Prejudice

I did not know this before but when asked my dad what prejudic meant, he had said that it meant prejudging. This means that you judge something before you are aware of facts of a case. However, we do not actually use this definition when we talk about prejudice. Today, prejudice inclines to in a racial mater. We see the definition as "unreasonable attitude showing resistant racially". I have seen prejudice in my trip to Thaialnd. I was in a rural area and when I approached a store selling water, the salesman suddenly grasped me and dragged me in the store bargaining with me with wide spread eyes. He did not do this to other Thais in the store, but I think he had great expectations dragging me into the store because I was Korean. I think Korean tourists have a strong reputation of being wealthy ceratintly because this salesman was raising the price as we bargained. The effects of Prejudice are never good. This makes the other person degrading and isolated racially. For example my experience with the water salesman made me isolated and a little agravating because I was treated unfairly. I had to pay more!!

WhatI Know About the Holacaust

I know that the Holocaust is a term used to depict the genocide of millions of Jews during World War 2. This was part of a plan of immediate execution by the Nazi forces made by Adolf Hitler. However Jews were not the only ones executed. Polish, Romans, Soviet Union, and gay men were executed as well. The primary reason for this mass execution was due to the Nazis believing that the Jews were a threat to the German racial community. Germans believed they had to kill any other groups because of their racial inferiority, and thus they had an ideology that they would need to kill their alien opponent. The autobiography Anne Frank projects the hardship Anne went through as a Jew. She had to live hiding and the only thing she could do was to write in her diary. This diary is now one of the most well known books.

Plot of Lost Names

The plot of lost names starts with the exposition of course where a family is crossing the Tuman river looking for opportunity in Manchuria as the Japanese take over the providence of Korea. The main character "boy" goes through hardship at first when he doesn't have friends, and he gets in trouble with the Japanese teachers. He stands out from the others because he is the son of a noble family that supposedly is a protestant Christian family that is dangerous to the Japanese. Over the many years he realizes that there are secrets he has not been notified of such as the Soviet Union supposedly allying with the Japanese, which isn't true; it's the other way around. Also, the Korean books are stopped being published, and the Koreans have to loose their names and get a Japanese name. This is the rising action where everything builds up. What the Japanese are doing is trying to unwittingly consume the Koreans and turn them into Japanes without them realizing by taking over their culture and enforcing their's. The climax occurs when the boy finally realizes that physical torture is what the Japnese are using to hush the Koreans , but what they can't do is take their spirits, which is what we must always have. The boy doesn't cry when the japanese hits him with a bamboo stick because the boy knows too much of what the Japanese are trying to hide. For example, rubber! I think the falling action really starts when the boy learns from his mom that the US has dropped two atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and that the emperor realizes too that he must surrender. Finally the resoulution occurs when the emperor officially states he surrenders and when the Japanese policemen surrender as well. Korea is in joy and peace, well for now until the Korean War!!

Characterization

The author of Lost Names doesn't use much direct characterization in the novel and instead uses indirect characterization. The main character of the novel is dynamic because the character was afraid of the Japanese striking him but later on he felt calm as if the Japanese were stroking him.Examples of indirecct characterization is is when the author reveals the main character's feelings by what they say. "I can take it, I can take it I think" shows how the character is optomistic. Another example is "No please leave me alone . I can go by myself" portrays how the character is tough and independent. By looking at these examples, the character is defined as calm, tough, and confident.

Theme of Lost Names

The theme of Lost Names is how the peristence to live a better life in a horrible environment will pay off. In Lost Names, the main character's family always try to be optomistic and think that everything will be fine. The grandmother gives the main charcter white rice and pork even though they are scarce. Father is also very calm and thinking about the future. He supports the family like nothing is different. He makes skates for his children and goes on daily walks with his son, the main character. It seems like they always have hope and make the best out of what they have. They don't cry with despair that everything is lost. Even though they are in a bad situation, they are happy.

Setting of Lost Names

The setting of Lost Names is the time of the Japanese invasions on Korea. Many Koreans are moving to Manchuria across the Tuman River. The surrounding are filled with Japanese artillery lines, riflemen, and tanks. In Manchuria, the people are seperated by Japanese and Koreans, and the Koreans are forced to obey Japanese traditions and conduct. It's just awful for what you can see the Japanese people are doing by looking only at the setting. People are desperate to leave their homeland and go to a foreign region. Some new people there are laughed at because they look different and wear different things. Manchuria I would say from what I have read so far is not a good place to stay so far because of its setting whuch is a clump of people with so little kids, and they also bother the new kids.

Secrets Destroy friends

I had never known that secrets destroy friends. I remember the date clearly September 11, 2006. My friend Mark had said he had a girlfriend, and I wanted to know who she was. Mark told me who it was and told me it was a secret. I was very tempted to tell everyone in class, but I kept the secret because Mark was my precious friend. I stayed away from the people who were talking about Mark and tried to change the subject when I joined them. Another friend named Brad knew Mark had a girlfriend , but he didn't know who it was; only I knew. He used every way to find who Mark's girlfriend was. These are some of the things he did: brgaining, bothering, bullying, and copying. I was harassed in every way one could think of. I had enough of him si I relinquished the secret after two weeks. This shows a lot about my identity: I can't handle being harrassed, and If I am, I will do anything to stop it.