My last posting

Finally, the course has come to the end…. Here, I would like to express my gratitude towards Dr. Edwin and Dr. Nooreen – both of them have taught and exposed me with genres of writings and other medias which useful in teaching literature as well as English to the students. I found out that this course has helped me to enrich my knowledge in finding good sources and activities in teaching literature. Therefore, I’m glad that I had the opportunities to study this course. Besides that, I would like to thank my supervisor – Dr. Arshad for his assistance in completing my research paper. It was a wonderful moment for me to be under his supervision although I regularly met him due to his work as the head of the department. Again, I would like to thank them from the bottom of my heart for their education.

Parody

In my opinion, parody is a work that usually mimicking others’ works in order to highlight the weaknesses or unfairness in the original text. It existed in all field of art works such as art media, literature, music, and cinema. For instance, Anthony Hecht with his poem entitled “The Dover Bitch” was the parody to Matthew Arnold’s “The Dover Beach”. Hecht suggested that the woman in “The Dover Beach” was not empowered by his lover in the original text. He also mentioned that the woman was able to speak and express her feelings in his poem rather than in Anthony’s.

I think that parody in certain extend can be a good ways in expressing one thoughts on certain issues but it have to be properly done. As a human, we are born with talents, so we can control what ever we want. Therefore parody should be used to critic others’ works using proper language and at the same time can educate the readers.

My Favourite Movie

A League of Their Own (1992)
Directed by: Penny Marshall

The movie was about two sisters - Dottie Henson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) who were working on the farm. Both of them were good in playing baseball, therefore both of them were chosen to join the All American Pro Girls League (AAPGL) as the professional player. The AAPGL was formed due to the World War II (WWII) because the men were joining the army. Dottie, the elder sister was a good pitcher and became the unquestioned star of the fledgling league. This has made Kit became jealous and felt that she was left behind. Kit then joined another team to show to her sister and other teammates that she too capable to be a good player. Both teams played in the league and at the final match, Dottie let her Kit’s team won and made her as the star of the match. The league was stopped after the WWII end, and the ladies continued their life with their family. The players then have their first reunion years later and both sisters are joined together.

The movie touched my feelings on the issues of relationship between sisters and the spirit in the ladies. Dottie and Kit were very close to each other but they became separated because of the sport. In my opinion, it was Kit who created the conflict and broke their relationship. She was not satisfied with her position in the team; therefore she joined another team to achieve her ambition to be a star. I think Kit was too much in achieving her ambition and willing to jeopardize her bond with Dottie. I think she should not act like one because it can destroy their good relationship. Second, the ladies in the movie have strong spirit to carry on with their life even though their country were involved in war and their husband were away to protect the country. They showed a solid personality and I dream to have the same spirit, so that I will be able to face with challenge.

Dottie’s attitudes were appealing to me because she had the values of being a good leader to her team. She showed a firm character and I envy her capability. Besides that, she managed to prove to their coach, Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) that women can play softball too. She changed Jimmy’s views that he should not look down on women capabilities in doing things, especially in sports. Her attitudes motivate me that as a woman, I should not be afraid to challenge others if we know we are in right track.

The final draft of research paper

I’ve completed my final draft of the research paper which I have to submit it tomorrow morning. In doing the research paper, it caused me a lot of reading in order to find the appropriate sources. I found that it was not easy to do an educational research especially on literature. There are many issues that I can do a research on it such as gender, love, relationship, characters and etc. As a result, I’ve decided to do a research on unequal treatment towards two protagonists in two short stories, Paul in “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather and Sarty in “Ban Burning” written by William Faulkner. I found that both characters similar to each other in terms of receiving unequal treatment from their societies. Besides that, the protagonists were poorly treated by their own family members and it happened to be their father. In addition, Sarty was improperly treated by his sisters too. Apart from that, he had never been to school due to his status as a lower class society. In the other hand, Paul was taken out from the school by his father due to his misdemeanour and was force to work. His father disliked him to involve in art world because he always wanted his son to model after a neighbour who works as a clerk in a company.

That were the issues of my research paper which made me ponder when I studied the characters and their conflicts in the previous course. I hope that my supervisor will satisfied with my work which I gave lots of effort in completing it and hopefully he will reward me with appropriate marks.