Walden Lake

Walden by Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. 

The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.





An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards.










The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore,Maryland.
The team's name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.

Young adult fiction note week 4: Continue Salinger

The  Catcher in the Rye:

Do you like the story?

Yes, I like it.

Which part of the novel that interests you the most?

I feel shocked and surprised in the part that Holden Caulfield was with the prostitute in the hotel. It maybe the first time that I have acknowledge in this kind of place. I don't think Holden Caulfield is dirty or something. There is a sentence that if you are not bad in your young adult period, you can't be a adolescent.(人不輕狂枉少年) So, I think everyone may mope in a period of your life. The most important thing is that you should reflect to your self, not giving up yourself, then coming back. You will become a reliable person and whom take their life as valuable as gold.

What would you do if you were him or her in with the the story?

I should have been somewhat like Holden Caulfield before in my early adolescent years. At that time, I spend whole weekend and many weekday night in the Internet cafe. Playing over 10 kings of computer games, wasting tens of thousand dollars on the online games, I felt nothing but empty. Also, I read several long Chinese fictions, like: 召喚萬歲、九鼎記、同居萬歲 written in Chinese several times. It's hard to imagine that a person could read novels for 13 hours a day in the junior high and senior high life. I felt depressed, having no any idea about my future, and sleepy when doing anything. After some kind of big activities that earthquake my current life at then. The most significant and marvelous one is the beating drums with 20 people in a drama, which we had a common experience in Taipei Arena. I still feel touched and appreciated to my parents, my families, and everyone that has been helping me when I trapped in my desperation. 
I would struggle out the deep hole of the distress and miserable when if I am Holden Caulfield. Be a new person that can be accepted by myself.