The Road blog: patterns

Some patterns is the love you see between the boy and his father but  you also see how the father has lost something. Hes more negative than the boy and seems like all the father has to live for is his son. You also see the pattern of negativity. With how the Father acts but also how their world seems. And how different is it from before.

The Road blog post 1

I think that both of the quotes are essentially saying the same thing just worded deferentially. They both say that there will be good or light in a bad situation. And I think the quotes are right because even in the worst situations people hold onto the ones they love or keep what ever positive thing they have to keep going until they cant anymore. And there will never be a time with zero sadness or bad going on. But there will always be sometime good to keep people going.

For me what makes something depressing is talking about kids being taken away from family or kids having to go through things at young ages when they might not really understand whats happening. An example is a when I read a book called A Step From Heaven. Its a book about a Korean family who immigrated to California and the main character a young girl didn't understand a lot at all about america or the troubles her family faced. This made me sad while reading it because I am adopted from korean and even though I was adopted when I was a few months old, I don't read a lot of books about Asians in general so this was/is an important topic to me.

Persepolis

3. In the book woman have the role of obeying others. For example they are told what to wear. They also have the role as teachers, to educate the girls. But it seems that their society wants  women or people to stay in their spot(social class for example) and to be "obedient" so to say. Marji's mother and grandmother thought are very independent women and are happy with their family. Also if you compare the women in Marji's family to the teachers the women in her family are very strong, can think for themselves or another way to put it is have a say in how the house is run and what is best for their kid.
4. Social class is extremely strict and you have to stay in your own class. and the boys are given a false hope on a better life in the after life and run into death. The higher ups or people with more money could afford to keep their kids in school it seems

The Latehomecomer

1. The cover at first didn't really have a effect on me. I just thought of it as a the Hmong people in from of a bus. But now that I've heard it its fitting because its the orange bus that Kao Kalia Yang said would take her to america. And the bus that her grandmother thought would break her family apart.
2. I think she started the book like this to give us something to look back at or keep in mind during the book. My first impression from the book was that it was going to be a good book. And that the book would not only be about her family but Hmong people in general.
3. I didn't know before about the secret war. But now that I know I do thing that the US has at least a little responsibility to the Hmong people in Laos.
6. How we first see a person can effect people. Like if the fist thing you notice is their looks and you base how they are off of that. I think the Yang's are able to stay so grounded in their culture even tho they have moved mile away from their original home because their around each other so much. And they all started out in the same place and experiencing the same thing. So they wall have something to connect to.
8. Yang not speaking shows that part of the immigrant experience might be dealing with feeling the lose of your whole culture and life. Language and how we do things is such a big part in who we are. But when we have to leave part or even all of that behind. For anyone old or young that would be hard.