19.4 - Discussions, drafts and Dracula

For this lecture we did various stuff from discussions about essays and Hitler to exercises. We talked with the people sitting in the same table about our essays, which we were supposed to make a second draft for this week. We were not supposed to talk about the subject, just the process. For me it wasn't that hard to start the essay but to write some main points is a bit harder. Somehow I know what I want to write about but to write down the actual main points is a bit harder.
The essay is still under progress, though :)

So my subject was about the novel Dracula and after a few drafts it still feels interesting. I am happy with choosing Dracula as an subject since it is closely connected to my studies (Dracula isn't really nordic literature..), I found it kinda as an accident and the academic article I have for the essay is interesting (David Seed: The Narrative Method of Dracula).

I'm going to use Dracula in another task too: we are supposed to make some posters for the next lesson. I have not been sure about the whole task, since the poster we have been looking at has not inspired me that much. It felt messy and I had a hard time imagine what my own poster would look like. What would the subject be? Luckily we were made clear that we could do a poster based on our essay. This helped me a lot since I have pretty much all the information I need to build a poster, I was just not sure how it would be structured. How does a poster about a novel look like?

The last group discussions was one big theme this lesson. Since there were only two people having the discussions we were divided into two groups with approximately 6 persons per group. This means the groups were bigger than before and it was interesting to see whether the discussion would be different. Our group talked about Hitler and the myth around him. One of the questions was whether the same kind of propaganda could happen nowadays or not. The large group came with different kind of aspects. We talked about the media and ways to communicate and whether is it easier to form radical groups today. This led into a debate around reclusive people and loneliness as a cause to radical actions. which led to a discussion about the school-shooters that we unfortunately have had here in Finland. Somehow the discussion ended with destiny and different aspects on that. I was a bit confused with the new topic, but the topics before were interesting.

What else? We did some exercises during the lesson and they were actually fun to do, especially "Looking at the bright side"which I did with Santeri. At the end of the lesson we were reminded about the posters, which would be an challenge.