what you think Rahmani’s Intellectual Home is.

In the reading of Bilal Rahmani’s essay “Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman” I think the intellectual home for author Bilal Rahmani consists of books, classmates, class, and the school. Actually, though, he doesn’t seem to like school at all and was filled with hatred, because Bilal Rahmani experienced that he was so dissatisfied and irritated at being rejected at the school he chose and expected, and studied in a very ordinary high school specialized at Healthy Professions and Human Services on the East low side.  Even during his first semester at CityTech College, because during the first semester, he doesn’t feel he is part of life on the campus and he doesn’t have any target or pursue. However, in his second-semester class discussing Hemingway’s short story“Cat in the Rain ”, He thought he was the smartest person and that he would be the only person to explain a perfect answer. He was confident that there was no one who could give or interpret the short story, and when he unconsciously heard many fantastic and unusual ideas from the ‘‘clumsy” female classmate next to him and others, he suddenly changed his arrogant, indifferent mind to modesty. Towards the end of the story, Bilal Rahmani truly felt he perspective in the CityTech college was wrong.  To sum up everything that I’ve started so far, I think every person, mesmerized place, the book you are interested in, or process could be your intellectual home if you’re really interested and what it is.

In Bilal Rahmani’s essay “Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman,” I think his intellectual home consists of the story “Cat in the Rain,” his classmates, his English class, and City Tech College. Actually, though, he didn’t seem to like his high school at all and was filled with frustration because Rahmani was rejected by his first middle school choice and was forced into Health Profession and Human Services High School, a school he didn’t select. He didn’t feel he was a part of Citytech’s campus throughout his first semester and the beginning of his second semester. The special reason for that circumstance was that he wasn’t interested in any courses with his guidance counselor selected for him. Once, he was with classmates discussing the short story, “Cat in the Rain.” He thought he was the smartest and most confident person. The only one who understood the enigmatic allegories and would be there to give a perfect interpretation. The only person who would be there to give a perfect interpretation. But when he unconsciously heard an unusual idea from the “dumb” female classmate next to him, he was still sure my interpretation was smarter and more creative than hers anyway. But, when he heard from his other classmates’ ideas and that all made so much sense, his prejudices crashed, his wall, the egoistic wall crashed and vanished. Towards the end of the story, Rahmani truly felt he had perspectives on City Tech College at the beginning. At that moment, he started to enjoy his classmates, English class, and school. To sum up, in everything that I’ve started so far, I think every enthusiastic person, the place you are attracted to, the book you are interested in, or the process could be your intellectual home as long as you’re interested in it.  

1 Comment

  1. Professor Sean Scanlan

    Dehuai,

    Thanks for your post.
    -Prof. Scanlan

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