I did some reading items from Cummings.
I read 'The catcher in the rye' by J.D Sallinger.The story reflects the thoughts that young adults(i.e.teenagers of 16/17)like us.The narrator,Holden is rebellious about what life has in offer for him.He flunks from a number of boarding schools.He thinks every one is phony.Here i think he may be right.Being a teenager myself,I feel my peers to feign what they are not which at times is really bothering.We are scared to speak out our hearts and despise them who do so;we have a tendency to regard the different ones as outcast.I see this as our inner weakness,our fear of that person's perception,who sees the things which we most labour to hide.However,we see in the story that holden reads good books which serves to shape his mind.He sees things in a different light.We find him to be fond of his sister Phoebe,his dead brother Allie and his writer brother D.B.When asked,he could not think of anything that pleased him which is pretty much the case with the teenagers.I can say so if I judge by myself.He realizes that everyone should have a chanceto do what they want to.Every teenagers realize this,but when they become adults and are in charge of teenagers,they forget their realization in their teens and are extremely reluctant to give chance.We see that Holden is forced to go to a new boarding school,to his old life pattern yet with his rebel within.
I read 'Crucible' by Arthur Miller.This was a story on one of the themes that interests me a great deal-witchcraft.The story highlights is how a false accusation and the urge to protect the reputation and gain unfair advantage by a few powerful on the society can jeopardize the life of innocent people.We find Parris and Putnam eager to air the rumour of black magic when they will be benefitted yet equally eager to colour the event when they are at stake.This is what we see everywhere.People like Parris and Putnam who are wealthy and clever enough to influence the high officials like the deputy and the judge use their power to save their skin at the expense of others' life.Yet they are so silly to be stimulated in their action by people like Abigail who have no importance yet get the best share of the pie.
I did 'Doll's house' by Ibsen.It was a nice play to read.Nora resembles the females of our society.Our mothers and sisters are ready to do anything for their family,ready to face any hardship.She makes the loan for her husband so that he could recover his good health without troubling her husband.When her husband is made known of the affair,he so readily dismisses of her of all her virtue,going so far as to accuse that she is a 'bad' influence on their children.Not once did he stop to think what forced her wife to make the loan.When he realizes that his prestige is not at risk,he tried to pacify with his wife,saying everything is to be forgot.This is exactly what happens in our society.It's incredible that the picture of a society in 1879 should be so similar to the one of 2011.We can't say we have progressed much except for some NGOs which are only seen when everything is over.In the story,Nora takes a bold step when she decides to leave her husband and the disgrace in which she lived so long.Here,1879 was a more,what should I say?In bangla-Progotishil then 2011.Our women donot,cannot dare to take such a step.Yet in a hundred years' time our progress should have been incomparable.But alas!The real picture is quite contrary to what should have been.If our women dared to take the bold step Nora had taken,we would not have to read about Rumana Manzur and not reading about her torture would have been delightful.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Stevenson was another remarkable piece.It very well brings out the evil within us.We are humans and it depends on our conscience to suppress the evil and bring out the good inside us.Yet some unlucky,cursed ones completely overshadow the good within them with the evil inside.The evil has to die but for the evil to be expressed,the goodness needs to be killed first as we see by the disappearance and then the death of Dr.Jekyll.Hyde is killed after Jekyll died.If we knew how to kill Hyde before killing Jekyll,the world would not have been such a merciless place to live.We could have avoided the Hydes like the teacherd mask Parimal in our society.
'Enemy of People' by Ibsen is a situation we are facing since the creation of mankind.For the benefit of a few like the mayor and editor,we are forever ready to go against the good ones like Dr.Thomas whose initial steps,even though seemingly hazardous are good for the society in the long run.The biggest,yet the silliest power,is that of the general people,who can be easily made to wear the coloured glasses to see the colour the powerful ones want them to see,not what they deserve to see.We have a strong inertia to any sort of change.Some foxes encourage this inertia so that they benefit.We are the silly ones who neither get the spa nor the money it brings.We only get the disease of the contaminated spa.May be it happens because whenever we supported any change,we got the worst end of the stick.It is foolishly wise to stick to and suffer fromwhat we have rather than to suffer from something unknown,something of which we do not know what to expect.
