Research paper

Last night i heard a real bad news from one my group member, what we planned to do for our research paper does not match the requirement of the research paper. Suddenly, feel the world is turning to upside down and uhuhuh... it seems that i have to start everything all over again. Sometimes, really want to shoot myself for all the careless thing i have done.
I planned to compare a poem with a short story, which both share the same theme. "Mala" by K.S Maniam, a short story that we actually studied in our first or second semester, which i actually forget almost all the content inside. Well, what i found this time is while i read through the short story, i highlight most of the words or sentences that i found interesting or perharps might be points for the topic i am going to working at, compare to previous semester, in which i only read through the texts without think much of what i have read, after that just forgot like that. In short, i does not relate what i read with what i actually know... or even interpreting it. But, now as i read through any texts, i will hightlight the lines that attract me and try to relate and interpret.
A progress maybe, though it is a bit late, because it took me 3 years to do so. Well, i do believe that, this is better than nothing:)