Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Blog post #3

“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan. Amy Tan is a gifted storyteller who showed the tensions between with keeping up appearance and having true intentions. (pg. 110) She portrays her feelings and experience dealing with her Chinese culture and American culture. She shares her firsthand experience with having her first love, Robert, and his minister father attending her home for Christmas Eve dinner. Embarrassed by her own Chinese Christmas, she describes Robert’s reaction from the foods that her mother prepared and the lack of American proper manners her family had. I believe the purpose of this article was to remind others to not be embarrassed of your traditions. Amy Tan didn’t understand it back then but grew to appreciate and understand it later.

“Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie. Sherman Alexie describes what he went through as an American Indian living on an reservation. He portrays the expectations that Indian children were expected to be stupid. Even though most lived up to those expectations, Alexie refused to fail. He was arrogant and wanted to learn. He believed that learning to read which he taught himself, saved his life. He continued to read and became a writer. I believe the purpose of this article was even though the expectations were to fail; dare to be different.

I will be writing about “Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan for my analysis essay. I found this article interesting because I can relate to her. I also have had the firsthand experience with dealing with my own culture here even though I was born in the United States. 

I commented on Kim's and Rachel's blog

3 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed reading your summaries. They were concise and informative. The one other comment I would make is that if you are going to cite a page number in-text, you should have a works cited section for referencing that number.

    Other than that, nice job!

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  2. I really enjoyed reading this, I feel that because you are using a personal experience for you annalists paper that it will turn out very strong and will be a very good paper.

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  3. Nice job, Susan. Just a rule of thumb, though, as you begin to write and draft your analysis, be sure to think about the larger picture in writing the analysis. Rid of the personal pronouns and remain in 3rd person.

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