Abdullah
Nour Abdullah
I believe that we have to learn more things; and things in this life and it should be the right things from the right person. Thus we will learn from there experience in this life and they are going to be our ideal. Actions speak louder than words, so everyone will find the right person from the situation. In my view my mother is my best teacher in this life .She have impacted me a lot of things during my life, she was by my said during high school, and I learned from her a lot of lessons.
The most period that my mother and I be so close from each other when I just attend to high school, she’s keep advising me that not all the people around me are good there is some mean people that I haven’t listen to them. As much we be away from those kind of people we will be safe, subsequently we will not get heart. I think that teenager stage is the sensitive stage in our life so we need some person to be beside us. I decide to choose my mother that person; I choose her my best friend and my best teacher not even in this period of my life but also in my whole life. On day I went to school so early until I’m done from my first two classes I feel like tired and so many of stress from our high school work moreover the mean girls around me and how they treat me. Then when I just get back home my mother notice that on my eyes and she gives me some positive words and what should I do. Every one of us feel safe and peace when there is some person understand him and help him, that what I feel with my mother.
What I really learned from my mother and still want to learn it more is how to be strong enough. Her personality is supper perfect. She spends her life just for us (my three brothers and I). She motivates us and guides us for the right way that we will feel comfort on it. So when I just decided to study abroad I know that I will do it, and that because I gained how to be strong and have self confident from her, therefor I can face difficulties of life. In addition, I’m alone here studying abroad and we chat all the day together so I don’t feel that she’s not beside me. Unfortunately she is not with me here but she will visit me on the following month.
My mum my leader in this life; I can’t imagine my life second without her. She impact me from I was young and be so close to me in my high school life and informed me so many lessons. I’m so glade to wright about her. And I’m so proud of her; I wish to be like her in the future such a good mother. And all I wish from my life to be same as her and let her be proud of me as I’m proud of her, I do my best to make her proud of me.
Essay 2 Sandra Cisneros decided to change her name for several reasons that she mentions in her essay. Her name was Esperanza which means hope in English, and in Spanish it means sadness it means waiting. She got this name from her great grandmother, and she didn't like her name as it was hard to pronounce. It was affecting her in her school and at home. However she liked her name more than her sister's name whose her name was Magdalena as she didn't mention that she have sister for the way that she think as it's uglier than her's. Sandra lived in a country where her name was not a common name, it affected her a lot and she was made fun of because of it in school. The author sees herself like a strong woman.
There are mainly three characters in the essay Shame that are identified in the story. The author Dick Gregory, Helene, the girl that he likes, and the teacher who teaches him in high school. Dick Gregory comes from a poor family and he doesn't have a father. He likes Helene a lot and she study with him in the same class. Unfortunately, he was an African American which makes the others treat him in a different way. He used to work to earn his living. And when he went to school he dressed well for Helene. One day the teacher was taking donations for "community chest". He wanted to make a donation too, but when he told his teacher, the teacher insulted him in front of the whole class, just because he was African American and she said that "we are collecting this money for you and your kind" . From this day onwards he was shameful of himself just because he was African American.
The contrasts I found in the two essays is that in the story My Name, Sandra's main point is about how important a name is for a person and it may affect their life. On the other hand in the story Shame the author mentions how important it is to be insulted in front of the person he loved the most and how it affected his whole life for a mistake he hadn't done.
When we compare the two essays, we also find a lot of similarities between them. For example, both of them don't like how they’d been treated in school. While Sandra was made fun of because of her name, Dick was insulted because he was African American. Along the same lines both the authors are against racism. Sandra believes that the Chinese think that their women are not strong while Dick believes that the black people are not being respected. In the same way both the authors portray society as a hindering around them. The way the school treats them, they don't feel good about themselves.
Another similarity between the two essays is that both of them just wanted a little attention. In Shame, there a few lines that go like this: “The teacher thought I was a troublemaker. All she saw from the front of the room was a little black boy who squirmed in his idiot’s seat and made noises and poked the kids around him. I guess she couldn’t see a kid who made noises because he wanted someone to know he was there.” These lines really touched my heart as the author just wanted a little attention, for someone to know he was also a part of this world and nothing else. And in My Name, the author wanted someone to see the real her and not just make fun of her name. She feels that nobody really knows what she is like from inside and would want people to see that.
Similarly both of the authors feel strong about themselves. On the contrary Sandra feels lost because of her name and feels that she should get a new name that will change her identity. Dick feels low because he doesn't have a father and because he's African American. Regardless of how bad their childhood was both the authors grow up to be successful people in life. They didn't let their childhood to destroy their future.
In short a name is a very important thing in a person life for instance: my cousin's parents changed her name four times while she was a month old as they thought the names didn't suit her best even though in deferent cultures the names may differ from each other. Names are something that shouldn't be made fun of as it may affect the person’s whole life. Just like Sandra, being insulted in front of the whole class also effected Dick a lot , he never liked going to school after that incident because of what happened in that classroom. He could not forget the incident for the next teeny two years just because of that day. The author , Dick started hating the food trucks. He would also take the long way home just because the people going into the "white's Eat Shop" wouldn't see him.
Ultimately I would like to conclude that no matter how hard it's today one shouldn't feel low about it and should think about the future. The identity of a person shouldn't be lost because of people making fun of them.