Drinking Coffee

      From the very first paragraph of the narrative, I noticed that there were several details that the narrator mentioned that required further, deeper thought. For me, this is what made the story appealing.

It is a way to develop common themes and stories. As the children are waiting for their grandmother, they are approached by a woman. “¿Quieres chicle? the lady asks in a Spanish too big for her mouth. “Gracias.”... “Por favor,” says the lady. “¿Un foto?” pointing to her camera. “Si.” She’s so busy taking Junior’s picture, she doesn’t notice me and Keeks. “Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?” “But you speak English!” “Yeah,” my brother says, “we’re Mericans”. The woman takes one look at them and assumes they don’t speak any English. The authors is trying to prove the point of, American identity does not come from what you look like, but who you are. At the time Japanese Americans were seen as traitors to our country. Okita writes, “I saw Denise today in Geography class. She was sitting on the other side of the room. “You’re trying to start a war,” she said, “giving secrets away to the Enemy, Why can’t you keep your big mouth shut?”. Denise was once her friend, but since the Executive Order 9066 that has changed. The narrator is trying to display how your appearance and heritage affected how people saw you. However, American identity is not about appearance. Even though this little girl did nothing wrong, she was seen as the enemy. However, that was not her American identity. Each author develops the common theme through dialogue throughout the

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a very interesting story that brings up a number of thought-provoking issues in a relatively short format. Among these are questions of race, identity, and stereotyping. The narrator of the story is a young woman named Dina who feels lonely and confused in her new surroundings. As a poor, African American female at Yale (which the narrator portrays as a rich, male, and subtlety racist institution) she has difficulty adapting to the expectations of the university. From the very beginning, her differences set her apart from her classmates, until, from her point of view, she becomes a pariah, invisible and despised by the community. Of course, one must view

     The author wrote this story as a literary genius. There is an extreme level of suspense that leaves you wanting

The language in the story is a kind of “ghetto-english” and the narrator sometimes removes or change a letter from a word, often vowels, which gives the reader a feeling as if they were there, hearing them talking. Besides using a first-person narrator, the author uses a limited omniscient narrator as we only hear the story from one point of view, the author also applies a stream of consciousness by taking the reader into Hazel’s mind so that we get to see every opinion she has on her surroundings.

Throughout the essay, the use of vernacular speech can be observed when looking at the dialogue between characters. For example, “Good day, Mrs. Henderson. Momma responded with “How you, Sister Flowers?”. In the dialogue between Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Flowers, it can be seen that Flowers speaks respectively with sophistication while Mrs. Henderson speaks carelessly using an older southern tone. This results in a clear comparison between the characters in the essay which represent the importance of education and vocabulary. The constant use of the wrong verb by “Momma” bothers the author, giving us a better idea of language’s role in her life. In addition, the author foreshadows part of the lifeline, so we gain a better understanding of the story when the lifeline is presented later on.

The writer composes the story from the perspective of an analyst. She alludes to occasions later on, facts, and information that no character could have known in the setting of the story. Incorporated into the content are genuine quotes said or composed by the general population she expounds on, including the primary character. She utilizes an extremely objective voice, giving successive analysis of distinctive individuals' outlook and continually alluding to insights to demonstrate her point. Since the book does not focus on the point of view of any single character, it peruses more like a news article than a story, which frequently exhausting its groups of readers. Accordingly, Hillenbrand's written work style once in a while obstructs the correspondence of her thoughts because she regularly includes actualities, quotes and investigation in the book; it usually bores audience on the grounds that it peruses more like a news article instead of a

In “Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson,the main character is Melinda Sordino… The author wants Melinda to speak to her friends,family, and teachers. Thorough the book,Melinda has problems with her family. For example Her parents are always working.They don't check on Melinda when she gets home.

In ZZ Packer’s book entitled Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, we get to see how African Americans cope with their different situations dealing with family, friendship, religion, and the pursuit of prosperity in the world. Within the short story collection there is a story named after the title, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, where we get to see the pressures put on a young African American woman, Dina, that causes her to resort to near complete isolation of herself. Dina says at one point, “We spent the winter and some of the spring in my room- never hers- missing tests, listening to music, looking out my window to comment on people who wouldn’t have given us a second thought”(Packer 140). Dina feels the need

The language used in the story is informal and there is no use of complex syntax or difficult vocabulary - in fact it is quite the opposite. With swearwords like hell and a use of irony and sarcasm between the narrator and Pat, the language and tone causes a sense of a relaxed relationship between the characters and adds a humoristic side to the otherwise almost sad story about EPICAC’s lost love and unrealistic dream.

The conversation they have is small talk and is comprised of a series of superficial clichés which is reinforced by the use of dialogue, “how nice”.

This self-evaluation helps the characters overcome their crisis of communication, which progressively transforms them throughout the story. Minimalism simultaneously affects the different forms of communication in Carvers writing.

One of the most charming parts is the internal dialog of the main character that’s constantly drizzled through the entire story. It lends such a drawing part to this story; makes it very much more captivating. About halfway into the story and it started to feel so much like a peek into my own mind that I couldn’t help but chuckle a little and think to

Nevertheless, I really love the banter going on between the characters; it entertains me to no end, as if I were watching a tennis match between two expert players in the field. Besides this, the romance took the backseat in this novel, earning extra brownie points from me. It wasn’t the main focus, nor was it the only thing keeping the story going because trust me, a lot goes on enough to distract the characters from making too big a move on our

1. What factors accounted for Starbucks’ extraordinary success in the early 1990’s? What was so compelling about the Starbucks’ value proposition? What brand image did Starbucks develop during this period? Is the value proposition still valid in 2002?