KSI English Student Work

 By Daniel Santiago - September 2024   Image: Goodreads  Before I start, If you like Greek Mythology with some humoristic twist, Stickman Odyssey: Book Two: The Wrath of Zozimos by Christopher Ford is a book that will take your attention and might be liked. While i was reading it i found that it has a lot of humour that is in every page you turn, is like a mix of mythology and slapstick cartoon comedy, that talks about the adventures of Zozimos, the incredible unfortunate hero.  Know before i got more into it, I expect that the hero journey was a book for all type of people, adventure and fights, but i didn't expect that Ford uses humour on this book, not just to be funny also to joke about dramatic or important moments of the original odyssey, and the absurdity of the gods to Zozimos. This book is read as a constant series of humour of inside jokes about the chaos of ancient Greek stories.  What makes this parody so effective, is the constant exaggeration and i...

 By Mariana Uribe, 10/04/2024 When I heard about this book, I decided to read it since I had read the tempest, a play from the same author, before, even though I had expectations, such as a love story, a happy ending, shakespearean accent which I don’t understand and loads of comedy that I saw in the tempest that I thought would be there. After all, both books were written by the same author (William Shakespeare) and the tempest had a happy ending with a reconciliation between the protagonists, even if the book had comedy or tragedy, when I was about to read it, I asked myself: Can it be a happy and romantic love story like stereotypical romantic books have?  Before I had read the book, in drama, when practising a comedy play, a classmate and I were supposed to be the main couple and the teacher said: You guys should be like Romeo and Juliet, just without killing yourselves. At that moment I thought, is it a tragedy then? Does it have a sad ending like loads of k-dramas? Will ...

 Luciana Romay -  27/09/2024 When I was reading the Nancy Drew book I was waiting to find more horror in the short stories inside it. I ask myself, “that's the scary thing?” But at the end the only thing I found was an attempt at something scary.  The moment I chose to read the book I was excited because it is a classic book that so many people have read. When I started reading I found interest that inside, there are four short stories that are completely different between them in factors like; location and setting, but the only thing that they have in common is the ghosts.  The first short story is about Nancy, the protagonist going to Japan with Bess, George and her dad, a lawyer that is solving a fight between manga artists Matsumoto and Kenji about the rights of “Ghost Warriors” a manga. But something weird happens by the appearance of ghosts that look the same as the characters of the warriors, that makes Nancy get involved by investigating the mystery and solvi...