Analyzing Skim's 'Kitty' By Mariko Tamaki

The more she wrote, the greater the need to preserve despite the constant obstacles in her path is clear. Thuy used her entries as a sounding board, scribbling ideas onto the paper, allowing whatever conclusion she drew to stick with her so she could later draw from. When Thuy wrote in the diary, she spoke as if talking to herself, this way she could freely express and reflect upon her day and private thoughts without external repercussions or judgement. Thuy was a sensitive young woman with a deep craving for affection she feared would be misunderstood. She often critical of herself for being “too bourgeoisie”, a concern that with those attitudes, she could not truly devote herself to the party or be her best self (Dang, Thuy Tram, et al, 72). Thuy became emotionally invested inside the small diaries, more so as time wore on. She was greatly disappointed when the first two were lost while fleeing American forces, ultimately deciding that her memories will always be kept best in her head (Dang, Thuy Tram, et al, 183).

Think before you judge someone. In the poem A Kitten by Aileen Fisher the father wants a pet cat but he doesn’t really care what kind of pet he gets. As well in the novel Wonder by Palacio is about seeing people for what they really are. Furthermore the theme in A Kitten and Wonder are similar because they both believe every living being is equal.

The point of keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. Author, Joan Didion, in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook” explains how to keep a notebook and why. Didion’s purpose is to inform us on how she keeps a notebook and why notebooks are useful in helping us to remember events that happened in the past. She adopts a sentimental tone in order to emphasize how many memories are kept alive by keeping a notebook. Didion uses ethos, pathos, and different rhetorical devices in her essay to explain her point.

Anne Frank’s diary and Douglass’ Narrative are examples of their excellent writing skills. Douglass longed to be able to read and write for the hope that one day it would help him to become free. In contrast, Frank’s education was just part of her life as a school girl. Being able to write benefited both Frank and Douglass and helped them get through their troubles by letting Frank express herself in the secret annex and by helping Douglass reach the north.

Writing may be an enthralling experience for one and a clever way to decompress for another. In general, however, writing has different purposes for a variety of people. “Why I Write,” written in the late 20th century by Terry Tempest Williams, describes various reasons for writing narrated from a female’s perspective. The short essay begins in the middle of the night with a woman engulfed in her own thoughts. She abruptly goes forth by reciting the multiple reasons why she continues to write in her life. Through a variety of rhetorical devices such as repetition, imagery, analogies, and symbolism, Terry Tempest Williams produces an elegant piece of writing that offers the audience insight into the narrator’s life and forces the audience to have empathy for the narrator with the situation she is incurring.

1.In the piece of writing by Jessica Statsky, she writes about children 's sports and how they should not be competitive. In making this claim she uses certain evidence to make her point valid. In one of her pieces of evidence she uses states that, "That a twelve-year-old trying to throw a curve ball, for example, may put abnormal strain on developing arm and shoulder muscles, sometimes resulting in lifelong injuries: (Statsky, 350). From this evidence Statsky is trying to make the claim that sports are hurting children and could put a risk on their bodies and the development of their bodies, if they put too much strain on themselves. Another piece of information Stasky uses says, "The kids get so scared. They get hit once and they don 't wont anything to do with football anymore. They 'll sit on the bench and pretend their leg hurts" (Stasky, 350). In the evidence that Stasky uses is good, but it is not very ordinary situations that occur. She also does not provide any personal experience to go along with her writing. Which in the end, would make the paper sound better and let the audience know that she has her own experiences with playing sports at a young age.

Writing in diary entries make readers feel the emotions of the character and understand their thought process. For example, when Miranda was fighting with her mom; “‘Don’t use that tone with me!’ Mom shouted. ‘What tone?’ [Miranda] shouted right back.

The aim of the study was to explore family members’ experiences with the use of a diary when a sick relative did not survive the stay in the ICU. The overall study findings revealed that the diary was experienced as a medium for interpersonal communication, where it was perceived as a social medium maintaining communication and the relationship with the patient. But the diary was also a common interest affecting writers and readers in different ways, thus sharing information, emotions and thoughts enabled relationships, which grew. Not only relationships developed but also participants as humans due to the course of events and finally the death of the patient. The experience was compared to taken on a journey but in an existential way by the participants. To understand the unfamiliar in a way different from the way in which it has been understood so far, also include a way to understand him/herself in a new way (Gadamer, 1989).

