week 13 respond

I always like short story because it always ends quickly which means the story itself has to clear and include enough contents with few words. This means the story also will have a strong and unique style in the book. I read The Distance to the Moon at this week and it is pretty interesting. The book mainly imagined the world while Moon is too closed to earth that people can actually reach the moon by using the ladder. The story is told in first person which our protagonist tell how they reach the moon to get “Milk” which is formed by dead fishes, cells and many kind of different ingredient. Although the story is set up in this kind of background, it also tells a love story between protagonist, captain’s wife and his deaf cousin. Protagonist fall in love with captain’s wife but captain’s wife is more appealed to his deaf cousin due to his talent around the moon. Finally, the wife managed to go to the moon alone with the deaf. However, the moon suddenly starts to move far away from the earth and both the captain’s wife and deaf guy are left on the moon. It is a disaster for the protagonist first, and then he finds an opportunity that he almost possible to reach the moon after. However, once he realizes that there is no chance to win captain’s wife’s heart back, he changes his mind in the air and fall back to earth.