Presentation Responses

Fahad, Nathan, Brazil, Francesca
In regards to Nathan's response about Hey Nostradamus! being too dramatic and too far-fetched, I would have to say that I disagree. He said the events of the book were "too crazy for real life" but isn't life crazy sometimes? I think that the possibility of those events happening is very high. It may all seem coincidental and ironic but life itself is ironic. I think anything can happen and the events of the book, to me, is very plausible. I also liked the ending because it leaves you wondering about what happened and that is exactly how life is; you never know what is going to happen tomorrow. And I agreed with Franchesca about not thinking the four characters in the book are in relation with Limbo, Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory. I, like her, didn't see any relevance between the two.

Isabelle, Adam, Kate, Graham
I didn't think the Innocent Traveller was that bad of a book. To me, even though there wasn't anything dramatic happening, the little things that happened to Topaz accumulated and even though it wasn't the most exciting read, I still enjoyed it. I used to think that because she is not affected by anything and that she is always happy means she doesn't truly experience things. How can she know what true happiness is but she never experienced sorrow? However, after a tutorial discussion my point of view changed. Now I think that even though she was never really sad, at that moment, she felt happiness and there is no doubt about that. As long as she was happy at that moment, then that is all that matters and who are we to say that she isn't experiencing life fully?

Ashley, Kieran, Jonathan, Lauren
Ironically, what Ashley and Lauren said about technology was almost exactly what I wrote about in my 500 word blog response. The" lol", the slang, the morphing of the language were all the topics I've covered in my blog. I also found it interesting that this group related The Jade Peony to technology because I actually own a copy of that book and I loved it but I never thought about it in that way before. I thought this presentation gave me some insight on the different meanings of the book.

-Cindy Chu