Is it really difficult to be a ‘Good’ hero?

Have you ever imagined that you become an invisible man? I'm sure that you've once dreamed of having a supernatural power such as flying, teleportation, psychokinesis or something else cool. People have craved and imagined them for a long time. There are a bunch of movies dealing with special abilities. There are two movies, which impressed to me so much. One is Jumper(2008), story of telepoters called Jumper. The other one is Hollow man(2000), story of the mad scientist who successfully becomes invisible by science experiments, just like Griffin, the main character in this book.

The story of The Invisible Man begins with the appearance of a stranger putting a bandage to his entire body. People simply think that he might be hurt bad, so he tries to hide his body. However, while the man stays at an inn, he is getting more and more hysterical everyday. There is a sound of clinking bottles and murmuring of voices from his room, and some mysterious events are happened in the town. By the time people feel suspicious about him, he unwraps the bandage and announces that he is invisible as a result of success of his experiment. The man disappears without paying his room charges.

The invisible man finds Marvel, a homeless man, on the street and threatens him to follow his order. He forces Marvel to steal money or food by providing help. The invisible man's unpredictable and uncontrollable crimes become known to people. One day, Marvel runs away from the ruthless man and tries to hide himself in a bar. The invisible man follows Marvel to catch up with him, but he gets hurt from the people at the bar and makes a near escape. The man trespasses on Dr. Kemp's house and asks for help. After Kemp treats his wounds, the man reveals himself Kemp's old classmate, Griffin. Griffin tells the story how to become an invisible man and his plan to make a terror. Kemp judges Griffin to be very dangerous, so informs on him to the police.

Policemen secretly come to arrest Griffin. As we all know, the main character is never caught by the police so easily. Anyway, Griffin manages to slip out of the house with injuries. Referring to Kemp's advice, both police and people try to isolate Griffin from any help. he can not sleep well or eat food, because people bring dogs to find Griffin and watch everywhere. Griffin loses his temper and back to Kemp's house to attack him, but he is finally caught by people, and he meets a tragic end.

I had two questions when I finished reading the last page of the story. The first is, why the man who has special ability always use it to commit the crime? He could gain both fame and wealth by using the ability, like Iron Man or members of Fantastic 4. The second one, which sounds rather weird, is why didn't Kemp-or whoever was close to Griffin pour flour to him? Then, they can easily find where he is even though he is invisible..

Like the invisible man in this book, or the mad scientist in the hollow man, Many people dream of having supernatural power. No one says that is wrong desire to have. However, when the power happens with violence and unethical act, we can say that is completely wrong. The 'power' could be money, high social status or something else, not only the supernatural power existing in our imagination. I guess the author wanted to tell us that the one’s desire to rule the people by the power would end in tragedy, after all.

It could be valuable for you to try what you don't like before!

What do you have in mind when you hear the word 'reading'? Well, two years ago, I would say "yuck!" or "eww!". Fortunately, I don't feel the same about reading now. Can you believe I enjoy it and even recommend my friends to try to read? It was a 3-month-class, which gave me a chance to change my mind about reading.

I was not a sort of person who likes to read a book before I took a class with Professor Nelson in my sophomore year at University. Nelson welcomed us to join his 'exciting reading class', but his words were not so trustworthy because of his serious look. During the class, students should read at least three books in a week and made book reports with those books. That is to say, students should tried hard to read and read, so that one could score higher than others in the class.

Honestly, I didn't enjoy reading at all because I usually thought reading is one part of study. Obviously, reading English books is helpful to improve one's English skills. This is true. However, it could be a burden when it turned to a mandatory thing, especially for the student who have to do it anyway. Well, I thought I made a bad choice and felt sad to be deceived by his words. It wasn't so exciting, and the class gradually became a kind of competition just like 'Who read the most this week?'.

Of course, I also eagerly participated in the competition. I mainly chose books, which had easily understandable stories regardless of  their genre. It was my strategy to read as much as possible in a short time. After reading more than twenty books, I naturally discovered my taste in reading. I felt bored when I read love stories, growth novel or SF genre. Also, I hoped them to be end soon with those stories. Otherwise, the genres such as detective, crime, mystery and horror were quite different from what I mentioned above. They made me feel nervous during reading and curious about the next story. It was the starting point for me to enjoy reading itself.

After knew exactly what my taste was, I could save time choosing books to read. I mastered the series of Sherlock Holmes during the class. There were Agatha Christie, Edgar Ellen Poe, Stephen King and so on, my favorite authors. I didn't get stressed by reading, because it was not an assignment to me anymore. One day, professor Nelson kindly asked me to try other genre after he reviewed my book reports. I understood what he meant, but I kept reading in my way. I believed that enjoyable reading was only exciting reading to me! At the end of the class, I could see a lot of books on the list in my book report. I remembered the score was great, too.

It's been two years since I took the class. Now nobody forces me to do so, but I visit school library to borrow short stories books. I can't say I'm a bookworm, but reading becomes one of my favorite things. I am truly thankful for that. What if I did not join the Nelson's class? What if I gave up reading in the class? If so, I'm sure that I still have a bias against reading: It is such a boring thing. I learned that judging something that I've never tried before is kind of dangerous behavior. It deprives people of opportunity to find one's precious part of life. I would be aware of it, and try to take a positive view of everything I meet.

Don"t you think we need a delivery service here at school?

I bet, if you’re a person who graduates or attends a university, you must have ordered food delivery service on campus more than once. In Korea, it is a common scene to see students eat Chinese food, fried chicken and others, which are delivered to school. However, all students at BUFS couldn’t do that after relocation of campus to Namsandong. I am truly opposed to this new rule. I think that students should be allowed to have food delivery service at school. There are three reasons why I object to the rule. The first and the second are about problems of a school cafeteria, and the third one is about the rule itself.

First of all, foods at the school cafeteria are mostly overpriced. Students who have ever used the cafeteria say that there’s no reason for those foods to be so expensive . I’ve heard some complaints about them. For example, it was hard for someone to find ‘pork’ from ‘Stirfry Pork Over Rice’. It was not the only meal which is contradictory to its name. The prices of foods are higher than Daeyun campus’, but the quality of food seems not to be better than before. There is another problem that our school cafeteria has.

Secondly, students have few choices available in the school cafeteria. They offer common foods about six to ten. It is far from enough to satisfy all students’ tastes with several options. We sometimes want a pizza, or a hamburger maybe. Sadly, we never get them without food delivery service. In other words, we have no choice but to go to the school cafeteria or a convenience store.

Lastly, the rule banning food delivery service is an administration rule of the university. It is unfair to enforce the rule without an agreement with students. Students have difficulty in finding a restaurant with reasonable prices near the university. It takes a long time to go to the Busan National University area. Therefore, most students who have little time for a meal are forced to eat an overpriced meal at the school cafeteria or instant foods bought from the convenience store. In this situation, the rule is only against student welfare.
I'm not the first one who found the problems as mentioned above. Many students already have made complaints about the school cafeteria and the new rule. However, the office of the university has been ignoring them. I think that the best solution of the problem is allowing students to have food delivery service. The next best way is lowering the food price at the school cafeteria. It seems to be simple for us, but not for the university probably. I believe that school should respect student's opinion and try to listen it, even though it is complicated to handle the problem in a short time. Also, I hope to see students enjoy their meal what they want on campus in the near future, making 'Green Campus' at the same time.