In the first section of The Joy Luck Club the main character's mother told a story all through out the main character's childhood, but the story was constantly changing. It had evolved from using a worthless thousand-yuan to by herself a cup or rice, the it turned into a por of porridge, then later into two pigs feet, then to six eggs, then the six eggs turned into six chicken.
After and argument between the main character and her mother over a radio transmitter she told the "real" story. This version was darker than the main character had ever heard before and it was completely different than anything she had ever come to know. The mother told her how the Japanese had come, but before they reached the area where she was staying she escaped with a wheel-barrow, two bags-one with clothes and the other with food-, and her children, twin girls. She told her daughter how the journey took many months and and her hands grew so wary that the bags left deep grooves in her palms, making them bleed and become so slippery that she could no longer hold the bags. The wheel-barrow had also broken so she had to rely solely on herself to carry everything. Slowly she started to let things go, first one bag, then the next, then her children. She arrived with only the three silk dresses she carried on her body. She also informed her daughter that the man she was going to see was not her father and the children she left behind were not her.
I think that the reason she changes the story so often was because she was so traumatized by the experience that she kept fantasizing that what she faced was different than it was. She could have also been lying and trying to make her daughter feel bad about wanting a radio transmitter and missing something that she had never had, especially when she had lost so much already.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Chapter 11
After many years of torture, poverty, neglect and abuse, Clover became a bipolar schizophrenic. In a very angry episode Clover saw Napoleon standing alone next to a pair of sheers. Projecting her anger onto him for making her the monster she thought herself to be, she decided to take away the thing that made him a man, his testicles. She forgot even the slightest good in this political tyrant, so she crept up behind him and completed her mission. She did exactly what she set out to do, she castrated Napoleon. He died ten days later due to infection, he was not missed.
Many months after this occurrence Moses the raven came back to animal farm. He was a changed bird. He brought a new religion to animal farm, Judaism. He was the reincarnation of the original Moses. It was his time to start a revolution, to free his people. He had to make the pigs, dogs, and humans see what they were doing. Moses’ first attempt of making peace was through verbal conduct. He sat the pigs, dogs, and humans down to discuss what they were doing wrong. This didn’t work, not at all. All it did was create more suffering for the animals of animal farm. So Moses began the ten plagues The first plague was the plague of blood. Moses said, “With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.”- Exodus 7:17–18. By saying this he meant that all the water of animal farm would turn to blood so no one could drink it. After the first plague not many died, due to the fact they consumed water through their normal dietary habits. A few dog’s died, but not enough for the plagues to be worth the trouble. The next plague to come was the plague of frogs. Then Moses said, “This is what the great LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.”- Exodus 7:1–4. Meaning that frogs with take over animal farm and be nasty.
Many plagues hit. The plague of gnats, the plague of wild beasts, the plague of pestilence, the plague of boils, the plague of hail, the plague of locusts, and the plague of darkness. The plague of the death of the first born didn’t happen because most of the big animals were first born, the only ones who were not first born were the ones that were rape victims children.
Anyway, everyone died to create a new generation that would make the world better.
Many months after this occurrence Moses the raven came back to animal farm. He was a changed bird. He brought a new religion to animal farm, Judaism. He was the reincarnation of the original Moses. It was his time to start a revolution, to free his people. He had to make the pigs, dogs, and humans see what they were doing. Moses’ first attempt of making peace was through verbal conduct. He sat the pigs, dogs, and humans down to discuss what they were doing wrong. This didn’t work, not at all. All it did was create more suffering for the animals of animal farm. So Moses began the ten plagues The first plague was the plague of blood. Moses said, “With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.”- Exodus 7:17–18. By saying this he meant that all the water of animal farm would turn to blood so no one could drink it. After the first plague not many died, due to the fact they consumed water through their normal dietary habits. A few dog’s died, but not enough for the plagues to be worth the trouble. The next plague to come was the plague of frogs. Then Moses said, “This is what the great LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.”- Exodus 7:1–4. Meaning that frogs with take over animal farm and be nasty.
