Wow! What a week. I have really been stretched with deadlines this week and frustrated with putting a webpage together with a server that wouldn't save - some glitch in the online world. Aughh!
Anyway, the webpage is complete, and I have made it through the fourth week of class. :)
About Passage to India, I found myself really getting aggravated with the mindset of the British and the expectations they had of one another throughout the book. There seemed to be no end to the mixed messages and double standards that they held for themselves in comparison to the Indian culture. Unfortunately, this kind of double standard and suspicion of others is still prevalent in our world today. Just because a culture or group of people is different than our own is no reason to isolate or constantly be expecting the negative. The novel definately showed that people - regardless of culture - could show the negative side of humanity. On the other hand, the positive traits that all people possess is also possible regardless of nationality.
If I take anything from this book, it is that I want to view people as individuals and not as a mass of humanity. Everyone needs to be given a chance. The pressure that is put on us by society to receive people in a certain way needs to be examined and scrutinized more than the people we are supposed to reject.
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