Born in Wrongtown, is where logically the first book of the autobiographical series should start. Why, that nonexistent place name? § 1 - Born in Wrongtown This book volume clarifies the simple and logical evolution. Why began Poul feeling uncomfortable about whom he was. Why got he allergic to his first name and town. From where came the aversion related to nationality. The twelve life episodes spread over twenty volumes analyzes, cover and shows how emotions block further development. The evolution with new piling up emotions block and distortion the mind, in a complex mirror in which uncountable millions of people can see themselves. However, the reasons are all simple and human. Potential readers, might find several similitudes, answers, …show more content…
I lived, studied and worked in 18 nations on four continents. Constant involvement in other languages resulted in mixing vocables, syntax and grammar. Who could finally be able to understand LEEnglish or wordsmith’s Lee-English? His languagee is a mixture of gestures, invented words, speech patterns and strange expressions? Once writing the way I speak changes the comprehension level. After all, who can understand Hong Kong's, Irish, Chicagoan, Canadian, UK 's or Nigerian English? In addition, the more languages there are, the more “homonyms, homophones, cognates, word-wraps, non-cognates, di-cognates, heteronyms, loan blends, loanwords, metonyms, interlinguals and homographs.” Just to honor the name of a few without mentioning southern and northern American English or London’s Cockney. With other words, vocables implying the same meaning, spelled differently, pronounced otherwise. What’s more, many of those mentioned derivatives graphically similar, but with disparate signification in French, Spanish, Italian, or Dutch? Apart from that linguistic malaxation, to close the language this, I was equally allergic to grammar and in particular disliked …show more content…
What’s more, narrating all picturesque, romantic, humorous moments, happenings and recordings, were one side of the coin. The idea, having to describe during an uncountable number of years to come, setbacks, tremendous wealth, blows of a heavy maul, success, treason, horror and repeated deaths became deterrent. Why torture myself with the past instead of concentrating on the future? § 5 - Autobiography or boring personal story Another obstruction to take into consideration was, writing an autobiography instead of a boring “personal history.” The first refers to the challenge, divulging everything objectively, honestly, chronologically. Share—in my case—lots of viewpoints and situations never experienced by others. The idea to share a lot with the younger parched generation became attractive. Including confessing, admitting, causing indignation. Extra to this, many with guilt feelings about whatever, would find relief in this series, finding out “why” guilt is unjustified. § 6 - Average 7 000 Pages according to Event
Mother Tongue was originally part of a speech that Amy Tan had given while she participated in a panel entitled,”Englishes: Whose English is it anyway?” in 1989. The author describes in detail how she finds herself using various forms of English, depending on who she is around. She also makes the point on how hard life can be for someone who doesn’t speak good English.
In his reflective piece, Soto recounts his guilt through repeating, contrasting descriptions, symbolism, and shifts in the story as he fights between sweet temptation and merciless self-awareness. His guilt most prominently displays through his attention towards the
The legitimacy of the memoir is highly dependent on the
When it comes to certain topics, multiple interpretations can be revealed, as an argument progresses. Sometimes it may be hard to tell which side is in the right. Subsequently, opinions continuously fly back and forth between individuals who can’t seem to stop disagreeing with each other. Moreover, internal conflicts occasionally arise as well, within each individual, due to new information that develops from their personal trials. Finding a piece of literature where the reader can relate to is a great fortune.
Nonfiction is a place without opinion and needs reliable sources of information to base the writings upon. Memoirs are someone’s life in their own opinion and should be labeled as fiction to warn that all events in the work may or may not be
“So many words were still unknown that when the butcher and the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Often, the speech of people in public seemed to be very loud, booming with confidence. The man behind the counter would literally ask, ‘What can I do for you?’ But by being firm and so clear, the sound of his voice said that he was a gringo; he belonged in the public society”(12). Rodriguez describes the way English sounds to him creating an image that the language was very complex to in his perspective.
This ironic foil is an interesting aspect of the first “autobiography”. While both men have a major imbalance between professional success and internal happiness and rely on the help of ghosts to help overcome these deficiencies, the implication of the stories could not be more different. Imagine if a university’s exemplar was the redemptive tale of Scrooge, that would read like something from The Onion. Even though Confessions relies on more outrageous claims than A Christmas Carol, it is viewed as reasonable source material for the birth of a
Although it is nearly impossible to get an entirely accurate count, there exist at least 6,500 languages (Leonard et. al., 59). Something tells me that if language were about something as simple as communication, that number would be smaller. In all actuality, people feel deeply connected to their native languages for another reason. Language and culture are one and the same, and Gloria Anzaldua illustrates this in her piece “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” using examples of changes and suppressions of her language, to represent changes and suppressions of her culture as a whole.
The best way to deal adversity is to move forward from it and don’t look back at. Some would love to forget about their past but eventually it catches up. Like a famous actor, producer, director, screenwriter, playwright, author, and songwriter. Tyler perry, dealt with abuse both physically and sexually, but learned how to overcome it. He believed that “Writing it out” helped him cope with his adversity.
While at a public speaking, Tan realized that she was using all these large words that her audience understood but her mother did not. “I was saying things like, “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus–and-thus…the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother” (Tan 58). Tan’s mother was in the room while Tan was giving the speech and that was when she realized that language could be a powerful tool that can connect each other in different ways. The English language can also bring people together who speak English but not in such a common way. “We were talking about the price of new and used furniture and I heard myself saying this: “Not waste money that way” (Tan 58).
5. What are the narrator ’s purposes for telling these stories? How do their reflections add to the theme of the stories? Use specific quotations to support your ideas.
Primary Sources If it is a memoir or novel, tell us about the relationship between the author and the subject in question (memoir of someone who lived through the experiences you are interested in, etc). De Gualle, Charles. The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gualle. Translated by Jonathan Griffin and Richard Howard.
One night, during the cold winter, I walked along the side walk to reach the local store down the block. As I walked out, before I can realize it, I was dropping down onto the concrete while bullets swiftly passed me. I then began to run back home, but I wanted to keep running. Away from Chicago, away from the west side. Growing up in Chicago, it was easy to assume that there was nothing different beyond the blocks of my streets.
However, his true morals are revealed when the narrator shows signs of guilt like “My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears.” The narrator’s transition from superiority to guilt represents the reality that the acknowledgement of wrongdoings can either be done consciously or unconsciously, and that the latter has considerable negative
In addition, it is stated how in A Farewell to Arms, Trevor Dodman argues how Fredric ‘suffers from the compulsion to remember and retell his traumatic past from the standpoint of a survivor both unable and perhaps unwilling to put that very past into words” (Church 59). On other hand, Ernest Hemingway while recovering his war injuries, he suffered depression. Also, it was states how his body and mind were also beginning to betray him. Both Frederic Henry and Ernest Hemingway suffered from the inability to move on from the past. They both were so focused on how their past affected them that soonly their brain and body did it for them.