Tuesday 26 June 2007

"Read n React..". The II BA English class does it with aplomb!

Will we meet to-night?
I don't know.

Come with me to-night.
Where?
Anywhere. For a walk.

I Don't want to walk.
Why not?

I want to go somewhere else.

Where?
I Don't know.

What's wrong with a walk?
I Don't want to walk.

What do you want to do?
I don't know.

Do you want to go anywhere else?
Yes.
Where?
I Don't know.

Do you want me to buy you a drink?
No.

Come for a walk.
No.

All right. I'll take you on a bus to the town. I know a place. My cousin runs it.


NOW FOR THE RESPONSES:

According to Mercy, "The setting is the MCC Cafeteria, and the conversation is between a guy and a girl. The guy is relatively very cool and calm. The girl however is restless."

Gifty added thus: "It's a kinda fight between two lovers. where the girl's presumed to be from Martin Hall and the guy's from Heber, and the conversations take place through sms."

Irene responded thus: "The whole conversation is between a counsellor and a patient. The counsellor is trying to take the girl to her cousin's psychiatric clinic a little further down the road."

Kalaiarasi had this to say: "It is an attempt at a compromise between a boy and her girl, because the previous night they both had a fight. The boy is willing to make amends, but the girl is a bit adamant and stubborn."

Smitha reacted thus: "It's a telephone conversation between a priest and a drug addict, and the victim here has a sincere heart to get rid of the bad habit."

Blaison said thus: "It could be a conversation between a father and son. While the son insists that he study only BA English literature, the father makes him choose Engineering."

Siddarth gives his response in this manner: "It might be a possible conversation between two old friends, both of them girls, one a bit depressed, and consoled by the other. The setting is a beautiful park."

Shippora gave her views thus: It might be a dialogue between a daughter and her step-mother, in a home, both not in good terms with each other. The setting is obviously their home."

Rinila put forward her views thus: "The conversation takes place in a cartoon strip, between a haughty cat and an innocent dog, in the portico of a house."

Smitha says "It's between two politicians of opposite parties having a clandestine meeting in the latter's house over a bottle of liquor."

Sidharth says, "It's a conversation between two soldiers of opposing countries, say, Iraq and the US."

The session was a means to bringing out the creativity latent within the Literature students, and at the end of it, I could say with all contentment, "The class has tremendous potential, lying untapped." Hope the day is not far off to unleash their enormous potential.

Thanks to Bestin for taking the minutes in a clear and concise manner. Thank you dear Bestin.

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