Analysis Of Under The Persimmon Tree

“Speak” is book about a young girl who loses her voice after being raped and slowly gains it back over time. Laurie Halse Anderson uses an internal voice throughout the book to show the havoc that is attacking Melinda’s mind. This adds to the theme of being outcast and isolated because the she has no one to really talk to.

Danticat uses her Uncles loss of voice, to show us how different and hard it can be to not have a voice at all. When Danticat was 9 years old, her uncle was diagnosed with throat cancer and the doctors told him that he would need a radical laryngectomy to save his life. Danticat recalls her uncle, a bishop, having a grand voice, a voice that would invoke people to listen when she states, “he would model Fignolé’s forceful and direct Creole diction and speak in a clear, powerful bass, allowing only a few well-chosen pauses” (Danticat p.31) However, as a bishop, her father recalls a time when he’d watched his brother give a

She began to reminisce more about Nnamdi before the fatal accident. “But the simplicity of Nnamdi’s faith intrigued me. Nnamdi intrigued me,” (Adiche). In this portion of her short story she begins to remember little tidbits about her relationship with Nnamdi. She couldn’t remember them well, but she remembered. Then, it

Empathy is having the ability to understand the feelings of others often through connecting our own experiences to those around us. “Wildwood” by Junot Diaz follows the journey of the main character, Lola. Lola is a rebellious teenager living with her mother and younger brother in New Jersey. Lola's mother who is battling breast cancer, must deal with Lola and her defiant ways. Lola’s mother sends her away to live in the Dominican Republic to learn how to be a mature young woman. Every kid can relate to wanting to go against their parents rules and Lola is no different. The reader can relate to Lola through her common experiences that many deal with. Diaz uses first person to allow the reader to experience the perspective of Lola through her narration. He makes it easy to relate to as the story follows something that everyone has been through, growing up. Rebellion is a natural characteristic of maturation, although difficult for the parents it allows children to learn from their mistakes. Junot Diaz’s short story, “Wildwood” uses teenage rebellion and common feelings, to challenge stereotypes which allows the reader to easily sympathize with the story.

Cold Sassy Tree is a fictional story written by Olive Ann Burns which details the life of a family in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The story is being told from the perspective of a teenager named Will Tweedy. The plot is focused around the love and marriage between Rucker Blakeslee and Love Simpson. There is a huge uproar and disdain from the family as well as the townspeople over the relationship. There is a grave separation between the people of the town and the blue collar workers who live on the outskirts of town and barely make enough money to live. Will is torn between defending his grandfather or agreeing with his family. He is thirteen at the time of the passing of his grandmother, who is the family’s matriarch. Being a typical teenager faced with adult circumstances, Will is torn on the emotional impulses on whether he should be out fishing or mourn the lost of the grandmother. Nevertheless, Will loved his grandmother and is extremely sad for her passing, but the passing of his grandmother places a strain on the relationship he has with his family especially his grandfather. Will looks up to his grandfather and hopes to be a lot like him. While Will thinks of his grandfather as a role model, he disagrees with some of his grandfather’s actions. Will would rather be a shopkeeper instead of a farmer like Rucker. He also does not agree with his grandfather wanting

The Goophered Grapevine" is the short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt. Chesnutt is the first the novelist and an African American writer. “The Goophered Grapevine" is the first and the best work of African American to show up in the Atlantic Monthly in 1887. The Atlantic Monthly is one of the prominent magazines by this time period. Charles W. Chesnutt was born on June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the first child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Ann Maria Sampson, free blacks who had moved north from North Carolina. In 1866, after the Civil War, the family, now with five children, moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Chesnutt’s writing uses the style of dialect used in the Sothern by the African-American. The story is about

“The Sound of a Voice” by David Henry Hwang is a one act play telling the story of two characters, Man and Woman. These characters both live alone and isolated. Woman is rumored to be a witch, and Man is a soldier without a purpose who comes in hope of killing Woman. They both have a fear of silence and love. These unusual fears result in their fatal downfall. This play explores deep emotions, such as the fear of silence that Man and Woman share which pushes Woman to commit suicide. A fear of intimacy, felt exceptionally strong by Man, results in unfortunate timing leading to Woman’s death. Loneliness displayed by both characters is the underlying cause of the outcome. These feelings play together to contribute to Man and Woman’s tragic love.

