Fear and trembling
Marie Vilsange
COMM 2312
September 24, 2013
Dr. Corinne Weisgerber
Interpersonal Communication
Fear and Trembling Coming to St. Edward’s was my dream. Who would have guess that the little girl I was at 5 would ever have the opportunity to move there one day. But the truth was that moving from France to Texas hasn’t been an easy task to do especially after all the French cultural background I’ve been use to my whole life. Everything is different when you come from Europe. But the thing I was the more worried about was the first day at school, not because I was alone and in a foreign country, but because I didn’t know how to behave and act with people here. As for the appearances, people looked the same; we were all young and college students. As I was meeting my first American friend, I leaned to him to give him two kisses on the cheeks as we are used to do in France. It’s been the weirdest moment of my American experience so far: I didn’t know it but here we hug. At that moment I really thought that there should be an instruction manual for whoever moves to Texas. The movie Fear and Trembling relates the story of Amelie Nothomb, a Belgian young woman. Amelie was born and raised in Japan, but her family background comes from Belgium. She moved back there when she was five. The film tells the story of Amelie, whenever she returned to Japan after getting the job offer as an interpreter within one of the most important Japanese company: Yumimoto. She always admired the Japanese refinement, sophistication and their art of living and her dream has always been to go back and live there as a real Japanese. But when she gets there, it’s a whole different reality that appears to her, Japan’s system is rigid, and she’s a lot of trouble getting used to it. Her adaptation is hard and everything she does is bad and looks rude for her Japanese fellows. This is the story of a cruel and unfair decline: she is getting down the levels of the Japanese society until the position
COMM 2312
September 24, 2013
Dr. Corinne Weisgerber
Interpersonal Communication
Fear and Trembling Coming to St. Edward’s was my dream. Who would have guess that the little girl I was at 5 would ever have the opportunity to move there one day. But the truth was that moving from France to Texas hasn’t been an easy task to do especially after all the French cultural background I’ve been use to my whole life. Everything is different when you come from Europe. But the thing I was the more worried about was the first day at school, not because I was alone and in a foreign country, but because I didn’t know how to behave and act with people here. As for the appearances, people looked the same; we were all young and college students. As I was meeting my first American friend, I leaned to him to give him two kisses on the cheeks as we are used to do in France. It’s been the weirdest moment of my American experience so far: I didn’t know it but here we hug. At that moment I really thought that there should be an instruction manual for whoever moves to Texas. The movie Fear and Trembling relates the story of Amelie Nothomb, a Belgian young woman. Amelie was born and raised in Japan, but her family background comes from Belgium. She moved back there when she was five. The film tells the story of Amelie, whenever she returned to Japan after getting the job offer as an interpreter within one of the most important Japanese company: Yumimoto. She always admired the Japanese refinement, sophistication and their art of living and her dream has always been to go back and live there as a real Japanese. But when she gets there, it’s a whole different reality that appears to her, Japan’s system is rigid, and she’s a lot of trouble getting used to it. Her adaptation is hard and everything she does is bad and looks rude for her Japanese fellows. This is the story of a cruel and unfair decline: she is getting down the levels of the Japanese society until the position