"The bluest eyes"

The main theme that I find in "The bluest eyes" is opression,discrimination and low selfesteem dye  to society.In the center of the story is pecola,a teeenager black girl,who live in a family that is not a compact one.Pecola find difficulty to be adapted ina society where the prejudice is dominant,and even in here family she does not feel the warm of the family.She is exluded by society,firstly because of her colour skin and secondly she was"ugly"thought by society and even by her  own race.Going through the story it's so painfull a human being can be treated as something without value.After all we are humans being,and we are all equal befor GOD.Each one of us is created with a certain purpose in life.All are beautiful and all should have high selfesteem.The most precious  and crucial thing in our life is what we realy are,our character,dignity,our pure heart and soul!

Week XIII

Toni Morrison "The bluest eye"
In this book is described the story of a girl, Pecola.She is raised in a family where her parents fight very often.Her mother works while her father drinks all the day.Pecola is an Africo-American and her skin is dark and she is judged by school mates,neighborhood and called ugly.She is affected by those people and she wishes for the blu eyes to look beautiful.One theme of this book is racism.The girl is discriminated by others for her appearance.She is regarded as 'ugly' but why she had to believe it.We are beautiful for our own not for others.Everybody is beautiful even that girl with dark skin.Also she is raised in a family where her parents werent united to learn their children to have self esteem or to accept their own as they are.This wound had started earlier where black people were used for everything and mistreated and is hard to close this mindest.One other issue and I think more important is rape that happened in this story.In this case is called incest because the rape happens inside the family.The father rapes her daughter when he was drunk,maybe he was unaware,but this act is very fatally.He left her daughter pregnant and the child dies.This is a sad story from the beginning till the end.The way story is described in an amazing way.I think while reading this story we all learn more and our mind start thinking different.

Alice Walker "In search of our mothers garden"
Walker describes the story of her mother who escapes with the man who loved.She worked very hard and especially in the garden.People abuse with black women so their life wasnt easy.They were mistreated every time and underestimated.They were poor but her mother makes thier life more beauty with the way she loves them.The love she spread to their children may be more bigger than other white mothers spread.So,where is the difference?They live,love,work in the same way as all people around the world do.Differentiation of these people seems as well and nowdays especially at black women.

Week XIII assignment

In Search of our Mother's Garden, by Alice Walker

This is a book writen by Alice Walker. I like this book  because is talk about her search of the African American women’s suppressed talent, of the artistic skills and talents that they lost because of slavery and a forced way of life. Throughout this story, Alice Walker explains many hardships of life and struggles during the times that her family went through. Also explaining how even in the hardest times when your in despair, you may be able to find the one specific thing that puts you at peace. Alice is a  girl who always used to stay with her mother, and support her in everything. She was a black women and the life of black people characterizes in her work .Just like Alice's mother, she  was a women that sacrifice her life for their children,she was always in work for her children to have e better life.  Alice's mother is a very hard working women who struggles to run their family and feed her children. She has no free time because her day starts before sunrise and ends late at night, but even she had time to take care for garden.In these story black woman are treated as a “sexual object” to do all the thing that man want to do. The black women knew very well they right ,they do not want to be object in the hand of man , but they dont have courage and strength to act for this thing. I like this tilte “In search of our mother garden”because express the strength ,courage and care for the things that she really  wants.She really wants to care for her garden because she belive that if you make something with love and passion every thing that you want will realise,  you should never give up and kept doing what you really want to do. Everyone has a specific garden of theirs, they juts have to find it and make a positive change to do things more better.



The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye tells the story of a young eleven year old black girl named Pecola .  In the story, Pecola desperately wishes to have blue eyes in order to be accepted amongst white children in America. Unfortunately, due to her skin color and the way she looks, Pecola's life severely changes in painful ways. She live in a family with her mother ,father and her brother.  Her mother  Pauline works as a housekeeper for a rich white family. She lived a horrible childhood and also suffers racism like her daughter Pecola. Her father is an  alcoholic ,violent and abusive. And she has the brother to. In this book is tell the story how Pecola was raped by her father  in horriblie way and this thing happen for the second time.She said this thing to her mother but she didn’t belive her. In this book the main themes are prejudice ,discrimination and rape. Pecola exemplifies this in the story because she is often verbally and physically abused by others along with being called "ugly" due to the fact that her skin is black and her eyes are not blue.In this story Pecola was prejudice for her skin and eye color and  I am disagree with this fact because everyone is unique in  their owm and no one should prejudice for those things. Pecola begins to believe that if she only had blue eyes, her family life would be completely different and people would love her. This is a wrong belife – that by changing your physical appearance you could change your all life. This thing is completely wrong because we do not have to change, to accept by others .We should accept ourselves  for who we are and not  what others want us to be.

Assignment: 13

"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
and
"The bluest eye".


"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" is a book which talks about the black women, how they have become so POWERFUL and such an inspiration for others through years. Although, they didn't know how valid and worthy they were. There were so many people who judged, discriminated and didn't allow them to do what they wanted, to write, to express their feelings or rights and so many other things and all this was just because they were slaves. Despite all these sufferings, at the end, they were always trying to find a way to be happy in that way of living. The "Mother's  Garden" symbolizes that place were the author's mother found solace despite her anguish and it also describes it as a place were joy and happiness are found. It is best described through these lines: "I notice that it is only when my mother is working in her flowers that she is radiant, almost to the point of being invisible". Also the main theme is motherhood, because it shows how a mother sacrifices for her children to have everything they need and of course, to be happy!

"The bluest eye".
Well, this book had a very different tone. This is a book which talks about a girl named Pecola who is insecure about herself. She has an unhappy family. Pecola feels ugly with the way she is, because she is different from the others. She is a black girl who dreams to be like the white girls with blue eyes and not dark skinned with dark eyes. But the most ugly thing which happens to her, is when her father rapes her and nobody believes that her father did it. She even becomes impregnated from her father. Something that impressed me was the fact that, despite the bad things that happened to her and despite the fact that she felt all the time priceless, like she was nothing, she became so strong.

