Reading Response Article Review Example

In the first reading called “In Transit” reader is faced with a story, which can easily drive the reader to feel the same way, which the main heroes did at the moment. There were 3 main characters, which had brought different stories in a moment. The story lays in the Helsinki airport and begins, as old woman asked her husband what she was to him during all these years? Younger man thought that they are chained forever, because too old to change, and only a brute man would leave an invalid like her. When I read the story I had the same idea flow, as a young man, but I was wrong. Later on, when we skim thorough the story, we find out, that this man has been married once and left his previous wife. His wife was worrying a lot because, she might feel humiliation, she might feel fear for a marrying the man, some other woman had thrown away. At first you get different thoughts, that this man was awful person, for leaving his first wife, but later on we discover, that his first wife couldn’t concentrate on one person. She was nice for everybody, but she couldn’t just concentrate for a marriage. So, one day he left her without suffering. Our story continues, when a man said that he was in love with her and his biggest mistake was marrying her. He described the process of what a true love is: he explained why he loved that woman, with all shortcomings she got, he still loved her, the way she acted. From my point of view, that what is true love is, to love a person for not having a cute face, but for having a warm soul of hers. After this, woman asked him if how she can be sure that he will not leave her, as he did to the first wife, but the man made it clear that the answer is not needed. He kept silent at that time, it means that he would never leave her. The end of the story tells us, that our main hero is definitely in love with his second wife and won’t leave her, because that love was in the air. The every moment he spent with her remembered him all those moments, which passed through him like it was his first wife, the one he loved.
Gallant described Dr. Signor Vigorelli, as a man younger then Sandor Speck, slightly balder and neat like a mouse. Describing a man as a mouse, means that a man is a gentleman, which wait patiently for the purpose of coming, without saying any word, or having any conversation. Like a small mouse, which shows up, only in the moment it can. He was described as a fellow-Japhethite – a people who were descended from Japheth. Japheth was one of the Noah sons in Bible. Japhethite usually stands for the racial sense of being “white”, in other words being related to the Caucasian race. He was described as aristocratic man, as he wore expensive watch and had an Alfa Romeo keys near his cake plate, which were cleaned perfectly. In cleaned perfectly we stand, that this man ate the cake to the every last piece, without letting any pieces left on the plate. That what real gentleman do.

References:

Gallant, M. (1990). In Transit: 20 Stories (1st ed.). Penguin Books.
Gallant, M. (1990). In Transit: Speck’s idea (1st ed.). Penguin Books.
Poetrysoup.com,. (2015). Japhetite Definition | PoetrySoup.com Dictionary. Retrieved 28 January 2015, from http://www.poetrysoup.com/dictionary/japhetite