Joyce, J. (1914). Dubliners. Eveline. ESL-Bits.

I have a friend who in his 40's, dealing with the idea of losing audiences for his music, decided to follow our character path of today, Eveline from James Joyce's serie of stories Dubliners, short narrations about people living at Dublin, to see if he could approach new generations through new musical proposals, so he left all constructed at London and runaway, as a teenager, behind an american woman he just had met, and supposedly he was in love with.

Real border about James Joyce is he rather to follow a teenager's depth insights, a young woman, and put on her shoes to discover her naive feelings toward Frank, the sailor she is supposed to meet at Buenos Ayres to get married, as if he might have been practicing actual actor's studio's method for launching an actor's career.

I almost forgot writer was a man, while listening the woman reader, who prints a nostalgic, and out of time atmosphere to the story.

Sucess of the story has to do with a detailed description of the challenging point in which Eveline, nineteen, with two envelopes at her hand, she had wrote to his brother Harry, and her dad she's living, reviewed every single situation from her childhood; how she grew up with the kids at the streets; even more, reflexion on changes in the city's build; times working at the stores, same as taking care of two children; thinking about of provoking envious to the woman that had always yelled at her ... and main, thinking about her mother who had died, asking her for taking care of the family as she did. (Joyce, J. 1914).

As she can't stand her violent drunk father; even remembering her favorite brother has died as well; sorrying for her other brother yet working … shuffled, while seeing a picture of her dad's childhood's friend, who had left to Canada, embed at the room… she just appear from one paragraph to next at the train's station, hurrying her tickets to jump over the vehicle, facing opportunity forward, but … she listens a phantom's voice, calling her by her name, telling her to come. (Joyce, J. 1914).

End. I did not know if phantom's voice was Frank calling her from Argentina, or if otherwise, she was so nervous about leaving without permission that she could imagine the situation, because she knew she was doing something wrong.

A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand:

“Come!”

All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped with both hands at the iron railing.

“Come!”

No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish.

“Eveline! Evvy!”

He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition. (Joyce, J. 1914. p.1).

Joyce portrayed the teenager by observing her behavior, emphasyzing on her fear and foolhardy attitude, and letting us get touched by a “magnifique” story. I love it.

Joyce, J. (1914). Dubliners. Eveline. ESL-Bits. http://eslbits.net/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/Eveline-Dubliners/index.html

More about Gaiman's speech.

 I was thinking about our social programs, the ones to be launched, to be constructed from my idea of using storytelling to weave nets between citizens, of how stories can harder social estructures in order to work as a team for development. I'd like to talk a bit about Neil Gaiman as a writer, I see him as a survivor from a war in both stories I read, so I presume this attitude rides him to a scapism position he was fortelling at the article. As narrator, always in first person, he acts like a post-modern observer, launched, I guess, from his expertise in journalism. I had this feeling of listening a Star War chapter, and I can share his blindness, as Luke Skywalker character, with this "if I would've known ..." while using a huckle onto his eyes attitude. Surely it's better to know than not to get to know. I think he tells the story unable of seeing the subtle traces behind. Then, he writes 30 years after, at one of the stories, as saying "... Oh, I see ...". He never understands what is happening at the moment, he writes with the idea of experiment with different author's styles, and as if he could travel in time. As a result, he reconfirms the article, characters discovered the whole intrigue but can't do nothing to change the resolution of the story, maybe because they are dealing with politics and politizians' issues. "characters discover the whole intrigue but can't do nothing ...". 

P.S. Using stories as a relief for society. Thinking aloud. 

I'm talking of my idea for a business plan. Readings have done so always ...

Here in the reply Lucy, you can add the citation for the quote you have cited and the reference can go below. 22 words 

"If I would've known" is not a quote from the text, it's a sentence I constructed to explain the feeling. I did not paraphrased any sentence from the texts.

Hi Lucy, I can see that you cited below from the article; if so, please add the reference after the quotation marks and add the last name, year, and page number in a bracket. 34 words

 Let's see: "... using storytelling to weave nets between citizens, of how stories can harder social estructures in order to work as a team for development." (Gaiman, N. 2013, p.1). Gaiman, N. (2013).

 Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-librariesreading-daydreaming

Luke Sky Walker's example is my observation, I was working on Huckle Berry Finn character once, from when I went to the movies. I uses this kind of examples with kids. I was calling people from Comuna 13 to scholarize, they couldn't be as Luke Skywalker, they had to learn, ¡it's not only attitude! That they were big enough to understand going back to school importance. 

