My Adoptive Family : A Personal Narrative Family

writing her life story would be losing herself in the “narrow mesh” of her adoptive mother’s story (698): Winterson experiences a power struggle between her adoptive mother’s narrative and her needs to preserve her personal story. Winterson’s mother story is one of severe unhappiness and resentment, or an “unlived life” as Winterson describes it (695). Through her adoption, Winterson was thrust into a dysfunctional family and suffered extensive abuse at the hands of her angry mother. Winterson alludes

INFORMATIONAL/ORGANIZATIONAL EVENT REPORT On October 21, 2015 I and some friends attended an event sponsored jointly by the Humanities and English department. The title of this event; “Adoption Narratives of the Human”. Four women sat on the panel; Maggie Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Writing, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Yale University; Frayda Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

lives of five children; Ruby, Sandy, Anne, Shirley and Jimmy; and in doing so, portrays a myriad of personal experiences of those living in Australian Society. Harrison does this through the skilful use of dramatic techniques, which are used to convey various personal experiences, such as Sexual Abuse and Personal Identity, and it is through these experiences in which Harrison demonstrates the personal experiences of the Stolen Generation. Ruby is one of the most central characters of the performance

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America, (First Vintage Books, April 1995) John Demos in a sense presents themes that are entirely familiar and conventional. The themes of sin, retribution, and repentance are very prevalent in his writing. The loss of piety, the failure of spiritual nerve, the absolute necessity of reform; and the certainty of God's punishment if reform was not achieved appear throughout his book (Demos). (In this instance, Eunice's failure

very dangerous. Acculturation which included adoption and repatriation were choices for some of them as well. For example, "Eunice's inability to speak English and her personal appearance announce her loyalty to other standards" (Demos 146). "She had been fully integrated or Indianized" (Demos 142). Eunice comes of age in her adoptive community, secure, and increasingly well integrated. The trauma of capture including as it did the deaths of her mother and

classes in grade, middle and high school only teach one narrative of history. The statement that related to this is “When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.” The classes I had before college only credited a collective group. Another statement that stood out, especially today, was “If I declare there is a racial issue at hand, or there isn’t a racial issue at hand, my race will lend me more credibility for either position

comprehension of the texts’ ideas. Detecting such intertextual relationships between two wildly different texts; Walt Disney’s 1994 animated musical epic, The Lion King, and Studio Gainax’s 2007 animated mecha television series, Gurren Lagann, has enriched my understanding of the differences between the texts’ representation on the cultural issues of the bildungsroman genre (coming of age story). Despite the inherent differences between the two texts, originating from different countries, identifying the

Personal experience is the guidance of this research topic, because my experience showed the importance of the parent-child relationship from the sibling perspective biologically and through the adoption process. Through this experience the importance of the valence of the adjustment to be positive was seen, because children going through the adoption process are usually unstable and looking for stability. Relational maintenance behaviors such as positivity, openness, assurances, networks, shared

California traveling with Abbot Kinney and Father Anthony D. Ubach. Ms Jackson is quoted as saying "If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro, I would be thankful for the rest of my life." Clearly Ms. Jackson was moved and greatly influenced by Ms. Beecher Stowe's novel. During Jackson's lifetime, the impact of her novel was mainly as a commercial success, selling fifteen thousand copies before Jackson's death in August, 1885

the main story: Priam/Peleus Podacres/Hersione Patroclus Briesis Beauty Somax’s family Neotolemus Cassandra Hermes Priam’s sons These all serve to illustrate both the power of storytelling and its importance in human life and the meaning of the book, such as the nature of heroism and the role of chance in human life. Mythic tales like the Iliad tend to ignore the smaller, detailed stories within it; the narrative sweeps along in epic proportions and can be described as a saga. By structuring the