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Adversity In The Movie Silence

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This poor man portrays the fulfillment of satori because the poor man has reached satori and as a result he wants to live his remaining life at home him outside, where he was destined throughout the life. This once again, is similar to Sal because it exemplifies that we as individuals who travel must connect to our surroundings because from within it we learn as well. Like Sal has become a road lover after various trips, the poor man is also an outside lover because he loves the horizon and feels the connection with in it. In addition, in the movie Silence we notice how the character of Kichijiro has shaped the life of Father Rodrigues. We as viewers witness Kichijiro once as a Christian until he stepped on the image of Christ forcing him to …show more content…

He wonders whether he would also step on the image of Christ, if he was forced to. The charcter of Kichijiro shows the relationship that Father Rodrigues and him share causing him in prison to be in the state of inhibition questioning himself and Kichijiro’s character and wondered if there was a difference between the strong and the weak willed. We could note how this character was a foil to Rodrigues that prevented him from being courageous. In contrast, in the novel, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, Gyatso states, “…one of the passengers brought out a basket full of biscuits and passed it around… The girl said, “Take more.” Then the girl took a handful of biscuits and placed them all in my lap… Prison taught you to be frugal with your food…” (Gyatso, 108). Gyatso contradicts that we must connect with our surroundings and its people. In this novel, we learn that the prisoners were often moved from one place to another. Also, they were not allowed to create a bond with anyone otherwise the officers would think they are up to something. As a result, we couldn’t notice a bond that close that Gyatso had with

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Power and authority can be a dangerous thing depending on who has it, and this novel demonstrates this. In the novel it shows that guards have a short leash when it comes to what they will tolerate. There is no respect between the correction officers and inmates. Inmates test incoming prisoners to see how they will fit into the prison structure. The same goes for the guards.

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Joy Kogawa's Obasan is a representation of the silence Japanese Canadians experience specifically in the past as they have been repressed from telling the stories of the internment camps in Canada due to the government's pressure to not talk about what happened to them, leading to the negative and generational consequences of silence as a trauma response. In addition to showing how Japanese Canadians have covered up traumatic events through silence. Obasan also demonstrates how silence has not solved anything, but has made the traumatic events worse, and that healing can only occur when people begin to speak about them. Silence is shown by the family secret about Namois's mother being absent, as well as Namoi never wanting to tell anyone about her sexual assault from an Old Man Grower, the difference between Namoi’s aunts in how they choose to be vocal or silent in their life. Finally, how Joy Kogawa herself uses Obasan as a way to use language to share her story as a Japanese Canadian.

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This contributes to the loneliness that can be felt by everybody during this time. Solitude was the greatest confinement, and prisoners were trapped in

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The motif of being imprisoned is shown when girls we're shoved into stables (Wiviott, 81). Even though people we're tossed around like cattle, people found a way to keep going. Like I said people were put in stables with many others so in these time they had to make friends with who they could to get through it. Another time the motif is shown is when the camps were bared with barbed wires and electric fences (Wiviott, 66).

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Rosalia Parrado Ms. D LIT 2010.012 15 September 2016 P1 rough draft – Brockmeier Silent night “The Year of Silence” by Kevin Brockmeier, is an extremely interesting story that captures the significance of what we value in life. It tells the story about an unnamed city that begins to fall inexplicably silent. The random waves of silence were extremely short, but since they were on such an enormous scale-traffic stopping, the wind silencing, etc.

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The writer is very diverse in his subjects when detailing the prison mates. When describing the prison mates the reader will be surprised to know that

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Language is first learned as an infant by absorbing and mimicking one's environment, surroundings, and daily life. For some, like myself, more than one language is spoken, and learning how to balance multiple languages can be a challenge. Trying to integrate language with culture and environment at times can be interesting and other times demanding and tiresome. Maxine Hong Kingston describes her struggles in coping with the differences in her languages, coming to terms with herself, and accepting how her culture uses language in her essay, “The Language of Silence”. Although similar struggles are had by Christine Marin, she writes in her essay “Spanish Lessons”, about how she discovered her culture through language, how it empowered her, and how she learned to love that part of herself.

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Rikki is an upstanding character, but he did not always demonstrate these qualities. Teddy invited him in, but he was disrespectful in their house. He was excellent in the hour of need, but he still was not always a honorable character. Rikki was not a very good house guest. Teddy and his family welcomed him into their home and he didn’t even say thank you.

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The movie Carved in Silence was a very provoking and eye opening documentary for me. It depicted the experience of the Chinese immigrants of Angel Island very well through the narration and the dramatic recreation. As an immigrant, the opening scene and the many stories told evoked many memories and reflections of my family 's journey and aspirations. The stories and descriptions in this documentary were very surreal because they were too hard to believe.

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Surviving in Silence is the resilient biography of Izrael Deutsch, a Deaf Hungarian man during the Holocaust. Dunai is accredited as being the first major publication of a Deaf Jewish survivor’s memoirs. Deutsch, also known as Harry Charia Dunai, lived an agrarian life with his nine siblings near the mountains in a territory formerly referred to as the Komjata, Czechoslovakia. His siblings were Miklós, Jolán, Hainsha, Salgo, Lenke, Magdalena, Sandor,and Irén. His father was a rabbi and the family followed kosher and Sabbath rules, leading a strict and simple Jewish lifestyle.

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