wellcome!! ^^

Saturday, August 11, 2007

answer novel's questions

#1. In the end of the novel, Taylor will get marry with Jax, and still live with Turtle However, Turtle just lives with Taylor during the time she goes to school. In the summer time, she will come back to Oklahoma and live with her grandfather- Cash and her grandmother- Alice because Alice and Cash will get married. Annawake will call, go to visit her brother- Gabe and bring him back to Oklahoma- to his tribe.
#2. The main theme of this story is the reflection of the miracle life of Native American people, the unfairness in dealing of white people to Cherokee people. The Cherokee people were forced to move to a poor land- where didn't have water also couldn't plant any crop. Beside the movement to poor land, the Cherokee people were also suffered the losing of their children. The children had to study abroad when they were in the age to go to school. For example, Cash's story about his life when studying abroad. He couldn't come back to join in his mother's funeral. Moreover, to children whose parents were alcoholic. The English government would take them away their real mother and let them be adopted by white family- such as the situation of Annawake's brother- Gabe. The children of Cherokee tribe easily forgot the culture of their tribe, the image of their native family, and the birth- mother's language and tended to live as a white people.
#3.I think her new interpretation is her changing thought about the relationship between the relative in the family to their children. In the myth of pigs in heaven that she told to Jax, I thought the mother would be very satisfied with what she did to her children because they were very lazy, so they deserved to received that treatment. However, I thought the mother was very cruel. When Annawake retold that story, I realize that the mother was very love her children because after her wish, she felt very regretful and begged the spirits to return her children. That is also the moral for every one that parents are always the first persons available forgive you whenever you did wrong thing. May be they will beat you or force you to do what ever they think is right for you, but the simple explanation for that is because they love you too much. Such as the love of Taylor for Turtle, even thought she doesn't want to lose Turtle, she still let her return to her tribe because she realizes that it is the best decision for Turtle. She thought about the best benefit for Turtle first instead of for herself and it is the reality of a mother's love.
#4.I would like to recommend this book to my friend even though it is a thick book.:)
Still, reading this book, one can understand more about the miracle life of Native American in the past, the belief, myth and culture of Cherokee people, learn more about the moral in the myth of the pigs in heaven and think more about the love of a mother- who is just an adoptive mother.

posted by tyCB6 @ 8:11 AM 1 comments

Friday, August 3, 2007

My definition about a happy couple

Looking two elder persons holding hand in hand, going to the supermarket reminds me the image of my grandparents. They got married when they were twenty years old. Differing from elder people in the past, their marriage wasn't arranged by their parents. They knew and felt in love when they were going to the army; therefore, their relationship is very stable. After getting marriage, my grandfather left the army and began driving pedicab to earn money for new family.Meanwhile, my grand mother collapsed fruit, vegetable and chickens in the farm then sold them in the big city. Sometime she had to stay in the big city many days because of the war or waiting to sell all of her stuff .Both of my grandparents worked very hard with the hope to have enough food for their children, but the income for the family was still very low and their life was very difficult. Despite of eating miserable, working hardly, my grandparents still tried to let their children go to school. Fortunately, their children studied very well and tried to help their parents in doing house work too. Although living with my grandfather was very hard, my grandmother never felt pity because of getting married with my grandfather. She used to talk with me that she was the most happy woman on the world when meeting my grandfather. If you looked at them, for certain, you wouldn't think they had a good relationship. Not like many happy couple you think, their love is very gentle. My grand mother always wakes up very early to prepare food and coffee for my grandfather. Not as a duty of a house wife, she does it full fill of her love. Working very hard in the market, my grandmother still tried to come back home soon to prepare lunch for my grand father. Despite of sunny or rainy, my grandfather still tried to come back home on time to enjoy the lunch. When my grandfather got sick, my grandmother was take care of him very careful and patient even though sometimes when he was tired, he was very angry with her. Before my grandfather had died, my grandmother sat beside him, hold his hands- that is the first time i saw they expressed their relationship directly. My grandfather looked at her and sang a song when he proposed her. Everyone was crying except my grandmother so that made me very curious. After my grandfather died, my grand mother still wakes up very early in the morning, cooks meal, prepares coffee and put them on the table waiting my grandfather soul's come back to eat them. I can't understand why she didn't cry when my grandfather singing the song and don't want to ask her about the reason, but i think that maybe because my grandfather's voice and face are shaped in my grandmother's heart so although he died but his soul mate will live forever in my grandmother's mind. I think a happy couple doesn't have to have too much romantic relationship but simply, it is just the understanding between two people, concerning together and having good children together.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Something you did wrong. How did people find out? How did it change you?

