The Enormous Radio

November 25, 2008

Firstly, when i looked at the title, i understood easily what is story about. The story is not much long so it can be read easily, but on the other hand, the topic is not interesting so people can be bored when they are reading this story. Also topic is a bit nonsense for me because i couldn’t understand how a radio can act like that. In addition, i expected a different conclusion for this story and it’s another negative point of the story i think.


Questions about “The Enormous Radio”

November 25, 2008

1)What is the radio representing according to you?

2)What do you think about the radio’s mystery?

3)Do you think that, it’s possible that a radio can affect people’s life in a bad way like in the story?

4)What did you get as a lesson when you read the story?


Aile Şerefi

November 18, 2008

It’s a Turkish film named “Aile Şerefi”, and published in 1976. Main charachters were performed by Münir Özkül (Rıza) and Adile Naşit (Adile). The film is about a family that live for their honor. Father, Rıza, sells water, mother, Adile, is a housewife. They have 3 sons named, Selim, Hasan and Murat and 2 daughter called Ayşe and Zeynep. Ayşe is married and his husband’s name is Zihni.

The parents want Zeynep to marry Mustafa who is friend of Selim. Zeynep is agreed to marry him too. One day, when Zeynep go to cinema with his brother Murat who goes to primary school, a car hit him. The guy named Oktay was driving the car and after that, Oktay see Zeynep and he fall in love with him, but Zeynep doesn’t love him because his is a bad guy. Oktay says his father (fabricator) that he wanted to marry with her and his father says that he do everything for his son in this life. So, Oktay plays role to attract Zeynep, like going Zeynep’s house for Murat’s accident.

Rıza is disturbed from this situation and he goes to Oktay’s father with Adile, but Oktay’s father insult them. After that, one day, when Zeynep and Mustafa go to the home, Oktay kidnap Zeynep, and Mustafa goes to home and says to family this situation. Selim and Hasan go after to Oktay and they find him, but Selim is stabbed by Oktay. The father, Rıza, takes his riffle, finds Oktay and shoots him. Oktay is died and Rıza goes to the prison. After years, Rıza is released from prison, goes his house and live happily with his family because his rescues his family’s honor.

This film is a good model for “good family relationship”. Everbody is happy. They can die for their honor. There is no conflict between family members. They can solve every problem by cooperation of family. On the other side, Oktay’s family is a bad model of family. His father does everything that his son wants, he never says “no” to him. So, Oktay was grown up as a bad person.


What are we fighting for?

November 4, 2008

Marriage is an important stage of our life because it affects our future in many ways. Marriage is an agreement that a person is going to live with his/her “life-partner” forever. But same sex marriage is totally different i think because there is no need for them to marry. Only some reasons make them to marry like financial participation. I think it’s nonsense because there is no procreation in same-sex marriage, and same-sex marriages are forbidden in many countries. It’s not looked with in favor from societies too.