A Critical Review of Humankind
Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind is one of the books that questions negative ideas about human nature and makes readers think. For many years, many people believed that humans are naturally selfish, bad, and only care about themselves. However, Bregman does not agree with this idea. According to him, human nature is not as dark as people think. Instead, people are more willing to help each other, understand others’ feelings, and do good things. In the book, the author supports these ideas with many examples from wars, psychology experiments, history, and biology. One of the best parts of the book is that it gives hope about humanity. Still, when I finished the book, I did not only feel admiration. On one side, I was happy to read it because it made me think differently. On the other side, some of the author’s ideas felt too optimistic to me. Because of this, the book was both interesting and questionable for me.
One of the strongest parts of the book is that it makes people question ideas about human nature that many accept without thinking. Today, we often see violence, murder, wars, and fights on television, social media, and in the news. After some time, people start to believe that the world is full of bad people. At this point, Bregman asks an important question: If humans were really bad by nature, how could societies survive for so many years? A big part of human history was shaped by helping each other, working together, and surviving together. From this side, the writer’s ideas are important and meaningful.
His ideas against the belief that humans are naturally wild are especially interesting. Today, when someone behaves badly, people sometimes say, “Did you grow up in a cave?” However, Bregman says that hunter-gatherer societies were not as violent as many
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I had already read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer before, and Huckleberry Finn was one of the characters in that book. Because of that, I became curious about him and wanted to read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as well.
After I started reading, I realized that I really enjoyed the humorous style of the book. The language and the dialogues made the story more interesting and enjoyable for me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884 and is considered one of the major works of American Realism. Unlike Romantic literature, Twain focuses on ordinary people, realistic language, and social problems. Through Huck’s journey, the novel reflects important issues of 19th-century American society such as racism, slavery, violence, religious hypocrisy, and social inequality. Twain also satirizes romantic adventure stories, especially through the character of Tom Sawyer.
The novel follows Huck Finn, a young boy who escapes from his abusive father and travels along the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped enslaved man. During their journey, they meet many different people and experience both humorous and serious situations. Through these adventures, Huck begins to question society’s values, racism, religion, and morality.
Huck also starts to test the religious teachings of Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. He does not fully accept everything that society and religion teach him, and throughout the novel he tries to understand what is morally right by himself.
Mark Twain mainly criticizes romanticism and unrealistic adventure stories. Tom tries to behave like the characters in books, while Huck thinks more realistically and questions these ideas. Through this contrast, Twain makes fun of romantic ideals that are disconnected from real life. Whether everything we learn
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
AnalysisDuygu ve Düşünce
Fistly,I want to express some doubts about the reliability of the narrator, Nick Carraway, who tells the life of the main character, Jay Gatsby, from his own perspective because Nick sometimes praises Gatsby and sometimes expresses critical thoughts about him. This situation shows that the narrator is not completely objective and tells the story according to his own feelings.
Secondly, we see the American Dream theme from the beginning to the end of the story. The American Dream is the belief that no matter which social class people come from, they can become rich and successful through hard work. This thought is Jay Gatsby’s main motivation. His obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan and his hope that she will return to him one day lead him to work harder and do everything he can to become rich. The novel conveys this hope through the symbol of the green light. The green light comes from Daisy’s house, and when Gatsby looks at it, he sees his dreams and hopes. So the green light shows Gatsby’s dreams and the future he wants, and it also shows how unreachable the American Dream can be.
In addition, Jay Gatsby organizes big and flashy parties to prove his wealth and to show it to Daisy Buchanan. However, this situation did not affect either Daisy or the other people. Because society was divided into two parts: “new money” (people who became rich later) and “old money” (people who inherited their wealth). Although Gatsby became rich through his own efforts, he was not appreciated and was even despised by society. Therefore, Daisy did not choose to be with him. This situation shows that for Daisy, social status and wealth were more important than love.
Finally, Jay Gatsby was left alone at the end of his life despite his struggles. Nearly nobody came to his funeral. This
Kumpanyaİnceleme
Kirke’nin hayal dünyasından sonra Sait Faik’in hikâye kitabındaki ilk öykü Kumpanya, tam da onun hayata bakış açısının yansımasıydı. Sait Faik yine küçük insanlardan, küçük olaylardan yola çıkarak yaşamın sıcaklığını, insan sevgisini ve paylaşarak yaşamanın insanı nasıl mutlu edip insanlaştırdığını anlatmıyor; adeta yaşatıyordu.