Becoming a perfect person is never occur because everyone always makes mistakes from the small one to the big one. However, what is important is not how many mistakes you did, but how to realize,and fix your errors.
That is the lesson I learned from my mother five years ago. Even though that story happened many years ago, I can never forget that. On ten days before Tet holiday five years ago in my country, my mother's friend came to my house to present for my mother a chicken. When she arrived, my mother had gone out,so she help me to tie the chicken out side my house. When she went, because of my curiousness, I went out to look at the chicken again. Unfortunately, the cord to tie chicken was very small; the chicken run around my house in ten minutes and flied to somewhere that i couldn't find it. Scarring that my mother would be angry, i pretended as didn't know anything about the chicken. As my wish, my mother didn't know about her friend's present. I thought everything was all right. However, ten days later, my mother asked me about the chicken after she had met her friend at her company. I was really scared; therefore,I was trying to hide the fact. I denied about my mother's friend present. looking in my eyes. my mother could realize that i was lying. She looked at me disappointedly, and became angry. Despite recognizing that my lying was exposed, i still didn't accept my fault and continued to refuse. No way to choose, my mother beat my very hard on my shoulder. I didn't cry , but my mother did. She said that she was very disappointed, very sad, and she was not a good mother because she couldn't teach me to become a honest person. moreover, she felt shame because i didn't believe her, didn't want to talk to her about my fault. Looking in her eyes, I apologized her, told the whole story about my fault. my mother seemed a little better than before. She told me that if i was honest to accept my fault, dared to face with it, exposed it to many people, she even wouldn't be angry with me, but would proud of me because I realized my error and available to fix it.
From that lesson, i try to be honest also try to face my mistakes and i realize that when i become to be honest in saying something which i did wrong, it wasn't very bad as i had imagined because people will be available to forgive your mistake if you can recognize it and want to fix it.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

what you should know about my culture

Hello every one,my name is Ty and I come from Vietnam- a country in the southeast Asian .With four thousand years culture, Vietnam becomes a proud of Vietnamese people when talking to foreign friends about the diversity culture in Vietnam.My country was divided into three different areas:north,middle and south also three different culture in each area. I live in the southwest of Vietnam, which is known as the main area for growing rice,providing fruit,vegetable also fish. Because of the fertile lands and rivers, southwest of my country is the original place of special also famous food.

What makes these food becomes famous is not because of the complex or expensive material,but because of the simple in choosing ingredients also the way of cooking. Usually,ingredients have been chosen are very simple such as a chicken in the farm or vegetable which naturally grows in the rivers. Instead of putting oil, cheese or many different spice on the chicken, Vietnamese farmers will covered the chicken by mud without spice or any other ingredients and put under the grill leaves or woods then toast it .Maybe you will think it sounds very dirty and disgusting but it doesn't. The smell of woods also leaves will go through the meat;moreover,the heat of the soil will spread out the chicken and makes its skin be crisped.

The way of cooking the chicken expresses the way of living also the characteristic of Vietnamese farmers. The more simple they do in cooking, the more simple they have in their characteristic. They live rustically and friendly. Not hiding the feeling, these farmers are willing to express all of what they think, want and help without thinking about the benefit not only for the members in their family, but also for strange people.

posted by tyCB6 @ 9:50 AM 2 comments

Friday, July 13, 2007

pretty boy

this is my favorite song for this week ^^

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Things I Would Teach My Child

What i would teach my children is a matter that i always think about. I have a niece,and she is very cute. Her parents love her very much, so they will satisfy everything that she demands.For example, if my niece doesn't like the meal which her mother prepared, she won't eat it,and then her parents immediately will buy another one for her.
I don't like the way which my nephew is taught.However, it doesn't mean that if your child doesn't like something, you have to force them to like it.In the same way, when I was a child,if I didn't like to eat something and as soon as my mother didn't pay attention, I would throw it in the garbage and tell her that I finished. Unfortunately, in one day, my mother saw that. She was very angry not only because I waste the food, but also because i lay her.At that moment, i thought my mother would beat me very hard, but she didn't.
With the hopeless eyes, she looked at me and said that she was very shame and sad because of my action.She told me that every days had a lot of people didn't have enough food to eat,so they had to collect the excess food of other people, meanwhile, i could have a good meal but i throw it and then lay about that.
Realizing about my fault, I was sorry my mother and felt very disappointed about what i did. My mother also often satisfies my demand, but not all. Even though she has a high position in her office and a high salary, but she never makes me feel that.

She bought for me very simple clothes and a bicycle to go to school. Can you believe that in my closet just had ten shirts and five trousers? Anyways, but it is the truth. It doesn't mean that my mother doesn't love me; she always played with me and my younger sister even sometimes, she bit my face^^ or tore my shirt. Maybe you will think my mother is strange, but just because the way she expresses her love is very strong.
i think in the future i would treat my kids as the same way as my mother did. I would satisfy every things that my kids deserve, but not all of them. I would teach them to realize the value of things which my kids have and regard those things. Moreover, maybe I would play with them as the same way as my mother did.^^

posted by tyCB6 @ 9:04 AM 2 comments

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