Entry 1_Bùi Thu Trang (09031364_14/10/1991)

Item 1

DREAMS

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow. 

(Langston Hughes)

+ Rhetorical devices: rhym (repeat “hold fast”, die - fly), symbol.

+ Message:  We can’t live without dreams.

Item 2

A GLASS OF MILK

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to

pay his  way through school, found he had only one thin dime left,

and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However,

he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he  asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked

hungry so brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied."Mother has taught us

never to accept pay for a kindness."  He said..... "Then I thank

you from my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only

felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also.

He had been ready to give up and quit.

Year's later that young woman became critically ill. The local

doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city,

where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he

heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light

filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to

her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He

recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room

determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special

attention to the case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.  Dr. Kelly requested

the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval.

He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill

was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it

would  take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she

looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill.

She read these words..... "Paid in full with one glass of milk". Signed:

Dr.  Howard Kelly.

Rhetorical Devices: Metaphor_ a glass milk (kindness)

Message: Kindness will never be forgotten.

Item 3

Rhetorical Devices:

Metaphor: the man who say “You, Salary, why are you not growing. All your friends are now growing up” (the worker); The shortest man (salary), three man other (the living of cost)

Message: Worker’s the living of cost is increasing except the salary.