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.
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I read your reading response.
I do not agree your idea. Because your experience and Fellow's cause of change is different kind. I think Fellow's stress and dread are the thing already passed long ago. Your them are the result that you cannot yet see.
But I know how you were worried and groaned by it. I think that feeling is everyone has his own stress and dread.
Such feelings do not have the strength and weakness. After all I agree to your plan.
And I think you always use same strategy about using own experience.
I forgot about what strategies I used.
I used imagination how he spent the day and can watch the sight from the prison. In my imagination, I think his feeling of time is starting crazy and he felt the day is not 24 hours. And his sight is just the roof of the prison because I always watch the roof when I want to disappear from the world and regret things I did.
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