Revised composition---- Novels

Novels

I usually have chances to read novels, no matter I read them just to kill the time, to entertain myself, or even for tests. According to the experiences that I have, I categorize novels into three kinds of novels, predicable, interesting, and dull.
The first kind of novel, predicable ones, as implied by name, is the novel that you can always know what will happen before you read it. Just like when I see the rosy beautiful sunset glow in the evening, I will know that the typhoon will come tomorrow. For instance, when the story is about the prince who has to beat the dragon and save the princess, I know that it is going to portray how dangerous it is for the prince to kill the dragon, and finally the prince will win and bring the princess back. Or when everything in the story seems perfect, like the husband and wife live a wonderful life, it always happens that the wife will suddenly be diagnosed as having a cancer. Then the husband will commit suicide and donate his organ to the wife. Things like that are always found in the predicable novel and that make the novel flat.
The second type of novel is the one that I like most. The plot of the story is interesting and attractive. Unlike the predictable novel, this kind of novel always gives me surprise. Once I read it, I will stick to it. Furthermore, the vivid and graphic descriptions in the novel make me feel that the things are just in front of me. The most important thing is its portrait of the roles’ emotions, which always show the roles’ inner struggles and feelings precisely. While I am reading it, I can learn a lot from it and improve my writing skill at the same time. To sum up, this kind of novel is so wonderful that I can’t put down the book, and even forget to eat.
The third kind of novel is very boring. At the very beginning of reading, I can tell that this kind of novel will make me doze off immediately. During the time that I force myself to read it, the idea to drop the book crosses my mind every five minutes. This kind of novel is full of doctrines and something like that, but its theories are ridiculous. I once read a book that tried to persuade people the human are the offspring of bears, and thus we have to worship them. I just can’t imagine what I’ll be like if my ancestor was a bear. Another book that overexaggerates the pollution of environment and overemphasizes the danger of living on the earth is also a boring book. This kind of novel just makes me feel like reading a bible.
Among those three kinds of novel, obviously I like the second ones most. In my point of view, novel’s function isn’t just entertainment but it can also teach people something. If a novel can provide people much to learn, it will be more worthwhile to read.

Revised composition---- Memories of Halloween

Memories of Halloween

There are many holidays in a year. Some of them are meaningful, but some are so boring that you can’t even remember them. If you ask me which holiday is the most unforgettable one in the past nineteen years, I will say Halloween without hesitation. Because on that day, I experienced the foreign culture and had a lot of fun.
Halloween is a holiday on the last day in October. Children on the day will dress as ghosts and witches. When I was ten years old, I join this fun holiday party, too. My English school held a party and every child had to dress like mummies or monsters. However, it was hard for me to decide which ghost I should be. I asked my mom to help me, and finally we came up with a good idea. I would dress as a student. After we decided on the theme, it’s time to gather the clothes I had to wear. First, we had to find a skirt and s shirt. Then, we had to find a vest and wool pants. We borrowed a vest from my mother’s colleague’s daughter and took out my winter uniform. It’s perfect for dressing as a student! Then Halloween was just around the corner.
On the very day that the party was held, I went to school with an elementary student’s look. All my friends dressed up themselves. One of them dressed as a mummy. I was really wondering how many bandages he used and how much time it took to wrap himself like that. The teachers in the school had already prepared a lot of interesting activities for us, and of course, they were all “fully armed.” Every classroom was decorated with a different theme and we had to play a game there. If we failed to finish the job, we would get punishment. I remembered in one classroom there was a castle and the teacher in it was a Vampire. Another was a log cabin and the teacher dressed as a witch. Still another was a circus with a clown.
The tasks were not very hard. We finished the task that the clown asked us to do－to juggle the balls for him, and found the differences between two articles as the Vampire asked. Nevertheless, we failed at the Death’s one. One of my teachers dressed as a Death, and the challenge we had to do was to find five small marbles hided in the classroom within five minutes. When we found the fourth marble, time’s up, which meant we would take the “cruel” punishment. We had to drink a glass of coke with noodles in it. It’s awful, but after all, it’s a punishment.
Now, the day had passed for so long, but I can still remember the funny looks of my teachers, classmates, and those fun activities. Every year when the Halloween is coming, I will recall these unforgettable things. I don’t dress as a ghost to knock my neighbor’s door and say “trick or treat” anymore. I can’t keep in touch with those classmates who used to play with me, but I believe the good memories will not fade away even if I become old.

Final is Devil

Final examination is coming!!! It's really a nightmare in every student's mind. I think Japanese will cost me most time to study. Then English Literature is the hardest one. There are so many okd English in it, sometime I just can't understand the meaning. Oh~ Please bless me high pass this semester.

Though the final examination 's coming makes me sad, it's also mean that the happy winter vacation is also coming! Chinese New Year is one of my favorite holidays in a year. I hope I can get a lot of red envelopes. To eat hot pot and play mahjong with relatives is also an enjoy. Anyway, to beat the beast of final examination and have a good year is my most concern!!

Recently we are reading Faustus. I think it's a funny story. Hope I can have a good time with it and get high score.XD

The end of 2008

Time flies so fast! 2008 was over. So many things happened in this year, including I became a sophomore, moved out of dormitory, and met my prince. To recall, those things that happened in this year seemed so close to me, but in fact, they had already been gone for a long time. My high school teacher told me to recall the happy time in a year when a year is over, and meanwhile check out if I have grew mature or learned more than last year. It always made me so sad because I always found I ruin a year and seem didn't learn more or become wiser. I don't know how to grow up indeed, but time wil not wait for me and it just passes. Did I grow up in 2008? Let time to tell me!

I had 4 days off. But what I did is just sleeping and sleeping and sleeping. It's a weird thing that it seems I never suffer from insomnia. I hope I will be energetic next whole week and beat the "final-exam monster."