The next visit to The Zoo on 23rd July

23rd July, 2009. We have a very short period today as we continue our previous discussion. On 21^st, July, we were required to think of the supporting detail for the thesis statement “ Jerry’s death signifies the birth of his pride and dignity.” Miss Dzeelfa wants us to write out our group supporting details on the white board and we discuss it after every group had written on the board. Mostly of my classmate think that Jerry’s death is meaningless, as I think that Jerry itself is meaningless. This is because he don’t appreciate his life. He tries to kill himself, but he lack of the courage to kill himself by piecing a knife into his heart to die immediately, instead of that, he plans to tell the zoo story and end up he make another innocent person- Peter to bear the pain and the guilt of killing him. He is selfish, silly and coward. He fails everything in life. I am quite look down upon him. After we have finish discussing the details of others group, Miss Dzeelfa tell us that this is how we should write an position paper and this activity really help us a lot in guarding us to write an position paper.

21 July in The Zoo

Today, 21^st July2009, we do a story entitle The Zoo by Edward Albee. As we know from his name, he is a man who writes theater of the absurd. This story is long but yet, the vocabulary is simple and easy to understand the sentences. This story contains a lot of intended meaning where it shows a bit difficult for us. When I read the first few pages, I really have the curiosity to know what will happen next. Jerry the character mentions about the zoo and I think it is his plan that he wants to make Peter the man who he meet in the park who has everything in his life to feel guilty. This is all reveal in the last two pages where he wants Peter to kill him. Jerry is a psychological man who thinks that he is the one who able to dominate and manipulate others. He tries to kill himself because he has no work, no education, no wife and living in a very miserable life. He wants to fight for the bench because he thinks that it is his pride and dignity. The zoo is a story to significant life and Jerry is the one who is fails everything in life. frankly, i love this story.

2nd Week...

Since I was absents last week, I had a bunch of homework waiting for me this week. Monday was a happy day because we only need to attend a lecture and a lab class. After that, it was a night mare for my Tuesday. We need to attend classes from 10 am to 6 pm. The whole morning was so mind-numbing. Lecturer’s voice was making me unenergetic. I am sleepy. But, luckily, when it comes to class from 4 to 6, it makes me awake. Miss Dzeelfa was given us some stories to read. Since we have read the story the day before, she asked my classmate to read out loud one by one. I think this is a good idea because it did make us awake to concentrate to avoid being the next victim. We read Androcles, Daedalus and Icarus and Ovid metamorphosis.

These three was great story especially Pyramus and Thisbe. It is more like Romeo and Juliet as It is my favorite story. Actually, Romance is always my first choice. I love to see their endearment where love will always surrounded between them. LOVE ~##~ after that, Miss Dzeelfa gives us a very interesting activities. We have been divided into groups of six; first four groups had to come out with a dialogue from Pyramus and Thisbe while the others have to come out with the summary from Deadalus and Icarus. Luckily, we are the fifth group. We called ourselves China Five, since Michael Jackson called themselves Jackson five. We imitated them. This is a very enjoyable activity where we can see every group presenting their production. It is so fascinating and funny. Our group makes a funny version of it. We speak in a ‘ROJAK’ language and translated it in English. It sounds funny. Other groups also make a well production. Indeed, great job.

Thursday class was a nice class as well. We got the chance to read an obscene story which entitled Sara and the weeding. It is a story about a woman who scarified her marriage to take care her family but, ended up with her plump body and incomplete life. We were asked to write a stand for the story and in the end, it did come out a lot of different point of view. Some say marriage guarantee happiness in woman life while some say not every man is bad in this world. For me, I think that woman can be desperate without love yet tough without a man.

Min Hui
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