Women Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros

In the story, a Mexican woman called Cleofilas marries Juan Pedro after her father's permission. She leaves behind her father and brothers and moves to a town in Texas. As time passes, she understands that her marriage is not like those in soap operas. Juan Pedro abuses her and converts from an ideal husband into rude one. By the way, they have a child and Cleofilas is pregnant for second one.
In the end of the story, Cleofilas runs away from this life because of missing her past.
In my point of view, this story is a clear example of marriages worldwide. First months of marriages are usually pinnacle of love, romanticism and respect. However, after problems such as debts, children, jobs raises, the bond between wife and husband gets weaker. Sometimes man may behave rudely to his wife and she tries to endure this as much as she can do.

The short-movie we watched on Monday

I can not remember its name but I am sure that if I watch that movie again, I am shocked in the same way. It was really impressive despite lasting only a couple of minutes. In terms of morality, the movie was quite questionable.
Question is that if you were a photographer during a war, would you involve in the battle and save someone who is almost going to be killed?
The answer that is given us in the movie is no. Photographer sees a girl who is pointed gun by terrorist. However, she could not do something, she hesitates for a while, looks into girl's eyes.
At the end of the movie, we learn that photographer takes photo of the corpse of girl. This photo wins "the best photo award" and photographer starts crying because of remorse. The movie concludes with this scene.
Obviously, what could she have done? If she had done something risky, probably she would have been killed because she was disarmed. I believe that this is part of her job and she has to accept its difficulties whatever it takes from her.

And of Clay are we Created, Isabelle Allende

This was maybe one of the most interesting readings I have read in English so far. Actually, I was expecting a heroic story when I read the first part. It turns out it did not finish with a happy end.
Even though this is a fiction. We always see people like Rolf Carle in real life. After terrible catastrophes like hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, there is a person or a group of people who hopefully try to save lives as many as possible. Maybe this is because of the past that they experienced likewise Rolf Carle. In the story, Rolf is confined in his past while trying to rescue Azucena. In his past, there were times that he was trapped and his life was in jeopardy. Isabelle Allende creates a perfect combination between Rolf's past and Azucena's situation.
I could not remember any of Turkish news reporters who involved in this kind of situation. Probably after the earthquake in 1999 some of them were featured but I was too young (five years younger than Azucena) to recall what did went on at that time.