Adrian Guardado 5/9/12 Alma Alvarez Formal paper She’s a Woman Cathy Song’s poem‚ “The white Porch” is about the a lady sitting on her white porch after washing her hair. As she’s sitting on her porch complaining about how long it takes her hair to dry‚ she realizes that she is no longer a child but a strong mature women. She spends most of her time cleaning and keeping her husband happy around the house. The length of her hair and how beautiful it looked gave her the illusion of seeing
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Edward Norton in the infamous movie Fight Club posed this question. This quote relates directly to the poem “Lost Sister” by Cathy Song where a young girl struggles to find an identity in China‚ and believes America may be able to provide what her homeland could not. Cathy Song wrote “Lost Sister” in 1983. This poem has deep connections to Song’s ties to her Asian culture. Cathy song was born and raised in Hawaii however her Asian roots influence many of her poems including “Lost Sister”. This poem deals
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This might come off strong‚ I know I met you not long ago-oh-oh. (Mhmmm.) When I heard you sing‚ I thought you were the cutest thing‚ that I’d ever seen‚ that I’d ever seen-en-en-en. In a verse or two‚ you caught me staring over at you. & I thought of somethin’ funny to say‚ but I didn’t want to sound cliché-ay (Oh oh whoa oh oh.) & this is how I plan to break the ice-ce: Say something nice. But I had to go before I could‚ sittin’ here thinkin’ if I really should. But I’ll have some fun-un‚ take
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Julia Alvarez and Cathy Song both convey the life of an immigrant and how they are a symbol of their cultures when discovering a new lifestyle in the United States. Even though both poems being set in the past‚ they have stories that the reader can relate to today. Whilst the authors portray the search for identity‚ they articulate the reason to leave their home‚ write in different formats‚ but have similar themes. Alvarez and Song show the reasoning of why the characters left their homes‚ but these
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The White Porch: A Journey From Child to Woman The poetry of Cathy Song is a flowing collection of soft spoken and colorful imagery. She gently weaves her thoughts into an imaginative yet graceful story that has an overall sensual tone to it. Cathy invites the reader into her personal sanctuary of memories. She allows the reader to share in some of her most personal and critical moments in life. Some may think these things mundane but‚ when reading her poetry you can feel how utterly important
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Kaitlin Duffy Professor Warnke 7/30/13 Paper 2-Poetry Cathy Song is a 60 year old woman who resides in Honolulu HI with her husband and 3 children. Along with being a wife‚ mother‚ and daughter‚ Song is a developed poet as well. Although Song does not particularly like being classified as an Asian-American poet‚ her ethnicity largely influences her poetry as well as her family life. Concerning her ethnicity‚ Song states “I am just a poet who just happens to be Asian-American.” Ethnic background
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“Lost Sister‚” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle that women face in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The difference in environments helps Song’s initial sense of helplessness created by using China and the inclusive term they as what is familiar and safe‚ and juxtaposes it with the use of you that creates a loneliness in the unfamiliarity that America represents in order to focus on lost and sister in correlation to these environments; however
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Cathy Cathy Ames is known as the most evil character in the novel. She lies to everyone and she enjoys to see other people are hurting. In the novel “East of Eden” Steinbeck begins describing her as a monster. He said‚ “I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.” She does not care about anyone else‚ she just care about herself and does whatever she wants to do. She even kill her parents. Although Cathy was physically beautiful‚ she was a monster. She has gold
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Based on the evidences and its mood from the poem‚ I think the family builds windmills in their total new circumstances. In the last stanza of the poem‚ Magic Island by Cathy Song says‚ “It is a day an immigrant and his family might remember‚ the husband taking off his shirt to sit like an Indian before the hot grill.” In these lines of the poem the author displays how the man and his family reacts to their quite unfamiliar situation. As an immigrant‚ life in their new stage might not be as great
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How My Love For Reading Led Me To Theatre Growing up reading and writing has always been a part of my life; you could always catch my mom sitting in her chair with a book by her favorite author in her hand. I’ll always remember the day that she read a play to me‚ she was never into theatre as a kid but she read it as if she had been on Broadway. I think that is where my love for reading as well as theatre first started‚ just watching her so focused and completely into a book. It always amazed me
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