Moral of The Story..

My position paper is based on short story entitle A Great Injustice by Heah Chwee Sian. Basically, the story is about Ah Nya, the main character had getting pregnant out of wedlock. In the end of the story, she did an abortion.

I believed that she did the abortion because of the cruel treatments and society’s pressure that she got from the society. As a result, based on the situation, I came out with a thesis statement. My thesis statement is the cruel treatments and all society’s pressures are the reason for Ah Nya’s abortion. The cruel treatments that she received are not in term of physically but rather on emotions and mental.

Actually, what I want to highlight here is after I examined the story based on my thesis statement, I learnt something from my stand. Our behavior usually is controlled and decided by us, but that is not the always the case. As we saw in Ah Nya’s action in this story, she actually made the abortion because she felt pressures the way people around her treat her. Her action was greatly influenced by the views of her society. She forced to abort the baby although she knew that it is wrong to do that. It is not always easy to refuse such thing; Ah Nya had to make the abortion. By analyzing the pro’s and contras she made the decision, basing it on knowledge and commonsense, actually is not a bad thing. Maybe, if the baby growing up in such society, the child will be shun from the society.

In this short story, made me think that our decision and choices are based on what we think as much as what others think. It is not always your choice and it is not always what you want to do. Some actions people do are subconsciously inputted by society. I believe that society pressures everybody all the time, this is unavoidable and even necessary still, I believe that society must only provide advices instead of provoking and causing actions.

Education…

In the previous lesson, (29^th August 2008), after we finished read a text on Kafka, which is basically a diary about his education, Mr. Edwin had asked us what education mean for us. As for me, education is a process of civilization. This is because from the education, the knowledge that we gain we can use them to develop our won, society and next our own country.

Besides, education for me supposed to be will make someone become a better person in term of intellectual, spirit and emotion. However, I do agree with Mr. Edwin’s opinion that an education is a process of learning. If we said that an education enable ones to gain knowledge, actually it is not consider an education. An education is when ones using the knowledge that what they had learnt.

We can get education from formal or informal education. A formal education is a structure education for instance, the education that we get from school or university. Meanwhile for informal education is an unstructured education for example, the education that we learn from our parents an experience.

When he asked us to list three sources of our education, for the first one I put experiences as my main source of education followed by school and lastly family. I put experiences as my first source of education because for me sometimes when someone gives their advices we will take for granted till we come to the certain situation when we realize that the advices that they gave are true and useful actually. So, from that we will take as a lesson in the future. Therefore, form the situation it proves that sometimes our own experiences are the main sources of education in our life.