Experience In Writing 2

 

What I have Gotten By Writing 2?

In this semester, I continue the subject Writing 1 with Writing 2 which is almost done. Because my lecturer, Mrs. Leni Marlina, will prepare her baby born, Writing 2 has to be finished as fast as possible, many things I have learned and many experiences I have gotten by learning Writing 2 in this semester. Even though not all of the things which I have done are well done.

The first time I knew that my lecturer will done all of the material in one semester only for a month, I felt shock. I just imagined that my friends and I will work hard for this subject. As I imagined, we did it. The show must go on, and writing’s assignments could not wait even for a while to be finished. Sometimes, it was just like I did not care about being tired anymore. It happened because my Notebook broke, as the result, I hade to make all of the assignments on the internet cafe. I went to internet cafe after studied in Campus, then I went to my boarding house for taking a bath, praying, and eating. Then I returned to the internet cafe until almost midnight with my best friend, Siti. Frankly speaking, it made me out of energy and, of course, out of money.

There are two things which give a little bit difficulty in learning Writing 2 for me. The first thing is on the first Saturday, when three classes which are taught by Mrs. Lina have to be together in a small class. It made me hard to concentrate and I could not hear the presentation clearly. I think, it is better to use three rooms and let the chairman handles the class. The second one is too many kinds of material were presented in one day. Usually we only learn about one materi in a day, but at the moment we had to learn at least seven material. All of the material are like go around in my mind.

On the other hand, this subject also has learned me so many things. First, I have learned about being responsible with the assignment that has been given. I tried to finish all of the assignment as I could do. The technique that has been given by Mrs. Lina also very effective for making all of the texts better. That is by exchanging my own text with my friends text. It really helped me. This subject also learns me to not too spoil my mind and my body with being lazy. Whenever I wanted to just lay down on the bed, I realized and remembered that I have many things which should be done. Besides out of energy and out of money, now I find that I am not too difficult in Writing than I used to be. I thanks to the lecturer for the discipline and the wisdom.

So far, I have learned many kinds of text and I have made three projects, they are : free writing about hopes and experience in Writing 1, narrative text, and discussion text. Among those projects, I prefer to my discussion text. The title is “Being Young Married Couple”. This text is special for me because it is the hardest effort I did. I needed to find some sources for proving my argument I have made. I also made three revisions for this project. I asked my classmates, my friends from other classes, and some seniors for helping me in this project by giving comments. I worked harder in this project than others, that is why it is the best for me.

In conclusion, learning Writing 2 in this semester has given some impacts for me. It makes me better in Writing and also gives big learning in taking responsibility. Therefore, it also makes me being more tired than I felt in the previous semesters. Writing 2 makes me feel satisfied because I can create and write a text better and better. At the end, I want to thank to my friends who have helped me in finishing my assignment. Especially, I thank to my lecturer who has helped me for being better than before, and absolutely big thanks to God and my parents that have made everything easier.

NOVEL REVIEW

NOVEL REVIEW: RAIN

In this chance, I want to review a novel, the title is “Rain”. This novel is written by V.C Andrews. This is the first novel in the thrilling Hudson series. It was published on March 2000, in New York and as a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. The color of cover is blue and it was designed by Jim Lebbad. This novel consists of 440 pages. This novel has been translated to many languages, they are France, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, and Hungary.

After read this novel, I suppose that this is an interesting novel to be read. This novel tells about something that usually happens in our life, but the writer described it through the different way that makes the reader want to read and read. The writer described it well and easy to be understood by the readers.

There is only one thing that I feel as the weakness of this novel. It is about Rain, the main character of this novel, I just think that Rain’s life is too flat. There is no big challenge that happens in her life. I suggest the writer to make something big happens in Rain’s life and make an unpredictable way as the solution. It will make the reader be more interested in this novel.

This novel tells bout Rain, a pretty girl who lives with her family. It consists of Mama, Roy, Beny and Ken. Roy is her older brother and Beny is her younger sister. Ken is his father. They live in a place named Project. Project is not a safe place to live because there are many gangsters who roam along the street. That is why Mama saves money for moving, but Ken steals it. Then Mama gets him away from house. Roy is a kind boy who always protect them family.Rain and Beny have different way of thinking. Rain is a smart, diligent, and polite girl, while Beny does not. Rain cooks for family for breakfast, lunch and dinner. All of these things make Roy loved Rain more than a sister.

At the middle of the novel, Rain knows that she is not Mama’s real daughter, but she can accept it.Terrible event begins coming in that family. Because of her careless, Beny is killed by member of gangsters. Beny makes relationship with a member of gang. Mama decides that Rain has to get better life than she used to do, and there is the only one way to reach it. It is by letting Rain live with her real mother. Then Rain lives with her Grandmother, Roy decide to be an army, and Mama lives with her sister. In Rain’s new life, she just finds that everything has been served by the maid. She has new amazing and an expensive school, yet she can take everybody’s attention soon. Even she gets the main role in school’s theater that makes her friends jealous. Rain gets new friend, Audrey, whom is very kind. Corbette, who also plays in school’s theater, try to close with Rain because he thinks that Rain is different with other girls. On the other hand, their relationship is not longer.