In search of our mother's gardens - the bluest eye

"In search of our mother's gardens"

When i read the essay i love it because it speaks about black woman and how the had overcome racism sexism and become so called "Saints ". In the text it explains and gives many examples of the ordinary people and the struggle that they have faced. But also it shows how woman are able to do everything so they can be happy. At the text it was a part that i liked the most and grap my attention was that how woman were called "the mule of the world , Matriarchs , Mean and Evil Bitches". It isn't right the way they are called in fact i am speechless because only animals are called that way. And another thing that i i liked was how woman are often misunderstood, the frase says  "When we have asked for simple caring, we have been handed empty inspirational.  This sentence is so strong and powerful because it shows the reality not only of the black woman but also white women facethat kind of situation . We all want a little bit more caring but in fact all that we get is "HUMILIATION".

"The bluest eye -Toni Morrison 

  The title of the book looked so interesting but if you read it you will understand that it is a story that makes you think about your own life. The story speaks  about a young girl called Pecola she is only a kid and she is raped by her father and bulled by her neighbors. Even she has past many difficulty the only think that she wants is to have the bluest eyes. She says that because she do not want that people talk about how she is abused or how ugly she is . She wants to give people another reason to talk and to forget everything that she is facing . In fact also this story has some connection with our world because people sometime want to change themselves because they are not liked in the eyes of the others.

In Search Of Our Mothers Garden and The bluest eye!

In search of our mothers garden!

It is rewarding to learn about these black women who considered themselves worthless; these abused, mutilated, confused by pain, hopeless women who achieved overcoming almost all the difficulties on this life in order so their granddaughters could thrive. It is impossible to claim for sure that the today’s young black women are racial-free but at least they have more opportunities due to the fighting that their mothers and grandmothers did.
There were several points in this book that had a real impact on me but the one that really got to me was when talking about the rights a black woman had to create art. There was this line about their mothers and grandmothers who began moving to music not written yet. It is painful to know that they wanted to created art and be artists but they couldn’t because the white people would probably kill them. The way she talks about her mother is beautiful and empowering with her strong character, her conduct, and her way of always being overprotective and that inner unsaid but so heartfelt feeling of being strong in order not to be pressed down by other people. I liked when the author emphasized the fact that her mother labored beside-not behind- her father in the fields. That shows equality and I personally have always admired that about the culture of black people, they almost always respect their partners. This great love which was created between them originates from the common sufferance’s both genders went through.
Reading such books that are overall so well written and so well structurally conducted, sentences like: “exquisite butterflies in an evil honey…” really send you and me and all of us, as readers, into their world. I cannot even begin to imagine their reality, let alone live through it.      
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

Tony Morrison- The bluest eyes

This book certainly is something else. It sends you to so many different levels and emotions that you can’t anticipate. It’s interesting to see how your perception may change through it all about all the characters involved there. At first I had a remorse moment towards Pecola’s father and somehow understood his actions but never justified them. Later on when he raped her that whole pitiful image that I had created on him came crumbling down as that action was not justifiable. He even impregnates his own daughter but wasn’t man enough to come forward and say “I did it”. Pecola’s mother is a rotten soul and if that weren’t enough she continues to oppress herself even more. I think this book has so many themes that I’m eager to discuss about such as beauty and how we perceive ourselves as well as how much we value our inner world. Motherhood and what really is the role of a mother when her daughter tells her, that her husband raped her. Raping, Sexism. Love. And of course most importantly race. It is undeniable that parenting is one the hardest things to do but what is even harder is to love yourself, because without that you cannot give love to those who long for it, just like Pecola.
What I found a beautiful passage in the book was when Claudia and Frieda planted those seeds of flowers. Even if that unborn child was the result of rape they still valued life and loved it. It is rare to find a book that describes pain so well that captivates you and makes you a part of the people that pray for a happy ending. Unfortunately as I said before happiness can only come after we appreciate and love ourselves just the way we are cause those blue eyes can never change your soul. So everyone should rise above every kind of prejudice regarding their race and skin color but not only. 

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens ~ The Bluest Eye

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens.

This book is totally about racism and descrimination. More specifically, in the book are mentioned the black women and it is said that " their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects" or otherwise known as " Saints". Furthermore, in the book it is said that black people were not allowed to read or write etc, and it is pointed a question which i like to mention " What might have been the result if singing, too, had been forbidden by law". I mentioned this question mainly because, this question makes people imagine themselves and also ask themselves, what would they have done if they were forbidden from doing things they want and like? Moreover, these women had dreams as other women's but they were not allowed to follow these dreams, and their body was forced to bear children. Last but not least, it is mentioned the story of her mother, who was a happy with her family and she loved flowers and take good care of them.





The bluest eye

This book i about Pecola's family, where there is not love and harmony between them. Pecola is a little girl, who is different from the other children because she is ugly. Pecola believes that, if she had blue eyes, she would be beautiful and loved from other people. In personally i am not in favor of changing our physical appearance, such as our dressing, or even our behaviour, etc, in order to be liked or loved by other people. Firstly, we should accept ourselves, love ourselves, in order to be loved from the other. Moreover, Pecola's father was always drunk, and one day when he went home, he raped her daughter and he was pregnant from her own father. Then, she went to the Soaphead Church and tells her wish, which was to have blue eyes. He instead of helping her, uses her to kill the dog that he disliked. One important message that is conveyed through this book is that, both old and young people should learn to be independent in life, to not be abused from other people and if this happens, they should talk about this, should express their complaints or whatever, in order to prevent this.

Assignment -12

In search of our mother’s garden.What black women are looking for?Black woman are in search of equality,self-respect,self-worth,so they are in search of themselves.Black woman are tired to do what they are told to, by their masters and to do it right,because on the other hand they would be treated as animals.They don’t want to be an object anymore in the hands of the white ones.I think that black woman knew for what they were in search but they just didn’t have the strength,the courage to act,to raise their voice and it is exactly in this book that the author describes the hardships and the strength of black woman.I liked very much the title,to be in search of something of our mothers which in the story symbolizes the garden.The author spoke a lot about her mother and the garden.The garden which symbolizes the strength and courage that I mentioned.Garden was important to her mother.It was a way of her mother to do what she loved.Taking care of the garden,flowers, was a way to express herself,her soul.It was her passion and she never give up and kept doing what she wanted.So a message of this story can be that you should just keep doing what you love,it doesn’t matter if you are black or how badly can people treat you.Your life is in your hand and you are the only that can decide how your garden should look like.

