Throughout time there has been a number of mass deaths among cultural groups. While being recorded in history, it is less talked about how these groups have grown since the incident. In the book Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being, author Harold Napoleon, uses pathos, logos, anecdote, polysyndeton, and diction to teach the reader about the effects of the Great Death on the Yup’ik people, and the correlation with alcoholism in Alaska natives. The devices are used to implant Napoleon’s theory of how after the loss of many Yup’ik people, PTSD struck in many of them and led to the Yup’iks being “biologically susceptible to alcohol abuse.” Napoleon, being an Alaskan Native man, uses his knowledge of the Yup’ik language to make sure his diction fits his writing to the best.
Task: Name: Course Name: Course Code: Lecturer: Date: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a book written by Anne Fadiman about a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of the two cultures. It was first published in 1997. The author writes about Lia, a Hmong girl, who suffered from epilepsy that was recognised as qaug dab peg meaning the spirit catches you and you fall down in Hmong.
Eric Bartels analyzes the difficulties of modern-day marriage in his article, “My Problem with Her Anger,” by examining his own marital experiences. By optimistic confrontation and resolution of his family’s problems, Bartels believes that not only will he save his marriage, but he will also be rewarded for his sacrifices (63). The author claims he realized the separation between men and women during his late night chores (57). To illuminate this separation, Bartels acknowledges that his wife contributes more to childcare than he does, but asserts that he tries to reduce as much of this pressure as he can through cooking, cleaning, and shopping (58). Despite the author’s attempts, he contends that his endeavors to decrease his wife’s stress
Forgiveness is the theme of the Glass Castle because although Jeannette Walls was neglected, betrayed, and even belittled by her parents she doesn’t hold any negative feelings towards them. She exemplifies the theme of forgiveness by never blaming her parents for neglecting them, when her mother and father both squander her money on themselves, or when her parents allowed Erma to treat them as horribly as she did. Jeannette knows who her parents are, accepts and forgives, to the point that she can have a Thanksgiving dinner with Lori, Brian, and Mom reminiscing about the days of past.
What are the aspects of loss? The characters in the short stories “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, Isaac Singer’s“The Washwoman” , and “The Last Leaf” by O’ Henry, all suffer great losses in different aspects. Ursula K. LeGuin characterizes Gwilan as a skillful, lighthearted harper; however she suffer a great loss later in her life. Unlike Gwilan, in the short story of Issac and O’Henry, the washwoman and Behrman both live a tragic life since the beginning of the story. The characters in three different short stories suffer losses materially, emotionally, and physically.
In the search for happiness, both Ginny Graves and Ruth Whippman present their own ideas and beliefs. I believe that Whippman is more persuasive compared to Ginny Graves through her use of arguments and evidence. This can be attributed to Whippman’s arguments being reinforced with evidence and her expertise on the matter. Firstly, the use of real-life examples and statistics by Whippman provides context for her arguments, thus strengthening them.
What is the right thing to do? Ellie Wiesel believes people should do the right thing, but more importantly these should choose a side. Indifference is worse than anger, rage, and hatred as Ellie said, “Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, have done something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses”(Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference). With indifference people are only punishing the victim and helping to achieve the goal of the unrighteous.
During the teenage years, many think that they know everything and no one else is correct. In the poem “Our Son Swears He Has 102 Gallons of Water in His Body,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, the speaker tells about how a boy thinks his opinion is correct and the opinions of his parents are wrong. The boy, because he believed his answer was correct, didn’t have a close connection to his parents. Being reassured of his answer by the teacher, the boy disregarded his parent’s thoughts. He completely does not believe that his parent’s answer is acceptable.
The United States has not officially had an official declaration of war, within itself or on another country since the second World War in 1941, but imagine what would happen if a civil war or genocide began right here in continental America. In Tracy Kidder’s The Strength in What Remains, the author describes the struggle of Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza, as he finds a way to escape his home country, Burundi, while callous civil war rages on through the mountainous country. In contrast to Deo story, Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl, the author and main protagonist, a psychiatrist studying humans suffering, while imprisoned in the dreadful Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Frankl 's theory of the strength that love can have on a struggling person can be connected to Deo’s inner fight to find his way back to his love of helping other people with medicine.
Born to Bengali parents in July 1967,in London and with her family’s move to Rhode Island, Jhumpa Lahiri began life in the U.S.A. She grew up in the background of traditional Bengali culture. From childhood, she often accompanied her back to India-particularly to Calcutta (now known as Kolkata).. She observes that her parents retain a sense of emotional exile and she herself grew up with conflicting expectations. In her work, Lahiri, is a second-generation immigrant, reflects on the Indian diaspora and creates a narrative that reveals the inconsistency of the concept of identity and cultural difference in the space of diapora.
I found "Someone 's Mother" by Joan Murray interesting. In this reading there were a lot of dialogue to narrate this essay such as descriptive words being used in the reading. For examples the way Murray described the old women hitchhiker waving and also when she made that u-turn and as she drove back up the hill she had on a " dark blue raincoat, jaunty black beret. Thin arms waving, spine a little bent" (Murray, pg163). The dialogue used set a good tone for the rest of the essay.
The Levels of loss Loss plays a key role in the short stories: Gwilan’s harp by Ursula K. Le Guin, the last leaf by William Sydney Porter, and in The Washwoman by Isaac Singer. However, the levels of loss differ in how much the key characters lose. In the Washwoman the Family loses a trusted servant. Were as in the last leaf Sue and Johnsie lose a close friend. Then in Gwilan’s Harp Gwilan loses her harp and her husband.
Since then, during the protectionist, post-Independence socialist phase, business and industry plunged into a fatal nosedive. In The White Tiger, Balram also traces the tragic history of his family's fall from entrepreneurship to slavery and deprivation to the evil days into which the country had fallen after Independence. He rues that with independence, the order that has been established over several centuries became chaotic and in the dog-eat-dog world of free India the caste identities, fashioned by the pursuit of specific trades by social groups for generations and through several centuries, suddenly lost its occupational
LOSS, GRIEF AND HEALING As human beings, we suffer losses of many kinds and sizes in our life time. While some of these losses are small and do not hurt much, some are big and hurt deeply. Those that are accompanied by pains that are difficult to bear include the loss of a loved one through death or divorce, cheating or unfaithfulness in a trusted relationship or loss of good health when a diagnosis of a terminal illness is made. In all these instances of loss, pain and grief are experienced and an emotional wound is created which needs healing.
Their writings get birth as the result of Angola’s long war of liberation. Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novels such as Weep Not, Child (1964); The River Between (1965); and A grain of Wheat (1967) explore the aspects of individual Kenyan lives within the context of colonialism. Ngugi wa Thiong’o writes the Kenyan people experiences of education, excision (remove a section from a piece of writing), religious conflict, collective, struggle, and the cost of resistance. His A Grain of Wheat brings lives and forces of in the making of historical events.
