RMST 202 Blogs

Hi, everyone. Welcome to my week 12 blog. How was everyone's weekend? Time flies so fast. This week’s blog is also the last book I read this semester. I have to say that this course is really a wonderful course that allows me to read a lot of meaningful books. If I have opportunities in the future, I would like to take more reading courses just like this course. This week I read the book "Faces in the Crowd" which was written by Valeria Luiselli. When I'm reading this book, I still feel a bit confused, as if the narrator is interweaving memories while recounting them. I don't know if you understand what I mean. It's like many segments of memories are mixed together, so I often feel lost when I'm reading. The "I" in the novel is a mother and a writer. Although we can sense her love for her children from her words and actions, the existence of two children undoubtedly hinders her writing. Just as mentioned in the book, she can only write when her d

Hi, everyone. Welcome to my fifth blog! This week I read "Agostino" written by  Alberto Moravia. It is a complicated story. I have many thoughts to share with you. The protagonist is a little boy named Agostino. When I first started reading this book, it reminded me of Proust's Combray. I felt that the protagonists in both books have a strong attachment to their mothers. In Combray, the little boy is attached to his mother's kiss before sleep, while Agostino is infatuated with his mother's companionship. He fears that his mother might be taken away by another man, giving me the impression that he has a kind of " Oedipus complex ". In the novel, when someone comes to talk to his mother, Agostino is very disgusted. Initially, he is happy to go out to sea with his mother, but with the appearance of another man, Agostino becomes quite upset. Consequently, he decides not to go out to sea with his mother anymore, hoping that she will notice his unhappiness. Th