The moral of The Pearl

The pearl is a book written by John Steinbeck. I thought it was a pretty interesting book. The pearl is a parable, which is a short story that involves moral in it. Before we read it, we sort of talk about it. People were guessing that the story is about greed. There were always been a lot of questions in my mind. Do people like you because of who you are or because of what you have? Do people become sort of greedy and blind when you got something special and good? I guess there are no right or wrong answers, but I always have some kind of answers in my mind.

The pearl is a book about a poor family, and the main character was Kino. Kino found a big pearl in the sea, and he was really excited about it, because he could sell the pearl and have enough money for his son to get education and for the whole family to live. The pearl seemed like a really lucky and good thing that happened to Kino and his family, but it actually brought something else to them. People started treating them in a different way, and their old normal life was just gone. The pearl sort of represents evilness, because it made Kino made bad decisions. He decided to go to the city and sell the pearl, because he wants more money. People sneak into their hut to try to steal the pearl, so Kino killed the trackers. The pearl made him more greedy, and evil.

He decided to go to the city, because he thinks he can sell a better price at the city. He brought his family with him. He thought that would brought them a better life, but it actually made their life more dangerous. More trackers follow them everywhere. They had to hide in caves, so no one sees them and kill them.

The pearl made him become blind, because he starts making bad decisions. The one character in the book that has the most good attitude and mind is Juanna, which is Kino’s wife. She was trying throw the pearl away, because she knew that the pearl is evil.

The moral for me is that when you get something good or special, then your life can totally change. The best thing is to give it away, maybe throw it away, or maybe other type of ways of getting rid of evilness or greediness. It depends on what you got. But definitely open your eyes, don’t be like Kino, remember to listen to suggestions from people that you can trust on. Don’t be greedy.

Earth Day Blog

Awesomeness, it's Earth day the day before yesterday, which is April 22. Earth day was early celebrated in US, but now we have almost every country to celebrate this day. Earth day is a day to show the appreciation and awareness for the Earth's environment. Basically, we try to do things we can do to save energy and to improve the Earth's environment. Saving energy can be seen everyday, but it's more obvious at that day. Some schools, companies, and shops do activities or things that saves energy. For example, closing lights in the morning, since it is bright enough. And, for some companies, they turn off the air conditioning for the whole building, which will save a lot of energy.

I remembered, when I was in local school, at earth day, we always turn off light in the morning, and try not to use the projector and the computer that much. We sweat a lot, because we tried not to turn on the fan or air conditioner. We sometimes have events on the Earth day, like making poster saying things that relates to the theme of Earth day.

I bet we can all think of things that we can do on Earth day, and also every single day in life. We can watch less television. We can turn off the AC,. and don't use elevator that much if you can walk properly. Turn off lights is a really common one, and so as going on to public transportations like bus, trains...etc. I thought using less hairspray would be a good thing too, because I think hairspray can cause a great air pollution too.

I just want to say, protect the Earth as best as you can, and go green if you are not, and stay green if you are. Yay~! :D

Susan Boyle is appearing on youtube, news...etc!!!!

She had appeared in TV show, youtube, news...etc. Susan Boyle had been watched by more than 20.2 million people on youtube. She is in international news, I even saw her in Taiwan's news channel. Miss Susan Boyel, she is on an age of 47, which has an outfit that's not really fashionable, but she definitely have a great voice. Her voice is beautiful, and she audition for Britain's Got Talent, which surprised all the judges and audience. I watched the video of her audition on youtube, not to mention again, she have more than 20.2 million viewers on youtube!!! First when she got on stage, and she introduced herself, everyone was laughing, but they don't know what she had inside of her. When she sing, everyone was cheering and standing up clapping, even two of the judges did. No one was laughing after she sang, and one of the judge said that her voice was stunning. I thought so too. Now she's like a famous super star in her village. I saw her in today's morning news of the Taiwan news channel. I also saw her in CNN, she even had an interview with them, I think. To be honest, I think her voice is beautiful and clean.

Earthquakes hit eastern Afghanistan

Friday, April 17, two earthquake hit the eastern part of Afghanistan. The two earthquakes collapsed hundreds or more houses and killed dozens of people. Which I think it's really terrible, earthquake it's a scary thing, and especially having two happening near the same place or we can say the same country. That's even more scary, it's a double scary thing. There was a person, Gul Mohammad, which live in Mir Gadkhel village. Gul Mohammad said that three of his/her family members were killed and some were injured. On April 18, there was a huge clear-up. There were at least 21 people killed, and four villages suffered in serious damage. Most of them are homeless, because the village was damaged really bad. U.S. government are sending food, and supplies to the people in Afghanistan, and trying to do the best as they can to find the dead bodies of the families that lost their family members.

More Allergies on the kids!!!

In UK, there are more kids getting allergies, and the bad thing is people are suffering from it. Most of the children have allergies from eczema to asthma. I have friends and family members who has allergies, but luckily they didn't suffer for that. But I saw a lot of news talking about the population of people having allergies, and mostly are kids. Allergies are not from others, it's from your parents, or one of them. Some people get it, but some people don't, it's hard to say. If you are afraid or worry that you have allergies, the experts and doctors recommend you to do a allergy test, so you can control it better if you have it.

Big Wheel Race

On April 15 at San Francisco, everyone was completely "down hill". People in San Francisco, California were gather together for the Big Wheel Race, which people has to provide their own transportation, like bike...etc, and they race around a circle for maybe times. Everybody crowded in race to watch the competitors. As the people barrel down the street on a tiny bike, and the cool thing is some people even ride it backwards. Every adults rode on tiny bikes, or small transportation that has wheels on it. Another awesome thing is some people wore funny costumes or just costumes to the race, some looked hilarious. Some people fell off, and got injured, but I bet that was a blast. I would like to try it, but I definitely don't want to get injured or hurt. Yay! Big Wheel Race!!

The Pearl Blog #1

1) How would you change if you had a lot of money? Would your personality be different?
I think if I have a lot of money or I am really rich, I think it depends, because people around you can affect you a lot. Either your family, friends, and other people. They sometimes influence you by acting in some kind of way, sometimes are bad influences. I think my personality will be kind of different if I have a lot of money, but if people around me influence me to be a nicer or better person, then I might be a better person if I'm rich. I am not saying that rich people are mean, I am just saying that people around you can really affect you very much.

2) Would you ever take a risk to reach a goal?
I think I will, because if this is really a goal or dream that I am eager to reach, then I think will do it. But sometimes I will consider about the consequences, only sometimes. I always have a goal in my mind, but sometimes I think goals can limit things, so I try not to let goals limit other kind of things. Risks sometimes can be harmful, or maybe there will be bad consequences. But I think reaching the goal in your mind is very important.

3) Would you ever hurt member of your family just so you could be accepted by friends?
I guess I will say no, but by saying no, my mind is saying maybe. I think sometimes when someone hurt another person, they don't really know if it's really bad or maybe it's just there sudden meanness. Friendship can be important, but your family members are people who really cares about you, at least most of them. You can trust them, but sometimes family members are complicated. Some people might think that their friends will think their parents are embarrassing or something, and they hurt them, but it's really bad.I just felt confused sometimes, because I don't know what is the most important. But I guess they are both important, so don't hurt either of them because of something or because of one's sudden meanness.