HobbyHobbiesdiffer like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character andtaste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting. Hobbies aredivided into 4 large groups doing, making, collecting and learning things. Themost popular hobby is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activitiesfrom gardening to traveling, from chess to volleyball. Both grown-ups andchildren are fond of playing different computer games. This hobby is becomingmore and more popular.Making things include drawing, painting, handicrafts.Many people collect something - coins, stamps, compact discs, toys, books.
Somecollections have some value. Rich people often collect paintings, rare thingsand other art objects. Often such private collections are given to museums,libraries. Asfor me, I have a very wide range of hobbies. But I prefer not very active kindof rest. First of all my hobby is music.I think it is a very special hobby,because you can listen to music while doing any other job. I hear music mywhole life, I live with it. This is fully thanks to my brother, who is a verytalented musician and composer.
He learnt me to feel music because I was alwaysthe first to hear his new song. So, now I like different kinds of music. Ican t say with sure that I don t understand classical music and prefer poponly.I don t really choose between music of 60-s or nowadays modern groups,because in my opinion there always was and there will be great masterpieces.But of all kinds of music I prefer that one, which is really popular amonglovers. I think it is very romantic and sweet and this is the reason why itfascinates me greatly.
Some of my favorite groups and singers are the Beatles,the Rolling stones, Shakespeare s sisters, Elton John, Julianne Werding andSting. But now I would like to draw your attention to English composer, singerand musician Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner.His musical career beganin early 70-s when he took part in the group Police . Later he leftthe group and showed his real gift. His first songs proved his independence andthe scale of his abilities.
Englishman in New-York , SisterMoon , Desert Rose became world hits. They were not a week scharted hits, they became people s hopes and thoughts. I really admire his songsand can say that the name of Sting will always have its place in music history.Ialso like computers.I wake up every morning and my first thing to do is toswitch computer on. Right before falling asleep I switch it off. I can t livewithout computer, it is an essential component of my life. But I am not agame-player, my main interests in computers are e-mail and Internet.
Throughe-mail I communicate with people from different countries. E-mail makes it easyand fast. And Internet helps me to be well-informed about all world-events. InInternet I can travel to every part of the globe. So computers provide me withthe most important thing - information.That s why I chose computers as myfuture profession. I consider them a really wonderful creation of human genius.Anotherthing that interests me is reading.
It plays an important role in my life. As Ihave mentioned already, the best book for me is Bible. But I also like readingother books. Some of my favorite authors are Phillip Keller, Charlotte Bronte,Oscar Wilde, Jerome Klapka Jerome, John Blanchard and Frank O Connor.I amgoing to talk to you about Frank O Connor and his story Idealist . Iintend to divide my story into four points.
Firstly I will dwell on FrankO Connor s biography, secondly on the description of the main heroes, thirdly on the theme of the story and finally on my attitude to the heroes. It isuseful to start with Frank O Connor s biography. Frank O Connor is a pseudonymof Michael Odonovan, born in Cork, Ireland in 1903. He grew up in an Irishprovincial town. His published works include poems, plays, novels,translations, criticism.Frank O Connor was a real master of the short story.He could draw his readers into Irish life, showing his sense of humour and hiscompassion for human beings in their loneliness and their confusion.
Anotherpoint with which I want to deal is the description of the main heroes. As youknow a story s success depends on how heroes are presented in the story. Theycan be presented through the character s actions or their speech through aphysical description and through the opinions of other characters.In the Idealist the heroes are presented through actions andconversations.
I think that each character must have a special quality that makesyou remember him for a long time. The main hero Delany was truthful, frank,decisive. Gorman, his classmate was mean, dishonest and unpleasant. By the wayof contrast the author managed to underline the romantic nature of Delany, whocreated his own world of things, people and ideas. What impressed me most ofall in Melonie, the teacher, it was his cruelty. He punished pupils with acane.It goes without sign that the theme of the story is the relationshipsbetween pupils and a teacher.
I think they were awful. Though Delany createdhis own world thanks to books, the real world turned out to differ from theimaginary one. I shall now elaborate the fourth point of my talk. I sympathize admire, hate, spoilt my impressions of the book with the main hero because hedidn t give up reading, he continued reading books.Books broaden our horizons,enrich our mind and wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life. In theauthor I appreciate such qualities as an ability to portrait life verytruthfully an ability to depict characters so vividly that people immediatelyrecognize themselves a sense of humor and a skill with the language.
Well,I am a family-girl and I don t really spend much time with my friends. And Idon t have much friends actually. I find it more interesting being all alone orwith my family or with my boyfriend.And he fully shares my interests.No matter what kind ofhobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. Byreading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows.Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.