Sanırım bu sevimli hikâyeyi yazarken bir gezici tiyatro kumpanyasına katılmıştır. Yoksa kumpanyadaki insanları bu kadar canlı anlatması mümkün olur muydu, bilemiyorum. Anadolu turnesine çıkmak için kumpanya çalışanlarının canla başla uğraşmaları, yoktan var etmeye çalışmaları, insanı güldürürken bir yandan da düşündürüyor.
Yol parasını temin etmek için tiyatro müdürünün yıllar önce verdiği parayı geri almaya çalışması; iki arkadaşın ceplerinde para olmadığını bilmeden lokantada yemek yiyip hesap gelince birinin üzerindeki şık pardösüyü satması; Suat’ın, kumpanyanın yolda kalmaması için annesinin kötü günler için sakladığı altınları getirip teslim etmesi… Kumpanyaya katılan kadın oyuncunun sahne planları ve herkesi şaşırtan oyunu… Bunların hepsi tiyatro insanlarının yaşayabileceği şeylerdi. Ne abartı vardı ne gösteriş; her şey olduğu gibiydi.
İkinci hikâye Kriz, oldukça anlamlı ve bizden bir öyküydü. Bu hikâyede “İnsan mı önemli, yoksa insanın yarattığı değerler mi?” sorusu soruluyor. Maddi değerler mi korunmalı, yoksa insan hayatı mı? Okuru düşündüren, vicdana dokunan başarılı bir anlatıydı.
Son hikâye ise beni açıkçası çok sarmadı. İki arkadaşın akrobatik hareketler yapan bir kıza duyduğu aşk anlatılıyordu. Sirkte geçen bu hikâye, ilk iki öykünün sıcaklığına göre bana daha uzak kaldı.
Sait Faik sokakta, balıkçıda, yoksul insanın yaşamında ve insani duyguları yansıtmakta son derece güçlü. Bu bilinçli gücünü okura aktarmayı ve yaşatmayı çok iyi
Puan vermedi
Ahmet Mithat Efendi; He is an enlightened writer with a strong oratory who dominates all fields such as journalist, story and novel writer, philosopher of history and contributes to the enlightenment of the society he is in, transferring his knowledge and experience to all segments of society. He wrote about the renewal movement that started with the Tanzimat in his works and he became a guide by writing his writings for information purposes. He read a lot of French books, gained knowledge about literary movements and transferred them to his works with his own interpretation. Ahmet Mithat Efendi is the leading name in the works of the Tanzimat Period. He conveyed his existing experiences both in his novels and his works such as Müşahedat, Taffüf, Mesail-i Muğlaka, Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Edebiyat Yazıları 1 and 2, he became one of the most enlightened writers of Turkish novelism, and he deserved to be known as a novelist because he was mostly engaged in novels among prose genres. Ahmet Mithat Müşahedat criticized Emile Zola in his introduction titled 'Hasbihâl with Kâriîn' in his work titled Müşahedat and described the situation of Emile Zola, who wrote with a naturalist perspective of French society, from a critical point of view. Mithat Efendi wrote almost all his works to guide and educate people. And for this reason, according to him, transferring the events existing in the society as they are, instead of educating people, he was worried about leading them down the wrong path and therefore he opposed the Turkish society to read Emile Zola.
Ahmet Mithat is a socialist and devoted writer. His aim to educate the public has led him to address the problems of the people. In this respect, he is in a way the sociologist of his period. Naturalism is established through the
Aiden and Lucie
My second book from this author. First one was Good Spirits which was a magical and beautiful read. This book was romantic and also hilarious It is a cosy read and I feel like I'm soft and floating in the air.
Aiden works in a radio station hosting Romance Hotline. He is so scared of losing someone who he loves that he deliberately pushes people from his life and he ends up forgetting how to love someone. He is desperate when Lucie came to his life.
Lucie's daughter, Maya called Romance Hotline one night to take an advice about her mom. And everything started like that. Lucie got involved the show and together they hosted the Romance Hotline and slowly fell in love each other. However, Aiden was in denial most of the time. When he accepted he was in love with Lucie, I'm sooo happy because he found his magic All the time, they live next to each other but never had a chance to meet. They just orbited each other. Can you imagine how many chances did they miss before Maya called the radio station? Everything meant to be and in the end, they met and lived happily ever after.
