All I Asking For Is My Body, Part I, Dialogue

Who is the Narrator?  Where does he live?  What do his parents do for a living?

In “All I asking for is my body” the narrator is a fourth grade boy named Kiyoshi. He lives in Pepelau, Hawaii with his parents,older brother and younger sister.A part of Hawaii where you don’t own shoes and you go to the beach everyday tell sundown only coming home for lunch.There where other activites like movies for family’s who had money and something called the Buddhist Bon dances in the evening. His father is a fisherman and his mom is a sewed for a living.

He talks about always having fish and rice due to the fact they weren’t as fortunate as some of the other familys in the camp they lived in.How he grew tired of it and that’s why he went against his parents and ate at his friends home.I think they were ashamed that they didn’t have a lot of money .example his mom telling him he would get sick if he kept eating over there often. Another example would be his mom worrying the people in his camp would laugh at him and or worry about what people would say.

Essay 3 Workshop

What role does forgiveness play in Smoke Signals?

From my point of view in Smoke Signals, forgiveness plays a large role in Victor, Thomas, and victor’s mom. Thomas and Victor had kind of a rocky past with eachother.I think it was easy in a way for Thomas to forgive victor. Because they as kids were friends, and Thomas understood victor was upset about his dad walking out of the family. Example of that would be when victor as a kid beat up Thomas. And when there on their trip victor says he’s sorry for beating him up years after it happened. Victor I believe forgives his dad in the end of the movie for walking out on him and his mom. I say this because he just seems different on his way back from their trip. Like he might not have understood why but he moved on and forgave his dad. It shows when he gave Thomas some of his dad’s ashes to throw in the river to become a salmon. Another character though of was victor’s mom. I think she forget victors dad for the physical abuse that we saw in the begging of the movie and for walking out on their family after he died. These three characters are who came to mind when I about what forgivness played in Smoke Signals.

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Are you more impressed with the film or the story?  Why? 

I was impressed more by the story. I enjoyed the film but all around I was more impressed by the story. I felt like there were things the movie didn’t show or talk about that the story did. I think the story shows a different side of victor we didn’t see in the movie. A softer friendly side of him is described.The friendship between Thomas and Victor comes through as well. They have a friendship built from when they were kids, and you see how guilty victor feels for beating Thomas up and their friendship in a way growing apart.

I think the story also made it easier to understand some scenes in the movie. Like when Victor was beating up Thomas, they didn’t say why in the movie. They just showed a scene of him beating Thomas up. I was lost about that. But after I read the story that scene in the movie made a lot more since to me. I think all around the story helped back up the movie in a lot of ways.

Smoke Signals

What do you think about the relationship between Thomas and Victor?

In the movie Smoke Signals Thomas and Victor had a strong friendship. First thing I noticed is they have been through similar experiences. When Thomas was a baby his parent died in a fire and was left with his grandma. Victor’s dad took off and died. I think Thomas was more relatable to Victor after his dad died. I though it made their friendship stronger.

 I think Victor in a way looks out for Thomas. And vice versa with Thomas. Victors tough because his dad taught him to be, so I can kind of understand why in the beginning of the movie when there walking he freaks out on him and throws his canteen with water in it on the ground. But you can see the bond they share in the beginning of the movie when Victors playing basketball and in a way sticks up for Thomas when the guys victors playing with start to pick on him. Victor was hard on Thomas but you could see he cared about him as a friend. I think by the end of the movie there friendship grows.

"Happy Endings," Obituary," and "Oompah Loompah” Dialogue

My Response to Mr. Harvey would be he’s tough. Not so much rude but tough. Reading his responses to kids in the story was interesting. He almost sounded like he was mad and about to give on those students witch made me sad .An example of, how his students reacted would be where the boy named Jerome put up his middle finger after Mr. Harvey told them they wouldn’t be successful in life if they didn’t learn to speak proper English. Another example of Mr. Harvey would be where he’s yelling at the kids because they aren’t speaking properly and he lets them know there terrible out of frustration.

It was sad to me because it touched home in a way .My parents talked to me in Greek so naturally Greek was my first language. I remember going to kindergarten and knowing a very little English and sometimes my teachers not being able to understand what I was saying. I struggled learning to speak proper English and still do sometimes to this day. I never experienced a teacher losing patients with me but I know how those kids must of felt.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 47

One of the points mentioned in Rules for Writers Chapter 47 is Examine your issue’s social and intellectual contexts. It means Social and Intellectual issues go hand and hand because if you have social issues your intellect is sure to be challenged. Sometimes the brightest minds don’t have the patience to be social. Second point that was talked about was View Your Audience as a panel of jurors. It means to not assume that your audience already agrees with you.Instead, envision skeptical readers who, like a panel of jurors, will make up their minds after listening to all sides of the argument. Third Point that is talked about is in your introduction, establish credibility and state your position. Meaning when you’re constructing an argument, make sure your introduction contains a thesis sentence that states your position on the issue you have chosen to debate. Forth point talked about is Back up your thesis with persuasive lines of argument. Meaning to make your side sound right with a strong argument yet not arguing. Fifth point would be Support your claims with specific evidence. Meaning to have tangible proof of your claim. Sixth point would be anticipate objects; counter opposing arguments. Meaning readers who already agree with you need no convincing, but indifferent or skeptical readers may resist your arguments. Seventh point would be Build common ground. Meaning simply to build common ground with readers who don’t not initially agree with you. And lasty, Sample argument paper. To me it means a sentence that clearly asserts the main point or argument of the essay.

I plan to use this information with different styles for writing papers.

“Shooting Dad” Dialogue

             What accounts for the narrator’s struggles with her dad?

They have different views of the world. Her dad thinks using guns is ok in the world. He votes for a different side then Sarah does. She doesn’t like guns, and her dad is a gunsmith. She later in life became ok with shooting cannons going off. Because it’s not going to go anywhere.

 She realized she didn’t like guns when she was 6 when she first shot a gun. She talks about the noise, and how it made her fall back which scared her. She also talks about how it made her feel when she first shot the gun and how she never wanted to again. They also don’t agree on the same parts of the constitution. She shares that she’s partial to the First Amendment while her dad has always favored the second.  Another thing is her dad was into guns and she was into art. This caused a lot of fights as she says in her teens.