Journal #15

I commented on Cody Leppla's Journal #14

Journal 14

If I were a soldier trudging my through the horrers of Vietnam and I could carry things that meant something to me and charish those things I could think of two things. I would bring a toothbrush because I hate the feeling of dirty teath and that would just be something that I would like the power to manage with my hygene. One thing that I would carry and would mean mire to me than the simple toothbrush eould be a letter from my significant other accompanied with a picture. I suffer from a similar being that jimmy cross experiences in his obsession with Martha, mine only being different in that my Matthew loves me back. But I sympothise with jimmy cross in how he tells if how he can. Never get het out of his mind. I never stop thinking about Matthew even for a second and I feel that that feeling would only increase in a situation when I was in Vietnam and feltso far from my loved one.

Journal #13

From someone viewing Zitkalas life from a far, it would seem as if she did receive the American dream as in the end she learned english and was able to attend college and was ultimately a successful individual. She did receive an education and was very successful in proving the "white man" wrong when they discriminated against her as she was a very successful in the oratorical contests. But I would not exactly say that Zatkala believed she received the American dream. Ever since she was torn from her mother she felt scrutinized an even at times "lost her spirit" like she described when her long Indian hair was "shingled". I feel that the best proof that Zatkala never did feel at ease about her decisions and about here success was how she expressed herself in the very end of the story in saying: "The little taste of victory did not satisfy the hunger in my heart". Even through all the success she has endured by receiving a college education and in winning these oratorical contests in the "white mans" world. She never felt at peace because essentially she had to change herself and rid herself of the Indian she once held so dear (being her past self) in order to obtain the person who she was today. She simply could not be granted the best of both worlds.

Favorite Sentence

My favorite sentence was indeed in the last portion Chapter of Hawai`i's Story by Hawai`i's Queen, when the queen quoted Shakespear in saying "It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." This was my favorite sentence because I felt that the metaphor left alot of room for a reader to thing, as she was speaking about how the press is a giant and has immense and huge power in America. America was beating Hawaii over the head their their press at this time, even going as far as to tell lies about how Hawaii wanted this annexation. In this case they were acting like a giant or a bully in other words.