Ang Bata Nga Dili Matulog

Mai’s fear of losing the memories of her family leads her to realize the significance of her life and ultimately the possibility of losing her understanding.

The majority of characters in A Place Where the Sea Remembers has felt regret and betrayal. It was hard for them to not do the things they did because of the fact that they were thinking of themselves. For example, Marta and Chayo have both felt regret and betrayal. Some characters have also felt this conflict, but Marta and Chayo are the ones that go through it the most.

China and Jeremy with a dream so big and suddenly this huge occurrence disaster in their life made the choice they regret for years to come. “I want to see our daughter’s grave.” That froze him inside. He tried to picture her—her now, China, the love of his life—and he couldn’t. What did she look like? What was her face like, her nose, her hair, her eyes and breasts and the slit between her legs? He drew a blank. There was no way to summon her the way she used to be or even the way she was in court, because all he could remember was the thing that had come out of her, four limbs and the equipment of a female, shoulders rigid and eyes shut tight, as if she were a mummy in a tomb. Jeremy nor China did not want the outcome of the situation. It was unexpected result of in fact this two couple never thought this could happen to them. The fact that they held in their mind a bright future both going to college and finishing what they started at high school, they did not have any alternatives beside

At the age of three months, Lia had her first epilepsy attack. The condition was not hereditary since none of the other children of the Lees had epilepsy. Lias Dad, Nao Kao, believed that the reason why she got the first attack of epilepsy was due to Lias older sister slamming the door of the bedroom, which Lia was asleep in, with great force. As three month old Lia jumped up, Nao Kao believes that her spirit was frightened and fled her body causing her illness to emerge. Lia was take to the Merced Community Medical Center, a hospital that had no translator at the time. Due to this, Lias parents were not able to explain to the doctors what had happened to Lia at home until they brought one of their cousins, who knew some english, with them during a hospital visit.

In both of these stories knowledge of their past has been withheld from the people so that they would not do it again. Personally I think that knowledge is the key to preventing the people from making the same mistake

The conflicts in this book mainly revolve around Paul and Erik Fisher. One conflict in the book is when Paul confronts Erik for making fun of the death of Erik’s football teammate, Mike Costello. Another conflict is when Paul is not allowed to play soccer at his new school due to being legally blind. Another conflict is when during one of Paul’s classes a sinkhole occurs and sucks up most of the portables. Another conflict is that when Paul transfers to a poor school called Tangerine Middle School he does not get along with his new teammates, Victor and Tino. Another conflict is that while houses in Paul’s neighborhood are being fumigated they are being stolen from. One last conflict is that Paul witnesses Erik order his friend Antoine to kill Tino’s brother Luis with a

One conflict in this story would be Paul and Joey at the carnival while the Tangerine Middle kids where there. The boys on the Tangerine middle soccer team vandalized the one of the carnivals exhibits. In the story it says “ The Tangerine County Sheriff’s Department received a complaint from the owners of the carnival that one of their exhibits was vandalized by boys from the soccer team.” “ All three adults turned to me. Mr Morrow said. “ Okay who did it.” This conflict would be a example of character vs character. This would be character vs character because the boys (joey and paul) have to tell who it was that vandalized the exhibit. This conflict helped drive the plot because after the sinkhole disaster, Paul has to go to Tangerine middle with the kids that vandalized the exhibit.

The conflict gets resolved when they find the exit to the real world located in the maze. The conflict that cannot be fixed is the fact that all of their memories have been erased. Some of the kids try and get stung be the mystical creatures in the maze due to the fact that it will give you flashbacks of your past. Thomas , the main character, discovers something horrible from his past in this process. Although the main conflict had been solved by escaping the maze, this doesn't mean there aren't going to be worse problems in the future.

For example, Sidda had the difficult life with her parent when she was young and that makes her relationships deteriorate when she grew up. Therefore, a negative relationship with family members, especially with adult children, can be harmed and that lead to negative results in the future. On the other hand, a mother's sisters had the big role for the family reunion. From time to time, it does not take an excessive amount of imagination to connect the dots between a cutting-edge turmoil and the childhood experiences that began a down that direction. For example, Sidda understands the depth of her mother’s suffering when she was reminded beautiful times in the past with her mom by sisters and that memories helped Sidda to forgive her mom faults and stop wasting money for a

Tears ran down her cheeks as she screamed for her mother and father, her mother came waddling out of the house, her face horrified. Did she realise what she had just done to her daughter? Djinda’s eyes switched to the bush where a young boy came running out with her father following behind him. She couldn’t see her father’s expression through her tears and as the car drove off, but a spear was thrown and the car swerved to avoid being hit.

At the beginning of the story, the author gives us the feeling that a child is narrating this story. She also shows that the child, Sylvia, is at

The simplistic plot of the novel and the overall theme of love allows the author to span the lives of the main characters. The reader sees the span of the life of two of the main characters, Sidda and her mother

Ellie and I lay in our beds, neither one of us knew what to say. In the other room, our host parents were arguing. We didn’t know what about, but we knew it was serious. Then we heard a “THWACK” followed by silence. Ellie and I sat up in our beds and looked at each other, I could tell she was as scared as I was. “Was that? Did he just?” she asked me. Then the arguing started back up again. We calmed back down until we heard it again. “THWACK” We knew then, the noise we heard, was him beating her. We got up, our hearts racing; neither of us knew what to do. We got our nerves together to go get help. When we opened the door to our room we saw the children sitting on the couch crying out for their mother. I could see the fear in their face and I knew something needed to change.

“What happened?” my parents asked with a comforting voices in cantonese. My sister was not able to answer my parents because she was really hurt and sad. Stupidly, I asked “Are you okay?” I knew my sister would either not answer me of scream NO. After a while, my parents told her “Calm down!”

Both my parents burst through the doors, looking slightly concerned. “Mehak, why are you screaming?” My mom questioned. My eyes started to get watery, thinking of all the terrible possibilities, and I got a feeling in my gut that something was wrong. “Grandpa... H-he...w-were t-talking a-and h-he started c-coughing a-and the l-line w-went d-dead.” I stuttered, not knowing what to think. My dad flew out of the room, probably to contact my grandma about what was going on.