"Veil of Fears" Analytic snapshot

The “Veil of Fears” is set upon the middle-eastern countries and how the women there have to cover up and be controlled by the talaban. The Genre for this is more of a documentary explaining what the veil on a woman means and the customs of places such as Iraq or Afghanistan. I believe that the purpose of this is to show the reader what is going on and what the feminist movements are aimed towards in those countries. It tells a lot of the rights women have and what they have to do to stay alive. I thought it was interesting when it talked about how a woman is to do very certain things such as cover up and not even make sounds when walking in the city. So this leads to the central message which is, we should cherish what we have in the United States and remember that we have a lot more freedoms than those in other countries. Not to put the other countries down because they have many qualities that compare to the U.S. but there are many things that distinguish us as a country. The world view of this documentary is that those in middle-eastern countries right now are rising up because of the conditions that they have to live in and what the women have to do. The tools and evidence that were used very well were showing what a woman really has to do and what a day might look like in the eyes of a middle-eastern woman. Another tool used is imagery because it describes the woman to be dressed head to toe and having a veil which really puts a good image in your head. 

Reflection on the good ol' Personal Narrative

This personal narrative seemed like it went pretty well and I revised it pretty well too. I just am not sure about a couple things because I didn’t have time to really think about things and get the detail right. I also felt like I had a solid story and plenty of detail to describe what I was going through. There were some minor details that I left out that didn’t really belong in the first place but I guess that’s good. What I found really easy about this paper was the fact of finding a story that influenced my life because I have had so many. Many of these took place when I was about 13 and the years that I was a teen because that’s where I grew the most. What I found fairly easy about this paper was remembering what happened and who was with me because it was such a significant story in my life and I can remember most of it even when I was so young and I didn’t really think about these types of lessons. The hardest part was finding words and sentences to describe what happened and how I was feeling. I always find this hard to be able to make sentences that sound really good and describe how I was feeling. One last thing that I found kind of difficult for this paper was avoiding awkward sentences because I am usually always using these. I just decided to read my paper aloud a lot and find the problems by myself. 

My Personal Narrative update

The personal narrative is coming along great even though I haven’t started writing it. My idea for this narrative is an experience that I had when I was about thirteen years of age and that was when I went on a fifty mile canoe trip upstream at a lake in Arizona. The reason I am using this idea is because it really changed me as a person and it was also about one-hundred and twenty degrees while we were doing it. So far the ideas that I have for this paper are good because it includes many factors and lessons that are good to learn. One of those lessons is the lesson of endurance because I was kind of chubby during this time and it was hard for me to endure to the end. I really hope to be able to draw a picture for the reader and be able to describe the best I can how I felt and what I was going through. I always remember the good things about this trip such as my brother going with me but I never really thought about the bad things that happened such as the temperature that we were going through as well as the fact that my brother left early. I feel like this paper is going to be really good because there are so many aspects of it that are ironic as well as funny that kind of lighten the situation but there are also parts of it where you think, “Man I feel so bad for that little chubby kid.”

"Excerpt from Night" (depressing...)

“Excerpt from Night” is simply a very depressing story about a son and his father in an internment camp during the second world war. I found this extremely depressing the whole entire time I was reading it because of the surroundings that were described to me. The whole time I was thinking how horrible it would be to be in that situation and having to deal with the things that little boy went through. The boy having the thought that he would either be cremated or sent to prison just gives me chills and also makes me remember how horrible that time was. After the boy gets chosen to be cremated and a man says, “Poor devils, you are going to be cremated” my heart just sank thinking of what have might have been going through that young boy’s life. Even though this happens the boy is happier than he was because he is with his father. His father was so disappointed because if the little boy would have gone with his mother he would be safe and the father finds so much grief when he realizes this. The emotions that the father and his son felt just make me cringe as they stare into the flames in a pit that they would soon enter. I can relate to this story, not maybe to the extent of what they felt, but I can relate because at times all I was thinking was “this situation would be so much better if my dad were right by my side” and I would feel hopeless without him. All I can say about this story is how horrible the internment camps were and I feel so bad for the families that were hurt by this occurrence. 

Oh personal narratives...

            In the personal narrative, “Kerry Spencer’s How to Write a Seriously Awful Personal Narrative,” I found many hilarious parallels to my life and how I write. An example would be when she starts by saying start your personal narrative by procrastinating and going on Facebook to see who has broken up that night. I find this funny because I cannot count how many times when I had a huge paper to write and I found myself staring at my computer screen chatting with my friends on Facebook. “No one is boring who will tell the truth about himself,” is a quote from Quentin Crisp and this is completely true when dealing with this personal narrative full of irony and hilarity. This is true because whenever we try to write a good paper it is full of words we would never use and also full of thesaurus based vocabulary. It is so much easier to express yourself and say what you would normally say as a person and not as a robot writing a paper.  Kerry also talks about how you should always draw away from what you are trying to get across and having this full personal narrative being about irony, it is funny how she puts it and that is that you need to make everything sound boring so that the reader thinks, “Why the heck did I just read that?!” How Kerry writes this paper completely gives me a visual of how she acts and what she is trying to get across as a person. This then brings me back to my quote on that she is being herself and telling truths about what she thinks as a writer. 

Me in 100 Words

The things I love are very simple but mean a lot to me and these are my family, hanging with the buddies, going to the lake, going snowboarding, watching any football game with my dad and the brothers, and most importantly my savior.

Now the things that I don’t like as much, (hate), are things such as soccer, people who bug the heck out of me, people who bug the heck out of me and play soccer.., and baseball as well.

Things that I like to do are playing basketball, getting to know people and their backgrounds, conversations with my mom and being able to be there for someone. These are just a few things that I like to do.