'Frankenstein' by M.W.S was similar to 'Dr.Jekyll and Hyde'.Here we see the worst that can happen to any invention.A bit of it can be applied to the ill use of technology.In the story we only see the dark side of the monster but he does show the possibility of improvement as he reads books and learns to speak.If Frankenstein had taken responsibility,we could have obtained a helpful,good natured monster instead of the killing machine.The monster does want to leave in peace,but does not get a chance.Im the same way we created the devastating nuclear bombs and other technologies.Had we taken their responsibility and given proper chance we could have made world a better place but we could not do so.
The meaning of 'Godot' by Samuel Beckett was not very clear to me but I enjoyed reading it.To me,it seemed to convey the meaning that things are not what we see and know them to be.I could be wrong though.
'Rose for Emily' by Faulkner was a good piece of reading.Here we see that if human emotions are not given a proper chance to be expressed,they can result in unpleasant consequences.If Emily had married and loved at the proper age,if she had more freedom,she would not have gone crazy.She would not have killed Barron and decorated a bridal room with a corpse and her hair and lived with it for forty years.Crazy as it may seem to us,to her,logically,it was the only way she could retain her love.Certain people and their action that we find abnormal or unjustified are justified and normal to them.It's just that we've never put ourselves in their shoes,nor did they get a chance to put themselves in our shoes.
This is the longest mail I've ever written you.I was really terrified by your anger and disgust in class today. [Rinat, for this part please kindly refer to the BLOG maintained by Patricia Ivan. Read her post on on ANGER in this link - http://patriciaivan.blogspot.com/2011/07/anger.html]
If possible,do give a briefing of Skinner and Carlyle in class.The items are excessively hard and tiring to understand.
One more request:do comment on my writing style.I detest english writing but I'm working on it.It would be helpful to know the lackings.
By
Rinat.
Thank you Rinat dear - for the post. Please read my anger as an expression of IMPOSING our collective desire on my students. My anger has absolutely no personal face. Thank you for referring to this openly - I am making it public so that everyone begins to respect our MISSION. I will talk about Waiting for Godot in the class. It is a difficult play for a newcomer. But I am sure you will like it.
I read 'The catcher in the rye' by J.D Sallinger.The story reflects the thoughts that young adults(i.e.teenagers of 16/17)like us.The narrator,Holden is rebellious about what life has in offer for him.He flunks from a number of boarding schools.He thinks every one is phony.Here i think he may be right.Being a teenager myself,I feel my peers to feign what they are not which at times is really bothering.We are scared to speak out our hearts and despise them who do so;we have a tendency to regard the different ones as outcast.I see this as our inner weakness,our fear of that person's perception,who sees the things which we most labour to hide.However,we see in the story that holden reads good books which serves to shape his mind.He sees things in a different light.We find him to be fond of his sister Phoebe,his dead brother Allie and his writer brother D.B.When asked,he could not think of anything that pleased him which is pretty much the case with the teenagers.I can say so if I judge by myself.He realizes that everyone should have a chanceto do what they want to.Every teenagers realize this,but when they become adults and are in charge of teenagers,they forget their realization in their teens and are extremely reluctant to give chance.We see that Holden is forced to go to a new boarding school,to his old life pattern yet with his rebel within.
I read 'Crucible' by Arthur Miller.This was a story on one of the themes that interests me a great deal-witchcraft.The story highlights is how a false accusation and the urge to protect the reputation and gain unfair advantage by a few powerful on the society can jeopardize the life of innocent people.We find Parris and Putnam eager to air the rumour of black magic when they will be benefitted yet equally eager to colour the event when they are at stake.This is what we see everywhere.People like Parris and Putnam who are wealthy and clever enough to influence the high officials like the deputy and the judge use their power to save their skin at the expense of others' life.Yet they are so silly to be stimulated in their action by people like Abigail who have no importance yet get the best share of the pie.
