I finished reading the book, 4,000 Days written by Warren Fellows. At the end, he finished spending 12 years at the Bangkok prison with the crime of taking drug. His 12 years at the Bangkok prison was horrible. He couldn't live normally. He had ate cockroach, sands, his nails, and many other things. He was in under control by guards 24 hours and had no freedom. The day came when he was released by the prison. He says in the book that "I can't even remember what I felt at this time. I suppose I was never going to believe it."
This words reminded me when I got the acceptance letter from university. I can't remember what I felt at this time and couldn't believe it when I just got the letter. I spent so much time in feeling pain and stress and the took few minutes to realize the reality. I had worried and couldn't believe the future while I was studying for the exam. After I passes the exam, my future started expand and I guess that Fellows felt same as me later. However, I know that the our situations were totally different but, at the core of our feeling, it seems same for me.
While I was reading the last parts of the story, I remember and compared the story with my own experiences and it helped me to image the picture, his feeling, and have deeper understanding of the story. I learned from this book that it brings us happiness when we have freedom and blight future.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
4,000 Days-No.7
In the story that I am still reading, 4,000 Days by Warren Fellows, the author, Fellows, is now having hard time. He seems to have same mental problems from his stress and many kinds of feeling such as regret, pain, depression, despair, and hopeless. He lose a lot of hair, has hallucinations, and reduced wight.
To try to understand more about Fellows feeling and deeper understanding of the sistuaion of the story, I used the reading stratey to link my experience that is similar to his feeling.
I know that it is impossible to compare my own experience and his perfectly but I think to compare my worst and most painful experience with the story, it would help me to understand more about Fellows.
When I was studying for entrance exam for university, I felt so much pain and stress. It was the my worst period in my life. I was trying my best to improve my TOEFL score but the result didn't come well for long time. I wrote Japanese essay a lot but I couldn't get good comments from teacher. I spend much time and my parents spend money and I have responsiblity to enter university. It made me feel huge stress and pain and I couldn't beleive future. My goal seemed getting far away from me day by day. Because of the stress, I lost 3kg of my weight and my some hair at back head became white. I yell at my parents and gave them pain too. I wanted to run away from what I was doing and my future.
But I noticed that it wasn't the last chance. Even though I fail in the exam, I would still have chances in the future. It released my stress. I know that in the book, it is really hard time for Fellows but he still have chance to have better life in the future. I guess that he felt same as me that we have future and chances so he could overcome the hard period and to take the chance in good way, he decided to write the book to let people know his life at the prison and to alarm them.
To try to understand more about Fellows feeling and deeper understanding of the sistuaion of the story, I used the reading stratey to link my experience that is similar to his feeling.
I know that it is impossible to compare my own experience and his perfectly but I think to compare my worst and most painful experience with the story, it would help me to understand more about Fellows.
When I was studying for entrance exam for university, I felt so much pain and stress. It was the my worst period in my life. I was trying my best to improve my TOEFL score but the result didn't come well for long time. I wrote Japanese essay a lot but I couldn't get good comments from teacher. I spend much time and my parents spend money and I have responsiblity to enter university. It made me feel huge stress and pain and I couldn't beleive future. My goal seemed getting far away from me day by day. Because of the stress, I lost 3kg of my weight and my some hair at back head became white. I yell at my parents and gave them pain too. I wanted to run away from what I was doing and my future.
But I noticed that it wasn't the last chance. Even though I fail in the exam, I would still have chances in the future. It released my stress. I know that in the book, it is really hard time for Fellows but he still have chance to have better life in the future. I guess that he felt same as me that we have future and chances so he could overcome the hard period and to take the chance in good way, he decided to write the book to let people know his life at the prison and to alarm them.
4,000 Days-No.6
In the book which I am reading now, 4,000 Days by Warren Fellows, the author is now regretting the time when he took drug. He keep saying in the book that if he could rewind the time to when he took drug, it would be the greatest thing. But of course he can't .
I use a reading strategy to infer the reason and the situation surrounding him that made him take drug by my background. These days, there are more young people in Japan who take drug. It became easier to have drug these days. I wonder why young people are so interested in taking drug and I tried to get to the answer by using my background.
I think that there are the problems in society. If many young people feel against the society or depressed by the society, there pain or stress is released to doing something bad things. For example, if the society is not built as good for people, such as there are huge difference among people by money, education, or wealth, the rate of crime increases. Therefore, I think the society is important to being good system and should have trust from people. If people have dream or wish to be better person or life into the society, there would be less people who commit crime because they have hopes and goals. So I think that the good solution to reduce crime such as taking drug is to check the system of society. Among the society, education is also important. If the education at school, family, or society works well to teach children and people that the taking drug brings no benefit to you, then it would be the common understanding among people. It will help society and people to reject taking drug and extinction of drug.
