CR Exercise 1: Submission Preview

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Growing up in a country where interdependence is widely supported, such as America, can be extremely difficult to understand especially for a Chinese-American Child with Chinese born parents who preach interdependence. Confusion can become a big factor in one's life just as Kingston's. In "No Name Women" Kingston finds herself confused with her Chinese family customs and the type of freedom she has as an American. "Chinese-American, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is particular to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, form what is Chinese?" Here she gives out a message that she is confused and she does not make sense of her Chinese customs. This works side-by-side with her stories she makes up to try to find some sense of insight of her and her customs.

As Kingston begins to make up her stories, she gives out a sense that one shall not temper with such interdependent Chinese customs. She makes this possible by constantly exposing her audience to negatively connotated words and making the audience fear some of strict customs she describes.

"The frightened villagers, who depended on one another to maintain the real, went to my aunt to show her a personal physical representation of the brake in the 'roundedness.'" Here Kingston wants to express the importance of community and the types of consequences that are possible if ones breaks the social norm. She effectively communicates to people who are dependent of others by creating a sense of enslavement. She continues to use metaphors such as "round moon cakes" and "round doorways" to express the importance that this type of culture has on one another.

Kingston also includes a time where she should of acted on her own will, "I should have stood up, both arms waving , and shouting across libraries, 'Hey you! Love me back.'" But of course her customs come to play, "Sisterliness, dignified and honorable, made much more sense." This attitude she expresses shows the audience that there is an alternative but her customs always prevail. Kingston's ability to use different scenarios allows her to communicate her confusion she feels towards her customs.

Growing up in a country where interdependence is widely supported, such as America, can be extremely difficult to understand especially for a Chinese-American Child with Chinese born parents who preach interdependence. Confusion can become a big factor in one's life just as Kingston's. In "No Name Women" Kingston finds herself confused with her Chinese family customs and the type of freedom she has as an American. "Chinese-American, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is particular to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, form what is Chinese?" Here she gives out a message that she is confused and she does not make sense of her Chinese customs. This works side-by-side with her stories she makes up to try to find some sense of insight of her and her customs.
               As Kingston begins to make up her stories, she gives out a sense that one shall not temper with such interdependent Chinese customs. She makes this possible by constantly exposing her audience to negatively connotated words and making the audience fear some of strict customs she describes.
               "The frightened villagers, who depended on one another to maintain the real, went to my aunt to show her a personal physical representation of the brake in the 'roundedness.'" Here Kingston wants to express the importance of community and the types of consequences that are possible if ones breaks the social norm. She effectively communicates to people who are dependent of others by creating a sense of enslavement. She continues to use metaphors such as "round moon cakes" and "round doorways" to express the importance that this type of culture has on one another.
               Kingston also includes a time where she should of acted on her own will, "I should have stood up, both arms waving , and shouting across libraries, 'Hey you! Love me back.'" But of course her customs come to play, "Sisterliness, dignified and honorable, made much more sense." This attitude she expresses shows the audience that there is an alternative but her customs always prevail. Kingston's ability to use different scenarios allows her to communicate her confusion she feels towards her customs.

Miguel Angel Johan Ruiz Romo

After Tuesdays classroom discussion I realized that some of my ideas were on track but my writing was off. In my response I did not include why Kingston chose to use first person and third person at different occasions. Now that I have a better understanding that she uses this strategy for many reasons like to create a parallel between herself and her aunt. Taking a second look at my response I realized that I focused more on WHAT rather than HOW this memoir was being presented. On some occasions I did focus on HOW but my mind was young and I kept falling back to writing literary analysis. After Tuesdays classroom discussion and by reading people's posts, I gained a better idea on HOW I should be writing.