Journal Entry Title: Chronological Order

Even though the living things disappeared from the world, time still flies by, waiting for new life to occur. The house in this story may not have any residents living there, but the time and the features of the automatic house keeps moving. The house moves automatically with its scheduled time. As the machines in the house move as their schedule told them to, the time passes by in a chronological order. Nothing can be out of place since it is so orderly. Nothing can be mistaken when everything is controlled with computers. But unexpected events may lead to massive destruction. Just like this house in the story, the fall of the tree was an unexpected events, which lead to the collision of parts of the house. The computer never knows and never learnt to deal with this problem, because it was unexpected. Only preventing it from burning down the house wan't be good enough, the house may not repair itself. As the time goes by, the house wouldn't learn anything from its mistake, the house will collapse entirely. It is just the amount of time. Even though no one is there to see this happen, the house will work the same way it does, the same way it did before everyone left.

Journal Entry 34 Title: Irony

This story described a comfortable place for human to live in, a place that is orderly and organizes people's life. This house the story told us, was only one small part of the world. The war may not start from this comfortable place, the war may start in a dilapidated, abandoned poverty. The whole world may not be as comfortable and pressure-less like this house. Maybe only rich people were able to live in such houses. There are always reasons for people, countries, parties or religious groups to start meaningless wars. People on this planet never stop fighting, fighting for power, honor, money and for other people. But war can’t really stop anything, it can even cause more unwanted events. War is meaningful, maybe you think you are fighting for a reason, but at the same time, each people you kill may have his or her own dreams. The success that occurs for winning a war is the same as making your dream come true by killing other people’s dream. There is always a way to compromise with other people. Instead of killing each other, think of way to make this world better. Some people think that sacrifices are necessary for peace and freedom to come to people’s life. But that may not always be true. A lot of long lasting and stable peace comes from compromising.