Also people take drug to release there pain and stress. I have heard the story of taxi driver in Bangkok. According to the story, there are many taxi drivers who take drug because there are many heavy traffic jams at Bangkok and it is stressful to the taxi drivers to wait for ling time inside of their taxi. I infer the reason why there are many taxi drivers and it is to release their stress.
By using these background, I infer the the time and situation when Fellows started to take drug and the situation should be not so good. May be there were not enough toughs about drug or the young people felt bad at their society or politics. If Fellows could trust the society and believes that the society works well to make his dreams, wish, and hopes would come true, he might not have took drug. Therefore, in my opinion, the fault and responsibility is not only for a person who actually takes drug but also in the society.
I use a reading strategy to infer the reason and the situation surrounding him that made him take drug by my background. These days, there are more young people in Japan who take drug. It became easier to have drug these days. I wonder why young people are so interested in taking drug and I tried to get to the answer by using my background.
I think that there are the problems in society. If many young people feel against the society or depressed by the society, there pain or stress is released to doing something bad things. For example, if the society is not built as good for people, such as there are huge difference among people by money, education, or wealth, the rate of crime increases. Therefore, I think the society is important to being good system and should have trust from people. If people have dream or wish to be better person or life into the society, there would be less people who commit crime because they have hopes and goals. So I think that the good solution to reduce crime such as taking drug is to check the system of society. Among the society, education is also important. If the education at school, family, or society works well to teach children and people that the taking drug brings no benefit to you, then it would be the common understanding among people. It will help society and people to reject taking drug and extinction of drug.
Also people take drug to release there pain and stress. I have heard the story of taxi driver in Bangkok. According to the story, there are many taxi drivers who take drug because there are many heavy traffic jams at Bangkok and it is stressful to the taxi drivers to wait for ling time inside of their taxi. I infer the reason why there are many taxi drivers and it is to release their stress.
By using these background, I infer the the time and situation when Fellows started to take drug and the situation should be not so good. May be there were not enough toughs about drug or the young people felt bad at their society or politics. If Fellows could trust the society and believes that the society works well to make his dreams, wish, and hopes would come true, he might not have took drug. Therefore, in my opinion, the fault and responsibility is not only for a person who actually takes drug but also in the society.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
4,000 Days-No.5
In the story, the author, Fellows, wrote about when he was think about prison breaking. Fellows was at a loss whether to do or not. He couldn't have patience anymore to live under the harsh life at the prison. But he was worried that if he fail to do prison breaking, he would have capital punishment for sure. I predicted the later story by using the reading strategy of predicting the story using my experience and background.
I had watched the American TV drama called "Prison Break." The drama is about people who did prison breaking and run away from police. In the drama, the main character of the drama, Michel, once said that "We need to have courage and strong decision to do something that is really risky." This word helped me to predict the later story of 4,000 Days.
I predicted the story that the author, Fellows, would not commit the prison breaking. Because he doesn't seem to have courage and strong decision. If he did have, he wouldn't take drug. The person who has courage and strong decision, s/he will say no and never take drug. Therefor, I think he would choose to stay prison to not get more punishment.
However, I noticed while I am writing this that it is impossible him to do prison breaking. Because if he did and didn't succeed, he should still stay in Bangkok prison or already taken capital punishment and if he did succeed the prison breaking, he should still run away from police and impossible to write this book.
I had watched the American TV drama called "Prison Break." The drama is about people who did prison breaking and run away from police. In the drama, the main character of the drama, Michel, once said that "We need to have courage and strong decision to do something that is really risky." This word helped me to predict the later story of 4,000 Days.
I predicted the story that the author, Fellows, would not commit the prison breaking. Because he doesn't seem to have courage and strong decision. If he did have, he wouldn't take drug. The person who has courage and strong decision, s/he will say no and never take drug. Therefor, I think he would choose to stay prison to not get more punishment.
However, I noticed while I am writing this that it is impossible him to do prison breaking. Because if he did and didn't succeed, he should still stay in Bangkok prison or already taken capital punishment and if he did succeed the prison breaking, he should still run away from police and impossible to write this book.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
Benna is the word that I was interested. I didn't know the meaning but from the sentence, I predicted that Benna is kinds of song. The sen tense says "is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school!?"
I know the Jamaican song called reggae. It is rhythmic and beat music and I related reggae with benna. I used my backgraound knowledge to image the story.
I know the Jamaican song called reggae. It is rhythmic and beat music and I related reggae with benna. I used my backgraound knowledge to image the story.
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