In this paper, I will explain how the article “The Lady and the Tramp (II): Feminist Welfare Politics, Poor Single Mothers, and the Challenge of Welfare Justice” by Gwendolyn Mink relates to the thematic focus of working women and the Marxist and socialist branch of feminism. In Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Rosemarie Tong explains that Marxist and socialist feminists understand women’s oppression as a labor issue. Women’s work is not viewed as a productive contribution to society. One of the ways Marxist and socialist feminists sought to improve women’s oppression was through the wages-for-housework campaign of the 1970s, which fought for work done in the domestic sphere to be paid and respected by society. In this same vein, Mink’s article can be viewed as a continuation of sorts of the wages-for-housework campaign. Mink suggests that poor single mothers have the right for their work to be recognized by society and supported economically like the Marxist and socialist feminist in the 1970s.

The graphic novel is a book that tells the story about the childhood of an Iranian girl named Marji, while instantaneously attempting to display what the Iranian people are like in

warm under orange (fabricated) is a textile piece that analyses the reflective process of selective writing and its comparison to the automatic, stream of consciousness writing that has dominated my practice for the last two years. The work is comprised of four sheets of different orange fabrics that are 120 by 100 cm each. Embroidered in orange cotton on the sheets is text written in terrible confessional and pathetic conversation part two: warm under orange; the second book in a series of carefully constructed personal writings about trauma, vulnerability, anger, and beauty. By embroidering these confessions onto fabric I combine the obsessive act of writing with my material obsession with fabric, pulling the words out of the paper and re-reflecting on their meaning through time intensive stitching. Automatic writing is an outlet for quick release, the writing is immediately lost to the importance of the next word and offers opportunities to hide the brutal and embarrassing content of the writing. However, in terrible confessional and pathetic conversation the passages go through three stages: writing, editing, and transforming. Through these processes these passages become open wounds that leak my personal shame, fear and anxiety into the work, altering the way I react with the words and how I choose to transform them.

Second. Anne was creative. On her 13th birthday, she was given a diary from her father. She wrote in this diary everyday during their two years in hiding. This shows Anne found a way to share things about her life.

Fantasy Literature (1996): 1-2. Literary Reference Center. Web. 11 Nov. 2016. The article begins with a summary on the plot of Stranger in a Strange Land. In the summary, Catron mentions how Smith is the son of Dr. Mary Jane Lyle Smith and Captain Michael Brunt of who is not Dr. Mary Jane Lyle Smith’s husband. The affair connects back to Smith’s inclusion of freedom of sexual relations in Smith’s church by displaying a contrast between the two diverse societies. Another point Catron mentions in her summary is that Smith understands the full complexity of humans once Smith laughs at some of the monkeys in a zoo who display cruel actions towards each other. Smith considers the

The graphic novel portrays Marjane Satrapi as an opinionated, imaginative, and curious young girl. The plot details her as an average ten year-old girl in the midst of a revolution. Her reaction to the environment in which she lives in

“Essays in Idleness is a compilation of fragments of writing by the Japanese author Kenko, that he wrote in his moments of idleness and boredom. These writings seem to flow as freely as thoughts and range in themes, from love and beauty to death and the home, but a recurring theme in Kenko’s writing is a longing for the past as he describes changes in the culture and traditions around him. Kenko notices the changes in things such as language which is constantly changing. In fact, people today still struggle to understand the way that language changes as they grow, from new words being created and definitions being changed continuously. Kenko however, understands that you can not hide from time, change, and death and explains that even if you shut yourself away from the world in an effort to avoid it, the “enemy called change” will always attack one way or another. He may long for the past and for tradition, but he doesn’t try to run away from it, as he understands that change is inevitable. Instead, Kenko chooses to write about the past and how things have changed, as he believes that writing and possessions linger long after people die and writing is one of the ways to keep a time alive.