Response to "Farewell To Manzanar"

The author makes it very clear throughout this novel on how she and her family felt living in the Japanese concentration camps. Especially, when Jeanne talks of religion in one part of the memior. She talks of how she felt when her father would not let her countinue on with her practicing Catholicism. She did not understand her father's views at the time but late on in life she figured out why he did such a thing to her. The nun would not let go and begged of Jeanne's father to let her come back and practice being a Catholic. Her father was livid and turned the nun down. Jeanne became furious with her father at the time but later in life she would thank her father. Her father was stubborn and only wanted what was best for him through his children he was a selfish and self-absorbed person. If one who wanted to become Catholic they would just do it. If she really wanted it she would have went against her father's will and just have been a Catholic. But she did not and she believes it was for the best.

Creative Connection to "Farewell To Manzanar"

For our memior groups we were assigned certain parts or rolls in our groups about stories we had to complete. The rolls in our groups summarized our views and outlooks on how we interpreted the story. My roll in my group is the connector, which is finding certain parts in the story that relates to the real world or relates to one personally. There was a specific part in my memior that I felt had a speific connection to the real world. It was chapter eight when one of the son's, Kiyo punched his father in the face. The reason Kiyo punched his father in the face is because he was beating up the family's mother. The father turned into an alcholic after coming to the Japanese concentration camp during the World War II. The father was punched so hard by his son, his face was gushing blood. I believe this connects with the reality because it was Kiyo's breaking point. He was sick of looking at his father beat his mother. There are plenty families throuhgout this world that suffer from and abusive father because of alcholism. Kiyo is just one of the children throughout this world that just could not sit back anymore and watch his father continually beat his mother. The father was so stubborn Kiyo felt this was the only messege he could send to his father to stop hurting his mother physically, mentally and emotionally. Not only was he protecting his mother but he was also, protecting the other children in the house, as well. I just did not understand why Kiyo apologized to his father after he punched him in the face? Why would his father desereve an apology? I feel Kiyo did nothing wrong and he stood his ground as well as other children of abusive alcholic parents. In life one has to defend another family member if the other family member is in the wrong. Kiyo's father was in the wrong by beating his wife in front of his other children. Therefore, Kiyo was the only one who felt he needed to impose and discenegrate the horrible habbit his father was displaying towards the mother as well as to the others in their family.

Response to "Farewell to Manzanar" through non-fiction

As one is reading this story one can relate it to being non-fiction. the reason is because the story is non-fiction but she expresses her life throughout the whole story. The authour/narator, Jeanne Wakatsuki tells olf the truth of her life and that is what non-fiction is all about. Wakatsuki relates her life through the Japanese concentration camps during World War II as she is telling it through non-fiction. Her story was beatuifully written and anyone who gets the chance should read it. She tells it through her eyes and sometimes one can feel bad at other times it is like why is she tellling us this. This is because she is talking about her life and forming it into reality so maybe another individual could relate. That is what non-fiction is all about.

Definition of Non-fiction

I believe non-fiction can be defined as anything that is true; a story or novel that in reality is true. Non-fiction can aslo mean anything that has true meaning behind and something that another can relate to on a personal level. Also, non-fiction can mean anything that has been researched or explored to become a part of literature.

Opinion to "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"

In all honesty, I believe a good man is really hard to find. There are only a few good men left in our world. I am not trying to be bitter but maybe it is because it is true, I also have been hurt by men in my past. But I am not saying that there is not any good men left there is just not a lot of them to spare. Like, considering the Misfit. When the grandmother tried to talk some sense into the Misfit he did not want to hear it. The Misfit fits under the category of a truly evil bad man. He has no idea how to embrace life. I believe the Misfit choose to be unhappy and I aslo believe that you choose your happiness for youself. He chooses to be unhappy so he takes it out on innocent people. The family the Misfit killed had no right to die they were living life. Like, for instance they were on their way to go to Florida to vacation. The Misfit seemed like he had a respectable childhood; his parents seemed to raise him better than he had turned out to be. I think, being shot is the most tragic way to die. Also, the Misfit had no right to take away an innocent life/lives. This is why the Misfit is not a only a bad man but a horrible person; no remorse for nothing and no one. It is sad to live your life the way the Misfit has. Why is he acting the way he is towards this family and just his life in general?

Creative/Opinion to "A Rose For Emily"

In this short story there were a lot of literary terms like foreshadowing and irony. When the short story started off the towns people discussed of a smell inside Emily's home. They took it to the Board of Alderman to have someone go in and physically take away the horrible smell. When someone from the Board of Alderman said, "It's simple enough... send her word to have the place cleaned up." This I believe foreshadowed the story because she had a dead body living in her home that was why her house smelled so badly. So basically the towns people got rid of the smell but in the end they really did not because they contaminated it by putting lime around the perimeter of her home. It came to the towns people that they should have just looked all throughout the home before they came to contaminate Miss Emily's home.
Another literary term that was used was irony. Emily went to the drugstore to buy something piousness. She claimed she had "rats" in her home. Emily steps up to the counter and said, "I want some poison." Then the druggist says back, "Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such, I recom-" She then started staring and says, "I want arsenic... for rats!" What is ironic about this part in the story is that the real reason as to why she was purchasing rat poison was not to use it for rats she did not even have rats in her home. She bought the arsenic to poison Homer Barron her secret lover. Even though she poisoned and killed him in the end she still would always have love for him, until the day she died.

Response to "A Rose For Emily"

This short story was not a sane story. For starters, Emily the main character was mentally, physically and emotionally human. Although, her father made her completely out casted from reality. Emily's father did not want her growing up. But she felt obligated to love him even after he died. He was good to her and after his death she never had to pay taxes. This is why she was excluded from the real world She had no idea what taxes were. He never let Emily love another man besides him. He especially never let her get married off. After Emily's father passed the towns people became of her suspicious ways to the outside world. When the towns people said "We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." Basically, Emily's father robbed her of her happiness to love anyone other than him. Back then in the late 1800's and early 1900's it was likely that a woman fall in love, get married and start a family when they neared their early
20's. So when the towns people noticed that Emily entering her early thirties was not married off yet they knew that there is something terribly wrong with the Griersons. The people of the town knew that it was a travesty when Emily had not been married by the age of thirty. The towns people quoted "so when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized." What the towns people meant by this quote is even though most of the Griersons were crazy they still should have told Emily and made it very clear to her that it is okay to love and have feelings; everyone gets hurt now and again but that is life. This is why the father of Emily stood in the way of Emily's affection to love another man.