What about the world you live in makes you uncomfortable?

Nothing can be perfect in our lives. There are always some things which make us feel uncomfortable about the world we live in. As for me, the two things which are uncomfortable about this world would be language and time. Language is different throughout the whole world. If I am in another country and the mother tongue there is different from the mother tongue of my country, I would have disadvantages of living in that country. Partially I wouldn’t have entertainment that the people in that country have. For instance, even with TV. It is hard for you to watch a show which is in German and your mother tongue is English. Another disadvantage would be that it would be hard to adapt to different countries because of language. For example, if you are trying to go to Spain but you can’t speak Spanish, you wouldn’t be able to adapt well. This is because you can’t communicate with them and since you can’t communicate, you can’t socialize and since you can’t socialize, you can’t adapt.

Not only language makes me uncomfortable about the world I live in but also time. There is one main reason why time affects my life negatively. It is because no one can control time. We can’t control time but the time controls us.

Summary of Greek Myth: Persephone

In Mt. Aetna, some fire breathing giants were struggling to get free. So, the God of underworld Hades, went up to check what happened. Aphrodite the God of love saw this and ordered her son Eros to shoot an arrow to Hades to clear his darkness/ evil mind. Eros shot the arrow at Hades and when Hades got shot by the arrow he saw a woman and fell in love; that woman was Persephone. Hades kidnapped her and took her to the underworld with him and made her eat four seeds. At that time Hermes went down and took her up by the orders of Zeus. Since Persephone had four seeds, she had to go down for four months. Because Persephone's mom is the God of harvest, when she was depressed because her daughter went, winter happened and when she came back she became happy and that is why spring came so this event created the four seasons.

Summary of Wulbari the Creator

Wulbari the God had a court which was composed of animals and these animals were there to protect God. The leader of this court was called Ananse the spider. This spider was a very good trickster and he even tricked God. He tried to overcome or be equal to God by tricking him and this fact was spread throughout the court and eventually went into God’s ears. Wulbari called Ananse and gave him a task. The task was to bring something. Wulbari went off but he didn’t know what something is. So, he called the birds and took one feather off each one and disguised as a colorful bird and went back to God. The God was talking to other members of the court which were dying to know what something is. So, God told them it was the sun, darkness and the moon. After Ananse heard this, he brought the sun, darkness and the moon to God and when he took out the sun, everyone who looked at it became blind.

2 Pictures for the Creation Story

This is the Togo flag. This flag is related to the Ananse spider story because this story originally came from West Africa, Togo. This story is well known in the whole of West Africa and is used as a story telling device by many people.

This is a picture of a sneaky spider which is the captain of the court which God set up. It is called Ananse and this spider tries to overcome God or tries to prove that he is equal to God. So, God Wulbari gives him a task to bring something. The spider disguised into a bird and overheard what something is and proved that he is equal to God.

The Voice of Christopher

Christopher is such a unique character because of his voice and one of the features that make Christopher so special is digression. Digression is when someone is not talking about the essential topic but other topics which are not related. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time page 8 lines 8 to 15 when the policeman asks Christopher many questions about Wellington the dead dog, Christopher gets confused and just starts thinking about Uncle Terry and the factory he owns. Digression was one of the ways the author of this book Mark Haddon used to express that Christopher has Asperger’s Syndrome. When someone has language problems for example when someone takes everything literally and when someone has social problems are a sign of Asperger’s syndrome. In this case in the book, he had social problems.

Another feature which makes Christopher Boone such a unique character is idiomatic language. Idiomatic language is a phrase which has a specific meaning and it is not literally understood. Mostly used by native speakers of that language. It is not that he uses idiomatic language a lot but it is that he can’t understand any metaphors or idioms. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time page 19 line 17 to 21 shows that Christopher can’t understand idiomatic language. This is another way the author Mark Haddon showed that Christopher is a special character. People who have Asperger’s syndrome tend to take everything literally and don’t have a wide understanding in language.