Literary Analysis Of How Ramen Got Me Through Adolescence

In the essay Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating by Mary Maxfield, a graduate student in American Studies at Bowling Green State University summarizes Journalist Michael Pollan’s theory about Americans’s unhealthy population preoccupied with the idea of eating healthy.

The author portrays a friendly tone in this publication, by showing how the two girls interact with each other throughout the whole book. “’My name’s Annie’, she said. ‘Annie Paul. I live over yonder’, she said, ‘by where you see the laundry. That’s my blouse hanging on the line.’ She smiled then. She had a pretty smile. And then I smiled. And we stood there looking at each other, smiling.” This quote helps to show the tone of friendliness by showing how good the two girls get along even throughout their differences.

In Michael Pollan’s essay “Escape from the Western Diet,” he informs Americans about the western diet and believes they need to escape from it. The reason Americans should escape the western diet is to avoid the harmful effects associated with it such as “western diseases” (Pollan, 434). To support his view on the issue, Pollan describes factors of the western diet that dictate what Americans believe they should eat. These factors include scientists with their theories of nutritionism, the food industry supporting the theories by making products, and the health industry making medication to support those same theories. Overall, Pollan feels that in order to escape this diet, people need to get the idea of it out of their heads. In turn he

Finding a place that you are comfortable with is important. In this article “How Ramen Got Me Through Adolescence”, Greenwood writes about when she was in fifth grade she doesn’t like to eat in the cafeteria and in front of people. This is because as she said “The cafeteria was a place of foul odors, gelatinous spills, horrific mixtures of chocolate pudding, fruit cocktail and ketchup consumed as dares…”.In this article she told us that she is an introvert that likes to read and eat by herself. She started the article by saying how she didn’t eat from breakfast until after school because of her disliking of the school cafeteria. Then she continues about how after school she always eat a big bowl of ramen that she will make by herself. She shows that she really like to read book.”I read my book hidden under my desk in nearly every class until the end of middle school.”. In this article she shows that ramen is a big part of

18. The author gives you some insight into the way she organized her notes (p. 60). What does it say about the process of writing this book? She chooses to alternate between chapters of Lia's story and its larger background-the history of the Lee family and of the Hmong. What effect does this create in the book?

On page 268, she shows a drawing of her younger self holding the school saying "I'm home!" This supports a form of pathos that she uses, it makes the reader see how she felt about the school. On the next page, she continues her essay with more generosity the teachers showed her. She also gives a point of view from her older self saying "It's only thinking about it now, 28 years later, that I realize I was crying for relief." She then continues, by defining one teacher (Mrs.LeSane) above the

The book is organized in a topical manner. Which means that the chapters appear in collections of stories revolving around a specific topic, rather than in a chronological order. Some of these chapters revolve around her education, her siblings, and what happened after her interpreting session in the psychologist’s office. As mentioned before, she stopped interpreting. In fact, she stops doing much of anything as she contemplates her unhappy childhood. But soon after this event, her sister’s wedding is planned, and she is forced to confront her past at the wedding. She enjoys herself, but resents that she still needs to interpret for her parents.

The occasion of the story is a crucial advice about critical reading: one has to “read between the lines” to fully understand an idea. According to the speaker, he not only wants the readers to “read between the lines” but also to write between the lines to effectively enhance one’s critical reading skills. The speaker encourages readers to take notes inside a book to fully retain one’s knowledge about the book and make it a

This seems to be an attempt to inform the reader more about topics she deems important, but may not be researched by the reader like Hmong beliefs, medical opinions on Lia’s treatment, and issues the Hmong face here in America. Overall I feel like the book is a very interesting and informative read as it tackles a topic few people would know about, but I do feel that the execution and structure could have used

I feel that this novel was written in a way for Kathy to process what had happened in her early childhood life as a child at Hailsham and then works towards building an understanding of her life as a carer and a future donor. Kathy also writes from the perspective that the audience knows what she is talking about in terms of not defining what carers and donors are which is a cue Ishiguro gives that lets the reader understand her perspective. In the moments when Kathy was talking about her time at Hailsham, Ishiguro would have Kathy talk in a way that was trying to clarify what she already knew. For example, on page 19 Kathy said, “Miss Geraldine was everyone’s favorite. She was gentle, soft-spoken, and always comforted you when you needed it, even when you’d done something bad, or been told off by another guardian.” Ishiguro provides these details through Kathy to explain how the life that these children experienced at schools such as Hailsham was something that only the people who have been through it can truly

The reading was about how Rebecca has been growing throughout Middle School. She talks about her experience in Broxy with her friends. They would still do drugs and do sexual acts just like last time. Then she talks about her family moving to Larchmont. Rebecca doesn't like living at Larchmont because everyone is white. This affects her because she feels like everyone is looking at her weird as if she doesn't belong. She had to brake up with her boyfriend there because he was being made fun of for having a black girlfriend. Then she ends it by saying how her father says that she's just acting crazy, and that Larchmont is not a bad place to live.

Vietnamese cuisine can be very diverse due its geography and climate. There is no accurate average temperature for the whole country. The Vietnamese national culture emerged from a concrete living environment: a tropical country with many rivers and the confluence of great cultures (Vietnam Country). Vietnam is a long, narrow country in Southeast of Asia that borders south China, east of Laos and Cambodia. Vietnam is practically the size of Italy and Japan put together; and is divided into three regions: north, central, and south.

The book gets us to think a lot about how much control we really have. Sophie doesn’t seem to go as deep into the philosophy as it seems the Philosopher wants her to. She answers the question, but she doesn’t think about the depth to the question. She just skims to find the answer. Everything she has thought so far was just her thinking about exactly what that Philosopher wanted her to. She never really puts her own thoughts into the depth. The story is showing Sophie on her way to finding the answers to the world’s most unanswered questions. Whether or not she will find them, who knows? There will be sad things passing through your life, but that doesn’t mean that you will become a sad person. Your life does not become sad because of sad moments. If you think about how the past has dealt with bad situations, you can find better ways to get through them. If you don’t ever think about the past, you are determined to repeat it. You will only focus on what is right in front of you, instead of looking past your comfort zone into the world. Passage: I don’t want you to end up in such a sad state. I will do what I can to acquaint you with your historical roots. It is the only way to become a human being. It is the only way to become more than a naked ape. It is the only way to avoid floating in a vacuum.

The poem “Eating fried chicken” by Linh Dinh published in 2005 is about the author who enjoys eating fried chicken and completely forgets about the most crucial people and events in life. The authors’ ambition to eat fried chicken takes him to a different physiological level in life. Not only he wants to enjoy and stay in the moment, but it is selfish of him to be eating the fried chicken. Lastly, he writes about how the lack of everyday essentials can cause people to rebel against each other because people what more.

It is indeed true that the quality of food that you take in will do a