Polygamy vs Monogamy– How does polygamy vs monogamy affect the household (wife and children) environment?
Adoption- How are adopted children impacted by the same gender parents?
Siblings/ Psychological displacement- How does having a disability impact your outlook on life? Or how does procrastination affect one’s potential personal improvements?
“I wish I could have done more for her. Her life has been nothing but struggle. She hasn’t known many happy moments. She never had a chance to taste childhood. When we were getting on the plastic boat, I heard her say something that broke my heart. She saw her mother being crushed by the crowd, and she screamed: ‘Please don’t kill my mother! Kill me instead!’“ (Lesvos, Greece)”.
I particularly chose this post because of my attraction to the picture prior reading the story. Looking at the picture and realizing how there is an unpleasant feeling or living in fears in the eyes of the father and daughter. The father explained how the daughter hasn’t experienced childhood as she should due to the circumstances of their life. As a result of this, the daughter’s mentality is passed her age. There are several things that she understands and feels that normal children her age wouldn’t know how to manage. She comprehends the meaning of death and knows what the word “kill” signifies. When the incident occurred with her mother, she stated “kill me instead”. Personally, she had knowledge of what that meant and knows the value of her mother’s life. From the father’s perspective, he doesn’t see how the daughter us developing into a mature child but feared that she is skipping her childhood and growing straight into adulthood because of their life situations. And in a sense I can relate to the part where I understood certain things that people the same age as me wouldn’t.
Mean Girls
In the movie “Mean Girls”, the main character Cady moved from Africa to the suburbs of Illinois to start a new life. Throughout the movie, there were two major displacements that were depicted. One displacement was Cady moving from one country (Africa) to another (America) that she had to adapt to regarding the living lifestyle, the people, etc. Another displacement was being home-schooled till she moved to her new home and had to go to a high school where she had to adjust to the American public school system and the different cliques that existed in the school. In the small, the popular girl (Regina) is intrigued by Cady and is introducing her to the new terms that Cady is not familiar with and the dress/color code that Cady has to abide to and so forth.
For my second essay, I’ve decided to do the first prompt on “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere”. In this story, we’ve encountered few characters that are transitioning. Specifically in “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere”, Dina the main character is going through a transition herself. I would be using themes and analyzing the character herself in order to find the meaning and significance of her displacement. Over the course of the narrative (Dina), I can also speak about her relationship with her family and her friend Heidi and how those relationships made a part of her experience into adulthood.
Some few questions I was able to come regarding the movie “Persepolis” are:
For this first assignment, the three prompts I have in mind to do are
Describe an experience in which I was displaced- I would say coming to America at the age of 9 or 10 was a displacement for me. Similar to that displacement was when I was born in the U.S and went back to Haiti to be raised, but being that I was a newborn I couldn’t remember the feelings that I had toward this move.
Describe a leave-taking experience- There were certain people that I didn’t get to talk to before I departed to come to the US. Since my departure was unexpected at that time, there were conversations that never finished with people that still this day are considered family.
My relationship to language- I want to say I was exposed to different languages since a newborn. English was not my first language, French and Creole were my first languages and even at home I switched up my languages depending on the person I am speaking to.