2. Please tell me why Elaine?

Why did you run away with Benjamin Elaine? Why? Why?

Thanks to digitürk, I have watched "The Graduate" for several times but it was the first time that I watched it as a whole.
No need to mention that this movie covers several different topics from several different aspects.

I would like to start from the thing that made me think about a lot, I just can't understand why Elaine left with Benjamin. Everybody knows that he is wrong, she knows this, but still she left with him. I don't know he had an affair with her mother and this didn't stop her. I just can't understand. What kind of love is this? They say, love is blind and sometimes I believe this but in Elaine's situation, it is unbelievable.

About the phony adults vs real adolescents I believe it is very hard to draw a straight line between them because everybody is different and everybody changes. There might be phony adults and there might be phony adolescents. For example, the man Elaine was going marry was a phony adolescent. Moreover by having an affair with Mrs. Robinson doesn't make Benjamin's world more real. I believe there are some other things that will make their life more real. It wasn't even love..

About the generational conflict, I know it is a cliche but we have it all the time and now it seems very normal to me. Yesterday my mom told me that only I am going to be responsible for the mistakes that I did when I am young. The things she calls mistakes makes me smile but I try not to rebel, I try to understand her. I wish Benjamin and Elaine had a different story but unfortunately it is not possible.

I guess I will continue after today's class discussion..

1. A late post

I was going to write about this before but I just couldn't.
I was very happy to Sonja's smiling face on Monday and I will be glad that we are together, again.
Also I am happy that 4 of us are still in the same section.
I am sure Sonja will understand how I feel, now I have both Mac Os X and Windows in my Macbook, Valea and it hurts a lot.
I have Windows because of the program called Visual Studio for CS 201.
This ruined my first week, I waited for 4 hours without doing literally nothing.
Actually there were some other things that ruined my first week but anyway, now it is the beginning of the second week and everything will be fine...