Reading Log (Short Story)

 

Identity:

Name   : Nur Ihsani Jasmine

NPM    : 222122021

Class    : A

 

Pre-Reading

No	Day	Titles	Why I am interested to read	Questions before I read
1	Friday	1. How not to worry 2. Mother’s heart 3. Count the blessings	1. I want to know how not to worry 2. I love the title 3. I feel curious about the story	1. How to not worry about something? Can we stop our overthinking? 2. What the writer means about a mother’s heart? 3. Should we thank God? Or just thinking about our ego?
2	Saturday	1. Two goats 2. Strong or Weak 3. The Kite	1. I want to know about the real friend 2. I’m curious about the story 3. I rarely heard someone wants to write down the story about the kite, so I want to know the story.	1. What happened to the two goats? 2. What the writer means about strong or weak? 3. What is the story about the kite?
3	Monday	1. Two friends and the bear 2. Hungry wolf 3. The ant and the grasshopper	1. I’m curious about the story 2. I’m interested in the title 3. The title made me feel curious	1. What happened with two friends and the bear? 2. Why is the wolf hungry? Then, is the wolf eat? 3. What is the story about the ant and the grasshopper?
4	Tuesday	1. In the zoo 2. Does the dog know 3. Stick to words	1. I’m curious when I saw the title “in the zoo” but the genre is comedian. 2. The title made me feel curious 3. I want to know the story in the beginning to the end of the story.	1. What makes me should laughing? 2. What should the dog know? 3. What is the meaning of  “Stick to words”?

 

Report

Day 1 Friday Date: 31 March 2023
Time	10.15-10.30
Title	How not to worry
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	A person, Friend of a person, or Vet.
Main points of the story	There was a person who has a friend. His friend thought about his cat too much but no action. A person told him to bring his cat seeking to the vet. But his friend was scared to take an action. He thought that the vet would not understand what happened to his cat. But in the end, he brought his cat to the vet.
New vocabularies found	Vet, subtle, coexisting.
Comments	This story is very simple but meaningful. Also, this story provides a good analogy that can pursue the readers. It relates to me who is always thinking about something too much.

 

Day 1 Friday Date: 31 March 2023
Time	12.48-13.15
Title	Mother’s Heart
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	A woman, her son.
Main points of the story	There was a woman in a hospital because she got Brain Tumor. Her son was always beside her. Then, his mother died within a few hours. Before he died, it was as if he had a premonition that he would die and his child would cry. Her mother always remembers that her child always catches a cold when he cries. So he left some cold medicine for his son, who would cry because he died. Before he died, it was as if he had a premonition that he would die and his child would cry. Her mother always remembers that her child always catches a cold when he cries. So he left some cold medicine for his son, who would cry because he died. Before he died, he left cold medicine for his son, because if his child cried it would cause a cold. That way, it was as if he had a premonition that he would die. But his affection never faded.
New vocabularies found	Trembled
Comments	This story is really short but very meaningful. Only 2 paragraphs but it has the deepest feeling. I want to cry when I read the story. It's become the best story I've ever read.

 

Day 1 Friday Date: 31 March 2023
Time	20.55-21.10
Title	Count the blessings
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	A boy, his father, the beggar.
Main points of the story	A boy wants new costly shoes. But his father was a worker and had a meagre salary. His father only bought cheap shoes made his son disappointed in him. Then, a boy met with the beggar who had no legs. He got enlightened. And he thanked God because at least he had legs and his father and mother were so caring.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	It's kind of a deep story. I think it's a really good story and I love this one. Only a simple story but it is meaningful.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 1 April 2023
Time	13.20-13.30
Title	Two Goats
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	Goats
Main points of the story	Two goats, facing each other on a narrow log bridge, got into a fight and fell into the stream. After a few days, one goat decided to sit down and let the other cross first, thus both of them were able to cross safely.
New vocabularies found	Savagely
Comments	I love this one because this story tells about friendship. A friend should help each other.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 1 April 2023
Time	13.30-13.45
Title	Strong or Weak
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	The teak tree, The storm.
Main points of the story	The proud teak tree in the forest was praised by a small herb, who warned him that too much pride can lead to his downfall. The teak ignored the herb's advice and continued to stand strong, even when it rained. However, when the storm grew stronger, the teak fell down and the herb stood straight.
New vocabularies found	Teak, herb, firmly.
Comments	This story is very good and has a lesson to be learned.

