Friday, September 14, 2007

Thoughts about "Photographs of my Parents"

Hey this is Chloe writing for Lizzy, Kae Kae, and Blackie. This is our first blog. This is a new concept for all of us in an english class. We are excited to see how this works out. We decided to write about the essay "Photograph of my Parents" by Maxine Hong Kingston.
In general we all thought the essay gave great descripvited. We all thought that it was very opinionated. The author seems to have a strange distance from her parents. We also noticed that there was mispelled words on her mothers diploma. The author used ethos in a unique way that made her writing style stand out among the other essays. In reading this essay it really showed us that we need to show not tell when describing things.
Our final thoughts on the essay made us think about her father and how it was confusing what nationality he was because she described him completely opposite of how she decribed her chinese mother.

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