Writer: Natasha Ysily Rundstof
I g n I t e
Intensity
Glow
Necessary
transmit
enlighten
Ignite (v.) necessary action that everyone
should do, in order to glow their fire,
enlighten themselves and transmit those
fire to ignite others.
By Dusty Rof
ince I have been in this Faculty,
many have asked me, as well as my
friends, why study literature. At first, I have
to say there are thousands reasons for
different students to spend their four years
(or more) here, because advantages of
studying literature may vary for individuals.
And my answer to the question is because
literary study has these benefits for me.
First of all, to study literature makes
me more focused than to study complex
science or boring mathematics. One of the
main reasons is because it is fun! Reading a
novel is full of emotions. Empathy with the
characters makes acknowledgement. There
is no doubt why we spend a lot of time
reading literature in our hobbies. Moreover,
many literatures are less difficult than
science or math, for me. As a drama is more
relatable than abstract numbers, I am likely
to follow what is easier more.
Second, literature helps improve my
language skill. They say literature is where
the language is most beautiful. Reading a lot
of these works could help enlarge
vocabulary, because there are countless
words authors have chosen to describe
his/her world. Furthermore, those words can
be used in my own works or inspire me to
think of a creative way to express the
feelings. Thus, literary study can enhance
both reading and writing skills.
Finally, literature can teach us about
everything. As a story can be about
anything, there is no limit of knowledge in
literature. We can learn about love, politics,
religions, etc. This tends to make learners
more open-minded, as we are expected to
understand others and, of course, ourselves.
In addition, boundless knowledge may lead
to limitless careers. What I mean is we can
do whatever we can think of for a living..
This is freedom, as many would love to
have.
In conclusion, my reasons that I
chose Faculty of Arts are because I enjoy
literature and also want to learn many things
about languages and the world at the same
time. It may not be the best field for
everyone to learn, but this Faculty may fit
me the best.
Humans are creators:
Art, beautiful poems, music, rockets, electricity, Eiffel tower,
literature, wars, deforestation, global warming, capitalism …
It seems that while we introduce some new modern innovation to the world our
selfishness and ignorant also make us disasters.
Today, we, ignite magazine, want to ask for your opinions of “If you were God, what
is the only one quality of human that you want to add or eliminate the most,
why?”
Let’s see some of interesting answers we have here!
"I would like to diminish human primal
instinct. Well, I understand that it's important
for the existence. What I want to see is that we
give more empathy to one another, especially, in
hard times. We should share instead of take
everything to ourselves.”
-Khaopoon, Arts student
"Positive thinking system, we all should be more positive!"
-Cherry, Arts student
"Umm, the brain that will always think twice (or
three times or four times) before doing something
to someone. Like, if you want to slap your friend's
face your brain will ask 'will you like it if it was
yourself who be hit?" I think it will help people to be
more attentive and sympathetic."
-Famai, Law student, TU
“"I would get rid of the faith in God. Why?
People do a lot of bad things, violently, to
other saying to protect their God. But it’s not
often true, they just protect themselves; their
power, flame, wealth, etc. This fact is kind of
sad for me as a God. However, this may be
pointless, without God they will still find
other excuses.”
-Bow, Arts student, CU
How Classic
Stories
Should Have
Ended Ignite and unleash your imagination
This column will give you an alternative
ending of classic stories or stories that we
have studied from Intro Stud Eng Lit and
Read Anal Eng Lit
How The Most Dangerous
Game Should Have Ended;
or Real Hunter would never
be Hunted Adapted from the work of Richard Connell
Written by Rosaline
Rainsford reached the shore not very far from
the chateau.
He found one big shady tree surrounded by a
thick growth of other trees and high grass, so
he decided to take some rest for a while under
it. Being so exhausted but nervous, he
couldn’t sleep. He had to make a plan to
escape from this deadly island.
While he was lost in his thought, his hand
touched something strange on the ground.
It was a small hole and aside it lay a bunch of
grass lower than others.
He groped it and discovered that it was a
trapdoor covered with dirt and grass. He
opened it and climbed down the rope ladder
with curiosity.
Down in the hole, it was a small trench shelter
for human. A mattress with blanket lay on the
muddy ground along with some dried food, a
few gallons of water, and a small radio
transmitter.
He looked around to search for the inhabitant.
Suddenly, someone attacked him from
behind.
He turned against the attacker to protect
himself and declared that he means well and
that he was just finding a way to get out of
this island.
The man stared at Rainsford and then stopped
to apologize and introduce himself.
He is a police officer from New York who
had hidden here for a week to investigate.
His squad had been reported about missing
people lost at sea, so they detected the cases,
and their investigation led him to this
mysterious ship-trap island.