The bluest eye

It is a sad story and I can’t say that I liked it,because I didn’t like what Pecola went through as:prejudice,abusement,rape which are also the main themes of the story.I also didn’t like how Pecola expressed for herself.She thought that she was ugly and that whiteness is beautiful.Something that attracts me was her desire for blue eyes.Firstly when I started reading the story and relating to the title I thought that the bluest eye represented her sadness,her reality,her family which just a “normal” family couldn’t be.Maybe she thought that having blue eyes her life would change completely and she could felt  “beautiful”These eyes could change the way how other saw her.She thought that people would be nicer to her.By the end she obtained her blue eyes in her mind of course,but none of her problems have gone away.In fact people rejected her more than before,because  people will always find something to discriminate you.I understand her difficult life ,what she passed through not just the prejudices by people,also the fact that she was raped by her father,but it has not sense to change yourself to be admired by the others because in the end you also will not know yourself and if you lose yourself for what you live for.Sometimes people should not change themselves to be liked by the others.

Assingments of Week XIII

In Search of our Mother's Garden, by Alice Walker

It really hurts to imagine how black women underwent a life filled with opression,discrimination and only them and god knows how many other things, made them feel unworthy.They faced a double opression that of a female and of a black female,although for some of them it didn't stop their potential and creativity even if they didn't really know they had. Often in the darkest times humans tend to create art,and that happened with the black women.Their creativity resulted from these dark times,but what of those who didn't even know they had such a potential or were afraid their potential may explode from time to time or what about those women who didn't even had time to display their creativity and art ? They found ways to display it in everydays life just like as Alice's mother displayed her creativity with flowers , while some others diplayed their creativity on the sly or anonymously.Art was the only place they found peace and tranquility and every black women of those times is considered an artist in her own way and that's the main idea in Walker's essays of In Search of our Mather's Garden.

The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison

I guess we all have felt disliked or rejected in diffirent periods of life mostly as teenagers but with the help of our family who learned us to value ourselves and inspired us or with the support of real friends we manage to overcome such situations.These are crucial in someone's development and shape, but what of those who never received  appreciation, love or whose families never inspired or boosted their children's self -esteem and appreciation  and I'm refering to the most vulnerable delicate member of a society ,a child and a female.This lack of upbringing can result to fatal consequences to a child but also to a female whose image is always expected to be ultimate.In this book we have the concrete individ a black girl named  Pecola who never felt loved or beautiful and who perceived beauty with whiteness and blue eyes.She thought that everything bad that happened in her life was a consequence of her physical apperence.She believed that so badly that she even went crazy and believed she really had blue eyes in the end .It seems that madness was her only escape. As readers we might feel pitty for Pecola but the truth is that in the real world there are thousand of girls like her maybe not with the same background but with the same  wrong perception of the beauty and we all have to take a stand by helping to change the societies ideals but also to give a little contribution into changing these people's insecurities by staying near them and learning to value themselves.

Assingment week XIII

In search of our Mothers' Gardens written by Alice Ealker.
In the opening Walker states from Jean Toomer that seed that black women were seen as hopeless and treated as objects. Walker says that black women did not have the oppurtunity to pursue their dreams becouse they were given other responsible of raising children, obeing to their housband, and doing the chores of the house. Both Walker and Toomer felt were not allowed to drem or following their dreams. Walker describes her mother simple but with a big talent on garnening. She lover flowers and caried very much for them despite her poor living conditions. Her garden was so brilliant it was a sentence which sad whatever she planted grew up as it by magic. It was a wife with creatifity.
I liked this but it was very painfull becouse describes the suffering that black women has pased.

Assignment 13.
After i read  the book by Alice Walker in search of our mother"s garden.It is very painful the way how black women were abused .The poet Jean Toomer ,describes the women in spirituality and in  the beauty they were not aware.Walker ,in this book she has written her experience in order to say that also,  black women have the  ability to achieve everything.in general they were forced to do everything what the others people obliged them lets say like slaves they were.Those women have dreams to fulfilled but the circumstances like that doesnt allow them.Another duty for them was  just to bare children and to grow them.In fact, the author has included differnt names of black people such as Lucy terry,Bessie smith, even though black colour they were strong enough to overcome this difficulties and to show the people that however,they have strength,  the self esteem , the capacity to work .I really liked this book because it gives the tuition to love the beauty and the respect the  strength regardless situations.

Week XIII assignment

''In search of our mothers garden''

Assignment XII

Lesie Marmon Silko is a Native American of the Laguna Pueblo people.In her book Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit she describes the Laguna Pueblo people's relationship with the hunted.People who live at Laguna Pueblo have a more personal relationship with their planet than others.Maybe it is the nature they had inherit from their ancestor to younger generations.Those people have respect for all things, living or dead.They believe that a person is spiritualy there and this is one reason why they respect more the Earth.This respect means that the people believe in more than they can see.Special respect for animals and plants makes us understand the lack of hierarchy that exist for these people.Laguna Pueblo people call the earth the "Mother Creator" this means that they appreciate it more.The Earth is to be respected as one would honor their own parents.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit - Assignment XIl

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

I read this story and i think  that describes in a good way how people should be in their real life.This short essay was beautifully written,it made it's points clear,convincing and engaging. The story is give us the insight on the Laguna Pueblo people and their culture,which is very intriguing and different.The culture in this place is very interesting and the author tell every thing about their culture because is the most beautiful thing in whole story. The main themes that are treated in this story  are racism,discrimination and prejudice. The girl describe her place Pueblo as a wonderful place were everyone was accepted and the all people were the same. They live their life without conflict because they all do the thing they want , no one prejudice them for what they were doing. But this thing did not happen in the college when she went .In that time she understood the diffrences between the  Laguna Pueblo and the outside world. She understood that it was different by the other students. And the phrase that grabs my attention was when the tourist said:''Not you'' he said and motioned for me to step away from my classmates. I felt so embarrassed that I wanted to disappear. 

In this phrase is completly show the discrimination against the girl because she is different and  for this thing she feel very  sad and disappointed . In this moment i think she understood how the real world function and how the things are in real life. She feel sad that this thing  happen to her because in the old time people were all the same ,they were brothes and sister , even rocks and water have spirit in that time .Another phrase that explain in a perfect way the message of the story is: In this universe, there is no absolute good or absolute bad; there are only balances and harmonies that ebb and flow.”

