Everything I Never Told You Analysis

In the third chapter of Lies My Teacher Told Me, the author, James W. Loewen continues the topic of history teachers and textbooks not providing its students correct information, or leaving out details that are important to the specific topic of discussion The first specific topic Loewen discusses is the first settlers of what we now know as the United States. He describes that his students mostly said the first settlers were white men in the 1620s. Loewen then informs the reader that the first settlers besides the Native Americans were African slaves. He then describes that new settlers all over the world took over numerous areas of the United States in the 1500s.

“Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.” (Mia Sheridan). People get to choose their friends by their likes and dislikes, but they don’t get to choose their family. In the book, The Pigman, John, Lorraine, and Mr. Pignati demonstrate how friends can change the way their friends think, feel, and act. Many of the characters’ parents show the way one's family can influence bad habits in one’s life. The friends we choose help us make the best memories; John and Lorraine make the best memories with their friend Mr. Pignati more than their family. Sometimes, the closest families are not related to each other.

I read the book Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. This story is about how a family is torn apart due to the death of their oldest daughter, Lydia. Making the family realize what it takes to forgive, forget, and move on. In this journal, I will be questioning and evaluating.

I do not know if there is any other field of knowledge which suffers so badly as history from the sheer blind repetitions that occur year after year, and from book to book.

Have you ever considered or imagined that your life would be massively improved without any of your family members in your way due to the all the tremendous effects they have and the unbelievable stress they put on your life? In Tangerine, a marvelous novel released in 1997 by author Edward Bloor, the main character and protagonist of the book, Paul Fisher, has his already not ordinary affected to an enormous extent by his family members, especially his mother, father, and his athletic yet unlikable big brother, Erik Fisher. In the book this characters affect the way in which Paul views himself, his social life, and his relationship with his friends and peers by making them extremely negative.

In the textbook ‘Lies my Teacher told me’, James W. Loewen talks about how the monstrosities committed by the american troops in Vietnam have been covered up throughout history, especially in american textbooks. One line states “ We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have their land and their crops… We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.’’ No textbook quotes king’’’ This quote is important because it proves my point that all of the american textbooks published to date, do not contain any such content related to the dark side of the actions that the american troops carried out in Vietnam.

In Everything I Never Told You, the Lee family steadily unravels because of deep loss and rampant dishonesty. The novel opens with Lydia’s death and continues as a flashback of the events leading up to her passing. Celeste Ng places importance on certain objects and locations as powerful representations of the Lee family: their desires, challenges, and disappointments. In Celeste Ng’s, Everything I Never Told You, the symbols of the Betty Crocker Cookbook and a discovered pack of cigarettes reflect that it is impossible to fully know someone when dishonesty is present.

The novel “Speak”, by Laurie Halse Anderson captures the thoughts of a new high- schooler caught in some deep drama of the past. From the start of school, Melinda Sordino is shunned, glared at, talked about, and poked at because of one incident at a party from the end of last summer. With her friends turned away, her grades down, her family combative, and her looks deteriorating, what does she have left? Nothing has been seeming to go right for Melinda in and out of school since that night. She has silently appointed someone responsible for this situation, someone named “IT”, Andy Evans. Every time he’s around she feels sick. The protagonist of “Speak”, Melinda Sordino has become depressed, insecure of herself, and flustered around others.

In the book, “a complicated kindness”, written by Miriam Toews, the main character, Nomi Nickel, fights through many obstacles in her life and learns what reality is. Her characteristics and identities are built in her by the places she lives. The struggling in living without her mother and older sister has made her doing so much than what she would. The small town and her religion have a huge impact in her, where she hates the place but she learns to love it. Her dream of being free has more inspiration in her which makes her wanting to go to the outside world. After learning so much as she has to, she becomes a responsible, kind and strong young adult.

History has always blinded people. The masterminds behind the text strategize methods to ensure the full understanding of the context provided; in fact, they scheme the reader through the meticulous shaping of appearances and the exclusion of information. It is then parodied verbally by teachers, passing it down to the next generation of our future. Yet, no one mentioned the major flaws inscripted until James Loewen took the decent action to inform readers-young and old- of the forged lies thrown at us by these so called “textbooks.” In James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, it is understood that textbooks are the source of retained knowledge both old and new; however, this newfound knowledge can

Good communication is a criterion that sets many students apart in terms of traits. This is useful when building any form of rapport between them and the lecture or tutor. A student that respectfully communicates has also come out as self-motivated and is more likely to get more help from the teacher since their problems are aired out effectively. Students that do not communicate can be misjudged and mistaken for lack of motivation and self-confidence. In addition, students who are good communicators are made, not born (Floyd, 2013).

Have you ever wondered what you would do without your family? Family plays a very important role on peoples’ lives. “Family isn’t just about whose blood runs through your veins. It’s about who never left your side, stood up for you, and believed in you.”- Adrian Brody. Not only does your family help you throughout your life, but they always believe, encourage, and support you regardless, even in difficult times. In The Light in the Forest, Mary Jemison’s personal narrative, and from my personal experience, there are many situations when your family never leaves your side, stands up for you, and believes in you!

Through these rules of thumb within Brown’s What They Don’t Tell You, I am able to gain a safe and secure ay of approaching the Old Testament without becoming overly ambitious or ignorant. Overall I would add to Brown’s discussion the continuation of Biblical Scholarship. And in reading the Old Testament the most important rule of thumb for myself would be the seventh.

In this novel, the main character, a girl by the name of Sydney Stanford, is faced with many personal problems. After her older brother, Peyton, is sent to jail for hitting a 15-year-old kid while drunken driving, her life has changed drastically, as for she has been overshadowed and unneeded by not only her parents but her supposed friends. While her parents disregard her, only noticing Peyton, Sydney moves from a private school to her public school, which results in her friendship with Meredith and Jenn, drifting apart. Sydney manages to get new friendships with a girl named Layla and her older brother, Mac, attempting to at least feel regarded in front of them. Immediately, she feels like she’s experienced acceptance in her world, but when she confronts her parents, they don’t give her that same awareness, making her become confused on what she desires.

I aspire to attend Belin Blank, a driving reason being is I would like to practice new forms of art, as well as expand on the techniques that I already use. I only occasionally have a chance to practice art at home, drawing mainly. This would be a chance to work on other art forms like sculpting, which I haven’t had the chance to practice in three years. There are some forms of art that I never have had the chance to practice, whether because of lack of chance, or because I run out of time during a normal curriculum. I’m always open to trying new projects, and this may be a chance to try them. I’m interested in trying some projects that I’d otherwise be unable to try.