Question: Choose two poems with the experience of living with two cultures, and show how the experience is reflected in the language of the poems The two poems chosen are ‘’Half-Caste’’ by Jhon Agard and ‘’Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’’ by Moniza Alvi. The first poem ‘’Half-Caste’’ by Jhon Agard talks about his past and his dislikes of the term ‘’half-caste’’. He thinks when people call you half-caste they are calling you ‘half’ a person but really he is a whole person. He personally thinks that ‘‘half-caste’’ is a ridiculed term and very racist. The second poem ‘’Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’’ is about a mixed race girl who tells us about the gifts she receives from her aunts in Pakistan.
Based merely on the fact that Sylvia Plath had a complicated relationship with her own father, you are able to assume that the speaker within this poem is Sylvia Plath herself, who takes the role of the Jew or Victim when faced with her “Nazi” father. This harsh metaphor of the holocaust for her own father taken from the line “I thought every German was you” emphasises the strong hatred the speaker has for her dad, which is then especially emphasised when the poem reads “Not God but a swastika”. This makes the reader take the poem a little more seriously, as you’d expect a child’s view of her own father to be similar to a person’s view on God, but instead this father figure is being described as having similarities to the Nazis. Other lines within this poem read “I could never talk to you”, which may explain the reason why the hatred for her father is so strong, as the reader feels completely unimportant and rejected by him. Maybe the references comparing him to a Nazi, and referring themselves to a Jew is the closest comparison the speaker has to describe the relationship that has formed between the speaker and the dad.
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
Silent Dancing Many immigrants come to America to find their dream for better job education, and benefits. They all have strong belief in American dream, and it is the opportunity to experience anther cultures and broaden their horizons. According to Silent Dancing by” Judith Ortiz Coffer”, Cofer writes about her and family’s experience in U.S. Cofer’s family lived hard in the United State because their cultures are different from the American culture, it is not easy for new immigrants to get use to living in American. The author of Silent Dancing, her family moved from Puerto Rico to New Jersey when she was a child. She struggled between the opposites her own culture and American culture for second generation of immigrant.
Ruth gives Gogol an idea of what “type” of girls he likes, who are born and raised in the American culture. Gogol liked having some experience with being pure American. At this point of the story, Gogol felt more like he wanted to date girls that were in the American culture, so when he and Ruth’s relationship relationship ended, he went even more extreme. On Gogol’s train ride home for spring break he met a girl named Maxine. When they started dating Gogol
I believe that he had a great effect on Margaret so that she changed from a girl to a woman. At the beginning of the novel we are introduced with the character of Margaret Hale, a young southern girl who lives with her aunt Shaw and her cousin Edith. Already from the first few pages of the novel it is obvious that Margaret is very different from her cousin. While Edith was occupied with her gowns for the following wedding, Margaret was only thinking on going back to Helstone. Unlike Edith, she couldn’t imagine herself in a role of a woman preparing herself for such a ceremony, such an obligation.
Within both the poetry and the novel, the question of the moral condition of the “educated” is examined by the authors. In Wordsworth’s poems, William calls attention to the tendency of book-learned students to “murder to dissect” (The Tables Turned. line 28). Though the imagery of Wordsworth in The Tables Turned is mild when compared to Shelley’s description of Victor’s experiments, the imagination takes over in the meaning of the words. For Wordsworth, the structured, book-based education is destructive for the sake of knowledge; a trait he finds reprehensible.
Jing-mei’s mood seems skeptical as she opens the story this way. Her mother came to America to start new because she lost everything in China. A fresh start is what her mother wanted, a chance to begin again. As Jing-mei grows her mother wants her to be the best at something, because that is what it is suppose to be like in America. What Jing-mei fails to see is that her mother only wants the best for her.
She states in the first chapter that the “solace” of marriage is “visiting and news.” This explains why Mrs Bennett is so desperate for her husband to visit Bingley and find out more about him and to introduce him to their daughters. It is either her marriage that she is worrying about or the prospect of her daughters’ marriages. Marriage is also presented as a key moment in the lives of women and this is shown by the fact that the only things that Mr and Mrs Bennett discuss in the first chapter of the book are their daughter’s possible marriages. The significance of marriage in
She finds it possible from what she’s told to see the positive factors from these types of marriages as she considers how different America is while comparing divorce rates. The story takes place in a period of 6 years, while Serena goes back and forth, while helping one of her friend’s son find a suitable wife. Time and patience become a requirement as she tries to learn what the essential qualification is needed to find the ideal bride. She comprehends that it’s not as easy as just choosing someone but actually taking the time to consider all of the circumstances. With impatience and no precaution, choosing the wrong bride would not just ruin the family’s reputation but also the chance for their other kids to have an opportunity for marriage.