There were plenty of details about her life and her childhood, everything that she had to go through, every little detail was told. Walls did not leave anything out, even if there were some disturbing memories. Although the book itself was fantastic and it helped me understand the tough times through her childhood, the transitions from one event to another was a bit abrupt, causing some gaps throughout the book. Through the book, the message that was very evident was to help others in need, and if it is possible, to forgive and forget.
It is this determination that makes the book hard to put down, as I was anxious to discover just how, in fact, she ultimately managed to escape her hellish life with no money, eight children, and suspicious sister-wives watching her every move. I finished Escape a few days ago and felt a little confused about my feelings over this book. I even mentioned this in a phone conversation with another writer-friend. The story is compelling.
She became a best friend to me. Having the book in her perspective was interesting. Her thoughts and feelings often sounded like things I would think, or even say at times.
Throughout the book, she was faced with challenges normal children shouldn’t
She stopped seeing deafness as a misfortune, but more as a blessing as shown with the birth of her deaf grandchildren whos he adored greatly. I enjoyed this book because I had the opportunity to see what life is like for deaf families. I have always wondered how life for them is different when it comes to education, communication, and growing up. I know that if I became the mother of a deaf child, I would go through everything Tressa had gone through and more.
Naturally every time, she would religiously reopen the cut on her finger, squeeze out the pus, apply a new Band-Aid and an abundance of hand sanitizer. This aspect of the book teaches one to cope with mental illness and still go on because it’s okay not to be okay. The multi-step flow theory can be applied here as there were multiple steps and opinion leaders that affected me to read this book (2.2). I was influenced by other books written by Green.
The fact that she can walk away from all those terrible experiences with love for her parents is incredible. Another thing I loved about this book is how it represents her parents, with all their faults, and their poor mentality, at its worst, without anger, or really any judgment, just with the love. If she had been bitter in her description it would not have been as amazing. This memoir was written with forgiveness making me respect her for not only surviving such a strange childhood to become a successful, but for being able to view her past with
She talks about her father and his dependence on alcohol, her mother’s mental illness, and the problems the rest of her family had to deal with. Her family was almost continuously digging through the garbage for food scraps to relieve their starvation. Also, her family was constantly doing the “skedaddle”; running away from the law. I could not imagine having the life that she had. Some of the stories that she wrote about are unbelieveable because of how terrible her parents treated her.
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.
My responses to this first part of the book are confusion and sympathy, I felt pity for Lori because she don't deserve to get this sort of illness, especially when she was just starting her life and the fact that she had no clue about what was going on to her. I felt a little bit confused on the part that she was having
That book sure caused me a great deal of heartaches and tears. It was about a boy being abused and starved by his mother. As far as I can remember, it was the first book that made me feel pain. The agony I felt when i realized such terrible people existed in this world. The book made me aware of the dark side of people.
She started for the first time to feel the consequences of the postpartum depression. She started hallucinating, had thoughts of a knife, stabbing someone, and seeing blood, but she decided to leave it secret. After she had her 4th child, she called her husband started asking for help, her husband did not know how to handle this situation and took her for a walk. I personally think that if depression is not taken care, it will get worst and worst over time. She had 5 kids and she started asking for help after she had her 4th children, which made me realized that she kept all of those problems on her for several years making her depression to go worst over all of this time.
Day after day, she would slowly make progress and listen for the alarm clock a little less. She said she “meant to break herself of it [the morphine] before she died, and that is what she did” (Lee 115). She was very courageous because of
In order to complete my additional time assignment, I chose to read Quiet by Susan Cain. Cain explores how introverts adapt to a society where extroverted traits are valued, revealing the necessity to present oneself to society in the most appealing way and the immense impact that societal expectations have on a person from the time they are very young. One of the most compelling arguments in Quiet is how extroverts are considered smarter, simply because they are talking louder and more often. In The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan embodied the characteristic of someone who thought that making noise would make him appear smarter and more in control. When Nick Carraway comes over for dinner, Tom Buchanan interrupts his wife Daisy, in order to monopolize the conversation and bring the attention to himself.
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
