Every day is a special day

The article I chose is a very touching essay from People Daily (a Chinese newspaper) and its name is Every day is a special day. The claim of this article is spending every day for achieving your dream.

This article is a typical patho-centric structure article. At the beginning of this essay, the author uses a short story as an introduction and then explains the relationship between the story and the argument. The story he used is very interesting and also appropriate for his topic. And the story is also the reason that the article attracted my eyes. After a the introduction, the author writes his own experience when he was a 20 years young man- he dreamed a lot, for example travelling all over the world, but the dreams were just left in his memory.

Then he raises two questions: what make us forget our dream? Why we only leave our dreams in memory? After the first question, he analyzes how we spend our every day and how we are pushed by the pressures of lives to state that we never really work for our dreams. For the second question, he uses another story to claim that every day is a special day. The story is about an old lady have a beautiful scarf, but she never wore it until she died because she always said she wanted to use it in a special day. I think this is a short but impressive story and make a good contribution to support that we should treat every day as a special day.

In the conclusion, the author reclaims his thesis and also develops a little- always remember you are in a special day when you think about your dream and spend every day for your dream. I think this conclusion is good. As the content included in Chapter 11, the one new topic we can discuss is about what further work needs to be done and this is exactly the article does.