How would it feel to meet someone that was mute? Well in the “Sound of Annie’s silence” the main character learns how to treat everyone fairly and ends up becoming Annie’s ( who is mute ) best friend. The narrator goes through certain changes that help her accept people. At the beginning of the book, the narrator just ignores Annie. At the middle of the book, the narrator is just really annoyed with Annie. In the end of the story, the narrator accepts Annie as a friend and the theme is revealed through the narrator. The author starts to reveal the theme by showing that the narrator isn’t accepting. In the text, it states that “Mrs. Walters led me to a girl sitting in the living room. I stood there, staring in shock.”. After this, Mrs. Walters explains that Annie was mute. From this piece of evidence the reader can infer that, the narrator expected to babysit a baby not a mute teenager. On the 1st page, the author stated ”I couldn’t believe it. I could study or watch TV-and get paid for it. The job would be a breeze.”. From this piece of evidence the reader can conclude that the narrator was just going to ignore Annie and do her job. That means that the author doesn't care about Annie and isn’t accepting. In conclusion, at this point in the story the reader can realize that the Narrator doesn’t really care or accept Annie. …show more content…
I the text, the author states “Every day I thought about quitting, but I did nothing about it.” From this piece of evidence the reader can infer that the Narrator was starting to get comfortable around Annie, but she still thought of quitting the job. In the text, the author states ” All the time, I kept talking to her. It made her silence easier to bear ”. From this piece of evidence the reader can conclude that the Narrator adapted to Annie’s silence since she accepts her. In conclusion, in the middle of the story, the narrator accepts Annie, but not her
I learned a lot about Deaf people, ASL, and/or Deaf Culture after reading this book. Deaf people are normal just like anybody else and they should not be treated any differently. Some people treat Deafness as a disease that needs to be cured, but it's not. If a parent comes to learn that their child is deaf they react very crazily and act like their child is dying and that deafness is some fatal disease. Deaf people should be treated just like anyone else and no differently. They are not disabled and can do great things in this world.
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde demonstrates the use of two different rhetorical situation being used, pathos and telos. The author begins by opening up with a anecdotal, telling a story of the moment she found out she had a tumor and there “was a 60 to 80 percent chance that the tumor was malignant” (Lorde 40) which served as a telos for why the essay was written. When Audre Lorde found out about her medical condition she knew she couldn't continue her life in silence but instead speak out and encourage others to do so as well, nevertheless “a situation faced by many women” (Lorde 40). The importance of speaking out is vital, being aware of the impact it could have on the lives of many other women, evidently
In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression. Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is almost ready to give up her childish ways. Through this time period, she was confused and could not quite understand what was happening to her. In the end, she rips Miss Lottie’s marigolds among the ugly places in which she lived. The marigolds are the only things that make the place a bit beautiful to the eye.
to say for herself she gets the sack. And this is what the author is
Language does not only mean oral communication, there are many other forms of communicating however oral communication is the only one considered “normal.” The book “Deaf Like Me” follows a little girl Lynn throughout her early years of life and relates to us the struggles she endured while trying to fit into the mold of being normal. The story written by her father Thomas Spradley and her uncle James Spradley is an exceptional and moving story walking us through the early attempts of Lynn’s family trying to get her to learn the oral language despite her deafness that did not allow her to develop language by listening to the people around her.
With that knowledge the deaf character gained more confidence when communicating and was able to achieve bigger goals in their life then when they had little to no knowledge of how things worked in society. Reading about these characters just gave me a small insight into the deaf community but with the documentary ”Through Deaf Eyes,” has open my mind and eyes that they are people who can thrive in and change the world just as anyone can when they put their mind to
It’s better than taking out a billboard. I feel like I can fly” (Anderson 185-186). Ivy was trying to make Melinda feel better because she could tell how sad Melinda was. When the author writes “Different pends, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs”, she’s trying to show the reader that Melinda has the support of many people so instead of being thrown around like a rag doll, these people gave her strength and became her backbone. They allowed her to stand up and resist being tossed around.
Though each sound symbolizes different themes and significances, they are all connected at the end to implicate the same message. First clear symbol of the story is Changsu's encounter with a mute woman and her voice. " A Mute's Chant" begins with Changsu's letter to the woman he met at a public phone booth, clearly a mute who he did not expect to hear any sound from. Although the author does not introduce any detailed information about this woman other than her muteness and Changsu's encounter with her, she plays an important symbolic figure in the story. The mute woman's vocal acrobatics caught Changsu's attention, who has a habit of recording other people's conversations and sounds around him.
