Is love blind?

For me to say, it depends. To say love is blind means that two people fall in love without knowing each other's character clearly. From books and stories I've read, I saw some couples blind but some actually know each other clearly. For example, there are some pairs of lovers in the series of book, Harry Potter. In Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, Harry Potter was with Chou Zhang, but they don't know each other's characteristic. Harry likes Chou only because she is pretty and Chou likes Harry only because she is lonely. For this, I will say love is blind. However, the other pair of lovers, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are together. They had been friends for seven years and do know each other very well. They became lovers because of true love. In this case, I will say love is not blind, Ron and Hermione do know what they are doing.

Why Tell Stories in Song?

I remember a song which I first heard when I was still in 3rd grade., which is called "Lemon Tree" by Fools Garden.
The lyrics:
"I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast
I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how

I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree"

I remember all these in my head and never forget it is because I kept listening to the song. I really like the song and sometimes will sing along, and then I naturally remembered the lyrics. I think the reason why songs and lyrics are so memorable, is that we can sing along with it. And after singing a lot of time, people just naturally memorized the lyrics. When we forgot some parts, we sing it again in mind, and we'll naturally recall our memories.
Moreover, unlike stories and like poems, songs have lyrics and music that keep repeating, which make the song even more memorable.

Is Honor Worth Dying For?

I think it really depends on one's personality and settings. For knights in the medieval period, all of them would say that honor is of course worth dying for. If they think that their honor is trampled by other people, they'll fight till death only for that invisible thing. In modern society, people think and act differently. Some people think that honor isn't important at all. They will think that honor cannot bring them food, bring them money, bring them warmth or anything they need to survive. However, there are still some people who think that honor is very important. These people like officers and politicians think that honor is their dignity, and nobody should flout their dignity. People who have strong self-esteem think that honor is worth dying for, but others think that to live is more important than any other things. To me, maybe because I never meet any conditions that I need to die for my honor, I think that honor is important, but is not worth dying for.

Revealing Your Own Character in Writing

The Canterbury Tales was told in the first person of view, and the narrator, is Chaucer, who is also one of the pilgrims. Although Chaucer didn't introduce himself to the readers and he only appeared in the beginning of the prologue, it is told by first person of view, and the readers can actually find Chaucer's personal qualities from his descriptions of the other characters.

I think he is a honest person. He put his true feelings into the story and his descriptions. If he like someone, he'll praise that character by using beautiful descriptions and showing their good qualities.
For example, he described the Knight "He was a true, perfect gentle-knight. (l. 74)" which shows that he likes this character.
For an opposite example, he described that Oxford Cleric "But had a hollow look, a sober stare; (l. 299)", which shows that he doesn't like this character at all.
At the end of the paragraph about the Merchant, he wrote "To tell the truth I do not know his name. (l. 294)" which is very honest.
He also promised to use the same words as the person who told the tales so that the tales turn out as same as they were first told. (l. 750~758) He said this is to emphasize that he will tell the truth, which means that he doesn't want to be seen as a lair, and that he is truly honest.

Do men understand women?

There is a huge difference between men and women. Men are usually more active, careless, and stronger; women are usually more quiet, careful, and sentimental. I know that there are always exceptions in every case, but this is what most men and women are. I don't believe that the careless men can understand what women are thinking about. The ways men and women think are always different, which is uncontrollable.

Usually, women will care about little details that most men ignore. Small reminders like asking men to wear a jacket or to sleep early turns into annoying chatters when they enter men's ears. Men often think that women are too neurotic and bothersome and seldom figure women's care and feelings.

Because men are careless and women are too sensitive, men sometimes think that women are too annoying when they are asking where they went or what they did. Men often think that the details that women care about are unnecessary. Therefore, I don't believe that men can ever fully understand women.