Review of The Colonel's Ideas Story by Guy de Maupassant

Review of The Colonel’s Ideas Story

The Colonel’s Ideas is a short story written by Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (August 5, 1850-July 6, 1893), known by name Guy de Maupassant. He was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents.

The Colonel’s Ideas is a short story that tells about a group French army who are in command to retreating from a war with Prussians and they have to reach Bar-sur-Tain before the sun rises. The trip seems very hard because they eat nothing since they day before and the condition of that night is dark, cold and also frosty. The soldiers are hungry, tires and wounded from the battle. However, they are the French Soldier that very interest and admire of the presence of the woman. When they are in the presence of the woman, they feel that they can do anything.

When they are in the mission to reach Bar-sur-Tain, sometimes they have to stop because they are very tired and very hungry. In the journey, they also meet with two prisoners, an old man and his beautiful daughter. They are escaping from Prussian. Colonel Laporte invites them to accompany with the soldiers and ask the old man to be the guider because he knows the road. After walking for some distance, the girl becomes tired and she cannot go any further. One of the soldiers named Pratique suggests the soldiers to carry the girl for the rest of the journey. The girl is lying, warm and comfortable among them and is raised upon six shoulders. They started off much more briskly and become cheerful and warm. A woman is quite enough to electrify Frenchmen. The soldiers carry the girl almost without stopping, but suddenly one of soldiers saw that there is a group of Prussian and they kill them with the shoot of the riffle. After the long journey, they finally reach The French line of Bar-sur-Tain. They are very happy and it seems like just save the whole of France and has done something that the other men could not have done, something simple and really patriotic. Colonel Laporte should propose to replace the drums, trumpets and bugles in every regiment by a pretty girl and that will be even better and wil put some spirit into a trooper.

Something that make this short story become interesting because it can make the readers think that the French soldiers that very tired, hungry and cold can have power and not feeling tired just because of the beauty of the girls. Because of the girl, the finally reach the Bar-sur-Tain. What make us amazed about this story is also because this story has some jokes that can entertain and amuse the readers.

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The Benefits of Sport

In this modern life, many people forget about the importance of sports. They just do sports without knowing the reason. They regularly do sports and none of them realize the importance and benefits of sports.  Some people that want to be fit and attractive mostly can’t consider the benefit from sports. For some people who feel bored of something, sports are the way to decrease the boredom.  From sports activity, many people also get money because the activity of sports has become a great industry. There are several benefits of sports which are often considered; sports are required to be healthy people, are needed for enjoyment, and are great market for country’s economy.

First benefit of sports for the people is they help the people to be healthy and fit. People can’t ignore about the importance of being healthy. Naturally, people’s first aim should be healthy and fit. As a logical example, imagine that there is a car which has not worked for years. If you try to run the motor engine, it will not work anymore since it has been rusted and engine may be broken down. From the example, people are similar as engines and motors. If we don’t do sports, our body may not run as well as people who regularly doing sport. In addition, sports balance our body’s blood and circulation. According to many research which has been done by researchers, we can prove the importance of sports for our health because 70% of middle aged who did not do sports in their youth are now struggling with the problems like high tension, trouble with the blood pressure and circulation, easily become tired when they do the activity.

The second benefit of sports for people is they are required for the people who have pressure in their life activity because of enjoyment of sports. Have you ever thought why people want to play football or other games? The answer is because sports are entertaining. When we feel bored or unhappy about something, we will probably be motivated and be refreshed again after the sport activity. In addition, have you ever thought why millions of people watch world cup match? The most important one may be the excitement and the enjoyment of football itself. Within the excitement of sports, countries are able to compete in the international area will give enthusiasm in that country and this is the most important reason to take pleasure from sports.

The last advantage of sports is they are the huge market for the country’s economy. If we look at only football industry, there are hundreds professional team and at least the team has 25 players. If this is calculated, there are maybe 2500 players without including working staff, scouts, coaches and managers. This is can be the largest industry which employs many people in Indonesia. Sports also allow advertisement companies to make publicity of strong brands. For example, sponsorship is one of the best publicity of one company. People who watch their favorite team or athlete might also see the sponsor of the team or athlete. Like in England, Manchester United which is one of the best clubs in the world has a sponsor called Chevrolet. It can make Chevrolet company become famous and attract many people to buy its product. This will probably show the effectiveness of sponsorship in sports.

From this, we can conclude that sport can give many benefits. Not only make our body runs well and prevents us from the illness, Sports also give some entertainments that can decrease our boredom and turn the bad mood feeling into good mood feeling. Sports also become large industry which can help country’s economy. People have to be more attention about sports because sports are necessary for us.