Leila’s parents came to America in hopes of a better life for them and their family, but having a better life once you get here is not always the case. When I read this passage I get the sense of having to survive. The necessity of it seems so clear as Leila describes her mom eating alone in the kitchen “sucking out the lesser parts”. The memory she has of this scene that she says “is a happy one, that quickly turned sad” is maybe her trying to say that it is a happy memory but it was them just trying to survive. All you have in that real world is your family, and surviving is what you do. The blood of the family is the mother and the bones the father. Don’t waste any of the bird, including the blood and bones, if you do you are wasting your family, the hard work spent.
In just the twenty pages or so that make up the story of Nancy Flores we go through his life span of from the age of 12 all the way to his twenties. His adolescence, puberty, teens, becoming a man. Most people would have changed a lot throughout these years and you do see that as you read his story. When he was younger it was girls he was interested in and girls who had his attention and focus but now as he is older he tells us “Evert subject had become like meeting a new girls and there wasn’t a subject I didn’t want to learn”. To me, this was Gilb’s way of telling us that yes, I still have my interests but they have changed. This one simple sentence is his way of telling us he is growing up, become someone else. Yet, by saying “like meeting a new girl” in the sentence he is still the same person deep down. Those feelings he gets when meeting a girl, like Nancy Flores, are now feelings that he has towards school.
The Essay on Family and Life Story Work
?In this assignment I aim to discuss life story work: which can provide the care worker, and care receiver a better understanding of each other’s needs, and provide the care worker with information that can help support the care receiver in the best way. The carer needs to possess certain skills sensitivity, confidentiality, empathy, trustworthiness, and have commitment to seeing the story to the ...
Living Up the Street was a very detail oriented book. Gary Soto makes you feel as though you really are there in the moment with him. In this scene where him and Jackie have snuck into a store that is being renovated he describes the details of being excited, nervous, daring, not knowing whats coming, happy, scared,and aware of his surroundings. If you look at this passage and then compare it to the rest of Soto’s life and the stories about his life, these words are words that you would use to sum up his feelings towards his childhood and growing up. I think he chose this one day in particular to tell to us because of all the feelings that he felt. These were not just feelings about this day but they were feelings about his life.
Part Two:
As with any book you read, the way the author describes the surroundings and setting of a book set the tone for the reader and help you paint a picture in your head of where the characters are. With this setting in your mind, you are then able to create characters in your mind, their personalities, their quirks. The feeling that you get when you read the book Bone and the feelings you get when you read the book Donald Duk are two very different feelings. When you read Bone, you get the feeling of greys and soft blues, and pale whites with the occasional color mixed in. These colors give us a muted sadness throughout the book. While when you read Donald Duk you get more of the harsh colors of reds, blues, greens, oranges, colors that are in your face. Colors that almost annoy you.
In the beginning of the book as you try to get a feel for the characters and the Chinatown that Chin has created you get a sense that Donald is not that fond of of his surroundings. “Out on the street in the early morning shadows of Chinatown, Arnold Azelea is startled by the noise. Chinatown in the morning is hard on the ears of a boy…He is not used to the noise.”(p.32).
If you look at this passage, you can clearly sense that Donald Duk isn’t too fond of his hometown. The writer is using words and phrases like “early morning shadows”, “hard on the ears”, “rush hour roar”, “cars howl”, “snarl”, and “growl”. All these words almost throw themselves at us, with rich and bright colors that are almost too much to look at. Why use such harsh words to describe his surroundings? These vivid descriptions are not only telling us that he doesn’t like Chinatown but that he feels very passionate about his feelings towards this place.
The Essay on Cry Freedom: Character – Donald Woods. (Describe A Main Character)
A main character in the film ‘Cry Freedom’ directed and produced by Richard Attenborough was Donald Woods. Donald Woods is a 41-year-old white Afrikaan editor. He is married with 5 children, 2 girls and 3 boys. They all live together in a huge mansion with a pool in the yard. They also have an African maid named Evelyn. He has greying hair, glasses and a cheerful personality. He also ...
As he describes the city as a whole in the last passage, towards the end of the book you get an even more vivid description of a smaller place within Chinatown. “The first thing Donald sees as he steps out of his building is the Chinatown Fiddler….next door to a two story Chinese restaurant with a glittery tile front.”(p.133-134).
As he describes this scene of the carnival, you would think that being a kid he would be very enthusiastic and he would use words that would lead us to believe that he loves the carnival.
Instead, Chin describes it in a very non-chalant way. The fiddler is sad, the monkey screeches, instead of the colors painting, they scrawl and melt. Throughout the book you feel as though Donald Duk is complaining, is hating his life and through the descriptions he is telling us, you get this exact feeling. Donald Duk isn’t just complaining its as if he is nagging at this point. This place is tells about, seems like it would be almost magical but we dont get that feeling at all when reading it through Donald’s mind.
In Bone, unlike Donald Duk, you get the sense of longing. Leila likes her surroundings, but because of her troubled and difficult life she can’t appreciate them as much as she would like. “ I hated looking for Leon at the square, seeing him hanging around with those time wasters….but only one barber shop.” (p. 5) As she describes Chinatown she uses pleasant words like laughing, telling jokes, reading the newspaper. She knows everyone in Chinatown as she looks for Leon, this place is familiar to her. The Waverly Place has everything she may need and the old men are happy telling jokes and laughing with one another.
Leila knows this place like the back of her hand, she grew up here but because of her taxing life she can no longer really appreciate it. Rather than happily telling us about this place she tries to find Leon, Ng calmly tells us, almost as if she is bored with the description.
The Essay on The Future of Books
The past decade has seen the unparalleled development of electronic devices. And the subversive popularity of e-books plays a crucial role in this process. Nowadays, it’s quite common to see a portable iPad instead of piles of heavy books in a teenager’s backpack. An increasing number of people prefer to tap on screens rather than turn paper pages. Because of this mounting craze, some people ...
Chinatown seems like a place where everyone knows everyone, a place thats familiar and a place where you can feel comfortable. In the passage on p. 112 “Early the next morning, we all left the house. Mah opened the Baby store and Leon….squinting over their cigarettes.” Ona has just died and they are slowly trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. The way that Ng is describing Leila’s walk through chinatown you get the feel that she is comfortable but at the same time there is a sense of urgency. It’s the morning time and everyone is rushed to get their various businesses ready. Why does Ng choose to have her walk in the morning? Is she trying to tell us that Leila is awaiting something? Leila waves to almost everyone she walks by, knowing them all from growing up in the town. She seems as though she is rushed to tell us all of the sounds and sights and people she is walking by, as if she has no time anymore. I think the author chooses to do this subtly, however, almost as if Leila knows that the healing process is a slow one. A process where listening and talking and taking in others’ kindness is what will help you. All things in which she is doing in this descriptive passage.
Both books are based in the same place of Chinatown, yet you get two completely different feels when you read the two different books. The authors wanted us to get these feels to set the tone throughout the book. The nagging, harshness, no sense of respect in Donald Duk as you read the descriptions and the sadness, aching, faint familiarity in Bones. All of these words are words that you would use to describe the main characters in each book, telling us that what you make of where you are in life will indeed reflect upon yourself.
