All I asking for is my body II Dialouge

In the book “All I asking for is my body,” Kiyoshi mother believed in superstition. She felt that every new year she had to start clean by “all debts paid, all the food cutting and cooking done by midnight on New Year’s Eve.. you bathed in the morning on New Year’s Day.” (21)  Everything that she did, she was always cautious about it.

My Mother is also old school. She believe in bad luck, like if we step on a crack she believes it’ll crack her back. I’m not sure why people believe so much in superstition, some of it just sounds so phony and so unreal, but my mother says when they were younger a lot of people believed in bad luck.

Another thing I noticed about Kiyoshi’s family, is that they don’t make enough money to  buy themselves goodies, it seems that the only money they make is enough for only food. In the book it says that they loose all there teeth, that says a lot about them. People who aren’t rich, seem to only worry about food, nothing else. Its sad to see that they cant afford to buy toothpaste for there teeth.

Chapter 57 "Supporting a Thesis"

It is true, most assignments require that when you write an essay you either have a thesis or a main idea, and have well organized paragraphs to support you thesis or main idea. To form a thesis there's a couple of steps that can help you achieve a well organized essay.

First they require that you make a thesis sentence. A thesis can either appear at the beginning or end of the introduction. Its basically a one sentence statements of your main idea.

Then you need to organize all your evidence. The standard model is, Method, Result, Discussion.

Then they may ask you to use sources to inform and help explain your thesis. The author says that the sources can play a big role in developing your essay.

I plan to use this when i have to write essay's for this class. I know how important the thesis statement is. Thad's why when we have essay's to write I'm very careful about the things i want to say. I find this really helpful and i also plan to use this for English 1a.

All I'm asking for is my part, Part I

  Who is Makot?  Makot is this young boy who lives with his Japanese family. He is the an older boy who likes to hang out with younger boys. The older boys don't like hanging out with Makot. So Makot buys the younger boys anything they want so he can be there leader. If the younger boys don't do what Makot says, he puts this fuzzy face and makes them feel bad until Makot gets his way. Do you feel sorry for him? In a way i do because it must be hard for a boy his age having to deal with his parents being in the prostitution world. Everyone gives him a hard time and it makes me sad that he has to deal with it all by himself.
 What are your thoughts about him and the way he copes with his parents? I think the way he copes with it is by having control of younger kids, making them rebel against there parents and making them steal. I think when he does this it makes him feel great, like if he get some kind of enlightenment by this. I also believe that he wants all the younger kids not to listen or obey what there parents ask them to do. Since Makot has no one telling him what to do, he feels everyone should do the same.

Essay Workshop 3

Myra Alvarez

English 100

11/10/10

Rough Draft

 The Value of Forgiveness

            To forgive someone who has hurt you not only physically but emotionally, can be hard. Some say it’s easier said then done, but you may also ask yourself, would you forgive someone who put you through torture? Could you find the strength to go up to that person without yelling at them?

            Hearing the word forgiveness reminds me of the young boy named Victor from the movie “Smoked Signals.” Victor was an Indian boy who lived on the reservation with his tribe. Victor’s father Arnold had a bad habit of drinking, he was an alcoholic, while under the influence, Arnold seemed to build anger remembering his past, out of anger, Arnold would hit his wife and Victor. Arnold soon started to realize that he wasn’t only hurting himself but he was hurting the ones that loved him the most.  He decide to one day get the nerve to get up and leave his family.

            Growing up without a father figure in Victor’s life wasn’t an essay obstacle. He had to learn how to be a man by himself. Victor became this young boy who had a lot of anger inside of him. When you see him, you could tell that he kept all his  feelings to himself, he acted as if he had no one to talk to. Thomas was his tribal childhood friend. Thomas was this young boy who had a creative imagination, he loved to tell stories, especially to Victor about his father Arnold. Thomas would tell Victor stories about Arnold to make him remember all the nice things Arnold once did. Victor just couldn’t believe his father was ever nice, the only memories he carried were the ones where Arnold would be hitting him.

            Victor felt that his father no longer cared for him, soon he got the call that they found his father dead in his trailer. Victor knew that he had to go pick up his father ashes but couldn’t finically go, except the fact that Tomas offered to pay only if he could go. Victor wasn’t to fond of the idea, but soon agreed that he could go. As they arrived, his dad’s neighbor Suzy, let Victor go in the trailer where they had found his father. Victor found Arnold's wallet with a family picture of them. As he turned the picture he saw the words Family. Victor couldn’t seem to understand how someone who abandoned him at a young age, could still carry a picture of his family. He soon started to realize that his father never forgot about him or his family. Suzy made it clear to Victor that all his father talked about was going home.

            Although Victor didn’t believe in forgiving, he soon learned that forgiving was the first step towards finding happiness in his heart. We all sometime in our life have to forgive someone who has hurt us, it isn’t easy and I don’t believe it was meant to be easy either. My mother once told me in order to find happiness within yourself, you have to first learn how to forgive others who have done you wrong, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to forget the torture you went through, but you need to learn to forgive in order to live in peace not only with yourself but within your heart.

"This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona"

In the story “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona,” I fount a couple things that seemed unusual, for instance Victor personality in the story wasn’t the same as the movie. In the movie he acted like the bad guy, always had a tough attitude and seemed mad all the time. In the book he seemed laid back, actually acting like a regular teenager. As for Thomas he is still the same dorky kid in both the movie and story. Victor did seem the same towards Thomas, except he wasn’t as me as he was in the movie.

I believe that if Victor was anything like the story in the book he would be more popular and everyone would want to hang out with him. I know that at a young age its hard to act normal when you’ve got so many things running through your head like for example the death of a father or mother. I enjoyed the book for than the movie. It seemed the characters were more relaxed.