During their lessons,
Sang Ly reads some Cambodian literature, but mostly translated stories from around the world, since
Sopeap was not only a professor but also formerly studied in America. Today Sopeap announces that they will start an abridged version of
Moby-Dick, in which Captain Ahab represents evil and the whale represents good, though neither are pure. Sang Ly feels overwhelmed by everything having double meanings, but Sopeap insists that “in literature, everything means something.”