One of the vignettes from pages 56-109 of The House on Mango Street that made an impression on me was “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark. This story made an impression on me because it shows a daughter seeing her father vulnerable for the first time. The theme behind this story is a daughter having a connection with her father and understanding the lost that they both shared, that being her grandfather. With her being the oldest, she had to take the role in telling others about the lost. “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the dark resonated with me because seeing a parent or someone you see as someone that take on the world with no worries become vulnerable and weak, makes you want to take the role to help them through it. When I lost my great grandmother, it broke my family. One day she’s doing okay and will be home and then turn around the next day and pass way was a shock. Seeing my mother and grandmother look lost, I had to take on the role in making sure everyone is okay.
Jessica
One of the vignettes from pages 3-53 of The House on Mango Street that made a strong impression on me was “Hairs”. It made a strong impression on me because it describes my family members and me and how different we are. The vignette I think fix best in this short story is imagery. My reasoning’s of choosing imagery is because it describes the difference in the hair and the way they are, but they are family. The theme is the relationship between hair and person. For example, when she said “And kiki, who is the youngest, has hair like fur”. The central idea is the difference in hair. This resonated with me because in my family we all have different hair. My hair is like a weeping willow tree, if not tamed. My brother hair is like cotton, and my mom has soft spiral hairs that’s like a slinky, when you pull on it, it bounces back. We all are family but have different hair textures.
In “How to Read a Poem” by Edward Hirsch teaches me how to carefully read a poem. He states that “the goal of careful reading is often to take up a question of meaning, an interpretive question that has more than one answer”. That means you have to have a good listening ear for how sound a rhythm is related to meaning. William Carlos wrote a poem addressed to his wife and he admits in this poem, the lines was difficult. He said that a reader must complete what the poet has written. In order for a reader to complete a poem, he or she have to have an imagination. Society has a sharing experience in literature. whether its understanding about living, loving, or dying. The Lineation is the relationship between meaning, sound, and movement intended by the poet is sometimes hard to recognize. The best way to retain the grammatical sense of a poem is to read to the end of the phrase.
In this week lesson, it made me understand more about poetry. How to understand when I’m reading poetry. Before this lesson, it also takes me a while to understand reading poetry, especially when I’m reading Shakespeare. When I was a kid, the only poem I love to watch with my grandma was a show called “Brave New Voice” on HBO. It was a show where a youth group compete in verbal battle to make it to Washington for the National Slam Poetry. In the video, Italian and Elizabeth Sonnets explained “how word, sound devices, and imagery affect mood, meaning and theme”. It also explained how there are two different types of sonnets. The Italian sonnet is 14 lines in length and follows a strict structure. It’s divided into two sections that deals with two different aspects of the same subject. The two sections are identified as octave and the sea state. Elizabethan sonnet contains three quatrains and rhyming couplet. It contains three sections of four lines each. The quatrains are followed by two lines that sum up the message of the sonnet of proved a comment by the poet.
In my thesis, “The Lesson” written by Toni Cade Bambara opens eyes about how the economic system oppressed African American. I want to talk about how some people are aware of the situation and some don’t seem to understand the issue. In the short story, I want to talk about how one of the kids; Syliva, understood how unjust American is on its own people. Sylvia realizes that there was no equality in the world. On the other hand, the lesson Miss Moore taught went over Mercades head. The type of secondary source I would use for this research paper is “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” written by Dr. Joy Degruy. I feel like it will better understand “The Lesson” Toni Cade Bamara was trying open minds about. I know its controversial, but that was what Bambara wanted to do. To write a short to open a debate on the injustice of America. Also understand how undivided African Americans are.
“…a war God ringed with the cries of men, savage God who burns us; grant that he turn in racing course backwards out of our country’s bounds to the great palace of Amphitrite or where the waves of the Thracian Sea 215 deny the stranger safe anchorage. Whatsoever escapes the night at last the light of day revisits; so smite the War God, Father Zeus, beneath you are thunderbolt, 220 for you are the Lord of the lightning, the lightning that carries fire.” This is after oedipus talks about the king he had killed and said he would not have the same fate. But you can’t escape Gods plan for you or want different. “Oedipus the king” is a Greek mythology. It’s about how Oedipus unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. The king of Thebes was warned by oracle about how his son was going to kill him. When Jocasta birth her son he was taken away, but the shepherd felt bad and gave him away to be adopted by King Polybus. When Oedipus entered adulthood, he visited Delphi and learned his faith to kill his father and marry his mother. He chooses to leave his home, Corinth, and never return. When he was traveling towards Thebes, he ran into Laius and killed him. He was rewarded in becoming king of Thebes and married Jocasta and birthed his kids. He couldn’t get away from his faith.
In the short story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a boy who is overly obsessive over Mangan’s sister. He would hide in the shadows or even go further by laying on the floor in the front pariour watching her door. In the story when Mangan’s sister and him was conversing, he found out that she couldn’t go to the bazaar. He told her that if he goes, he’ll bring her back something. He was blinded by her beauty that he would go beyond lengths just to give her a gift. On Saturday, he reminded his uncle that he was going to the bazaar in the evening only for his uncle to forget and come in the house at nine o’clock. His uncle prolonged in giving him the money buy eating then saying, “the people are in bed and after their first sleep now”. but the boy didn’t want to hear it. he was fixating on buy this crush a gift. when he finally reaches to bazaar, he doesn’t buy anything which made him upset.
In “The Lesson”, the two characters I want to compare are Mercedes and Sylvia. Their characters had a different experience in the lesson that Miss. Moore was trying to teach them. Mercedes didn’t see the lesson because she out of the group had the most money the the only one that had a desk at home. On the other hand, Sylvia realizes that there was no equality in the world. Sylvia realized that in order to afford these expensive toys, you’ll have to be like the who’re people or live like them, but for Mercedes she wanted to be like the white people, seeing no wrong in what she learned. This story is what I can relate to because me being in the “hood” I never realized the inequality in the world because everyone around me had the same. It was until I went out of my neighborhood to travel to school was when I seen the difference and mine and other neighborhoods. And also social media had open my eyes that in the “ rich or suburban” neighborhoods had more than mines. They had “better”. They they buy things that I wouldn’t even touch because what was taught in the “hood” was to be cautious on what you spend. Sylvia was right when she stated “…this is not much of a democracy if you ask me.”
In the short story, ” Salvation” by Langston Hughes explains about the narrator losing his faith in religion and stating that he’s a sinner. It’s a controversial piece that leaves readers with an ongoing debate. In the beginning of the story, he places his setting at a revival at his aunt church. There was a special meeting for the children for them to meet Jesus. He really believed he was going to meet Jesus because all the older adults had told them so. When he sees the kids going, he starts to worry, but when he sees one if his friends using God name in vain and lying about see Jesus and God not doing anything about it, he starts to question. He values honesty. I say that because towards the end of the story he cries in bed because he lied, and the church lied to him. his trust is broken.
I might think you have assigned “The Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia for the first story of the course is to see if we have an opened mind. The overall story in my option explains that one person can change the way others think. Seeing someone that comes from a different place, looks different, or even thinks differently will have others wanting to learn more and be open to new things. In the story it stated, “It was then that they understood how unhappy he must have been with that huge body since it bothered him even after death.” Seeing someone that they have never might before, they empathize with him. towards the end of the story, it explained that they realized “everything would be different”. This story was assigned first because you wanted your students to understand the importance of empathy. One person can change a whole community to make then want to do better.
