Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Dumpling
"Dumpling" by Angela M. Balcita was a wonderful story about a Filipino girl, who took others words. It was about a young girl who just start to learn how to cook her family tradational food and decided to take it to school to share, but it turn out that the students were disgust by it and makes her feel humiliated. Because of what happen at school, she did the wrong thing by yelling at her mother for her chink food instead of cooking normal food. She probably feel guilt after woking up, knowing that her mother is hurted. I believe the point of the story wasn't about the dumpling, but the important of the family tradation. You should never takes others people words and believe in yourself.
Independence Day
On the Independence Day of 1975, a little twelve years old girl had moved to Manley Hot Springs, Alaska with her mother to experience the lifestyle of it. The chapter was called "Independence Day, Manley Hot Springs, Alaska" by Lisa D. Chavez. A mother that took her chid to explore the life in Alaska, believing that everything will go as plan, but big mistake. Although they had face many things, Manley Hot Springs was still a defining moment of their life in Alaska.
Teacher Training
The chapter called "Teacher Training" by Mary Elizabeth Pope was about the experience of a teacher in her childhood compared to her being the teacher. The form that the author used in the article is also the same form that Robert L. Root Jr. used in "Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Eposide, Segment." Another form that relates to the way the author wrote this article is analepsis, an interjcted scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. The article called "Finding the inner story in memoirs and personal essays", addressed the meaning of the inner story of "Teacher Training". I believed that the inner story of the article, Teacher Training, was the difference behaviors that she developed in both time. During her fifth grade year, she has always inspired Mrs. Crane and wants to be her best student, but Mrs. Crane never show her the same feeling back. While she was a teacher assistant in her adulthood, she has inspired many of her students. The different feelings between the time period and the situation that she faced cause her not to be like Mrs. Crane to her fellow students. The comparative event in the article are her first day of fifth grade and her first day of being a graduate teacher assistant.
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, originally published in 1990. While apparently based on some of O'Brien's own experiences, the title page refers to the book as "a work of fiction." He puts individuals stories that relates to the war and combine them together to develop a story about his experiencement with the war.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Writers Blog
- Do you read any blogs? Yes I did read other blogs as well and I also found many interesting things.
- Which blogs do you read? I read MetaCab - MetaHipster's Home Arcade Endeavors, This Mortal Coil, NF2 odyssey, The Rootless Wanderer, and many more.
- Was setting up the blog easy? Yes it was very simple, nothing hard at all.
- What 's you experience reading and writing memoirs? One of the blog that I just got done reading, The Rootless Wanderer, talks about her recently travel to the heart of mesmerisingly beautiful Swedish Lapland. The area is the home of one of Europe's last indigenous people - Sami and is one of the four Nordic countries that are termed "lapland". This part of the world boasts of the last undisturbed flora and fauna in the entire continent.
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