Q. 4
I think what she means when saying " ...coming here makes me feel stronger..." is that she starts feeling different from her husband and the people who usually surrounds her. She feels she is growing and opening her mind throughout what she is reading as well as sharin the classes with Frank. She is becoming aware of a new world she is having access to due to learning and she is getting fond of it. The fact of being closer to belonging to this world of cultural, well - read people makes her feel stronger to face new experiences in her life, it makes her feel more self confident.
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I think that what happens to rita is much quite similar to what may happen to any of us. I mean the fact of being able to be accepted by different people may make us feel "stronger"
Yes, I do agree with you. Learning and becoming 'WELL EDUCATED' may provide her with this sense of belonging she is looking foward to.
Who/what is Rita actually "getting closer to", I wonder? Lulilaika has suggested her strength may come from being accepted by others, an idea I like quite well... Yet, isn't she risking being rejected by others (her felatives and husband, for instance) as she gets into this new world?
Finally, when you say "well educated", whose criteria are you taking into account?
I guess at this point her aim is more important than her husband and friends for her.
By well - educated I mean well- read, as she thinks people at college are, she feels studing and enlarging her knowledge will make her a better and more accepted person in society. She wants to be part of a different group of people , not the one that sorrounds her at the moment for she might feel the plain life she has now is not good enough.
Sill, whose criteria are you taking into account when you say "well-read", Silvia?
And do you think it right that school should favour breaking links between a student and their social background / culture? To what extent is this unavoidable, and to what extent is it a teacher's choice?
One last thing: do you think any human life is actually "plain"???
All my love,
Gladys
NOT AT ALL!!!!
I do not agree being part of a social group might cause you to break different social or familiar relations. I think Rita wants to explore a different world she is idealizing and in fact does not see reality. She does not see that those people who might know soething different from her, the ones who study and work in an educational institutions, might also be surrounded by people like her husband or might have problems or frustrations as she has. They are not better or worse than anyone else.
On the other hand, I guess a plain life is up to what we feel with what we have. I would not put lives into categories, they are all different...
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