Pecha Kucha

WARNING: This post may be longer than usual. And it will be rely on my study (and my assignment..) and I shall relate it with my life (of course). Tq.

What is pecha kucha?

it sounds weird, right?

"pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art. "

huk3...

just imagine..20 slides..20 seconds for 1 slide.

and for ES assignment, we have to perform our pecha kucha, 1 minute for every slide on To Kill A Mockingbird and need to be presented on this Tuesday.

FYI, this is my first time finishing an English novel, 376 pages. Alhamdulillah~

I took about a month to finish reading it. hehe~unsangkarable betul!!

For this particular presentation, Syamim, Ayu S, Zira and I decided to take an event after the trial.

WARNING : This post will take deeper view on this novel. For those who are not interested, please STOP here. Don't waste your time,okay?

p/s: currently waiting for movie entitled Valley of the Wolves to be full downloaded.

ok. I shall discussing the event in the courtroom; the trial itself before moving on what happen after the trial.

Chapter 18 : Mayella gives her evidence on what happened on 21st August.

She is about 19 years old and got no friends. I think she is very lonely person. Despite of having her brothers and sisters, she still feel lonely. ha!! lonely is different from alone ya.. And her loneliness make her do something against her community in Maycomb (not existed at all but the society is quite same with other parts in America at that time) that is the Black is very dirty. the term are prejudice and ethnocentrism.

nowadays, maybe we do not see the prejudice to the black anymore. ya. the president of US is an African right? So as MJ, Oprah etc.

Where do we see sense of prejudice?

I shall say it happen everywhere to everyone if and only if they do something out of the norm of people nowadays. the people so called a stranger.

back in 60s, the black is seen as very low class of human. they treated like they are not deserved to live in this world at all.

back to period of when Rasulullah SAW spreads Islam, Bilal Bin Rabah, the blackest, the darkest human and once called as Ibnus Sauda' (the son of the Blacks), yet become the lover of all angels in the Jannah. there is no prejudice in Islam. Islam=peace. It brings rahmah to the universe. Rahmatallila'lamin.

Even Rasulullah SAW heard the sound of his shoes (terompah) in the Jannah to show how precious is this dark, black man.

Bilal is a slave of Muawiyah, yet when Islam come the status of the Umaiyah is automatically changed. Umaiyah is just same with him. A slave of Allah. Bilal admit it. But, Umaiyah did not. He did not confess that there is no god but Allah.

Lailahaillallah.

Ahad..Ahad..Ahad..

The words that had been nailed and craved in his heart. It will never changed. Even being threatened to death, he will never change his stand.

Subhanallah.

Ok. back to the novel.

Chapter 19 : Tom Robinson (TR) reveal the truth of what really happened on that day.

He claimed that Mayella had done something bad to him. I could say she seduced him in a way to make him 'reply' the treat. Adeh~tak reti nak susun ayat..

But, TR did not do what Mayell wanted him to do. He even ran away from her with fear. Plus, her father Bob Ewell saw the incident. In his condition-a black and seen with a white, and even his daughter, TR had no choice but run. And the jury may seen his action as act of guiltiness.

TR said he did not do anything bad towards Mayella. But, the bruises on her body and she got her left eye blacked and she accused TR who done it. or I should say most of the white society accused him.

Why most?

because there are some people who are having this equality image in their character.

for example Link Deas, TR's boss.

1. defends TR during the trial.
2. after TR died-protects Helen (TR's wife) from Bob's attack.

and also Dolphus Raymond.

1. pretend to drink wisky despite of Coca Cola (this is during he gave a sack of Coca Cola to Dill)
2. Scout thinks that he is a sinful man who had mixed children.

the main character too...ATTICUS FINCH. a handsome and macho guy..hehe~(based on the movie). He has many quotes, father-like said. Somehow, I think he is as much as Luqmanul Hakim.

He loves to teach his children, Scout and Jem about the real of life, on how to deal with it, how to face the society that different with his principles without harming them.

I could see his determination of standing on his principles-with people talks, the attack towards his life, plus towards his children which eventually resulting in Bob's death.

Atticus is a good worshipper. He feels responsible to defend and fight for the equality, specifically in TR case.

Ya..all of us are equal. just the same status. no matter whether you are black or white or dark brown skin colour, got blue aye or pink eye, with blonde hair or grass type hair, we are all the same. the difference is in your heart, your taqwa..

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted. (Surah Alhujurat 49:13)

See?

(to be continued..)