Blog Post #5
Well hello there I'm writing about Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway), its about a couple who has found out they are expecting a child, but they are deciding if they want to keep the child. As a reader it is very hard to understand what the subject was, nonetheless the women in, Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) wanted to keep the child because she believes the child need to be alive. she felt as though it was a lonely choice to choose against a life. while the father does not really understand what is going on in the women's head because, she seems to switch up her words but in a sneaky way he kept asking for the women to get and abortion. The women would not do it. It is important to let you know that life should be supported, but a woman does have a choice in that matter because its her body. so it was important for the father to support her choice. it seems like the father knows he had to be at least reasonable for he had to decide how to grow up. If he does not want to support the child I think he could have suggested other options than killing the child. Maybe adoption could have been another option. It is important for a child to be able to trust their parents and if you are going to extremes without thinking of all the options then you might get tangled in unseen circumstances. I am glad they might be heading in a route of responsibility because they have to grow to understand how to hold the child down, until he has grown up, even though tensions are high it is necessary that they could take responsibility for their baby. Well the situation could have been better all together but the world is no longer perfect, so the had to work on it. I think they are going to compromise a lot, but they will make it work. There was a time when I had to choose if I wanted to live in America or stay in Cameroon. Cameroon where my family is and where my mother resided with my vincula that makes my identity, I thought if I could expand my views and become more desirable in the competitive economy that is in America, I could earn more than what the African currency would pay me,At the time I needed to get a permanent card and that time was the perfect opportunity. I was able to go get my passport and prepare for my new adventure that was in the near future. So as a 7 year old in the 3rd grade I thought I have a chance to see what America was like, how another continent would act and behave, and how the growth will prepare me to give back in the future. It is important to give back and show that there is more to than just yourself and it is not just money because that is just a material object. The thought of coming to America was so exciting it blinded me from the fact that I had to leave and stay miles away from my parents in hopes of getting a citizenship for my parents.
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Blogpost #4 Hello there I'm writing about a podcast that I heard, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang), its about how lying could help a person instead of telling them the truth. Lulu used her grandmother as an example. Lulu's Nainai was diagnostic with lung cancer by their doctor, but due to Chinese custom lulu's aunt received the massage. Lulu's Nainai does not want to see her diagnostic, but due to her life expectancy of 3 month her family felt as though it was argent to see her. Since the family knows that Lulu's Nainai does not want to be around negative energy, her family through a lie of an early wedding party instead of a grief gathering was best.
Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother? I thought Lulu's family was right in lying to her mom because her mother preferred not to be surrounded by grievances in her diagnostics. -Nainai believe if you believe in a superstition then it will come true- If her family had arrived just to grieve at her and show the expectancy of her demise, it would have made the symptoms a lot more real than a gathering as celebration and coronations. With Nainai’s inability to show her grief it seemed more uncomfortable to Lulu when her father cried in the midst of his wedding speech, while addressing Nainai. To Lulu it seemed like the conversation they had was a list on how to maintain the lie, but he broke his composure during his motivational speech. Wow a lie to someone could seem as a good idea, if you are trying to help someone get to a place where they are at peace to make a decision that is more pleasing to them it seems a lot more comfortable to lie. while a lie could be malicious instead of lying for reasons more self serving and manipulative. Lulu’s family knew that they loved their mother well enough to do do something that is really taboo in God and societies. Love can make one over-look situations. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? One can see how America can be the land of opportunities. America which land was built on religion from the british refugees that wanted to find their own voice in their religious freedom and their own way of live that is free from monarchy. Well throughout the years America has use money as a way to manipulate and control countries, American aspirations In the Africa cosmopolitan is emphasized how wealthy America is. America was seen as this competitive area where you could be who you want to be if you do your part in earning your wage of work. So for an emigrant to move to America, it is very important for the emigrant to become a benefactor for those who are still striving to come out of their economic poverty, also some foreign visa/ passport Processes are a lot more complicated, one the reason for becoming a naturalized citizen of the USA was to be an above average academic platform to get better wages, Therefore to become a resident in the Land of opportunities some names had to be stretched and processed fixed to accommodate living situations to become an american citizen. God and behold has kept me save to have opportunities America could give me and my family. My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) is about Margaret's life as a young girl who worked as a servant for a white women, Mrs. Cullinan. She is not a slave but served Mr.Cullinan is her job, Margaret does mind that. Mrs. Cullinan changes her name to Mary, Therefore, Margaret breaks Mrs. Cullinan's casserole dish because she wanted to find a way to get out of the relationship.
In the rest of this blog post, I will respond to two reading-related questions: Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? In my opinion Margret was right in her choice to break the casserole dish. For she has been a loyal servant for years now, Margret has been a very hard-working girl who is living in the segregated south so it is important for her to find a way to support her mother, so she took care of mrs.Cullian’s house for a wage. She knows Mrs. Cullinan for years now and she had slept in Mrs. Cullinan's house and seen Mrs, Cullians husbands daughters. So for Mrs. Cullinan to choose to change Margaret name to Mary, so suddenly just because a friend of hers told her to, it was not okay with Margaret. No for that white lady with all that experience out in the social word especially in her time she knew how crass her friend was being and she played into it. when slaves and blacks would be called different names to show them off as property, Ms. Cullinan was being crass. I understand as a black men at how that racial tension could elevate a situation and in Margaret's effort to quit caused her to break the casserole. I believe I would have also gone to extremes to get out of a uncomfortable situation. If you feel as though you have another opinion let me know in the comment section. When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? Well there was a time when I called the police for my aunt's-ex boyfriend because he hit in the back with a television cord. Well it started with a situation at school where I had gotten into an argument in class because of issues that at this time seems trivial. Since I was in that altercation I was assigned detention. Well at the end of the school day i forgot about the penalty because I was in a rush to catch the school bus and get to the house, well when my Aunt's ex came home he told me that i had missed detention and i needed to be punished, so he took a cable cord and stroke me in the back. Since he is not my father or my mother I did not like the neglect I felt in the environment so I called child services. To be honest I felt as though i could have been punished because I didn't show up for detention, because i forgot about it, but not on purpose. Even with my explanation he hit me. I do not like being punished to an extreme so I thought I had to get the police to mediate the situation. |
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