Assignment 1: Summary and Personal Response Submitted to Professor Dorothy Lehman Hoerr ENG 115 – English Composition October 25, 2014 “Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Kim 1. Identify the source (writer and title of essay) and state his or her most important point in your own words. In the article “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Suki Kim, the author explains her past experience by writing an essay when her family became very poor after used to be a millionaire. Suki Kim is the author of “The Interpreter”. She was born in Korea and moved to the U.S. in 1983.
Esmeralda doesn’t fit into suburbia also she is obsessive which makes her neighbour think that she is a freak. In the scene when Edward is talking to peg, Esmeralda interrupts them and stars perching her thoughts about Edward and saying that he is ‘the devil incarnate.’ Esmeralda is a good example of personal suffering because she is excluded and marginalized by her suburban community. Pegs
Even her daughter as well as society later refers her mothers English as broken. And because of that in her younger years, Amy felt somewhat embarrassed by her mothers English. And felt that her view of her mother was legit because of instances as such in (3rd paragraph 507). “I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear
Ian Bullock Bullock 1 2-13-09 Block 2 American History Honors SOLD: A BOOK REPORT Sold is a historical fiction novel written by Patricia McCormick that portrays the horrible atrocities of poverty. It details some of the lengths that some people will go to help support family. Also, it displays some of the deceit that goes along with having to support family, and repay debt. In Patricia McCormick's sorrowful and well-written young adult novel, the waking nightmare that young Nepalese girls experience after being sold into sexual slavery is told through the intelligent eyes of 13-year-old Lakshmi. Her family loses the little it
Until the day, Mrs. Cullinan and her friends had a tea party and one of the friends called her name very long and called her Mary. Margaret felt very offended but since Mrs. Cullinan called “She’s a sweet little thing, thought” she decide to don’t mind about the incidence. Until, Mrs. Cullinan starts calling Mary. After this, she got very angry and every time she repeated the name Mary she get angrier. To get rid off her new nickname that she didn’t like, she plans to break the precious Virginia dishes, and this made Mrs. Cullinan really upset.
Sachi went insane because she wasn't used to these living conditions. She says, " a~Tomoko and I had always been treated like princesses when we were young, and I never knew what it meant to go out of my way for others.' "(Tsukiyama 143). This is a truly humbling experience for Sachi because she is shown a completely worse side of life opposed to the pampering that she experienced before.I can personally relate to this incident because it relates to when I transferred to a public school from a private school. In the private school, everyone wore a uniform and was usually treated fairly.
Since bankruptcy is an illegal offence in South Korean culture, punishable by prison time, the family decided to pack up and flee to the United States of America, to the ghettos of Brooklyn, New York. Not knowing how to speak English, and not having all the luxuries she grew accustom to in South Korea, she spoke about the culture shock she faced during her school years in the 80’s. She stated that she didn’t even find too much in common between her and the other Korean American students at her
Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits 1 Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits Assignment 1.2 Monique Henderson English 115 Professor Revell November 18, 2012 Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits 2 Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits Assignment 1.2 I always wondered about how rich people would feel if they were put in poor people’s shoes. That is what happened in this essay, about how a Korean girl went from having anything she wanted and being very wealthy to losing everything overnight. Her family went from rich to poor over night because her father’s business crumbled and he had to file bankruptcy. To see how middle class people struggle with money instead of assuming everything is easy. The family moved to Queens, New York in the 1980’s.
When he is out on a job she worries about him and gets very nervous. At first she tidies her home. But since she does this whenever she get nervous, it’s always clean, because she gets nervous a lot. So she alphabetizes her cupboard and her freezer. The whole time the only thing she can picture is her husband cutting the wrong wire and being blown to bits.
That depressed me.” This shows that Holden get depressed over the smallest things. This is concerning because it could lead to being depressed by bigger things. Another example is when Holden says “…I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell – I don't know why, exactly”.