Sara Chasse’
English Comp 1_8310
Dr. Brown
July 1, 2013
Annotated Bibliography Memoir
Barrientos, Tanya. “Se Habla Espanol.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook 2nd ed. Ed. Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Goggin and Francine Weinberg. New York: Norton, 2010. 560-563. Print.
Amy Barrientos writes a reflective essay on her struggles as a Non Spanish speaking Latin American woman. Barrientos goes on to explain the typical stereo types she had experienced though out her life including in her childhood and adult education and social acceptance with the Caucasian among many other races and Latin communities including the struggles she faced as a Latin American woman who didn’t clearly speak or understand the Spanish language. She later realizes from a friend that many people from different cultures don’t understand their country’s native languages, not all Italians speak Italian nor all Poles speak Polish. This article gives us information about the racism and stereo types we perhaps unknowingly give people based on appearance and we set a standard on what they might comprehend from us or what we will comprehend from them. I don’t, however, understand after the extent Barriento’s has gone and continues to go through to understand her Spanish speaking roots and yet to become more fluent in the Spanish language, possibly theirs a lack of a desire to communicate clearly do to the extent of criticism Barrientos received from both sides of the language barrier.
The Essay on To what extent does the language we speak influence the way we perceive the world?
The most interesting question in linguistic is whether and how language affects the way we remember things and the way we perceive the world and this idea was first introduced by the influential linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf (Harley, 2008). Statements, attempting to illustrate that language is the medium by which one views the world, culture, reality and thought have aroused an ...
Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook 2nd ed. Ed. Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Goggin and Francine Weinberg. New York: Norton, 2010. 564-570. Print.
Amy Tan, writes a reflective essay on her perception of the Englishes she uses in her daily life, in her work, and with her own mother whom speaks more of a “broken” type English, Tan feels that in this term itself one may think of the limited English speaker as having perception by others more limited, however, but not necessarily ones thoughts. Tan goes on to explain the struggles she first handedly sees her mother take on in her own day to day life, such as obstacles in dealing specifically with her health and finances. Tan stated how she would often advocate for her mother on business phone calls to insure being taken seriously, Tan’s perception was that Others would take advantage assuming Tan’s mother was unclear of what the other party was communicating. Tan also goes into more detail on why many Asian Americans succeed in subjects such as Math and Sciences rather than literature, and the reason for this finding is that there is simply only one correct answer in Math and Science. Tan is against the odds as she has even written a fictional book. That her mother exclaimed was easy to read. I enjoyed reading this article and how it broadened my perspective of bilingual persons, as I do come from a colorful family, my fiancé speaks Spanish as a second language his mother speaks English as a second language, I’ve only hear of the struggles they both had understanding one another.
Nemant, Marina. “The Secondhand Bookseller.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook 2nd ed. Ed. Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Goggin and Francine Weinberg. New York: Norton, 2010. 571-575. Print.
Marina Nemant writes a reflective essay about her emotional attachment and experience with books. Nemant remembers a time when she was in the third grade and her family was that of a lower income and couldn’t afford much, during the days Nemant was in school she would borrow books from the school’s library and bring them home, the text were translated to English which was a subject her school taught for one hour a day. After reading all the books from the school’s library, one day Nemant and her mother walk past a secondhand bookstore and this gives Nemant the opportunity to get a used book cheap. Nemant sells a pencil holder for 5 Tomans and returns to the secondhand bookseller, while there encounters an older man who dismisses Nemant stating she would not be interested in any of the books there as they were all written in English. Nemant insistent she loves reading and is learning English at her school and finally buys “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” reads it twice and then returns to the store for the next book in the series, the bookseller is surprised to see her again and decides she no longer needs to pay instead she may just borrow and return later, Nemant is so thrilled she refers to him as her guardian angel. Nemant starts her story in another time period of her life during which when she was sixteen years old and a prisoner in the Islamic Revolution. This section doesn’t give much information aside from her essay other than Nemant was arrested for speaking out in a science class against the Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime (Islamic Revolution).
The Essay on Motherless Daughters Mother Loss Book
Motherless Daughters Imagine being a young girl who doesn t have a care in the world. Suddenly, the young girl s whole life changes when she finds that her mother has a terminal illness. The girl s mother must face months of treatment that leaves her sick most of the time. Despite the treatment, her mother passes away leaving the young girl motherless at the age of ten. In the book, Motherless ...
“The Secondhand Bookseller” is similar to “Mother Tongue” and “Se Habla Espanol” because they all have a common interest in that there is a barrier with the Authors native language and English. Each author has to an extent been judged for not clearly speaking or understanding a language and over comes their obstacles and later ultimately become amazing writers.
