박종우 world literature

 The student, by Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating: 7.5/10  I think 'The Student' does not fill the stage 3. The stage 3 is 'Refusal of the call' where hero refuses the adventure because of hesitation or fears. I think in this story, the adventure world is the place where widows are seating around the campfire. But, rather Ivan felt hesitation or fear when he bumped into campfire, he actually wanted to go to campfire because of the cold weather and he didn't want to go back to his house.  At first, I thought the short story was a bit cliche. Ivan tell the story of Peter in the bible to widows and he learn a lesson when he saw the tears of widow. It seems like a typical story, but after reading this story several times, I thought this story shows Russian Realism really well. Especially, when Ivan felt despair in the cold, thinking about Russia's poverty that will not improve. Also, I loved this part because Ivan felt 'infinite' poverty from a 'finite' l...

 A Sound of Thunder, By Ray Bradbury (1952) Rating: 6.5/10  When I think of the hero’s Journey or movies I’ve read so far, I always think of how the main characters (or the heroes) improve their power and how they overcome hardships. Actually, most of stories related to hero follow a similar structure. However, “A Sound of Thunder”, though it is the story about Eckels’ hero journey, focused on different topic compare to other stories of heroes. This story doesn’t really talk about the characters, instead it uses characters to show the “butterfly effect.” In the adventure, Eckels accidentally step on butterfly and killed it. The change of president appeared as the result of Eckels' action. This event represent well about butterfly effect, which means a situation in which an action that does not seem important has a very large effect.  I think this is the uniqueness of this story. It actually focused on the topic, “butterfly effect”, rather than the journey itself. However,...