Lý Thị Thúy Hằng_Entry 1

ENTRY 1 – Lý Thị Thúy Hằng

Item 1: Poem

Fish Dish
Give a man a fish¹ to make a dish
And you will feed him for a day
But teach a man how to fish²
And help keep his hunger away.
Rhetorical devices:

-          Rhyme: dish – fish, day – away.

-          Assonance: give – fish – dish, feed, teach – fish, keep.

-          Metaphor: fish¹ (facilities, material which are needed for survival), fish² (earn money)

-          Symbol: a day (short period of time), hunger (poverty, difficulty)

Massage:
Teaching the poor how to earn money to enrich themselves is the most effective and positive way of help, rather than providing them with short-term facilities.

Item 2: Story

Once there was a blind boy. He fell in love with a girl.
One day girl asked him ...
" Will you marry me?"
He said ...
" Yes I will, but only when I shall be able to see you."
After some days someone donated him eyes. He was very happy to see his love. But when he saw his girl, he was shocked that she was also blind. He refused to marry her.
She smiled and walked away whispering in boy's ears,
" As you wish my dear. I just wanted to say one thing. Please Take Care Of My Eyes"

Rhetorical device:

-          Metaphor: the eyes (the girl’s sacrificial love to the boy), being blind (one’s imperfection and disadvantage).

Message:
If one is really in love with his partner, he must come over every obstacles of imperfection and disadvantage of his lover as well as himself. Moreover, love is to be sacrifice for and cherished.

Item 3: Comic

Rhetorical devices:

-          Metaphor: medicine – the considerateness and love that mother gives to her child, the mother’s death – not being beside her child.

Message:
If there was anyone who loves you much more than you love yourself, that person would be mother. Her love never leaves you even when she is not beside you.

Sources:

http://www.alonelylife.com/thread-emotional-stories

http://www.shahriari.com/poems/1short/index.htm

http://www.faceboo.com/chedoraemon