Today we discussed the importance of ambiguity in literature.
We discussed the power-balance in relationships and read the short story The Ninny from Sightlines. In the story, there is a clear power imbalance and the protagonist used his power to mock and ridicule Yulia.
Yulia's response at the ends has some ambiguity: the reader is not sure if she is a weak person who cannot advocate for herself or if she is, in fact, a strong young woman who is merely caught up in the power imbalance.
Napolean: "absolute power corrupts absolutely"
I handed out an orange-yellow handout that lists all the terms that need to be known for the provincial exam and we discussed some in class.
We also read the poem Envy and discussed how the form of the poem reflects the duality of the content.