Persimmons, by Li-Young Lee, is a poem that discusses many aspects of growing up in a split between two cultures. Lee is presumably the narrator of this poem and describes different aspects of him growing up between the lines of Chinese and American culture. This poem touches on the many ways Lee feels as he is growing up in American Culture and how that affects the Chinese Culture he has at home. Each stanza represents a different memory that describes an instance in which he feels as though he falls between the two cultures, not exactly pertaining to one or the other. Throughout the poem, we can see that Lee is struggling with this notion of losing his Chinese Culture. The poem begins where Lee is an outsider to American Culture, then

In the novel Before We Were Free written by Julia Alvarez, she made one of her main themes the loss of voice to really express the freedom taken away from even the voice of children and family. This was happening in the Dominican Republic under the control of a cruel dictator named Rafael Trujillo who will be referenced as “El Jefe” and “Mr. Smith” throughout the book. Loss of voice is shown straight from the beginning of the book. The family is intruded by the secret police also know as the SIMS. “Policia secreta,” she explains. “They go around investigating everyone and then disappearing them.” (14)This quote kinda shows the little information people know about the SIMS. Anita was trying to figure out why they are digging through their house with no respect

(AGG) When losing someone you dearly love, your world is turned around, Nusrat shows us her journey through loss and healing in the chapters of this novel. (BS-1) First, Nusrat loses her sister, Margaret, and struggles after losing someone so close to her to later question her religion. (BS-2) Then, Nusrat disconnects with her parents slowly after she converts to Islam and begins to start a new life. (BS-3) Lastly, At the end Nusrat loses her husband, Faiz and begins to reconnect her relationship with her parents. (TS) In the novel Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples, Nusrat loses multiple important people who understand her the most, she has to cope with living without the people who have had such a positive impact on her

(AGG) Najmah misplaced both her speaking voice and her figurative voice, but gradually gained them back through the book. (BS-1) The event that causes the loss of her voice is her mother and Habib dying, on top of Baba-Jan and Nur being taken away to the Taliban. (BS-2) Najmah is starting to gain both of her “voices” back, by trying to speak and being ready to let go of her silence, and by starting to make her own choices. (BS-3) Najmah almost completely gains back her voice, by making all of her own decisions, and being able to choose things that she wants, and is starting to talk fluently in english as well as her native language. (TS) Najmah’s literal voice, and figurative voice, change from the beginning to the end of the book.

I don’t think I had really found my voice yet, but I think I’m in the progress of finding it. I feel as if the film had touch me in a personal way because I have a friend who is a has a really bad stuttering issue and a lot of people make fun of the way he talks. It made me realize that just because my friends has this stuttering problem shouldn’t have to hide it. In the movie, the people who was close to the kind didn’t react to his stuttering. It made me realize that you should appreciate that people who are stuttering doesn’t affect the people who is stuttering. I have a really high Emotional Intelligence, so when he broke down with his wife in private I was able to share that feeling of failure. I feel as if the more I network and talk

(AGG) Living life as a girl in Kunduz is hard enough, but living life with no family members and not being able to speak and have a say in life is even harder. (BS-1) Najmah’s silence is caused from the lose of her mother and baby brother, and how she was left to live alone in Kunduz. (BS-2) Najmah realizes that her family members are the most important people in her life, so she starts to develop a focuses on a hope of recovery to find them. (BS-3) When Najmah met Nusrat, she regained her voice and finally took control back into her life because she trusted Nusrat. (TS) Najmah tries to regain hope by trying to speak but words will not come out of her mouth because she has lost her voice literally and in a way where she has no control or

As it has been shared, the natural gum base, chicle came from the Sapodilla tree. In order to collect the latex off of the tree, first, there had to be trees. Chronologically, before trees came to be, there had to be land to plant the trees on. Furthermore, a planet had to be present for land to exist. Finally, the elements had to exist in order for a planet to prevail. An excessively long time ago, 4.6 billion years ago, a high mass star fused and emanated at least eight elements that united to make our exceptional Earth. These elements are oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and finally, sodium. Thousands of millennials later, to a certain degree, six elements fused together to form the first tree. The elements

(AGG) Najmah has lost her voice physically and emotionally due to conflict. (BS-1) Najmah loses her voice literally and loses the ability to make her own decisions due to conflict and then Najmah gains her voice back literally and she makes her own decisions for herself. (BS-2) While Najmah doesn't have her voice and when she does she uses both not using her and voice and using her voice as a tool. (BS-3) Due to conflict Najmah loses her voice but then regains it. (TS) the book “Under the Persimmon Tree” shows how conflict causes Najmah to lose her voice and the ability to make her own decisions and then get her voice and the ability to make her own decisions again.