Group Task- The Only Story by Julian Barnes

 

🟦Group Task

"Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question."(The Only Story P-3)

We are studying "Contemporary Literature" in M.A. Semester 4. As a part of this a group task was assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad sir to work in a team which allows students to enhance their teamwork skills. As a part of this we have worked on 'The Only Story' 13th  novel of Julian Barnes.This novel is about the self-exploration of the protagonist #Paul_Robert.This is the memory novel with the major theme of love.The whole narration is about the 19 year old Paul and 48 year old Susan MacLeod.

It has become a great Learning experience to develop our teamwork skills, which provides opportunities to learn from each other's mistakes.By reading original novel I learnt so many things that we can't expect from the summary only.The one most interesting thing I found is that don't rely only on the memory. As Barad sir always says that keep questioning everything,keep taking notes, documenting the things is the good habit for us. Beacuse we don't know when we forgot the things.So documenting everything is very necessary .At the end of the novel sir gave very important remark that still we are not able to find the learning outcome from the literature.It should be the life learning outcome and it is the major concern of any literary text.

Click here to know more about this novel(Thinking Acrtivity)

Here is the video recording of our introductory presentation.