The Last Memory Of Setsuko In Graves Of The Fireflies

While reading "The Rememberer" by Aimee Bender was very powerful and had the most effective tone and style. I felt the joy that Annie felt when she talks about making love to Ben. I also felt the pain Annie felt through each phase of Ben's transformation. The way Annie is hopeful that one day Ben will come back to her makes me have hope for her. You can almost hear the sadness in her voice as she looks at Ben in his slamander form and asks if he, "remembers her." (341). The way Annie talks about Ben's reverse evolution is so descriptive, yet simple. Annie was open and honest to herself about what was happening to Ben. She was so calm, almost as she was at ease with everything.

In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.

The Forgotten Dead takes in an account in US History that the problem of lynching did not only occurred in the US Southern states with African-Americans, but it also occurred in the US southwest with the Mexican-Americans.

Death of a loved one is never an easy pill to swallow. To completely understand the reasoning behind it may never be understood. Some may be more accepting of it or understand it religiously but there's always the question of why., at least for me it is. Although I don't have the dates of my first couple of recollection of deaths that have taken place I can clearly recall the others.

In the articles "Whispers from the Grave" by Katia Bachko and "The Haunted House" by Valerie Worth it mentions how even before scary horror movies where made, people where almost addicted to scary stories, scary movies, and scary things in general. In the article "Whispers from the Grave," it talks about how back in the day people would love to have a medium come to their house, it was like having a celebrity in your house, and when a medan was in the state word spread very quickly. The article says “In Sarah's day—before movies or television—visiting a medium was an extremely popular form of entertainment. Many Americans thought it was possible to communicate vdth the spirits of those who had died. Mediums like Adam Coons were thought to be bridges to the "other side"—that is, the unknown world beyond the grave.

In the story “The Hunger of Memory” Richard Rodriguez uses allusion, anaphora, repetition, diction, tone and syntax to express how education had changed his life.

In the novel, Memory Keeper’s daughter by Kim Edwards sacrifice is a huge component to the story. Caroline Gill had to change all her motives due to sacrifices. David Henry stated, “There’s a place, I would like you to take her there.”(Edwards 18). David had to send away his child to a foster care because she was not “normal.” Phoebe was born with an extra chromosome, which was not very known in this time period. Therefore, Mr. Henry did not want to keep the new born. Caroline Gill was a nurse at the clinic in Morgantown. David went to her and asked her to take his daughter to a foster home. This was unbelievable and awful especially to the mother, Norah.

Forgetfulness can be seen in many different lights; it can be seen a bad thing, or a good thing. In the poem “Forgetfulness” by Hart Crane, the speaker utilizes similes and metaphors to convey ideas about forgetfulness in order to develop the theme; in the poem by Billy Collins with the same name, the speaker utilizes personification and irony to convey ideas about forgetfulness to develop the theme.

Endo’s Deep River opens up an unsettling encounter with the spiritual vision of India described through the experience of five Japanese travelers from vastly different backgrounds each of whom faces a troubling personal crisis. By exploring the depth of the human need to understand ourselves and our purpose in life, Endo illuminates his appreciation of the workings of grace from a God present in the sufferings of humanity. Endo delves deep into the human condition through his characters that reflect the complex individuals and personalities we are.

In the article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, It shows how people are so interested in ghost stories because it is not something you would see in your normal day life. In the article “Whispers From The Grave” by Katia Bachko, it shows how people were interested with ghosts stories because in them you could talk to the dead, which is something you cannot normally do. The article states, “In Sarah’s day-before movies or television-visiting a medium was an extremely popular form of entertainment. Many Americans thought it was possible to communicate with the spirits of those who had died”(Bachko 6). This shows how Americans saw entertainment in talking to the dead. Plus, it shows how people were interested in the fact that they could

I took away from the chapter in Remembering Aizu, The Happiest Day of My Life Shiba Goro heard of an application process for getting into the local Military School where he could study and work his way up the ranks. Since Goro was coming from a Samurai family he already had much of the training needed but he was behind in his education because he did not know how to do many of the equations needed to pass as well as he did not know how to write many chinese letters. Though it took a very long time to hear back about his acceptance him getting into the school was the best thing that was happening to him at the time. During this time he is moving from house to house trying to find places in which people would allow him to stay with them since

Richard Rodriguez, the author of Hunger of Memory, is a Mexican man who rose above prejudices to become a distinguished member of society through education. Sherman Alexie, the author of “Superman and Me,” is a Native American man who grew up on an Indian reservation with a love of books and a penchant for learning in an attempt to exceed further than the predetermined path set in front of him. Rodriguez perceives education as something that has built a division between him and his family but allowed for assimilation into American life and achieve more than the initial expectations of him, meanwhile, Alexie, who remains close to his family and defied all odds, perceives education as a life-saving tool that could potentially change

In "Remember", Joy Harjo uses figurative language, diction, and syntax to remind people of where they come from. For those who have forgotten their history, Harjo brings it back to the front of their mind. She wants to revive these lost and underappreciated memories and give them new meaning.

After reading Mozi’s Heaven’s Will and On Ghosts, I disagree with everything he said. I think Mozi lived in the fantasy world where he is a superstitious individuals and imagination of heaven is a universal love and he urges people to love and respect heaven because he believes that people should practice this type university love. Unlike the teaching of Confucius, he’s more focus on individual’s characteristic and become a better man or person through learning, which I found that most people in today’s society are doing because we learn to love and respect people and the basic human behavior through education and personal experience. According to Mozi, “ If I do not do what Heaven desires but rather what it does not desire, then I will lead

How far do you believe the medium, and the action that is associated with him, is a figment of Krishna’s grieving imagination?