Nooo ... again. "... using storytelling to weave nets between citizens, of how stories can harder social estructures in order to work as a team for development." (Gaiman, N. 2013).

Good work here Lucy! No need for the initial though (Gaiman, 2013, p. 1) 14 words

I'm thinking that with internet we are reading a lot more than ever, only thinking about how easy results to get to the information you need from your home or office.

I used to read a lot when child, mainly comics from newspapers, the local one had a section with selected stories for kids. Then, I had to put my hands on everything, I read the long plays' covers, the drug labels, every bilboard on the streets ... until I discovered outdoor activities, and forgot I like it, I was around 7 years old. At nine I choose movies as a hobby, and never return home. Even reading to my kids was kind of a lazy activitie, we went to the zoo, to the movies, to skate, even until I was 40. Lately, I re-enter reading through the teather practice, and working on scripts for short movies. Thanks for this opportunity of reading again some more stories. I apreciate it.

Hi Abubaker! Thinking on development, I did not see a paragraph about technical books, this ones which leads to engineer anything. Reading about STEM programs, here in Colombia, a kind of places where kids go to learn about robotics, there are many projects which would leverage people's life quality, and that solve everyday problems. I read lots of books that kind, how to this, how to that ...

 

Christie, A (1927). The shadow on the glass.

 After reading all stories, listening to the audios, I hardly could understand stories, then rereading twice the one I prefered, writting on advance every single aspect of the narration, I chose this sentence as the main one for the story: "If I were you, I should go to her now", concluded Mr.Quin character, to a muttered Captain Porter, from The shadow of the glass's story (Christie, 1927, p.2). I guess you may think it is weard, for simpleness of the sentence, but this could be the first time in history of short stories, this sentence would appear published around the word. For nowdays, it could be seen as a cliche one, on almost every tv serie, or on romantic movies. Then, I notice this story is profoundly modern, first part of the story, I relate to "Murder she wrotes' tv serie", a 1988's released English production, while listening the way dialogues were pronounced. Then, I notice about the construction of the story this fluid world, that make you think of tv shows as Allie McBeal, I would've choose a visual format like that to put on scene this story. As reader, you feel situations are already in movement whenever the story starts, then, you got to meet characters from what they say, and act, as story has being constructed over the dialogues, all we get to know of what is happening comes from the relationships between characters. It mixes their particular point of view, like subjectives, from the landscape, same as whatever idea that crosses through there mind, as well as, their feelings, and behaviors. Text appeals a movie script, but actually is not organized as that, writer uses parallel structures, same as a kind of transition sentences that I could imagine as fade outs and fade ins, for instance, at the end of one of the paragraphs, the character made a reflexion of a dead body, then, you as a reader have to wait to figure out the thinking, then, author decides to break the silence bringing up an inesperate Police officer's dialogue, as saying, Police is already here, it might pass have an hour, forty five minutes from one situation to the other, and for reader it happens in a wicked of eye. That's probably, one of the main resource use by television or cinema, the way scriptwriter selects main actions to delivering story to audiences, it is not a currently time, they skip situations that would occur at a normal day, but that are not important to the core of the story they are trying to narrate. Other characteristic of these stories is that author must know, must figure out the whole ensemble before writing in order that all the pieces match while trying to resolve a murder. So I had to read this story twice, even three times because I was losing details of the drama. This story hides information, the same that opens picks of what characters are thinking or feeling as in a real life situation, so here we have a character, who maybe is not the one any suspect as being the main one, who is secretly in love toward a woman they met in Egypt on winter, and that the whole group of friends re-encounter during a party at a country house. The ones in the trip occult whatever issue that happens during that journey, one of the characters has just got married to a young lady, whenever every one was expecting to has got married to the woman this shy character likes. So, everyone is worried about a rude jelousy situation caused by hidden relationships between them, so story is like a big gossip where everebody manifest their more kind of daredevil thinkings, and suspicions, in parallel with a surrealistic story about a ghost in the house, which appears on a window everytime any gets jelows, and that might suspect about the motives of a murder that has occured, two people, the young bride, and next younger guy in the place, appeared shooted into a garden, after the other party's guest had listened two shots from a firegun. Behavior of characters is funny because they come and go into the situations without any order, their movements don't have any common sense, they love like flyes, it's a party. So, near the end of the story, and after the Police coming, an inspector, enters on scene a kind of a private investigator, writer broughts from the sleeve of her jacket, to solve the crime from a brief of the situation. I discovered, looking for the year of the publishing, this "Sherlock Holmes" alike character is the main character of a serie of stories, writer wrote for a magazine in 1927. In five minutes, he discovers the criminal was the jelaous broom, that he shooted from the ghost's window, driven by the tale they have being telling all two days of the party time. We knew from the character that he was a professional hunter, so he shoot a first shot that crosses the two victims, from the woman's back, to the man's breast, just one shot, then, he shooted a second bullet just to prove his expertise at shooting, so he destroys the woman's earing. He lasted less that two minutes to cross the place and appears at a different house's room. After all, investigator conclude that the lady they met at Egipt on winter, should get acknowledge of this guy's jeloussy, so that her feelling toward our shy character might be genuine, so he urges the guy to hurry up for the woman. It's so funny because the whole situation is unexpected, that you would enjoy every single situation at the story. I do hardly recommend to read this Agatha Christie's piece of cake, I laughed too much.

