The Reluctant Writer Kratos is the most resistant person in the reading group. She loves reading and all her life she has written at school, in exams, in work documents and has been excellent at it, but now she is unwilling. She has only agreed to write the diaries in honour of our long standing friendship and mutual respect. However despite being intractable at first and not writing any entries for the first month, she has begun, and says she enjoys it and has even agreed to write the education journey. At book club 3 Kratos talked about the experience of hearing My Story of Resistance saying she was inspired to take up the pen and write her own story, her own education journey. Kratos was truculent about writing, only doing it to ‘please’ me, which is good evidence for the MPhil project but bad in that she is not doing what she wants to do. Having known Kratos for a decade I can tell you that she never ever does anything she doesn’t want to do. Possibly on so...