He suspected that General Zaroff was behind
this kidnapping and cruel slaughter, but he
had not found any evidence or witness to
legally arrest and prosecute Zaroff as
everyone had been killed.
Rainsford then revealed that he was one of
the victim and willing to be the plaintiff and
witness to testify against Zaroff. The police
officer then sent a message via his radio
transmitter to his squad in the US.
In the next few days, the police yacht arrived
at the island. Zaroff, without any alarm, was
arrested right away at his chateau.
Along the way to New York, Rainsford was
smoking his cigarette on the afterdeck while
recalling the past event that had just
happened to his life. He thought about his
former conversation with Whitney and his
feeling when he was hunted like an animal.
Everything on the yacht seemed in order on
the next morning. Rainsford enjoyed his
peaceful sleep until he heard the noise of
people shouting and their steps running
chaotically around the yacht.
Zaroff was gone.
He had killed the guard and had disappeared
with one of the lifeboats since the previous
night.
Rainsford afterward found the note he left for
him in the room he used to be locked up.
I congratulate you for your
victory, my friend. But a hunter
like me will never surrender to
be a prey.
How Jabberwocky Should
Have Ended; or Behind the
Scene of “Jabberwocky”
Adapted from the work of Lewis Carroll
Written by Peep
Is it good that a child got praised
because of violence he had done?
Is the monster monstrous by its nature or
human’s frame?
“ `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. ”
(Caroll)
In the wood, the eyes opened wide.
Clot of blood brings a new life.
The mask. Promise, they had made,
The ‘monstrous’ soul still survive
The Jabberwock yet has not died.
Bloody hands with papa’s praise.
Pure soul with malefic mind.
So pity, an innocent child.
Friday-before-bed Feeling
Friday night,
as I'm lying in bed
imagine myself floating peacefully
in the calm ocean water.
When the violent storm,
called ‘weekday’,
has passed.
I'll always put the headphones on
for my favorite songs
or I'll be reading
my favorite stories
to recharge my energy
and be ready to fight
the even bigger upcoming storms
called
'life.’
Reutartil
escaping the reality for a while
under the lamp-light’s the best thing
to do on Friday night, don’t you agree?
Reutartil
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too.
Thursday I don't care about you.
It's Friday, I'm in love.
Monday you can fall apart.
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love.
The Cure - Friday I’m in love
I was thinking about you again tonight, like when Friday was ours.
Splendid sky reminds me of your beauty.
Green refreshing forest reminds me of our conversation.
And blue wavy sea reminds me of you.
Tonight I was in beautiful scenery, and thinking about you so badly.
Photo&content: Natasha Ysily Rundstof
Film Review
By Lt. Aldo Raine
Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)
★★★ (out of 4)
Came out of nowhere, this stunning
mystery-horror, and, perhaps, comedy film
seems to success in surprising everyone
how far it can goes. Get Out is a very
creepy, very scary and very entertaining to
watch.
In the hands of comedian turned director
Jordan Peele, Get Out tells a story of Chris
(Daniel Kaluuya), the black man who is in
the beginning of the interracial relationship
with his beautiful young white girlfriend,
Rose (Allison Williams) and he is going to
meet her family for the first time. Although
they are aware of the fact that he is black
and feel uncomfortable surrounded by all
white people, everything seems to be fine.
Until he starts to realize there is something
unusual going on under the surface.
A famous comedian known as a one of the
two icons of a popular online show Key &
Peele that went viral around the world,
Jordan Peele said that sometimes he feels
awkward when he is an only black around
and he wanted to tell a story from a
perspective of someone who dealing with
that through his movie.
In this film, Peele does well in combining
the taste of psychological horror with the
sense of dark-humor. He understands the
seriousness of this kind of stuff and, also,
he is able to find the considerable humor in
it. Although the film has some common
elements in stereotypical horror genre, such
as jump-scare, something suddenly pop out
in front of you and the feeling of being
watched, it also deal with issue of racism
that still exist in society till today. (The title
‘Get Out’ sends the message about being
racist and social hierarchy. The scene that
the character says this word is genius.)
Unfortunately, the film seems to rely too
much on the sound editing, which is pretty
well-done, but in some scene it is just too
much that I felt shocked and scared not
because of the thrilled atmosphere but for
the loudness of the score. In addition, the
plot, even was well-written, might be too
predictable for people who get used to
horror and plot-twisted films
Apart from the movie itself, the movie
trailer appears to be the worst part of the
whole thing. It totally spoils almost every
major scene in the movies, which supposes
to be surprise and fresh. Moreover, they
even cut some scene from the trailer out and
I really hate when they do this. It is very
confusing. If you want to enjoy this movie,
I recommend you not to watch the trailer at
all and go straight to the cinema.