edu3234 2nd day of position paper's presentation

3/9/09
I enjoyed today’s class. It is basically because of Geeta’s controversial stance that provokes a lot of reactions among my classmates. She talked about a short story “A Great Injustice”. Her stance is “Abortion is the best solution to the unmarried mother.”The class started being interesting as a few of classmates rose up their hands and argued her position. They claimed that Ah Nya should not abort the child as they said that Ah Nya did not know what is destined to the child if she lets the child enters the world. Farihan expressed maybe the child will have a bright future as in the short story “The Merry Maid”. Sakinah leads a wealthy and good life with her adopted parents although she is actually was born out of wedlock by an Indian girl. She was raised by a Malay family and the family treats her well. So, I think Farihan has her points there when she stated that maybe Ah Nya should let the child alive. Hani also chose the same short story for her position paper. She proposed a similar stance that is “The unmarried mother should be given the second chance.” What she meant here is the society should forgive her for her wrongdoing and give her a second chance to amend her mistakes. Hani asserted that everyone is not free from making mistakes. Ah Nya is unfortunate since pregnancy out of wedlock is unacceptable in our society and thus the society blamed her for it.