I did 'Doll's house' by Ibsen.It was a nice play to read.Nora resembles the females of our society.Our mothers and sisters are ready to do anything for their family,ready to face any hardship.She makes the loan for her husband so that he could recover his good health without troubling her husband.When her husband is made known of the affair,he so readily dismisses of her of all her virtue,going so far as to accuse that she is a 'bad' influence on their children.Not once did he stop to think what forced her wife to make the loan.When he realizes that his prestige is not at risk,he tried to pacify with his wife,saying everything is to be forgot.This is exactly what happens in our society.It's incredible that the picture of a society in 1879 should be so similar to the one of 2011.We can't say we have progressed much except for some NGOs which are only seen when everything is over.In the story,Nora takes a bold step when she decides to leave her husband and the disgrace in which she lived so long.Here,1879 was a more,what should I say?In bangla-Progotishil then 2011.Our women donot,cannot dare to take such a step.Yet in a hundred years' time our progress should have been incomparable.But alas!The real picture is quite contrary to what should have been.If our women dared to take the bold step Nora had taken,we would not have to read about Rumana Manzur and not reading about her torture would have been delightful.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Stevenson was another remarkable piece.It very well brings out the evil within us.We are humans and it depends on our conscience to suppress the evil and bring out the good inside us.Yet some unlucky,cursed ones completely overshadow the good within them with the evil inside.The evil has to die but for the evil to be expressed,the goodness needs to be killed first as we see by the disappearance and then the death of Dr.Jekyll.Hyde is killed after Jekyll died.If we knew how to kill Hyde before killing Jekyll,the world would not have been such a merciless place to live.We could have avoided the Hydes like the teacherd mask Parimal in our society.
'Enemy of People' by Ibsen is a situation we are facing since the creation of mankind.For the benefit of a few like the mayor and editor,we are forever ready to go against the good ones like Dr.Thomas whose initial steps,even though seemingly hazardous are good for the society in the long run.The biggest,yet the silliest power,is that of the general people,who can be easily made to wear the coloured glasses to see the colour the powerful ones want them to see,not what they deserve to see.We have a strong inertia to any sort of change.Some foxes encourage this inertia so that they benefit.We are the silly ones who neither get the spa nor the money it brings.We only get the disease of the contaminated spa.May be it happens because whenever we supported any change,we got the worst end of the stick.It is foolishly wise to stick to and suffer fromwhat we have rather than to suffer from something unknown,something of which we do not know what to expect.
'Frankenstein' by M.W.S was similar to 'Dr.Jekyll and Hyde'.Here we see the worst that can happen to any invention.A bit of it can be applied to the ill use of technology.In the story we only see the dark side of the monster but he does show the possibility of improvement as he reads books and learns to speak.If Frankenstein had taken responsibility,we could have obtained a helpful,good natured monster instead of the killing machine.The monster does want to leave in peace,but does not get a chance.Im the same way we created the devastating nuclear bombs and other technologies.Had we taken their responsibility and given proper chance we could have made world a better place but we could not do so.
The meaning of 'Godot' by Samuel Beckett was not very clear to me but I enjoyed reading it.To me,it seemed to convey the meaning that things are not what we see and know them to be.I could be wrong though.
'Rose for Emily' by Faulkner was a good piece of reading.Here we see that if human emotions are not given a proper chance to be expressed,they can result in unpleasant consequences.If Emily had married and loved at the proper age,if she had more freedom,she would not have gone crazy.She would not have killed Barron and decorated a bridal room with a corpse and her hair and lived with it for forty years.Crazy as it may seem to us,to her,logically,it was the only way she could retain her love.Certain people and their action that we find abnormal or unjustified are justified and normal to them.It's just that we've never put ourselves in their shoes,nor did they get a chance to put themselves in our shoes.
This is the longest mail I've ever written you.I was really terrified by your anger and disgust in class today. [Rinat, for this part please kindly refer to the BLOG maintained by Patricia Ivan. Read her post on on ANGER in this link - http://patriciaivan.blogspot.com/2011/07/anger.html]
If possible,do give a briefing of Skinner and Carlyle in class.The items are excessively hard and tiring to understand.
One more request:do comment on my writing style.I detest english writing but I'm working on it.It would be helpful to know the lackings.
By
Rinat.
Thank you Rinat dear - for the post. Please read my anger as an expression of IMPOSING our collective desire on my students. My anger has absolutely no personal face. Thank you for referring to this openly - I am making it public so that everyone begins to respect our MISSION. I will talk about Waiting for Godot in the class. It is a difficult play for a newcomer. But I am sure you will like it.
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