June 8th

today's class was actually interesting
I remember every thing we did in the class very clearly, because im writing this blog right after the class

well, as usual i couldn't participate that much in the discussion in the first half of the class,
but it was unusual for me to actually ENJOY the discussion when we did the debate thing in the last part of the class.
i did this discussion with Shantonu, Kana and Fumika.
first we argued whether Santiago was Hemingway himself or not,
I don't remember why but the topic of the argument somehow shifted to whether the story was a happy ending or sad ending.
I thought shantonu insisted that it is a happy ending because the fisherman eventually caught the big fish even though its meat was eaten by the shark.
Fumika was against (she was, really) the shantonu's argument because the shark had eaten up all of the meat and there was nothing to eat left, so Santiago was perfectly lost.
But Shantonu had said that that's OK because finding the fish meat for eating was not the main point, or the real purpose of catching the fish. So I thought that's a good point, so did Kana too.
So Fumika was the only one holding that belief that OMS was a sad storry. it was funny

as you know, i haven't read the book yet. i mean, none. zero.
that's because i was planning to read them on the weekend because i have many works that need to be done during this week.
However, to my surprise, i think I've already found an interesting interpretation, which I hope is purely original!
so thanks to Fumika for pointing that out that my one simple question could be a good interpretation for my essay test! (don't know whether she's reading my blog...i think not.ha)

maybe it's hard to connect that idea to the information in the book, but i think i can do it
oh wait, but does the essay test question gonna be asking about our own view or original interpretation?? if not, that's not gonna work out...

but anyway, there's one obvious thing. i definitely need to READ THE BOOK FIRST!!!