Many plagues hit. The plague of gnats, the plague of wild beasts, the plague of pestilence, the plague of boils, the plague of hail, the plague of locusts, and the plague of darkness. The plague of the death of the first born didn’t happen because most of the big animals were first born, the only ones who were not first born were the ones that were rape victims children.
Anyway, everyone died to create a new generation that would make the world better.
Egypt vs. Animal Farm
One similarity that I have noticed between Animal Farm and Egypt is how they replaced one corrupt leader with one that ended up being worse.
In Animal Farm Mr. Jones, the caretaker, died in his sleep then he was replaced by Napoleon who became a political tyrant. The reason the animals did not like Mr. Jones was because he had control over the entire farm just because he could walk on two legs. As soon as Mr. Jones died the animals decided that they needed a leader, they did not know who because their leader in mind was Old Major who had also died. So the leader elected himself, the new leader of Animal Farm was Napoleon. Napoleon destroyed Animal Farm, he changed all the rules into rules that benefited him and killed anyone who crossed him path. This also happened with Egypt.
In Egypt the President was Anwar El Sadat. A brief history on him is: "Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970.
In his eleven years as president he changed Egypt's direction, departing from some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by re-instituting the multi-party system and launching the Infitah.
He led the Yom Kippur War of 1973 against Israel, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, throughout the Arab World. Afterwards he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. This won him the Nobel Peace Prize but also made him unpopular among some Arabs, resulting in a temporary suspension of Egypt's membership in the Arab League, and eventually his assassination." (Wikipedia)
After he was assassinated he was replaced by Hosni Mubarak who rained for thirty years causing pain and devastation to all his people.
My conclusion of these similar phenomenon's is that when a corrupt leader is needed to be replaced, the choosing of a new one needs to be carefully thought out. Just because one seems bad doesn't seem the next one could be worse.
In Animal Farm Mr. Jones, the caretaker, died in his sleep then he was replaced by Napoleon who became a political tyrant. The reason the animals did not like Mr. Jones was because he had control over the entire farm just because he could walk on two legs. As soon as Mr. Jones died the animals decided that they needed a leader, they did not know who because their leader in mind was Old Major who had also died. So the leader elected himself, the new leader of Animal Farm was Napoleon. Napoleon destroyed Animal Farm, he changed all the rules into rules that benefited him and killed anyone who crossed him path. This also happened with Egypt.
In Egypt the President was Anwar El Sadat. A brief history on him is: "Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. He was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970.
In his eleven years as president he changed Egypt's direction, departing from some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by re-instituting the multi-party system and launching the Infitah.
He led the Yom Kippur War of 1973 against Israel, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, throughout the Arab World. Afterwards he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. This won him the Nobel Peace Prize but also made him unpopular among some Arabs, resulting in a temporary suspension of Egypt's membership in the Arab League, and eventually his assassination." (Wikipedia)
After he was assassinated he was replaced by Hosni Mubarak who rained for thirty years causing pain and devastation to all his people.
My conclusion of these similar phenomenon's is that when a corrupt leader is needed to be replaced, the choosing of a new one needs to be carefully thought out. Just because one seems bad doesn't seem the next one could be worse.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Why Chinese Mothers Are Suprerior
Here is the list of things that Chinese mothers do and do not allow their children to do:
• attend a sleepover
• have a playdate
• be in a school play
• complain about not being in a school play
• watch TV or play computer games
• choose their own extracurricular activities
• get any grade less than an A
• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama=
• play any instrument other than the piano or violin
• not play the piano or violin.
All of these suck a lot. How could someone be so controlling over their child and how could their child not go completely crazy. What the hell. I think that all of these rules would heavily impair a child's social life.
(This is not finished, I will finish later tonight)
• attend a sleepover
• have a playdate
• be in a school play
• complain about not being in a school play
• watch TV or play computer games
• choose their own extracurricular activities
• get any grade less than an A
• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama=
• play any instrument other than the piano or violin
• not play the piano or violin.
All of these suck a lot. How could someone be so controlling over their child and how could their child not go completely crazy. What the hell. I think that all of these rules would heavily impair a child's social life.
(This is not finished, I will finish later tonight)
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