 

Day 2 Saturday Date: 1 April 2023
Time	13.52-14.12
Title	The kite
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	A person
Main points of the story	The kite was the most tiresome kite in the world, always wagging its tail, shaking its ears, breaking its string, sitting down on the tops of houses, getting stuck in trees, entangled in hedges, flopping down on ponds, or lying flat on the grass, and refusing to rise higher than a yard from the ground. It was pretty, with a snow-white face and pink and white ears, but it was not good and did not prosper. It stuck itself on a roof and would not move, so the children tugged and pulled and coaxed and cried, but still it would not move. Finally, the kite started and flew away over the field and over the heath, and over the far far woods, never coming back again.
New vocabularies found	Entangled, hedges.
Comments	This story is very good and has a lesson to be learned.

 

Day 3 Monday Date: 3 April 2023
Time	22.01-22.19
Title	Two friends and the bear
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	Mohan, Sohan, the Bear.
Main points of the story	Sohan and Mohan were close pals. They resided in a community. They then devised a strategy to travel to Varanasi. Through a thicket they went. In that jungle, there were wild animals. They saw a bear on the road. Sohan lacked empathy. In order to save his life, he scaled a tree. The tree was too tall for Mohan to scale. He collapsed to the ground. His respiration was held. When the animal smelled him, it believed he had died. He departed. Sohan stepped down. Thus both of them were able to cross the bridge safely.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	This story is very simple but meaningful. I love this one.

 

Day 3 Monday Date: 3 April 2023
Time	22.20-22.35
Title	Hungry Wolf
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	The wolf, The woodcutter.
Main points of the story	A wolf was once very ravenous. It wandered around looking for sustenance. But it was unable to obtain any. Finally, it came across a loaf of bread and some flesh in a tree hole. The wolf crammed himself into the opening. It consumed every morsel. It was a meal for a woodcutter. He was returning to the tree to eat lunch there. But he discovered that the hole contained a wolf rather than any sustenance. The wolf attempted to exit the tunnel after spotting the woodcutter. But it was unable. It had a bloated stomach. The wolf was captured by the woodcutter, who then beat it well.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	I think the story is good, but I couldn't get what the writer means. Because there is no moral story and I think this story has been written without purpose.

 

Day 3 Monday Date: 3 April 2023
Time	22.50-23.07
Title	The ant and the grasshopper
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	A grasshopper, an ant.
Main points of the story	A Grasshopper and an Ant meet in a field and the Grasshopper encourages the Ant to store up food for the winter instead of toiling away.
New vocabularies found	Chirping, corn, nest, toiling.
Comments	This story is kind of a deep story. It's a really good story and I love this one.

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 4 April 2023
Time	23.10-23.22
Title	In the zoo
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	Danny, his father.
Main points of the story	Danny and his father went to a zoo. They came in front of the cage a lion and Danny told his father that if somehow the lion eats his father how Danny can go home? And he asked his father to give him the route to reach home. Then, his father laughed.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	When the reader reads this story, maybe they will think that is only a simple story. But if we had a deep meaning, it is not about Danny's joke but it is about Danny's time with his father.

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 4 April 2023
Time	20.24-20.30
Title	Does the dog know
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	Pat, Tom, dog.
Main points of the story	Pat and Tom laughed heartily when Tom reminded Pat that dogs who bark never bite.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	It is a simple story but it entertained me.

 

Day 4 Tuesday Date: 4 April 2023
Time	20.30-20.35
Title	Stick to words
Sources	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.banaka.mohit.english.stories
Characters	Nancy, Jenny.
Main points of the story	Nancy and Jenny were sitting in a restaurant when Jenny said she was 16 years old, prompting Nancy to ask her why she always sticks to her words.
New vocabularies found	-
Comments	It's a simple story but it entertained me.

 

What character do you like most? Why

Mostly, I like a woman who is a character in the Mother’s Heart story. Her characterization can bring tears to my eyes. Even though the story is very short, it has meaningful. Also, after I read that story, I came to remember my mom.