Everyone of us should be a human being to understand the people feelings ,to be more friendly with people, to have harmony between them because no one is absolute, we are unique in our own.

Yellow Woman and A Beauty of the Spirit - Leurenc Hushi

This book was written by Leslie Silko and it mainly describes her life in the “Pueblo” community.

Assignment: XII

"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit".

All the stories of "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" were so beautiful and unique in its way of transmitting and telling these stories. This book is about a native American girl who just because she looks different, she is judged and society excludes her, but all these awful things happened when she went to college far from her home. She describes her home, Pueblo, as a unique one and so different from other places, where everyone can be accepted. In Pueblo the way of living and the mindset of people's lives is so different. There, women are treated like men, they are equal. Everyone is free to live their lives as they want, without being judged and so this raises a big theme, which is identity. It is expressed just from the way the people live like I said. Here are some lines which best describes it: "Before the arrival of Christian missionaries, a man could dress as a woman and work with the women and even marry a man without fanfare". We can also see the identity factor in the author's life as well, how these stories have helped her to build her character, herself and to feel beautiful and unique from the stories. But mostly, what I loved from these stories, was the way of how women were treated, as strong one, who had the same position as men, and how women could do everything without permission or when they were treated as HEROES.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit - Assignment XII

Week XII assignment

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the spirit. In this book the author Leslie Marmon Silko tells story from her childhood by describing what happens on the place where she lived. From just the title you can see that it is about the discrimination of a woman . The main themes of the book are prejudice and racism.
On this book it was a sentence than the author sad :from the time I was a child, I was aware that i was different.The author was seem different from their classmates because she was just an and white  she was a child. A person should not be prejudice about its appearance but with that the person had inside her spirit. Also identity is one of the theme that this book tells.
In my opinion the book gives a very important message the qualities that waman has in their spirit.
 

'' Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit''

Personally, I loved all of these stories. They are so full of passion and so well told that it drags you into their world and at some moments it even makes you think that this place is almost unreal. It is unthinkable today to even be slightly as close to that reality as people were back in the days.

Native Americans really were different and it is ironic to think that society rules only worsen this planet hence rules are what keep the world going. Back then, people were free to be whoever they wanted to be. Imagine living in a world free of racial discrimination, prejudice, social differences, free of the white supremacy, no gender inequalities. The Pueblo, this magical place sounds so surreal but learning now that it existed a long time ago makes you sad about Our reality Today.

What I valued the most about this short book were the soul filling moments. It is so rare today to find someone, let alone a whole city or community that gives so much importance to the beauty of the soul and the behavior and in one’s relationships with other living beings. It is hurtful to read about people who found peace with animals and plants in the mountains just because other people wouldn’t accept them. 

In respective to the treatments they had towards each other there were no differences between the genders. “Because the Creator is female, there is no stigma on being female; gender is not used to control behavior. No job was a man’s job or a woman’s job; the most able person did the work.” It is amazing to see that kind of perspective back than which today fails massively.

Nevertheless as the author says: :In this universe, there is no absolute good or absolute bad; there are only balances and harmonies that ebb and flow.” And I really hope we can all think and feel that way one day towards each-other.

Assignment~12
"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit"



The author of this book, Leslie Marmon Silko, describes what happened on that time in Pueblo, where she used to live. More specifically, she compares Pueblo at that time to nowadays. A striking example is that, pregnancy before marriage was celebrated as a good sign, and i think that this has changed nowadays, because pregnancy before marriage is considered as a sin in religion.The author also, shares her personal experience those years, and she said that she faced racism because she was a Yellow Indian woman. I want to mention a momemt of racism that she faced, where she said that "one day when I was in the first grade, we all crowded around the smiling white tourists, who peered at our faces. We all wanted to be in the picture because afterward the tourists sometimes gave us each a penny. Just as we were all posed and ready to have our picture taken, the tourist man looked at me."Not you," he said and motioned for me to step away from my classmates. She said that she felt embarrassed and i felt bad too, bacause it does not mean that because the fact that she was a Yellow Indian woman, she was different from other people or she didnt worth the same things as other people did. Moreover, the author says that, from Yellow woman's adventures, who was a beautiful woman, but not necessarily as regards her appearance, but was the beauty of her passion and her strength to act in difficult moments in life, she learned to be comfortable with her differences. I personally agree, mainly because it doesnt matter if someone is yellow, white or black, short or tall and so on, we are all human beings and we all have to respect each other.

Assignment-12

When I read the title:”The Beauty of a Spirit” I immediately thought about the physical appereance and I was right.From the beginning of the essay it is revealed a lot about Silko’s childhood.She goes back in time showing that she was aware of her”difference”and explains the reason why she was like that,not just her but also her sisters didn’t look like the other Laguna Pueblo children,but they also didn’t look white either.Her difference wasn’t accepted by some people,as in most cases by discriminatory people.On the other hand she didn’t see “any signs of that strain or anxiety”in her grandma’s face,because she didn’t care about Silko’s appearance.Going on with the “difference”,she indentifies it between the”the old time beliefs”and the modern way”. She says that the modern way included racism.Racism,judgement that she felt in school by her classmates and in contrast her physical appereance seemed not to matter to the old time because they looked the world differently.For them a person’s value lies in how that person interacts with other people,animals and earth.There is a phrase-“many worlds coexist here”she means that both ways of seeing the world exist in the present,but I think that the most important is how you decide to see the world,accepting it and the different types of people and just a beautiful spirit can see the beauties of the world.

Assingment XII

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit.
In this essay the main themes are prejudice , racism and the maltreat of nature by humans. .The author Leslie Marmon Silko tells stories of her childhood by implementing the old stories of Pueblo people which were people who valued earth and all its sorroundings including the live and the dead.
They used to respect animals,trees,rocks and the dead.Pueblo people used to value not only nature but also people,they valued more the inside.There was no such division between the face and the heart and all people were the same.There did not exist such discriminations  over passion,sexual orientations,colour,dissability but indeed Pueblo people cosidered them unique and beautiful.They considered spirituallity over all. For Pueblo people women were equal to men .The author talks or emphasises her worship of Kochininako,Yellow Woman who was her favourite hero becouse of her independence and courage to overcome boundaries of ordinary behaviour  and the author finds her as an inpiration becouse she herself was judged becouse of her physical appereance.She was a part-white individual and she felt diffirent becouse everyone jugded and denied her presence.Yellow Woman although she wasn't yellow but was called so to the ritual colour of the east learned the narrator to value her diffirencies and to be courageous .To me the Pueblo lifestyle and coorporation would be called the ultimate world,where peace ruled over.I truly wished the world functioned in this free,modest kind of way so we would not have to face such a cruel world we live in today.

