I cleaned my room this morning and neatly put my clothes in closet. It feels good when you have neat room^^ and I think it's getting hotter these days, so I must watch out for rotten food and bugs! be careful everyone!
What we did in class today is discussing The Old Man and the Sea and problems regarding animal rights. NP was about how to perceive theme and symbols in The Old Man and the Sea by relating them to Hemingway's own life and Christianity. It was quit different from what we did in our class last time that Paul said the story had little connection with the actual world whereas Rab talked about the importance to know about the period of time when the book was written and the status quo in Quba. There seems many ways to look at the novel!
Throughout Paul's lecture, I noticed many similarities in Hemingway, Santiago and Christ, although some of them were suspicious.
In the class, we discussed if it was contradiction for Hemingway to be both a hunter and a conservationist. And this discussion led us to think about problems of animal rights, meat consumption, factory farming etc. These were very difficult problems to handle, but we have duties to face them , of course. The documentary Earthling which Rab mentioned in the class, I'll see if I can find it.
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