Reading log 5

On Monday I read an article called “Does lightning ever strike twice?” It was a short article in which I learned that lightning can strike twice or even three times in one place. For example, in a year in the Empire State Building, lightning strikes about 25 times. Another interesting fact that I learned is that a man named Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning 7 times in his life! And in America, people are more likely to die from lightning than from a hurricane or tornado combined. Sad enough(

Comprehension questions:

1. When the lantern was lit, Jill found herself blinking and staring at a dense crowd. They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot high to stately figures taller than men. All carried three-pronged spears in their hands, and all were dreadfully pale, and all stood as still as statues. They all were so different, but in one respect they were all alike: every face in the whole hundred was as sad as a face could be.
2. Puddleglum thought, “Well! This is just what I needed. If these chaps don’t teach me to take a serious view of life, I don’t know what will.” He hopes that the crowd can help him to be serious.
3. It was worse for Jill because she is afraid of darkness and closed space. She felt that when the cave became narrower.
4. It was full of a dim, drowsy radiance so that here they had no need of the Earthmen’s strange lantern. The floor was soft.
5. They passed dozens of strange animals lying on the turf, either dead or asleep, Jill could not tell which. These were mostly of a dragonish or bat-like sort. Puddleglum did not know what any of them were.
6. He was far bigger than any of the giants, and his face was not like a giant’s, but noble and beautiful. His breast rose and fell gently under the snowy beard which covered him to the waist. He is old Father Time, who was once a King in Overland,”
7. It was a queer city. The lights were so few and far apart that they would hardly have done for scattered cottages in our world. But the little bits of the place which you could see by the lights were like glimpses of a great seaport.
8. He was bald and handsome as well. Also, he was looking like Hamlet.
9. It said “Though under Earth and throneless now I be,
   Yet, while I lived, all Earth was under me.”
   It had been cut because some of the stones were carried for new buildings and some of them were filled up.
10. He said that he will be a king in the future. But now he dependent on the queen. They are getting married soon. Also, he says that she is of divine race, and knows neither age nor death.

This weekend I finished reading “a Christmas Carol” and can share my feelings after reading it. I really liked this book, even though it was very short. In the fourth chapter, I learned that many people were happy about the death of Ebenezer Scrooge and when he found out about it he realized that he was too terrible a person in the past. In the last chapter, when he woke up, he was incredibly happy that he was still alive and the weather was beautiful and everyone was happy. On the street, he paid the boy to take a large Turkey to Bob, donated a large amount of money to those who refused earlier and went to celebrate Christmas with his nephew. The next day, when Bob came to work, Scrooge raised his salary. Since then, Scrooge has become the kindest and most generous person in the city and has earned everyone’s love and respect. For little Tiny Tim, he became a “second father”. The boy did not die of the disease, because Scrooge has changed and changed the future of the people around him.