Christie, A (1927). The shadow on the glass. Esl-bits. http://eslbits.net/ESL.English.Listening.Short.Stories/The.Shadow.on.the.Glass/02/default.html

Pashley, J. Hangovers.

 Ok. I decided for the "Hangovers" one, because I wanted to read something more actual. It is like a kind of teenager's statement, a psychological one, the kind of written piece you write thinking mom and dad are stupid. It is related to several topics, one, maybe she's not a girl but a boy who once was raped by his second grade teacher, who was really a man, attired like a woman. Author has this kind of idea, he/she is being followed all over by this situation at school when she refers to the calling situation, the letters not neat over the test paper, being followed by decades just because she had forgotten to turn out the phone, and whatever (Pashley, 2007); she, she describes herself as a girl, has been taking drugs, a milkshake, which she refers like "That taste like strawberry milkshakes, fake and pink" (Pashley, 2007, pag.1). "Fake" because it isn't actually a milkshake. There's the suggestion she has been pull toward prostitution, she needs the stuff to attend the clients in front of McDonalls, she might smoke, and was asked to dirty sexual behavior with a dog. At the end, she had to go to the hospital, she relates the scene, and as if she were asking for help, she states: "If you look deeper, there's a girl, sick from a milkshake, and a dog who limsp" (Pashley, 2007, pag.1). She's feeling nausea, she is asking reader to look deeper into this problematic. As reader I found the story challenging, trying to figure out what had happen, when I was to write the brief, I stand up as a mother, first word, O.k. maybe we are having a trouble with this kid.

Pashley, J. Hangovers. Matchbook, from author's stories collection States, 2007. https://www.matchbooklitmag.com/pashley

Chekhov in the ELS Classroom.