Assignment 12 .
Yellow women and a beauty of the spirit.In this book even  when you read the title it gives the impression that it has to do with a beautiful spirit and with the appereance The main theme is racism.In fact, the author shares with us her experience of life since she was a child.She speaks about the manner how she was grown the values that were learned to her .Leslie,tries to make a comparison between Laguna pueblo and the outside world. Even though ,they looked the world different the old times considered the beautiful spirit the way how you interect with the world with the people this is beauty not the appereance.I want to mention an example that i found. It was the moment when she was in school with the other pupils ,some tourists were making photo and she approached to have a photo with them someone stopped her and said not you.Why? Because she looked different she wasnt like the others she was part white.

Week XII assignment

'' Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit''

Assignment 11-I know why the caged bird sings

This book shows the human’s reality,how the world is made with “ingredients” such as:prejudice,abandonment,rape which are also the main themes of our story.All people have to deal with different kinds of difficulties,but the problem is not how dangerous can be these difficulties,but the most important is that if you have triumphed at the end.This is exactly the case of our main character,Maya’s life which goes through many difficulties and triumphs in the end.She faces many problems during her life and are exactly these difficulties as I mentioned before that helped her to change her attitude towards herself.According to the title which reveals a lot about Maya :Why the caged bird sings –reveals about maya’s circumstances.The bird which represents freedom maya’s desire to be free because she was like a baggage that was transported from one place to another and nobody asked her,everyone decided for her and of course the caged that symbolizes confinement,her life.As a bird sing to be free,also Maya needed to rise her voice to find a solution for her problems. It is true that she was just a child and her family should decide for her but it doesn’t mean that these decisions taken from the adults are the best one.so By the end her life change completely.she goes from a little black girl and want to be transformed to a “white”one because there is no other chance to be accepted by the society to a mature adult that is proud of her race and the most important for herself.Maya goes from a shy girl “imprisioned”to a woman with self-confidence.Despite these hardships she was able to be a happy woman,not forgetting her child that can be the strength she needed to overcome the obstacles of life.

Caged Bird Week XI

"I Know why the Caged Bird Sings"
In this poem I find two main themes.The first one is given in first stanza which is freedom.It is given through the image of free a free bird that goes everywhere it wants,ranging from enjoyment on stream to soaring  in the wind.The second theme is captivity that cripples the bird in the cage.This theme goes on in the third stanza and tries to state that the caged bird is forced to sing a song of freedoom.
The poem reflects the of racial discrimination in American society against  black people.using the mataphors of caged and free birds,the other has highlighted the nature of captivity and the importance of American ideals of freedom,liberty amd critisism on racial discrimination.The caged bird represents African Americans and their sorrowful plight compared to white Americans.She says that the free  bird has the freedom to move everywhere in tje world,while the caged bird is in captivity,full pain and range.African Americans did not have the freedom to move and enjoy life as white people.

Assignment11.I know why the caged bird sings by Maya angelou.The main theme of this book is racism which is emphasized since at the beginning of the book.This book speaks about the experience of maya her childhood up to now.She is faced with many hardships in life and suffered a lot of being black.But the bad moment that happens to her was when she was rapped when she was a child.This is really painful especially, for her.After all this problem she was strong enough to overcome all the events of her life.Later on ,she changed her name in Marguerite .But she moves to san francisco and started to work there and she was the first black employee.She is to be admitted for all the difficulties she passed and still she has the courag to walk away regardless challenges of life.I really liked this book it is very motivate because it learns how to face with the world .She started out the first without fear and without the help of anybody.And she had the power to get up on.

Assignment XI

Caged Bird was published in 1983. The poem describes difference between 2 birds. One bird is free in the nature,while the other is caged. The first can live as it wants and the second which is caged, suffers lonely in the cage. From the title of this poem'caged bird' we understand a bird that has trapped in a cage and sing for freedom. One sentence says that caged bird 'can seldom see through his bars' which mean the limited space that has inside tha cage and out of it.

Maya Angelou -"caged bird "-Assignment XI

As i read the poem i notice and was fascinating  in the way how Maya Angelou wrote all her feelings about life and the way she thought  it was. We know that Angelou was an civile rights activists and her poem was like expresing her thoughts her anger abou society , about the ways how black women were treated. . Even thought Africa American people were free at that time Angelou felt that their voice were not heard   because they were black. I liked a fraze at them poem: " the free bird thinks of another breeze..... (and ends with )" his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing". The reason why i liked this stanza is because she describes herself  the way she wants to say things and to be free to choose what she wants to do but she can't  because she is black and the only thing how she can express herself is by rising her voice   and demanding  their rights.

Caged Bird , Week XI Assingment

Caged bird is a poem which talks about black people's suffering,opression,lack of freedom and resilience.The author writes this poem metaphorically contrasting 2 two birds, a caged and a free one.The caged bird symbolises black people who were opressed and dream of freedom while the free bird symbolises white people who had privileges and the last thing to do was thinking of freedom.The free bird enjoyes life with all its gifts.Its ironic how the free bird dreams of things which are pretty easy to be reached since he was free but as for the caged bird he was destined to suffer and had no choice but wailing.He can not fly away from his misery but at least he can open his beak to sing.This realates with black people's resilience about trying to fight racism and win independence.It is very sad how people discriminate their own kind by opressing others just of their innate natural features but at least these people learn to grow stronger and are such an inspiration.