Bad news comes after few days when Rain arrives at home, her Grandmother says that Mama is in hospital. Mama got cancer. Rain really shocks and feels so sad. She goes to hospital soon and meets Roy in there. They hug each other. Mama is still comma. Rain take Mama’s hand and cries, she tells that she is there for Mama. Then Rain and Roy go for looking for something to eat, but when they return they meet Aunt Sylvia that tells that Mama dies. Rain cries and cries with Roy beside her. After the funeral, Roy decides to back to his base camp. He asks Rain to go with him and get married, but Rain does not accept it because she needs to think it over. Then Rain back to Grandmother’s house and trough her life without Mama any more, and without Roy beside her.

                                               

MOVIE REVIEW

Movie Review: A Thousand Words

The title of the movie that I am going to review is “A Thousand Words”. The director of this movie is Brian Robbins and it is written by Steve Koren. This movie is played by Eddie Murphy as Jack McCall, Kerry Washington as Caroline McCall, Rubby Dee as Anny McCall, Kliff Curtis as Dr. Sinja and Clark Duke as Aaron Wiseberger. Duration of this movie is 91 minutes and the genre is Drama\Comedy. This movie used English as the language and the Filming Locations is in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is Released on 9 March 2012 (USA). Budget for making this movie is $40,000,000. The Production Co are DreamWorks SKG, Saturn Films, Work After Midnight Films. The soundtrack of this movie is “Because I Got High” that ios written by Afroman, Performed by Afroman and Produced and Arranged by Afroman, Headfridge. In 2013 this movie gets 3 nominations in Razzie Awards.

 

This movie is an interesting movie. It gives some moral value by showing unique ways. By showing some funny scenes but giving learning for the viewers. It learns us for not lying in our lives and to not underestimate everything or everyone around us, because when we lose them, and we realize that we are false, maybe we do not have a chance to fix it again.

The way the writer arranges the movie to be understood is pretty good, this movie is not too difficult to be understood. It can be watched for the people in all ages. The acting of all of the stars is very excellent. They act like the scenes of the movie are real. They act naturally that make the viewer get the sense of every scene. I cannot find the weakness of this movie, because this is a very good movie.

This story is told about Jack McCall who is a son of Annie McCall and Raymond McCall. However, when he was a child his father left him and died. It makes Jack was very angry with his father. Jack McCall is a success literary agent. He got married with Caroline McCall and they have a child named Tyler McCall. Jack McCall is a very talkative person. When he talks with someone he will never gives a chance for someone to speak. It makes other people annoy at him He always thinks about his work and never cares about everything happens around him. He loves his wife and his son but he never shows that he loves them. He takes his mother Annie McCall on a Nursing Home. He usually visits her on her birthday, but Annie McCall has been forgetful, she thinks that Jack is her husband, Raymond.

Dr. Sinja, who is a spiritual guru, has made a popular book. Jack tries to meet Dr. Sinja, he wants Dr. Sinja to make a book for him and uses Dr. Sinja’s fame for getting benefit. Jack says to Dr. Sinja that he is Dr. Sinja’s fans. He always read his book and he admires him. On the other hand, Dr. Sinja knows that he lies, because in fact Jack never reads his book. Dr. Sinja curses him. Suddenly in Jack’s yard there is a tree with a thousand leaves. Dr. Sinja explains him that when Jack says one word, one leaf will drop out.  The worst thing is when all of the leaves fall, Jack dies.

Everything happens on the tree also happens to Jack. When he tries to fell the tree Jack gets hurt in his waist. When someone is watering the tree, Jack get very much sweat. Because Jack cannot speak as usual he gets many misunderstanding with everyone around him.  When he buys something to eat, he cannot explain them what he wants. In his office he cannot say anything to make a deal about anything to anyone. It makes him loses his job. Unfortunately, the worst part is when Caroline thinks that Jack does not love her and their child anymore because Jack does not say anything to her. Jack tries to explain Caroline about the tree, but she does not believe him. Then Caroline decides to leave Jack.

Aaron, Jack’s assistant, is the only one who believes Jack. When he looks by his eyes the leaves fall when Jack speaks. Jack does anything to save his life. He tries to be a kind man. He gives some money to the church, helps everyone, but nothing happen.  He tries to meet Dr. Sinja, but Dr. Sinja says that there’s no way to save his life. Jack is very hopeless. He regrets everything that he has done.  He does not want to die when everyone hates him. He meets his mom, his wife and his child to say that how much he loves them. He gives a gift to some people to makes them happy.

There are three more leaves. Finally he decides to go to his father’s grave. He does not want to die with the hatred to his father, and then he says,” I forgive you”. Immediately, Jack falls down into the land. He cannot say anything again. Suddenly, his phone is ringing. Alex calls Jack and says that there is a miracle with the tree. There is many leaves and many flowers on the tree, and Jack’s life is saved by forgiving his father.