Thursday, April 17, 2008

Ursula LeGuin’s “She Unnames Them” (CR 166-168),

I had a really hard time trying to figure out what the story was about but at the end I realized that it is from the beginning of time when everything was created and then there was a time to give names to the existing creatures. The lady in the story frees animals of their names and according to the story a lot animals were not in agreement with that because they claimed that their names were very important to them. The animals did not understand that the lady wanted to feel closer to them so she gave them names that maybe mean something to her. We usually give nicknames to those special people and things and I guess that was the lady's intention. The story is fiction but there is a important moral behind.

T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” (CR 364-366),

Honestly this poem has to be read more then for times to really understand what is about. I read it twice and still couldn't fully catch the real meaning of the story.
But anyways according to the way I understood it, the poem is about things situations we face in life, good moments and bad moments. The journey doesn't seem pleasant for this people. They had a really hard time traveling on winter with camels with no shelter. I don't know if the objective and the destination of the journey were told in the story. So after I read the story my personal question became where are they going and who are they.











1 comment:

KCieslak330 said...

I agreed with you completely on the journy of the magi. It was obviously not a pleasent journy. And it def has to be read more thand once to be understood.