Weak XI assignment

Maya Angelou~ " Caged bird"~ XI.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

In this book the author Maya Angelou, has presented two birds. One is caged and the other is free. The caged bird represents the black people, who were not treated well by the society and were not allowed to do things that they wanted to. Also, the free bird represents the white people who had the freedom to go whenever they wanted and to do what they wanted. The two important themes of this book are freedom and slavery. As i mentioned before, freedom is represented by the free bird which can fly wherever it wants enjoying the life. The other theme is slavery which is represented by the caged bird, which it cannot fly, and does not enjoy life. Another theme can be racism, because as we see black people were not treated well and did not have freedom, whereas white people had freedom. I personally like this book mainly because, one important message that is conveyed through the book, is that all people should have freedom and should be independant in order to enjoy life as much as possible.

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou /poem

https://youtu.be/exc9GYaZFYs

Struggle for freedom is the main theme of this poem. The author has compared the free bird and the caged bird describing their actions in such a profound way and it gives the impression that she herself is one of the birds. The emotions behind every line are so well put that reading it sends chills down your spine. One has it difficult to dream when everything is against that dream becoming reality and those who are denied of that right, cannot even dare to look, let alone claim the sky. In this poem we notice that sometimes all that is holding us back is physical. Like a cage that holds a bird and his wings are clipped and feet are tied and the only spiritual escape for him is singing. That song of freedom shows his longing soul while the free bird is just enjoying like and the cycle that mother nature has created. Referring to the slaves and comparing them with a caged bird we notice the same fearful trill of the unknown things. And their screams of pain were heard even on the most distant hills. Their cries intensify the tragedy of their lives and those "bars" cannot even let them see the sun as a free white man would. 

Nevertheless the world is changing and the most beautiful lesson you can learn from Maya Angelou is that liberating yourself is what one needs, in order to be free.

Assignment of week XI.

"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.

The "Caged Bird" is a poetry which talks about black people or slaves during the 18th century and who were so badly treated by society, mostly by the white ones. They weren't allowed almost to do anything, but just being ruled by others. In this poetry, the "bird", who is the symbol of freedom, represents two kinds of people, the white one and the black one or the slaves. The free bird represents the white people and the caged bird represents the slaves. At that time white people were free to do whatever they wanted to, and on the other hand the slaves who were "caged" in the sense of not doing whatever they wanted, they weren't allowed to express feelings, opinions, to dress like the white people and a lot of other things which stopped them to live their life from feeling free and as they wanted. And so, this is the reason why at this poetry are used two big important and so different themes, which are the freedom and the slavery, but which both of these two themes make also a contrast between each other, to present and show the way of life the slaves were living so different from that of the white ones.

Week XI assignment

''I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings'' by Maya Angelou.

Week XIV and Week XV

Jhumpa Lahiri Selections

http://jhou.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/8/0/30800919/interpreter_of_maladies.pdf 

Week XIII- Alice Walker and Toni Morrison

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbWVyaWNhbmxpdDE0MTV8Z3g6NWRlMGUyYzc5NDJjMTRmNA

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/36/26/43092636/documents/Bluest%20Eye,%20The%20-%20Toni%20Morrison.pdf

Beloved   by Toni Morrison 

http://publish.uwo.ca/~hamendt/WD%20final%20Project/litertaure/Beloved.pdf

Week XII - Native American Life Today

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today

By Leslie Marmon Silko 

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/engl484jj/silkopuebloecol.pdf

Week XI: Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/regalos/I%20Know%20Why%20the%20Caged%20Bird%20Sings%20-%20Maya%20Angelou.pdf  

Assignment 10

Perhaps the world ends here
The theme of  this poem is about family and life.The meaning that I find here is that the world might begin at a kitchen table and ends there.The kitchen is the place where the members of the family gathers together for food,they discuss and also talks about important decision.The kitchen is the place where people pass the most of the time.For children is a lovely place,where they learn the behaviour.I think intentionally the autor has chosen as setting the kitchen and as object a round table to give a warm conotation to the readers.

Estragnement

In the center of this poem is the relationship between a mother and a doughter.This kind of relation is not  a normal relation between a mother and a doughter.This type of relation is very estregnment,especially in standpoint of tje doughter.She sees her mother very cold in feelings towards her.Her  mother's behaviour is harsh,and she saffers it.Although this relation is very taugh between them,in my opinion I can say that deep insede her heart and spirit she had love for her doughter but circumstances might had obligated to had that behaviour.

Assignement-10

The Estrangemnet by Jamaica Kincaid

 This story is about the rough relationship  that daughter had with her mother and how her criticism of her changed after her experience as a mother.

A mother is a such a complex figure to thing about.Mother are expexted to be caring ,loving and sweet with her  children  but this thing didn’t happen in this story.She describes her mother as a person that was seen as nice by others, but not by her . She asserts that her mother, “said horrible things to us more often than not” and that the nice person everyone saw in her “was not at all known to us.The phrase that attract my attention is :"She truly wish me dead"and our mother said horrible thinks to us".This phrase support the idea that her  mother could have been a very bad person without heart ,because i think that any parent wouldn't wish something bad for their own child.I can imagine how a mother could say those  terrible things for her childern and wish her child death , this think for me was unacceptable. Jamaica understand that being a mother is a important thing and you should sacrifice for you children and maybe to give the life for them. She understood that her mother is not a good mother to grow and educate a child ,so she decide to be a good mother ,to care for her childern ,to be there when they have need for her.She decide to be a idependent woman and trying to do better things in her life. Because this thing is related with the theme of this story which is independence and motherhood.After i read the whole story i understood that we sholudn't give up ,we as a women should be strong and to try for e better life and in this way we may be a good person for our self ,and then a good mother for our childern.

Barbie doll

After I read this poem, I felt a strong sense of irony and sadness. I was very sad that the girl was so foolish to follow others blindly.

I think this poem is very sad, but yet very true. An ordinary girl is influenced by social values and it makes her lose herself. The girl is criticized that she is ugly and because of this, she lives in pressure. So, it makes us to use our criteria to judge others. Therefore, she is so upset that she commits suicide. Since she just wants to become the kind of person everyone likes, she does not know what she has to purse in her life. However, the last sentence that attract my attention is "to every woman a happy ending," I think the last sentence is super ironic. All in all, everyone has their own characteristics. We don’t have to care any comments from others or even to change ourselves. After all, not everyone is perfect, so just be yourself.. In my opinion, everyone is created different so that everyone of us can be unique.

Assignment: 10

The "Estrangement" by Jamaica Kincaid.

