Short story "Bella Makes life" and questions of "The Merchant of Venice"

11 November 2008

In this class the short story "Bella Makes life" was presented by Aline. The short story was more or less well presented although Aline was nervous and started to cry in the end of the presentation. This story was about a women that left Jamaica and went to New york. It talks about the intercultural difficulties that a person can have when leaving homeland. Some can adapt outhers don´t. I understood the story and also the interculturality of the story.

We have also finished the correction of the questions of "The Merchant of Venice". These questions were a good way to better understand the movie and also what Shakespeare was thinking when he wrote the play.

Short Story and "The Merchant of Venice"

10 November 2008

Paula presented her short story called "Martha, Martha", this story was very difficult to understand, because Paula had some problems to explain the story. What I realise with these presentations was that we need to have the short stories before the presentations to read it and to be able to participate more in the interation with our colleagues. I like very much to participate in the presentations but I felt some lack of information in the retell of the stories.

In this class we also continue to talk about "The Merchant of Venice". In the correction of the questions I felt some difficulties in one because as we had the opportunity to see the movie, this influenced the way we understand the story. The question was "Are we meant to sympathize with the moneylander´s daughter?" In my opinion I would say that we are not meant to sympathize with her because of what I have seen in the movie, but in the perception of Shakespeare she represents love, so we should sympathize with her. In spite some doughts I am enjoying the story.