On this one, I would have to agree with my fiancé. The local media seem to represent only their own interest, and what sells, by exploiting people like others, and me who are not like me. My fiancé's response was: "Local media only represents themselves and their own opinions and views." (Jack Parsons, personal communication, August 2007). My mother's response was "Would not know, have never dealt with the
Fadiman spoke with doctors, townspeople, elderly people of the Hmong culture, and teachers of the Hmong. Each point of view was different from the next, but Fadiman stayed in an objective state, not judging anyone, just listening. Her inferences of the Lees are not based on judgements. They are based upon facts, facts that the Hmong endure through their culture. Prior being assigned to read this book, I never knew who the Hmong were, or that they even existed.
What’s up with that? It could be that, in this world, a girl like Clarisse just can’t exist. She’s incompatible with her surroundings, so she’s not allowed to live. We don’t know all the details of her demise, nor is the confusion reconciled by the end of the novel. But we can’t help but think of Clarisse when Granger discusses the thumbprint on his mind left by his
We get more information the more lines we read. And in the last part Biss opens up to the reader on how she feels on the
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being…” This quote is talking about how Edna wasn’t meant to lead the life she was leading. Edna was not meant to be the stereotypical mother and housewife. Edna is, for lack of a better term, living the wrong life. She is supposed to be independent, and not take orders from the stereotypical husband, which hers is. At this point she realizes it, and the story unravels off of that detail “But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague…” This is saying how Edna’s awakening is like her starting in a new world, which is where this statement is pointing at.
This may be a person who is not in your life right now, it would be even more powerful then, because anything they have become in signified contact with, is the only couple sources of last memories of that person. In Sherry Turkle’s case, it was an excuse to look for someone, or the theoretical ghost of someone. It happened to be somewhat of a yearning to obtain a sense of closure with her father. All she wanted to obtain from the object was answers to the questions her mother never addressed. Her mother was reluctant to speak on the matter of Sherry’s
It is not an oversight that Curley’s wife, although a relatively minor character, was left nameless in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She is not in the story as someone to relate to, and by giving her a name, it would bring more similarity to the reader. Her status also has to do with this. She is not regarded as anything significant, therefore she does not need a name. Steinbeck leaves her unnamed so she lacks something that makes her appear as an equal individual.
Ishmael was a very disagreeable book with very few points to agree to. This essay will contain three major points in which there is nothing to agree about. The generalzation of people and cultures goes too far as to say that a group of people are all the same without a difference of where one or another is from. Who is to say that people are all the same whether or not you are from the Taker or Leaver time and culture. The story of the gods goes too far into being an opinion for one to be able to side with it.
Response #1 In Tan’s essay exemplifies the performative as described by Bart by her saying “I am not a scholar of English or literature.” “I am a writer.” When Tan says this she is referring to the fact that she is not a scholar but yet she is still a writer. It also exemplifies what Bart said in his essay when he says “it designates exactly what linguists, referring to Oxford Philosophy, call a performative, a rare verbal form (exclusively given in the first person and in the present tense) in which the enunciation has no other content.” This definition of performative is exemplified when Tan opens up her first to paragraphs with I am. Also all throughout the essay she refers to her mother as being stuck with a broken English form of speaking.
With the braiding, she does not lead the reader to conclusions, and she does not hint. There are times, as in her opening essay, that the introduction of new braids surprises. By the end, the connections, while inventive in her mixing, are clear. I found myself either informed or flip-flopped on my understanding of a topic. For example, the following are progressive snippets from braids as she interlays them in her opening essay Time and Distance