WEEK 8

The Interview is the third short story. It is all about a friendship between people who different culture that can become a friend although in the war situation. It begin when Mason become a defense and Hiro become the interrogator. Although Hiro is Japanese, he can speak English and thus it make their relationship become more tight. Mason and Hiro surely come from different background and both of them had to perform duties towards their own country. But, they really appreciate their friendship after willing to sacrifice their life more than anything. Everyone has their own selfishness but he kills that kind of feeling. For me, it is a big sacrifice for Hiro to his beloved friend to betrayed Japanese army by letting Mason free from the execution. After that, Hiro was punished as the same punishment that is going to get. The sacrifice that he did, only put him to end of his life. By keeping Mason's secret, he was executed at the end. Anyway, their friendship is everything. Hiro already knew about the effect. However, he doesn't afraid of it. This story will teach the reader commonly and myself aspecially of the true meaning of friendship beyond barrier.

WEEK 7

Semester Break. I went home at Pasir Puteh, Kelantan. I just bring along my laptop and my novel, A Walk To Remember. I had deciced to choose and use this novel for assessment task 4 that required me to review a book. I admit that I never read this novel although I really like it. My interest increase dramatically right after I watched its movie starred by Teen Idol, Mandy Moore and pop star, Shane West. I already started to read it two days before the holiday begin. Instead of start to read it, I realized that I have to make a preparation for further assessment to avoid any clash between any other subject. While I was at home, I used all of my holiday's time to finish it up. After read it all, I found a lot of differences between the novel and the movie. This movie is just based on the novel not adaptation from its original story. From my opinion, the words "based on" and "adaptation" are trully different. What I think is based on is the director going to use certain part of the true story which interesting and beautiful and he or she going to edit several part of it. For adaptation, the person who in charge with script of the story will use all the content of the real ones. Hopefully, it is accepted by everybody. Back to the novel, the writer is Nicholas Sparks. He writes the novel based on his own experience. he dedicated his work to his sister that died because of the chronic illness similar to what had been storied in the novel. And his work is really awesome!

WEEK 6

This week, my classmates and I had gone through the whole week with discussion in our class together with Miss Syida. Our discussion is all about second short story that is "Mariah". "Mariah" is written by Che Husna Azhari. This story is very close to the polygamy tradition as it was portrayed very well in it. In this short story, the Imam married his second wife, Mariah, who is a widow. The marriage can help to protect Mariah that live alone. If Mariah meet with any kind of trouble, she has someone to accompany her rather than she face it alone.

Besides, the Imam is the only choice that suit Mariah's heart and desirability. However, I really dislike this story by the way of the Imam plan for another marriage. I'm sure that the word "marriage" only cross his mind without any strong purpose. Its doesn't make sense when the Imam decide to get Mariah to be his property after accidently saw Mariah's faces that similar to his ex-girlfriend. In addition, the Imam simply ask his first wife, Cik Yam, a permission in a romantic ways in order to make her blind of his persuasion.

Although Cik Yam seems to be willing to sacrifice for her husband to allow him marry again, but I know from the bottom of her heart, she cry silently. Then, her heart was broken slowly and she suffer a lot. Nevertheless, the Imam never think of Cik Yam's feeling whether she sincerely to be first wife or just do that to make him happy. The Imam can be considered as very selfish to fulfill his own wishes.