Thomson's Birthday Analysis

Mai’s fear of losing the memories of her family leads her to realize the significance of her life and ultimately the possibility of losing her understanding.

Sirka is no longer the sweet daughter, she has lost her naïve personality, changing to a

trouble and so she would listen to her mother. Anmei’s use of the Twenty-Six Malignant Gates

Not only did he save him in his father from death, but also this one decision helped him survive the holocaust and tell his story to others and educate others on the

“Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight.” (Wiesel 99). This just shows the pain and suffering he went through because he went from being ambitious and driven to just not wanting to live anymore. Which tried his

World War 2 was a tragedy for everyone and it will always be remembered. We all hope that this part of history never repeats itself. The summer of 1944 Elie Wiesel and his family was taken by Nazis. They all got transferred in a train car to Buchenwald where his family died on the the way there. Then in the year 1945, American soldiers saved his life. He was just a small boy who did not understand english but, was terrified of what might come next. He thought he was never gonna feel joy again but years later, when he was an old man, he would finally understand and was grateful for what they did.

Sookan changes in many ways throughout the book Year of Impossible Goodbyes when faced with the following situations:,when her Mother is taken from her, when she has to cross the border alone, and when her dear Grandfather dies. First, when Inchun and Sookan are trying to cross the border with their Mother, she is stopped by the Russians, meanwhile Sookan and Inchun are forced to continue without her. This is shown by the following quote, " When I finally turned back to look for Mother, expecting her to be close behind us, I saw that she was still standing at the guardhouse." (Choi 133) After this Inchun started to wail which almost got them caught. By being forced to leave her Mother, Sookan is forced to become a leader. She has

Lastly, Hwa does not have a parental figure to support her and relate to, because he father is absent and her own mother has been neglecting her for her entire life. Sunny, Hwa’s mother is a very self-absorbed woman who has undergone numerous surgeries to

Not wanting to let go of her expired infant Mrs. Kamai was devastated by the loss of her daughter. Two girls lost their family and Mrs. Kamai lost her baby, due to the bomb children lost their parents and parents lost their infants.

Sookan has greatly matured since the beginning of the book, when we first meet her, she is a young girl who doesn't understand much about what's happening around her, but as we see her go through her journey, and she learns about what is happening around her, we see her end up becoming a courageous young woman who is Inchun’s Nuna and

Finally, Jayanti’s first exposure to the world outside her Aunt’s house and the events that lead after, changes who she really is,

Her meticulous had been been revoked, and her pla had gone awry, she had no control over his actions then and she had no control control over her death on the present. As “The theme of the story is the finality and inescapability of human imperfection” (Wolfe 142) She eventually got

From the moment Claire Limye Lanme opened her eyes for the first time she blinked without seeing her mother. Maybe those baby tears and her deep cry was her mourning the death of her mother. Perhaps she knew at that moment when her mother told her to “vini” (Danticat 218), to come to her, but was too late because “her mother was already gone” (Danticat 218). Unlike most babies when their first cry kick-start their lungs, for Claire Limye Lanme it was knowing that she’ll never see her mother again.

The Birthday Rule is method used by healthcare plans to decide which adults are the primary payer and secondary payer. The decisions of who becomes the primary payer it not chosen by year but the months followed by calendar. For example, my birthdate is June 22, 1986 and my fiancé is December 16, 1981. According to the guidelines I would be chosen as the primary payer and he would be considered the secondary payer. The payment process responsibility of the primary payer and the secondary payer is primary payer pays the expenses owed on the bill charge master and the secondary payer will pay the remaining balance if there is any left from original charge master. After all expenses accounted for then a claim is sent to the primary payer and secondary

She was not upset the day her brother died, and felt no guilt for her feelings about him. "I was sad for them [her family] rather than over any loss of mine, because my brother had become a stranger to me. I was not sorry that he had died, but I was sorry for him because, according to his standards, his life had been thoroughly worth living" (p. 55-56).