Most of Indonesians treat books as jewellery, luxurious and expensive as well. And it is not their faults since books are really expensive. If a book has been bought, it would end up on the dusty shelf for years.
Frankly speaking, years before, I’ve only read text books and hand books to support my formal education. My reading is shifting from left-brainy book to right-brainy’s after I got married. I’ve got influenced by the hubby’s hobby in reading and collecting books. Now, our book collection number at home are getting bigger. They are stored in two medium size cupboards. A neighbour one day protested about these cup boards, she said that they were too big comparing to my small house. When I asked her where I should put my book collection, she shook her head. No wonder since I saw her house was very clean and also bookless.
As far as my observation at bookstores, reading and books become more popular in middle-up Indonesian families. The observed-parents like to bring their children to bookstores. My four year’s nephew, Naufal, has been introduced to reading and book since he was two. And now, he can read and write properly. Because of its luxurious image, poor families has been given up in accessing books. What they know are only text books for school, the books which they fought for to buy.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Reading Culture
Friday, July 4, 2008
The Alchemist : Questions for discussion (#3)
At the start of his journey, when Santiago asks a gypsy woman to interpret his dream about a treasure in the Egyptian pyramids, she asks for one-tenth of the treasure in return. When Santiago asks the old man to show him the path to the treasure, the old man requests one-tenth of his flock as "payment." Both payments represent a different price we have to pay to fulfill a dream; however, only one will yield a true result. Which payment represents false hope? Can you think of examples from your own life when you had to give up something to meet goal and found the price too high?
Let's begin with the gypsy woman. She is a dream interpreter and a palm hand reader. By the phrase "...It wouldn't be the first time", it can be assumed that she had got same dreams telling before the boy's. So, when the boy tells her about his dream, she has nothing to say unless to give him hope and ask him one-tenth of the treasure.
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