 The "Estrangement" talks about the relationship between mother and daughter. It's a complicated relationship, because the mother had a very awful behaviour towards her daughter and her other children as well. She didn't even care when her mother died. The whole society knew her as a good person, as a perfect one who loves her children, her family and has a good behaviour, but none of them knew how she was behind the closed doors. Well, mothers and daughters are expected to have a close relationship with each other, sharing feelings or maybe secrets and in this story we don't have this kind of connection. On the other hand we also notice the connection between the dauhter who has a very good relationship with her own children totally different from her mother's. After reading it, it gave me a strange feeling, because is very painful when mothers and daughters have not a strong or good relationship and in our case it is even more painful when the daughter didn't even care when her mother died.

"Barbie doll" by Marge Piercy.

"Barbie doll" is a poem which talks about a girl who was born as usual and was the same as the others. She is told that she has a big nose and fat legs. She was healthy and intelligent but no one liked her as she was, no one accepted her and this is the reason why at the end she makes herself a transformation. One of the main themes in this poem is insecurity and bully, because the girl feels insecure from the moment when the others judge her for her appearance and so she decides to transformate herserf into a perfect apperance as the others "wished" her to be. Now she was liked by others, because she looked like a "doll". So, she became the person whom society wanted her to be, despite the fact how she really felt.

Assignement-10

Perhaps the world ends here

.Before reading the poem I never thought that the world ends around a “kitchen table”.According to the poem it doesn’t just end there but also starts as it is seen in the first line,showing that the kitchen table is one of the most important elements of life.The author uses lots of metaphores,I can say that the all poem is a metaphor.To continue with the first line she use a metaphor of the kitchen table to represent food and showing how important eating is in human life.Across the poem she continue to illustrate other uses of the kitchen table and its ability to unit people,which is its main power.A kitchen table represents the sweet home where all family members gather and share their daily experiences.It is the place where young people are advised by their parents and tought how to carry of themselves.One line that I liked, was”our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children”In this case dreams become members of the family.The author personifies dreams by giving them a character of drinking a coffee with the family at the table.dreams represent our thoughts,our abstract ideas and she gives the characters such as drinking,hugging,demonstrating us how important and powerful thoughts are in our life.Another line that attracted me is”this table has been a house in the rain,an umbrella in the sun”it is a place to hide in times of problems and a place to celebrate in times of victory. This metaphor ilustates again the central role it plays in the family.The table can be both a celebration place and a place to comfort ourselves in times of troubles.As this table is a place where each member of family has”given birth”a place where we eat,sing, cry,give thanks so perhaps the world ends at the kitchen table.This poem  shows the circle of life which is inevitable,it  represents all the stages of life through life examples that occur at the kitchen table.

The Estrangemnet

Mothers are expected to be sweet,loving,firm and they share different values on reasing their children.A child describes always his/her mother as the hero of their world,but in our story it is the opposite.The Estrangement shares the bad relantioship between a mother and a daughter.I don’t want to describe  their complex relantishiop because it is explained very well in the story but something that caught my attention are some lines:when we were children and in need of a mother’s love and care there was no better mother to provide such an ideal entity”-showing that her mother was there for her children and this is also related to the title the Estrangement.Being estranged for people means becoming a stranger and Jamaica’s mother was once connected with her children but after she become a stranger.The other line:” she could see through the thinness of our efforts,she could see through the emptiness of our aspiration showing that she was not proud for her children and she criticised them all the time. I think that all the anger Jamaica felt for her mother is because of this fact.Moving on something that I like in the story is the fact that Jamaica was different from her mother and she tried to gain independence and the most important she tried all the time to be a better mother.

Assingments

The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid
This story implements and emphasizes how crucial or influental is motherhood into shaping children's character and life.The main theme is motherhood and it's influence but also hatred and resilience.
Throughout the story we understand how much angry is Jamaica with her mother even if she is dead.Jamaica was never appreciated by her mother or loved but instead was critisized and oppressed.Her mother made her go through a terrible upbringing filled with nothing less but love.
Is this clear? It is to me right now as I write it: I would rather be dead 10 than spend eternity with our mother! And do I really mean that when I say it? Yes, I really mean just that: after being my mother's daughter, I would I rather be dead than spend eternity with her.
By this Jamaica wants to emphasize how angry she was with her mother and how much hatred she had for her as she was fed up with her words and actions.Its really hard to say that for your mother but it seems that Jamaica's mother went beyond her limits.
The word ''eternity''  is used purposely to emphasize her motherhood influence.Although her mother is dead she lives in Jamaica's darkest thoughts and haunts her all her life.Not only does she think about her mother all the time but she's also behaving in an unconcious way like her mother.
....as I can see, but tears have been shed over my not being completely enthusiastic about going to a final basketball game in a snowstorm, or saying something I should have kept in my mind's mouth. A particularly unforgivable act in my children's eyes is a book's dedication I made to them.
Although her mother's dead it looks like her marks will never vanish.It will be there for eternity.
Jamaica implements repetitions throughout the story not only of the word eternity but also other phrases and she also makes questions.
In regard to my children, eternity is right now, and I always want to be with them. In regard to my mother, my progenitor, eternity is beyond now, and is that not forever? I will not speak to her again in person, of that I am certain, but I am not sure that I will never speak to her again? For in eternity is she in me, and are even my children speaking to her? I do not know, I do not know. 
It seems like Jamaica  is  always fighting with her memories of childhood and her bad upbringing.She doesn't want her mother's ghost to win and that is what I like most about the story.I like the fact that Jamaica keeps fighting all her life to not let her past influence her life.She didn't turned to the monster her mother was and she really loves her children.Although some things or people may not be erased by our memory the best thing to do is trying and trying .



Barbie doll by Marge Piercy
This poem tells about ideals and expectations society has into young girls.It is present at every age and unfortunately some girls lose theirselves into pleasing society's needs.
This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.

