Sunday 14 December 2008


These two new chapters show us Rita's development. She has become more confident and she is now able to discuss a book with the rest of the literature students at the university. She has finally become able to understand what she reads, and to write essays without depending on Frank's opinion and assistance. She has learnt to consult different sources and opinions, and to be objective. All this makes her a better student and a wiser person on the literature field. However, this does not mean that you need to receive formal education to be wise. Experience makes you wiser, and even an iliterate person can be as wise as a teacher or a professor, and in this case, I think that Rita is wiser at what she does. This is because she has put a lot of effort and dedicated time to her studies, and this has led her to improve her essays and her knowledge on literature.

2 comments:

Gladys Baya said...

Is Rita actually more "confident" or simply more conceited, Adri? Whose criteria is she relying on to decide if her views are valid? Lili and LuG have been discussing whether this "new Rita" is wiser or just "better read" here. How about joining them to "blog it over"? ;-)

Peace,
Gladys
She has learnt to consult different sources and opinions, and to be objective. All this makes her a better student and a wiser person on the literature field. However, this does not mean that you need to receive formal education to be wise. Experience makes you wiser, and even an iliterate person can be as wise as a teacher or a professor, and in this case, I think that Rita is wiser at what she does. This is because she has put a lot of effort and dedicated time to her studies, and this has led her to improve her essays and her knowledge on literature.

Adri Ambrosio said...

You and the girls are right, Gladys! :D Rita's confident about her knowledge of literature, but perhaps she's acting a bit arrogantly. This is not the way Frank would like her to be, he must feel very dissapointed as a teacher. "More cultured" does not mean "better person", and Rita is showing that.