Ocean of Words
Kabilan Jeganathan (11/9/17)
“….Through bright and clean, the room seemed to be used as a repository for old furniture. On the floor was a large desk, a stool, a chair, a wooden bed standing on its head against the wall, and a rickety soft. But for Zhou this was heaven. Full of joy, he read three chapters that evening. Soon the downstairs room became Zhou’s haven. In the Radio Company he could hardly get along with anybody; there was a lot of ill feeling between him and his leaders and comrades. He tried forgetting all the unhappy things by making himself study hard downstairs.”
From this quote, it gives us a image how the room was very special to him. He calls this particular room “heaven”, simply because this is a place where he can get some peace and leave him from all of the bad things that happened to him. This is a peace where he could easily get fully engaged reading his father’s book, The Ocean of Word. The author mentioned that after Zhou getting used to the room, it became his “haven”. The word “haven” means that a place a safety, but it can also means a place that offers opportunities and conditions. The room gives him a sense of safety, without any negatively in his life (ex: ill feeling between him and his leaders and comrades or how he wasn’t able to get along with others) and gives him the opportunity to make him focus on his studies.
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