A Beautiful Mind

The movie called “a beautiful mind” touched me deeply after I finished watching it. To be honestly, I cried in the end of the movie. Because the true love between John and Alicia move me a lot even though love is the forever theme in all the movies. Alicia is a good wife. She didn’t give up John when he was ill. Also there is no doubt that John is a genius in mathematics and he can use his brain to calculate the answers in math. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely original. He has a talent on math but he doesn’t get well with his friends except his roommate called Charles in Princeton University. John earns his fame when he successful works out the concept of governing dynamics, a theory in mathematical economics. We can know that John’s whole life is followed by his hallucination.He imagines a person who called Parcher ask him to take part in an organization and give him a new task to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers. And all these happen make John become  increasingly paranoid and begins to behave erratically. As we known, Parcher is a fictional figure in his memory and he doesn’t exist in the real world. I think the reason to John why he has hallucination? It is due to he overly devotes himself in mathematical and he loses in his real world. Finally he can not distinguish the difference between real and unreal. The most inspire thing in the movie is that John faces his illness bravely and overcomes so many difficulties. He tries to ignore his hallucination and says goodbye to Parcher, Charles and Marcee. He earns the privilege of teaching again and makes a great achievement in mathematics. He wins the Nobel prize although he still can not overcome his hallucination. The thing we sure is that john is insanity but we should admire John for the enthusiasm of mathematics.

Summary of "All Sorts of Pitfalls and Surprises"

The main idea in Jennifer Geer ‘s critical essay -“ All Sorts of Pitfalls and Surprises: competing views of idealized girlhood in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books”  about the author use different sources to analyze the difference between the adult and the juvenile perspectives of an idealized fairy tale in Lewis Carroll’s two classic children’s novels. One called “Alice Adventure in Wonderland”, another is the sequel of the first called “Through the Looking-Glass”. In author’s opinion, Carroll in this two novels suggests that both adult and children want power as well as comfort in their domestic world, but it seems never gonna happen in the real world. So the fairy tale is the important point to attract the reader to keep reading this book. Although this two novels are about Alice’s story, the tale and the frame in this two stories are different. we can make a simple conclusion by compared this two novels. The tale of Alice Adventure in wonderland allow all ages readers to recall their childhood and make them believe the story of “Alice Adventure in wonderland” can fulfill. But the Looking-Glass frames tend to tell the reader : there has another influential contemporary model of development can be show in the story. This development shows the childhood as an innocent state different from the chaos adult world. But the girls still one day will become a women. If they want to be happy in their life, they have to separated from their past and retain their childlike heart. Also Looking-Glass takes a view of innocent child and the adult fear the children’s growth. Because they know when the children grow up and they will lose the innocence. At the end, both this two novel’s narrative satisfies adults’ longing for an idealized childhood paradise while also the child readers.