Talitha L. Leflouria discusses and describes her Grandma Leola of Troup County, Georgia. Initially, Leflouria informs the reader that she would spend most of Saturdays at her great-grandparents home. Grandma Leola was renowned for efficiencies at various skills related to traditional country living in the South during the 20th century. She also describes her mother as someone that was loving, inviting, and rugged around the edges too. Grandma Leola would share stories to Leflouria about her life, and sometimes she would even tell her about life in the Rough Edge.
Raffi Khatchadourian is the grandson of Hagop Khatchadourian, a seemingly lucky survivor of the Armenian genocide in 1915 Turkey. R. Khatchadourian is on a mission to discover how his grandfather survived and to update the world on the quiet, yet relevant goings-on in present-day Turkey. He documents his findings to share with the readers of The New Yorker in an article dubbed A Century of Silence. The piece struggles heavily with organization, and harmony, both of which are key ingredients to a page-turning article.
Throughout the story “In the silence” by Peggy S. Curry the protagonist; Jimmy is on a rollercoaster of emotions. At the beginning of the story, Jimmy is depressed and homesick because of his interactions with Angus Duncan. Although as he would finger is brooch he would remember home, this made him happier. When Angus sent Jimmy into “the silence” he was scared, scared of all the dangers around him. After a few nights “in the silence” he had already lost two of his sheep, one was killed when trampled by a horse, and another was dropped and killed by a sheep, he was worried about what Angus’ reaction would be along with the sheep’s safety in jeopardy.
“And there are so many silences to be broken.” This powerful final line of “The Transformations of Silence into Language and Action” by black, female, lesbian, poet, Audre Lorde is used to conclude her speech to the Modern Language Association’s “Lesbian and Literature Panel.” In this speech Audre Lorde is speaking to a panel of women on how to actively communicate with one another after reflecting on her life due to a near death experience. She claims that they should be putting aside their differences as women and realizing that they need to communicate and “speak up” to thrive. Audre throughout her speech prioritizes this message and attempts to instill this desire to speak up amongst, not just the women in the panel, but rather to more
How The Chosen focuses on silence By Beni Halmos In 1967, the American Jewish writer and Rabbi Chaim Potok released his book, named The Chosen. It is a book set over a course of 6 years in Brooklyn in the 1940’s, and is about two Jewish boys with different cultural background and their friendship. The two boys, Reuven and Danny, only get to know each other because of an accident during baseball, despite living 5 blocks from each other for the past 15 years of their lives. Throughout the book, the two get a taste of each other’s culture, and their friendship gets tested multiple times due to the tension rising as their culture collides with each other.
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.
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.
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.
I am reading the book Tell No One, by Harlan Coben. This book introduces two main characters, Elizabeth and David, a young married couple who have known each other since they were seven-years-old. One chilling night while Elizabeth and David we're celebrating their thirteen anniversary since their first kiss at Lake Charmaine, David starts to hear screams near the dock of the lake. He soon realizes that they are the screams of Elizabeth, and that she is in trouble. As he runs to her rescue he is attacked with bat, or bat like object, and is knocked into the lake to die, but somehow he managed to survive.
Bonnie Tucker and Matt Hamill; How are They the Same and How are They Different In the book, The Feel of Silence by Bonnie Tucker, you see the story of a young woman growing up deaf. Although medically and physically she is profoundly deaf, in the mind and heart she desperately wants to be a part of the hearing world. Even in her older years she never really accepted her deafness totally. On one hand you have the Deaf people in the world who are like Bonnie, but on the other you see people like the hammer, formally known as Matt Hamill.
The theme in this play that our adaptation would be focusing is on Hysteria and Demoralization. We will be adapting this to modern society’s issues of bullying specifically cyber bullying. The definition of cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Today, Cyber bullying affects many teenagers because they are being harmed by others. In The Crucible, Abigail ends up ruining Proctor’s reputation as well as many other characters by accusing them of witchcraft.
Chloe Guillaume Ms. McArdle Period 4, Language Arts 18 March 2023 Character analysis in The Silent Patient Silence bares the loudest screams. Alicia Berenson since she shot her husband, Gabriel Berenson, in the face 5 times. The Silent Patient By Alex Michaelides follows Theo Faber, a criminal psychologist as he attempts to uncover Alicia's silent mystery. He loses his mind in the process, but ultimately uncovers how your impact on someone's life can make deeper wounds than a bullet. Theo Faber changes exponentially as a person, due to his wife's infidelity, his incapability to process his emotions, and even though one may say Theos reaction to his predicament was rational, that is simply not true because his reaction killed Gabriel.
Last week April 18th, 2018, I attended the talk of Holocaust survivor, author, and educator Walter Ziffer. Ziffer has also had copies of his most recent book Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God. Ziffer is 91 years old and first informed the crowd this talk was likely the last talk he would give on this time during the Holocaust. The reason behind his decisions is first to deal with his age, second, the memories of his time at the concentration camp still haunts him to this day. The talk was entitled Holocaust: When Law and Righteousness Clashed, it was held in the UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall.
Thursday night I went to my best friend’s final performance for his art class. I was waiting for the train home, and as the doors opened, three men noticed me, jokingly cleared the way for me to walk, but then one rushed me and wrapped both of his arms around me and tried to kiss me. I was able to push away and duck through his arms, and I waited for another train. I didn’t tell my best friend what happened until the next morning. Compared to events like in Lucky, my experience is minimal, but it still has an influence on me whether I’m conscious of it now or not.
A silent voice by Yoshitoki Ōima, The book starts off with a new girl who went to a new school but when she was introducing herself to the class she wrote down on a notebook saying that she is deaf and hopes to get to know everyone and if people want to talk to her just write on her notebook. The teacher was telling people to read some sentence on the book he tells this one girl to speak up and then when he called on the deaf girl she tried to speak and the teacher called on someone else and it was a boy who hated her he made fun of how she was talking. There was some reason that the boy hated her reason 1 was that she gave him the creeps and reason 2 was that she dragged everyone else down with here her the third reason was that they all got tired of dealing with her. In choir she tried to sing but everyone could not sing well
