Camp Harmony Literary Focus

Camp Harmony - Nisei Daughter

Literary Focus #6: Sone says the camp "Was hopefully called Camp Harmony." Do you think the name is appropriate or ironic? Support answer with evidence text.

I think the name for this interment camp, Camp Harmony, is a very ironic name for the camp. Since the camp is like prison, but just for the Japanese-American people. Harmony means agreement in feeling or opinion, and in the camp, it is not very harmony at all. The military that rules that camp might be very harsh and strict about living in there, there might be strict rules that is necessary in order to keep the people in there organized. Organizing the camp must be an important thing in this camp, because the government sorted the camp out into different separate areas, alphabetically and numerous. It is also very dirty, so maybe the government didn't care about making this place beautiful or peaceful to live in, and it's maybe a part of the get back from the Japanese when they bombed the Pearl Harbor in the past.

Expository essay on Economy

Response to Literature - The Wise Old Woman

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Vocab!

Mesmerized

      - He was mesmerized, by the beauty of the Goddess, he could not believe it anymore. He loved her, his Goddess.

Impeccably

      
         - Her test was impeccable, her wording were perfect, her paragraphs were descriptive, even her name was written in the perfectly creative way.


Petrified

        - She was petrified before him. His soothing eyes, his soft looking lips, his messy blonde hair. She felt it as if she was in love.

Stoically

         - He stared stoically into the beige-colored wall. His face showed no emotion, no smile, nor tear. Maybe his mum's death was happening too fast.

Dissuade

         - She tried to dissuade him, but no use. He just kept on going toward the glowing emerald door, as if he was hypnotized by it. The growling sound coming from it made her let go.

Chaotic

          - The shopping sale was a success! Emma collected her money while strolling through the chaotic crowd of women.

Negotiated

       - Tom negotiated with her mum by hacking onto his dad's computer, in return, he wouldn't have to eat broccoli again!

Acquisition

       - He felt the money going through his hand. He was dead, while picking up money in the middle of the street. He looked left and right, he found his body under the bus. He was lying there, frozen.

Corps

        - Terry looked at the corps with his eyes, he was mesmerized. He finally got to see the marine corps, which he admired for so long.

Commemorate

        - He opened this memorial date for everyone to commemorate his father, who was dead in the Afghanistan war. They all felt sad, but they believed that he was still alive, in their hearts and mind.

Mimicking

      - He squirmed at the sight of the mime. He had always been scared of them, those black and white make up, those mimicking actions. "Mimes are Clown with no color." He said.

Resembles

        - Since Ashley and Olivia resembled each other so much. Their families and friends were having a hard time recognizing them.

Vocabulary for GOEM and STS

Commotion

    - The time when the monkey confessed to the princess that he liked her made such a big commotion. It's so big, the people in the kingdom had their tears on their cheeks.

Foundered

    - He foundered his P.E exam because he wasn't prepared the day before. He should practice more.

Ruin

    - My little sister ruined my L.A project by spilling water on it. I had to yell at her and forced her to do it again with me.

Inert

     - After the car crash at the corner of the street, she had to stay at home for months because her body was inert. 

Negotiation

      - She negotiated with her boss to get a promotion. By March, she will be the Manager Assistant.

Inummerable

      - The thoughts in my head from when I was small until I'm 13 is innumerable. 

Boundaries

      - After Vietnam was released from the French, the boundaries changed.  

Descendants

      - His grandfather decided to leave all the fortunes to his descendants.

Literary Focus : Gentleman of Rio en Medio

# 8: Refer to the theme statement I made. What other poem, story or novel do I know that has a similar theme? Explain the similarities.

My theme statement: "What you offer is what you get." This theme statement is talking about the American's deal on Don Anselmo's house, they want a cheap house. So they got a cheap house, and the kids were taking over the tree in their back house.

I read a story with a similar theme, I read it online, so I forgot the name of it. It was about a man with very mean personality, and he has a brother with a very nice personality. One day, the older brother decided to sell his old house to his new one. He offered the price very expensive! So no one wants to buy it.

The younger brother decided to sell his, too. Unluckily, his house was very small, narrow and dirty. So no one wants to buy it. One day, an old man wanted to trade his house to the younger brother, because the younger brother's land was very fertile. The old man turned out to be a very rich man, and the younger brother got a big mansion in return.

The older brother saw this and decided to do the same thing. Another old man also came to the bigger brother's house and trade. He agreed and got a small house, worse, it is by a pig house.

The theme in this story I just told is "Don't be selfish and rush things. Just slow down and offer what you have for the can't." The last part was the similar part. Because the older brother is just like the Americans. Americans wanted big house, and cheap price, and they got the kids in the backyard. The older brother expected a big house when trade, so he rushed things and got a small house. So both of the parties were selfish and wanted everything for themselves.

So, both of them got what they want (or not). They are both selfish, both are scheming and both don't think about others.

Literary Focus question!!

I chose question number 8, which is evaluate:

The theme that I think states the insight about life in this story is:

. It is hard to walk in another person's shoes

Well, as I understand this in my own words. It seems like it's trying to say that being in another person's problem is hard. If you are a stranger, it would be consider hard to understand another person's problem, but in this case, it's all about family. So even though it is hard to try to figure out another person's problem, it'll be best if you study them or ask them questions. Rather than trying to break the question right away and go into the subject, that would cause harm for you and the opposite person. This is my opinion, but I think Terry should slowly moving onto his questions about the Vietnam syndrome and his father. This should work, because it would create a harmony atmosphere or feeling to his father when Terry try to approach it, slowly.