Writing reflection of the story called "The poor man"

Name: Đặng Thị Quỳnh Trang

Class: 13E4

WRITING REFLECTION 1

I was impressed by the story in the English class last week which was called "The poor farmer". In this reflection, I want to give a brief summary of the story based on my remembrance from last lesson.

The story reflected the persistence of a farmer in asking Jade Emperor for the answers to the questions that he, a carp and a tree could not come up with. The three questions were why the farmer could not escape the poverty, why the carp could not turn into a dragon and why the tree could not bear fruits despite their hard effort. After a long and hard journey, in a dream, he met Jade Emperor and had a chance to ask the Emperor only two questions. Eventually, he decided to sacrifice his own question. Given the answers to their questions, the tree and the carp were very happy and expressed their gratitude towards the farmer by giving him a pearl and a chunk of treasure which were, according to the Emperor, the obstacles that prevented them from achieving what they wanted.

English: Carp Pond Used in the past for growing ca...

English: Ford next to the carp fishing lake.

Farmer City, Illinois

Since then, the farmer had had his dream of being wealthy come true.

The messages delivered in the story required us to think deeply in order to fully understand as they do not appear in the spoken words themselves. The first thing I learned from this story was the necessary, good qualities to achieve what we desire, which were mostly possessed by the farmer. Obviously, this man was so ambitious. He had an ambition of becoming rich and determinedly sought for the reason why he was still poor no matter how hard he worked. In his longest and hardest journey imaginable, the journey to the heaven, he appeared to be...