Amari was a 15-year-old girl who was soon to be married to Besa, a strong young man. All that changed when their village was attacked. The village was celebrating the welcoming of the strangers, the strangers shot the elderly and the children. Amari's parents and her brother, Kwasi, had died that tragic
Oscar would constantly fall in love with every girl he met in fear that he would remain a virgin longer than his peers. Yunior illustrates Oscar “walking up to strange girls with his I-love-you craziness”. (176) Yunior spends so long talking about Oscar’s unhealthy obsession with girls, yet once he has Lola, whom he pined after for so long, Yunior cheats. It is up to Oscar when the two are both in relationships to ask “Why do you cheat on her…?” to which Yunior responds “If I knew that, it wouldn’t be a problem.” (313) When Yunior is teaching Oscar how to get girls, he seems to be a notorious player portrayed in a positive light, yet when Oscar no longer looks to Yunior as a role model, Oscar possesses the power to point out the bad side of Yunior’s charm and the flaws in the culture that sculpted
In “Stealing Buddha's Dinner” by Bich Minh Nguyen, Nguyen tells the story of her childhood from her home in Saigon, Vietnam to living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” was published by Viking Penguin in 2007, this was Nguyen's first published book. In this nonfiction book, Nguyen includes several elements of rhetorical devices and literary devices, this makes her book effective in making you understand her experience. Nguyen lived through this experience of being a refugee.
Comparing texts can enrich experiences for readers by allowing audiences to grasp a further understanding of underlying themes within a text, and how they have the ability to challenge reader’s perspectives. Anh Do’s autobiographical memoir, The Happiest Refugee (2010), discusses the highs and lows of growing up in Australia as a Vietnamese refugee, during a time where racial intolerance and scepticism towards foreigners was common. Do has constructed themes that through the use of various literary devices, work towards altering audience’s stereotypical perspective of refugees, instead replacing it with a less critical and more accepting viewpoint; these themes are also explored in other texts. Themes surrounding resilience, family bonds and
Adnan’s and Hae’s relationship in high school was a story of love where both loved each other. At first, they had all love for each other and both went to prom together. As the relationship aged, it started going downhill for both of them, both Adnan and Hae started to see the struggles in their
Throughout his book, Chung reveals the strict, harsh love
The novel peeks interest of many audience as the novel indulge a wide rage of reader to empathized with the struggles of trying to maintain a control over an identity within a high standard society as well as connecting to the readers by consolidating with the difficulties of going against an enforced ideals of love and family that critics against one’s own construction of a healthy relationship. The devised beautiful fictional tale, centers around a young girl named Celaya, recounting a collection of anecdotes accumulated by her eyes and ears. By embedding human characteristics, such as the attachment of love, the desire to find oneself, and the grasping on one’s culture, the development of a fiction character can strongly resembles any willed non-fictional character (living
What drives people to undertake a mission? Most of the time, people have some type of experience in their life that marked them in some way, so they want to make good decisions when it comes to protecting their families and friends ,mostly everyone wants to keep the people they care about safe, like Farah Ahmedi that lost her brothers and father ,and to keep herself and her mother safe, she had to reach freedom, or like Bilbo Baggins ,he took the choice of going on an unexpected journey for his friends, and Walt Masters ,he was able to risk his life so he didn't disappoint his dad. All these characters were doing the right thing to don't let their families or friends down. FARAH AHMEDI
Although it can be confusing at times, the author made it clear that what he is writing may or may not be facts but it is what he believe is that truth. In spite the fact that this book is interesting to me, the writing style decrease my understanding to the book. While reading this book, I notice that I was starting to doubt the author and his story due to how he had mentioned that his story may or may not be true. Regardless of how confusing the book prove to be the case, it is his life story and it is fair for him to blurs the line between fiction and fact in these story.
I read an Ethnography called "A Song Of Longing, An Ethiopian Journey", by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Shelemay gathered a good amount of religious music in a town of Gondar, a city in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian rules and regulations upset her research and ended up studying the Ethiopian Christian service in Addis Ababa. During that time, she met and married a Jewish businessman, Jack Shelemay, from a Middle Eastern (Aden), whose family was permanently settled in Ethiopia. " A Song Of Longing" is not a book that was said it to be, she late changed it and made it about Ethiopian religious music, and also a story of Kaufman 's field experience.
A 10-year-old girl, Lila, narrates this story. But narration through the perspective of a 10-year-old child slightly lowlights the heaviness of the topic and its effects. The characters are witnessing the Indo-Pak war from a distance both geographically and emotionally. Lilia’s parents were worried about the conflict and War but this conflict left Lila struggling with her own life. Mr. Pirzada gave a candy to Lila as a sign of affection.
In Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind, Hang has been placed on a path of self-sacrifice and duty by her family. Her life unfolds in stages- childhood, young adulthood, and her eventual role as an exported worker in Russia. With each of these shifts in her life comes a shift in setting and a shift in her emotional state. Hang’s changing emotional state depicts her “coming of age” and her growth as a character. Setting is important to creation of shift in the novel, and is often described in detail.
This is a contradictory character with many complicated personalities: covers by meekness, frailty, some time seems tearful but in the key moments she completely proves herself by the strength, independence and wiseness. She is pushed in a prank of destiny, it is deft and gentle weaves her life as she weave garment then all the threats is lead to by this gentleness. Her hellish life starts since all uninvited suitors come and ask for marriage, she is in a very dangerous situation.
Many people in the world hide their personal life from others because of fear of judgement and guilt. A child so young should not be exposed to violence so early in life. Kambili lives in a world where her mother, brother and even herself gets abused by her father. In ¨Purple Hibiscus¨, Chimamanda creates a story about Kambili, a fifteen year old girl, who overcomes obstacles in life and learns how to love, become more independent and courageous. A fifteen year old girl, Kambili, grows up in a privileged life.
Instead of a simple coming-of-age story, Satrapi outlines the social and economic conditions that shaped her childhood and adolescence. The simplicity of a child’s mind and her confusion at adult notions is a constant theme in the book. This is brought forth in Marji’s childlike understanding of the