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The Student, By Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating: 7/10 I want to focus on the epiphany of Ivan through the story. I have first learned what epiphany is from the short story “ Araby ” by James Joyce. In  Araby , the boy realizes his limit due to poverty at the bazaar and his eyes burn with anguish and anger after realizing it. The epiphany of  The Student  is similar to it in the aspect that they both have a clear event which is the cause of the epiphany. However, they are different in the aspect of the protagonist’s emotions. In  Araby , the boy was full of love but realizes the cold reality(which means that his emotion was positive but became negative), but in  The Student , Ivan’s epiphany about the past’s link to the present makes his emotion positively. We can also find the stages of the hero’s journey in  The Student . About the fourth stage, which is meeting with the mentor, I thought that the mentor of Ivan is two widows. The widow’s reactions have caused Ivan to change his view of t

A Sound of Thunder, By Ray Bradbury (1952) Rating: 8/10 This book is known as the origin of “The Butterfly Effect”. It was very interesting to me because before I read this story, I knew what the Butterfly Effect is and I also listened a lot to the song ‘Butterfly Effect’ by 볼빨간사춘기, but I did not know the origin of it. The author explains the chain of the Butterfly Effect in the aspect of propagation and species spread. This was also very interesting because my minor subject is Biology. I could think about it more deeply based on what I have learned about the food chain and inheritance in Biology class. I think the message the author wanted to give to the readers through this story is related to the destruction of the environment. Humans kill countless animals, use too many resources such as water and trees, and throw a lot of trash for their profit. We should remember that Each of those behaviors can affect the whole Earth due to the Butterfly Effect. (165 words)