-Lost of meaning through different language
- A language barrier not only stops you from communicating with another person, the translations does not fully translate every meaning and emotion within a conversation
-After reading Amy Tan writing, she gave me the impersonation of multiple identities. For example if you are religious, you might speak in a different language in church than you do at school. You might even act differently because different norms/values are in each environment.
- Similar to Tan, my mother did not speak english very well so she asked me to translate most of her conversations between her and her employee. Whenever my mother asked for a pay raise she would tell me in a very serious and demanding tone. However, I didn't fully express that when I was taking to her Employee because I wasn't feeling the same way she we feeling.
- My church community really set me apart for the values of the real world. I was taught different ideals/morals than what my school was teaching me. But it made me see the difference between me and other people, it made me different from other people.
- Some few things that gave me motivation are: My mother, my church family, and close friends.
About one year ago, the start of my Senior year in high school my mom started feeling depressed, to a point where it was so serious that it drove her to a point of where I could no longer see a living human being insider of her. At that point of my life I had nothing to lose, no hope, no purpose in life. After this experience it made me see that at some time life is sometimes depressing, but overall theres beauty in life
I can relate to you you having to translate to your mothers employees because I had to do the same for my mom and dad when I was about 10 years old, back in I'd say about 2006. Now (10 years later) they've over came that struggle and speak decent English. They still may spell a few words wrong or fail in their diction, but that can carry along a conversation.
ReplyDeleteI hope your mother is better, it's good that you saw her situation as motivation. I think you should exclude that in your next draft.
Also, I think it'd be good if you included any stories of childhood growing up. Maybe you have other inspirations ?
I think you should see your differences with other people as an advantage, it gives you a specific character that only belongs to you.
We're not robots, we're all different. See your difference as an advantage and skill others may not have.
What you've included in this is good, I would work on the flow of how you'd like to present each topic one by one, not that I expected your first draft to be like it, But I'm sure you're going to do that. Sorry if I sound like a teacher 😅
Hey Pablo, thanks for the feedback. You do know that you're only suppose to reply to you Peer Revision Group's Blogs. See you in class.
DeleteI totally understand the different identities aspect of it. Very interesting and philosophical view of language, will make for an interesting essay. I am sorry to hear about your mother, I do sincerely hope she is doing better now. Perhaps in the essay, you can break it up like the first paragraph talks a bit about the multiple personalities thing, the second and third then go into your family. You have some pretty solid examples to talk about.
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