3. Wretched : Very unhappy, full of misery, misfortune,
ugly, suffering.
4. Wretched Stone : Symbolic to the adverse effect of
television.
Passive, Idle
Kills creativity
Irresponsible, violent
forgets the world
5. Excerpt form the log of Rita Anne
May 8 Loaded ship , begun their voyage
May 9 Fine crew with good sailing , read book , played musical instrument ,
story telling
May 17 No usual boredom of long voyage, off duties enjoyed with various
creative and recreational activities .
June 5 Reached in dead and strange island , not recoded in map, No plant
and fruit, no sign of animal and plant , stinking air
June 6 found an extraordinary rock , gray in colour, portion of it is flat and
smooth as glass with glowing pleasant light , heavy requires six man
to lift .
June 10 Crew are extremely fascinated , days passed so slowly , captain
thought that their interest in the stone fade away soon.
June 13 Crew stopped speaking , walk clumsy, Captain planned to throw the
stone
June 14 They have locked themselves in the forward hole of stone
6. June 15 Powerful storm, heavy wind and dark sky, sue to sink , went to
ask for help , turned to app: hairy beast
June 16 Storm passed , stone has gone dark because of lightening , crew were
sad captain shifted them to their quarter s, they had food for two
weeks
June 19 Captain played violin and had a positive effect in them, started
walking straight and ware awake and alert.
June 24 Dull glow was coming from the stone . So the locked it a room
June 28 Man came back to normal
June 30 A rescue ship has been seen ; they were rescued and captain decided
to ruin the ship , put fire on it
July 12 They were left in a harbor town , recovered completely, they make
agreement of not talking about it
7. Interpretation
Unusual Journey
Not written is taditional narrative.
Reader experienced confused and terrified eyes of the captain on the dramatic change of
the crew member on lured by the stone
Metaphorical and symbolical to the negative aspects of television.
Stone symbolizes television in many ways
App stands for uninteresting, non creative people.
Reflects the captain's changing circumstances and mood as the stone begins to affect the
crew.
Before the invention of television people would concentrate in creative activities, they
were social, focused in work. Crew reading , playing music…………
After the television has been introduced to human, they turned to be dull, lazy, passive ,
engaging in unproductive works etc .
People are careless to the responsibilities .
Spoiling our time and creating lots of problem in our life
8. Critical thinking
Though the journal record is very interesting to read
and some ideas about the effect of the stone
symbolizing television is convincing, I as a reader
disagree with various points
Never told what the stone is, how it came to be, or why
it has such an extraordinary power over those who
spend time with it.
