Living Together

I used to hang out with all kinds of people ranging from pesky white boys to mad blacks. I can get along well with all of them. WIth the enviroment i have now, there isn't much of a cultural diffrence and background. however i believe if we can have a cultural diversity and background it can make soceity a better palce to accept newcomers. People can join a diffrent group easily and fast, feeling like themselves when in a cultural diversity group. If it was a small asain that wanted to join a whole group of big african americans, it might be wierd and akward for him to act really ntaural. He would stand out in the group and possibly be aware of rumors or maybe discrimination in the group of chit chats. If it was a group that is join by diffrent groups, he can view himseld diffrent with other people as they all stand from diffrent parts of the world or culture. They could learn from each other on each unique diffrence of life. As they learn of diffrent customs, they can increase the tolerance on diffrent people because they already felt it before. However, there might also be a possibilitiy when the people's culture clash and fight can arose.

Write a Letter

Dear hayashi
                 this is Bob, i took car fo oyur house, don't worry. I went to your house adnt ook some of your personal belingings that you might need when tyou cme back away and kept it in my house. I'm recently paying close attention on what would happen to your house and properties. I'm doing my best right now to protect your belongings and preventing them from sold. i know how you feel about the whole situation on your house and all and i feel truly sorry for you. Unfortunatly, i really couldn't do much for you except to help you keep your things till you come back. I will send a letter to you every month from now telling you the situation of your house.

Narrator’s Persona

To be honest, i hated the story, however the author did gave me a feeling to the story. I hated the story on the killing of the dog and the boring dialogue and thoughts. The narrator did however give the thougth of the feelings toward the subject of the camps. The narrator hated it and you can feel a bit of hopeless and a bit of blaming the U.S feeling. I feel the emotions on the victory garden and the packing of things. As the feeling all crumbles together slowly, the reader feels the large burden that you are leaving everything you used to have back in this place. The feeling that they might lose everything is successfully convey in the narrator's voice. However once again, this story is hella boring and sad. It's so sad that it becomes boring where there is no twist except a cute white dog was smashed dead without even knowing why or have one of his best meal he ever have. The killing of the dog senselessly really got me angered and depressed. After the dog, the way the children talks to the birds are even more annoying, this story took me a week to finish it as its dumb plot and dislogue couldn't let me sit down for 20min straight and get down with the story.

Life-Changing Events

I believe that changes in people's lives depends, this question could means by the whole human race or maybe just one person. In history, humans have to cope with the change of climate, their resources for lives. A huge natural disaster could devastate a society around the world as they have to learn to adapt to new things and live off new foods or ways of survival. To just regualr people right now, i believe death of a close family member would be a great change. Imagine the people who lost their parents when they were young or maybe their awesome grandparents. Dang that would suck. For me, nothing made a big change except the expierence that i was stuck in the elevator. I can live off anyhting that involves meat inside, enviromental issues doesn't affect me, people problems doesn't affect me at all too. I used to change school every year or half a year due to the diffrent school my mom like and i was having fun with it. I don't want to think about the biggest even that might change my life, last year i almost have to deal with it but fortunatly it didn't happen. I hate to lose anyone i know in my family, and i don't like to predict what would happen if i loses one of them,

Satire in “The Storyteller”

In my last journal prompt, i have talked about the things that Saki have been poking at somehow. In the story, the bachelor's story, the aunt, and the kids are all poking at the behavior of parents and the soceity. The aunt is a image of modern parents, trying to tell the kids to behave all the time, and in the end its not really helping anyways. In the bachelor's story, it shows a contrast of the view of aunt. Bertha was behaving well and doing everything that her parents order to do. In the end she was devoured by a wolf. I believe this story is a satire on the society, goodness and obediance are not always rewarded. Bertha could be a innocent being in the soceity, and the bad people would use this obediance as one of your weakness and turn it back to you. Such as a rapist and a innocent girl, the rapist will look at your well being and possible give you a candy and lure you onto his car. A very friendly manner can result in a terrible consequence like the history of the native americans, their goodness to the spanish caused them a disaster as slaves and killed. The goodness can be turned back to you and obediance are not always rewarded. The kids can also be referred to the kids of modern society, we ask why, we don't take stupid answers like that's better. The words shown in the story also shows humor. In the discription of the pigs, he use some odd descriptions such as black pigs instead of regular pink pigs. A phrase horribly good, pulling the children's atttention and the reader's attention. The storyteller consists of lots of great thoughts and satire is one of the main. Goodness and obedaince are not always reewarded.

Motivation for Telling a Story

In the story" Storyteller" diffrent characters have diffrent motivations. The bachelor and the aunt's motivations both include similarities and diffrences. the bachelor and the aunt both wanted the kids to be quiet and stop talking. The bachelor's way of making the kids to be quiet is quite diffrent from the aunt. The aunt wanted to tell a story that can teach a lesson while the bachelor want to tell an interestign story. The two person's feelings during the story telling progress were both diffrent as well. The bachelor was actually quite enjoying the process of the telling as the kids are quiet and appreciate the story in the end. The aunt was annoyed by the kids, the boring story that consists of the same things all the time and the lack of details couldn't fill the children's imagination up. The lessons that each story also differs. In the aunt's story, a stupid and over repeating lesson is taught again and again and it kills the children's interests. In the bachelor's story, it sounded like a lesson wasn't implied however one important is in it. I would view the story as an satire on modern parent's however it also talked about civil obediance. Being good isn't ususlly appreciated and you have disobey to be successful sometimes.

Omniscient Point of View

The way the omniscient point of the view shows each character's thjoughts make us like a supreme. We will know all thjoguths of a character and we can know their motives and some of the things that might happen before a character inside know. if you have told the story from the aunt's view, it is probably filled with the thoughts of the aunt and how a disturbing man the bachelor is. While from the bachelor, the thoughts would be how to show off to the aunt or how the kids are annoying. The story will go only one way while maybe the words and sentences the author can use may also affect what we thought about the people in the story or the events that happened.