Conversations with the students will drive me up a tree one day.
Clarissa: So what can we say about the relationships between these characters? How do the members of each couple treat each other?
Student: Sigfrido treats Isabel a lot better than Juan treats Conchi.
Clarissa: Please elaborate.
Student: Sigfrido gives Isabel a car and a phone. Juan doesn’t have money to give a car and a phone to Conchi.
Clarissa: But Sigfrido is a drunk who cheats on Isabel with half of Barcelona and has illegitimate children all over the place.
Student: Yes, but life is better with a car and a phone.
Clarissa: OK, let’s discuss the relationship between the characters, not between the characters and their phones.
Student: Relationships are always better when you can buy things.
Let’s also keep in mind that the person in this dialogue who comes from a 3rd world country, has known poverty and has never had a car is not the student.
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Ah, but perhaps if you owned a car, you would come to understand that it’s more important than healthy relationships and basic human dignity.
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Yes, car owners are a different breed of people. 🙂
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Student’s car and phone = Clarissa’s potatoes
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Exactly. 🙂 🙂
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