 I have read all about how to use literature at the ESL classroom, in Ninah Beliavsky's article, named Discover the unknown Chekhov in your ESL Classroom, from the first author's insight related to her own emotions while listening to her mother's reading aloud (Beliavsky, 2007), to the purposes of all of these educational practices, which are “... to educate and broaden our student's horizons as we teaching english as a second language” (Beliavsky, 2007), as a mean of enhancing culture through literature, as an “cross-cultural exchange” (Beliavsky,2007). Briefly, this practices consist of reading; getting identified with characters; asking question about the story; disscusing into the class about main social problems described at the readings, in order to make a further analisys; to create a hipothetical ending for the stories, without having reading it yet; to summarize the storie; to create a new and original story following grammar, syntaxis, rethorical paths from author's; and finnally, to “write an expositive essay discussing the views of society in general, the main characters, and the main issues in these stories (Beliavski, 2007). She did not talk about the story I choose but it is more or less the same, here we have a main character which is “The begger”, as told at the name of the story, who lives drunk, but who once he found a guy who proposed him to work picking wood once a month for him, and in the mean while, he left drinking. Chekhov, always writes about street characters, and his stories are funny because of the endings, in this case, whenever the helper found the begger at the cue of a cinema, the begger refered to a pretty woman he met while doing the job for the guy, and that he was greatful because of his love toward her, he left drinking. Helper did not have any merit about. So, what Dr.Ninah Beliavsky tells, and that inspired me about her method, it's about her habit of collecting “books, music, opera, art, young adult novels by american writers” (Beliavsky, 2007) for being used at her classes, selecting them from worldwide literature, looking for her students to recall, same, from their childhood, and many times readings in their own “native tongues” (Beliavsky, 2007), to create a human conexión, and motivation for learning, since students can recognize street people from them. So, what she explains is that Chekhov constructs “vignetes of real life” (Beliavsky, 2007), with emphatizes with student's daily life. Before I read Dr. Beliavsky's article, I did my insights from my own experience, I'd like to share, trying to complement what she says about teaching a second language, and which explains my interest in the topic she writes on. First of all, it's too different learning native language from your own mother that going to school for it; then, I thought of the homeschooling method; I think it is easier to learn new vocabulary by doing hands on activities, or following listening/reading/writing/comprehension processes on a topic you're interested in like, for instance, training a dog; a second language's learner picks up more words from kids' documentaries, like, “horses are mammals, have four legs, and every single issue about how a pony gets to life; there is a relationship between emotions and learning; the way how mom expresses herself while reading aloud is important for gainning the taste of the language; a baby can keep seeing his/her mouth and face expressions for hour; babies learn the accent from everyday use of a word; babies can ask backward; babies can repeat mother's manners as well; loving and caring reinforce confidence while using new vocabulary; Teenager are the worst new language's teachers, they don't have patience, and make you feel stupid. They never have time either, they won't push you to a party if you did not understand, they won't repeat; It is much better go for a grandma, she will correct any mispelling and pronounciation issues; going into a baby's path of learning a second language lets you catch the ABC's, the fundamentals, the accent, and stories form part of this method; most of MBA's people can't describe their childhood because of lack of vocabulary and experiences, it makes social communication harder for them; you can find reading aloud stories by a mom at You Tube, often, some of the readers have lovely voices too, so you get engage with the way the reader-mom point out with his/her finger on the drawings, so you can learn first hand vocabulary, pronounciation, aside rythms and patterns of the new language, without translating, which is an adventage, because it is easier for the brain to acquire the new vocabulary without changing archives at the memory, you even can become a translator.

Beliavsky, Ninah. Discover the Unknown Chekhov in Your ESL Classroom. The Journal of Aesthetic Education.Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 101-109 (9 pages). Published By: University of Illinois Press.

Radio.

Radio has been used in Latinamerica as a way of re-stablish order at problematic neightborhood and regions, as well as, an strategy for inclusion and coverage on education matters. It was brought by religious communities, mainly catholic and reformist ones, Calvinists, Luterans. Some comunities worked on media leaded by Baptistes. Nowadays, kids at the neightborhoods uses internet, mainly at places ocupied before by Medellín's cartel, from La Perla neghtborhood at Panama city, to some neighborhoods at Buenos Aires in Argentina. Kids learn about using their native language, to be creative people, how to solve problems, and how to work as a team. This century, they receive foundations from social officers, and cooperation resources for their projects. Government uses communitarian telecommunications to organize every issue at the neighborhoods like public services, water, energy, food and water distribution, vacination and health. Through the radio online, people shows their cultural proposals too. Radio has been a great resourse for decades, and a company for listeners. Nice review of the story.

Melendez, A. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd.

 I picked Ana Melendez'story: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd. I decided for this one because I had more information about Cuba's than of Haiti's historical situation. Every reading is harder than the last one, I loved it because I had to gather the news behind the cover, hopefully I'm learning. Here we have a kind of a journalistic chronic with a main character named Máximo, who started with a futuristic comic sentence, dated on 2005, actually I don't know if I catch the idea of the story: "let me tell you, my friend, I can feel it in my bones. Any day now Castro's gonna fall" (New York Times, 2001), and then, he ended with a further appreciation of reality, it might be a joke, but I dude, in which he notize there is a Cuban dog driving a rolls royce, a guy he might have known in Cuba, and expressed to his friends that it might be an after Castro's day: "Let me just get it out for Christ's sake" (New York Times, 2001). As they are always playing domino, he can't control emotion, he even loses the pieces down the table, as he realized that something has changed at the Island, but he never knows, he only can tell local news at 8th street in Miami, the place he lives at, since they came to the US with his wife Rosa, who died. He might be even on engagement with other women, after that, but always in love with the Island, he is always nostalgic about. Instead, Máximo thinks Cuban youth is unbelivable, and told a joke about a kid who wanted getting to be a tourist when grown, as if he were previewing this challenging moment during the story.

New York Times for the web (2001). Melendez, A. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. A Grove Press release. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/24menandez.html