Elementary Composition – Night

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A Quote

“No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness.”         -Graham Greene(1904-1991)

A week ago, I got a homework from practical English class. The homework is finding five quotes. And then above the sentence remains in my heart. Actully I can’t explain the quote exactly. I just feel the meaning, and I thought finally, human being is alone. Even though human has family, friend, and lover.


Mean Insect

Until now, too many people think an ant is a good insect. Even we express the ant as a symbol of dilligence in “Ant and Grasshopper”. But the ant might be troublemaker in our house or some building. There are some reasons. First of all, the ant can live house or building as well as soil. It’s start of problem. Then they spread so quickly. Once the ant comes into building, we can find the insect anywhere inside. How do they built their home? Here is the answer, and it is the second problem. Thet is they make hole on the wall for their way or home. They can pierce wood, concrete, even plastic. Lastly, worst point is that they can bite us. Especially, if a red ant bite us, it will be pretty painful. We’ve believed the ant is a good insect, but we’ve caught in a trap.


A Greedy Woman’s Story

Once upon a time, there was a greedy woman. She always wanted to jewelry for showing off. Then her favorite jewelry was diamond. One day, she found one fact that people commonly wear diamond from Africa. Because Africa is a lot of diamond. So she decided to go to Africa. She went around for finding diamond. After a while, she found a prohibition area. But she thought there will be too much diamond. At that time, she heard animal’s roar in her back side. she turned around. Then she found something. It was a lion, because she came into lion’s zone. She was scared. So she ran away. After several days, she got Malaria. During the time, Malaria spread easily, because there were lots of mosquito in Africa. Because she got ill instead diamond, so she was very angry. For a while, she kicked near steel cage. Unluckily, there was a tiger in the cage. So the tiger tried to attack the people including her. Lastly she didn’t get anything. She just got scary and dirty experience. She started to cry very sadly.


Let me Introduce my Father.

Let me introduce my father as a stingy person. My father is a very stingy guy. Here are several reasons. First, my father never go to movie theater. Because he always wait the movie until it comes out on TV. He thinks to go to movie theater wastes money. He doesn’t feel worth of movie theater. Second, he think eating out also wastes money. So my family almost doesn’t go out for dinner. If I or brother really want, we go only with mother. It’s very sad story. Finally, it will be funny fact. My father eats perfecttly watermelon except thin outer peel. I don’t know the reason exactly. I guess he might stint the fruit even though common people don’t eat that part. Then, actually, when I was a child, he taught me to eat watermelon like the way. As you know, my father is pretty stingy person. So, sometimes, I feel shy or unwilling about the truths. But I can’t hate originally, cause I’m his daughter.


I hate mosquitoes

Nowadays,mosquitoes become a huge problem.There are several reasons why I hate them. First, they make disease and spread it to people. When I was young, I always got a shot to prevent disease from Japan mosquito,and that disease causes some victims who sometimes appeared on TV at that time. Second, they always make noise. I hate that buzz especially when I sleep because I am afraid that they might invade my ear hole.I don’t want to be a deaf. Lastly, they get rid of my blood. When I was bitten by mosquitoes, that spot has always itchy,so it leaves a scar. I want that useless creatures to be destroyed!