In The Refusal and Transgression in Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Wesley states that daughter’s psychological growth towards autonomous individualization is stunted by the image created by the culture . We see Annie struggling to decide how she fits in and how she does not in her friendship with the Red Girl, who was not society’s image of a young girl. In several ways the Red Girl is the start to Annie’s resistance to gender roles. The Red Girl climbed trees, and didn’t bathe as regularly as Annie had to; she also played marbles. Annie was so intrigued by the Red Girl that she imitated her values; even after the Red Girl left, Annie never tried to become a lady; unlike Gwen, who fully accepted the roles that society placed on her. Near the end of the story when Annie tells Gwen goodbye, in her mind Annie calls her a monkey and says that she can barely finish a sentence without giggling. To Annie the roles of a woman are beneath her. She does not try to dumb herself down, as Gwen had done for anyone’s benefit. Annie also refuses to marry telling her
From the beginning of the film until the end Annie is struggling to find her own self, often she is experiencing the negative cycle of the self-concept. Contributors to the self-concept include; self-esteem, reflected appraisal and social comparison, and all of this can be subjective, flexible and resistant to change. In the first parts of the movie it really showcases that
of the difficulty in acceptance. In the first few stanzas the poet creates the impression that she
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” depicts a young girl whose selfish actions led her to her death, and years of torment. Andersen produces a gruesome tale of how immoral deeds can led to an afterlife of torture and suffering. However, Andersen’s fairy tale creates a deeper message for his child audience; if the sins of the dead are not prayed for, then those loved ones will rot and suffer for eternity. Andersen’s ghastly fairy tale paints a very vivid image of how mortality works.
The point of view she expressed through out the whole text, was her own. She was able to keep readers insight of the psychoanalytic theory the story has. The actions the protagonist had in the story showed us how it affected her adult self, and how the issue developed a rebel over time. Even after years from when the recurring events took place, her actions as a child had an effect on both mother and daughter. This theory gives readers the idea that things that happen to people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as
In the article “Deafness, culture, and choice” Neil Levy says, “The deaf will always be cut off from the buzz of conversation . . . [and] always slightly alienated from the mainstream of political, social, and cultural life.” Being deaf can have a negative impact on Gauvin’s social life. A scenario can occur when Gauvin is in the playground by himself playing. While a group of kids approach him and start a conversation. The kids are trying to ask Gauvin if he is interested in playing with them. As they are talking, he is staring at the kids not knowing what is going on. As a couple of minutes pass, the kids start to walk away from Gauvin. The kids got furious because he wasn’t communicating with them. This shows how Gauvin might face difficulties like this in his childhood where he will be different from others and can’t fully understand the situation. Another issue might occur at a birthday party where there are a bunch of people and music everywhere. As everyone is enjoying the event, Gauvin sees a little girl fall into the swimming pool. Since everyone is eating food and dancing, no one can see or hear the little girl’s voice. Gauvin tries to go and get help but as he’s trying to communicate with people they aren’t understanding him. By the time he makes people realize what has happened, it is too late and the little girl is taken to the hospital. A lot of complications can
By stating how other people behave or interact, the author offers a great chance for readers to interpret fairly for themselves what the reason for any conflict may be, or the nature of any essential contrast between the narrator and other adults in the story. In the story, there are many self-righteous opinions from people, which seem to be ironic to the readers; For example, her mother’s aggressive attitude of showing off her daughter, her piano teacher’s self-praise claiming him as “Beethoven.” All of the narrations including conversation clearly depict a different characteristic between the narrator and other people. For instance, a conversation occurs between the narrator and her mother when the mother criticizing a girl who seems similar to the author on TV which reveals dissimilar understanding for both of them to each other’s behavior. At first, the daughter speaks out for the girl by questioning her mother by saying “why picking on her […] She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard.” The daughter actually is defending for herself and reflecting that she feels uncomfortable with her mother’s disregard of her hard work. She wants to get her mother’s compliments instead of her criticisms. However, her mother response of, “just like you,” and, “not the best. Because you not trying.” Here, her mother doesn’t really answer her question, instead wants her put more effort on trying, neglecting how much she has tried before. However, in her mother’s perspective, she has never tried hard enough. By narratively stating the conversations she has encountered, readers perceive a strong implication of the reason for a future conflict between her and her mother.