In this writing activity, you are asked first to read the excerpt from Czech writer Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being entitled “A Dictionary of Misunderstood Words.” See the reading here: attachment
Then you should consider at least two words in your own vocabulary and experience that you find particularly meaningful. Write a dictionary entry similar to Kundera’s entries for each of the two words. You should consider what each word may signify in your own life and experience, and how that same word may signify something entirely different for someone else in your life. What different memories, experiences, definitions are called up by this word(s) for you, for another?In this writing activity, you are asked first to read the excerpt from Czech writer Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being entitled “A Dictionary of Misunderstood Words.” See the reading here: A Dictionary of Misunderstood Words by Milan Kundera
Then you should consider at least two words in your own vocabulary and experience that you find particularly meaningful. Write a dictionary entry similar to Kundera’s entries for each of the two words. You should consider what each word may signify in your own life and experience, and how that same word may signify something entirely different for someone else in your life. What different memories, experiences, definitions are called up by this word(s) for you, for another?