The poem begins with the birth of a girlchild who is still unconcioussnes about things offered around but it actually shapes her role in life which is a good mother and ''a good housewife''. The dolls symbolize motherhood while stoves and irons implement the ideal of a housewife who has always have to deal with house chores .
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
In puberty,that's where all humans experience changes but these changes are not often expected well.Maybe we are all bullied but girls are the ones who are judged more.These judgements are stay with women for the lest of their life as women are expected to be perfect .The girl's classmates didn't manage to see through her flaws.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
The girl was not appreciated but instead was obliged or pushed to change her physical appereance.In the end it seems she fulfilled societie's expectations by cutting her nose and legs offering to the cruel world.
In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
The girl is now dead and buried with a painted reconstructed face and turned-up nose.Ironically the author says a happy ending as she had now reached the society standards .Now that she is dead she is now pretty and acceptable. The authour writes that to emphasize the absurdity of society expectations.

Assingment:"The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid and "Doors opening, closing at us" by Marge Piercy.

''The Estrangement'' by Jamaica Kincaid
Kincaid essay is about the complex relationship she had with her mother and how her criticism change after her experience as a mother.
A mother is such a complex figure to think about. Mothers are expected to be loving,caring but also disciplinary. Around the world mothers share different values,belief on raisin their children.
The Estrangement is very different to this. The sentence which is the most unpleasant is the one which sad ...that the life I lived was nothing more
than a silly show ,that she truly wished me dead". Haw can a woman say these word to her doughtier Her mother was not proud if her doughtier. Then she tells that she stopped talking to her mother after that conversation that had on the phone. On my opinion maybe this action of Jamaica was not right. Regardless of everything she is her mother. Her mother was seen by the community where she had lived as a nice person but she wasn't the same with her children.
In spite of that Jamaica learns from the mistake that her mother did with them. And she behaves good with their own children.She is a good mother who loves her children and want to be with them as long as possible  not like her mother who had done the opposite. The main themes of Jamaica essay are motherhood and the Independence.
 "Doors opening, closing on us"  ,by Marge Piercy.
On my opinion this poems is a very beautiful one. The tittle tells about the poem before reading it. On the poem doors are more concrete somehow an image of going from one state or another,one area ,one phase of ones life to another because you can't see beyond a door when its shut.
There can always be a surprise on the other side of the door. The poem is like a negative poem becouse it is like showing sadness through out the whole poem.

Assignment 10.The poem "perhaps the world ends here" by Joy Harjo.After reading this poem is really interesting the way, the style of words that,the author prescribes the poem .The main theme in this poem is family and life in general.Harjo,has opened the first stanza using the word" kitchen table".The world begins at a kichen table".But what mean a kitchen table?This means a lot means our first steps of life.She describes the kitchen as a very important part of her life, the place where we eat, drink ,spend more time cooking and the place of mealtime.A room where we gather as a family talking about different topics.A simple place but with a lot of memories.In the last stanza Harjo, uses a beautiful sentence,"perhaps the world will end at the kitchen while we are laughing and crying eating of the last sweet bite".This means ,that we have learned much from this place good moments and bad moments and of course, the end of everything because nothing is permanent.

The other poem Barbie doll by Margie Piercy. This poem,starts with a little girl who was born usual and loves dolls.This poem  treats a very important phenomenon which is mentality.From the first stanza , l want to emphazise a line ." Then in the magic of puberty,  a classmate said: you have a great big nose and fat legs. Here appears the descrimination about her appereance and not for the mind.This affects the self esteem of everyone.We know well that the people in our society judge a lot for your appereance and not for the person you are.From the second stanza,we see that she is strong enough and intelligent and healthy.But still she was seen as a fat nose on thick legs.In the final line "to every women a happy ending. Here comes the moment when they discover that she was in the casket and was dead.And we learned that she was just a barbie doll.

Assignment 10

The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid talks about relationship between a mother and her daughter. This relationship isnt so good in this story. In real life we often hear about closely relationships between this two persons. Otherwise happens with the girl that had 3 years without speaking with her mother. This sounds strange because we can imagine many people,but not the mother that had given you birth. She didnt feel the absence of her real father because,the father of her brothers replaced him and loves her to much. She dont agree with words that people said to her funeral because she and her brothers knew another personas their mother. This girl is the mother of two children and she compares herself with her mother and if she wanted to be with them in eternity. In the end she says "I do not know" this means that she isnt sure and her thoughts may be just for that moment.


The poem that I chose to comment is "Barbie Doll".A healthy and itelligent girl is judged by her class mate. They saw at her a big nose and fat legs. They judge for her appearance and dont estimate her character. In the end after she made a change,the opinion of people was"consummation at last" this means they continue to have the same opinion about her. She was influenced by those people who blamed for her features,this was the reason why she wants to look different.

Assignment~10

The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid
 This story is about Kincaid's rough relationship with het mother. More specifically, Kincaid tells that she does not want to talk to her mother again. One day, she listened her mother talking unkindly about her in a conversation over the telephone and she said that she wished her daughter dead. Jamaica became totally distant from her mother and says that her mother says horrible things to her and to her three brothers. In the story it is said that when her mother died, everybody at her funeral said that she is a nice person, generosity and so on, and this get me confused becuase if she was such a woman, why did she treat her children with the worst way. Moreover, Jamaica often says that she would rather be dead than spending eternity next to her mother. By this, i understand how much does she hate her mother and what kind of relationship did they have. Last but not least, the most important thing of the story is that Jamaica, despite the fact that her mother treated her with the worst way, she did not give up,instead, she was trying for her own independence and was living her life in her own way and as she wanted. Also, Jamaica knew that her mother was not treated her well and when she grew and became a mother of two, she did not treat het children as her mother did.



Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
Beginning from the title of this poem, it prepares us that something bad is happening or death.

"The world begins at a kitchen table." This is the first sentence of the poem, a kitchen table or a family table brings people together, and families on this table share many things,feelings, emotions, thoughts or even plans for the future. Also, many are the parents that wait for this table in order to sit with their children,to discuss with them about many issues such as how should they behave, what is good and what bad in life and so on. Moreover, there may be arguments for many reasons between the members of a family, but they can find a solution in order to end this "intense conversation". So, in other words, this table brings people together and is a place where people are connected with each other. The theme of the poem is that life is a circle and that unexpected things can happen anytime. In this poem are mentioned the stages of life, such as terror, burial, suffering, remorse, laughing, crying,sing and sorrow. All this words are examples of life stages that anybody can avoid them.

Assignment 10

''The Estrangement'' and ''MY MOTHER'S BODY'' by Marge Piercy