immigration reflection

Throughout reading the book Brother I’m Dying, I had different experiences. At first when I read the summaries about each book, I thought it sounded interesting, but once I started reading it was really boring, I didn’t enjoy it very much. Occasionally, the book had exciting parts. I think if I had the opportunity, I would choose a different book, just because I didn’t like it very much. I really wish I would have read Funny in Farsi, because I think I would have enjoyed that book more. Originally, when we chose what books we wanted to read for lit circles Funny in Farsi was my first choice, so I kind of wonder what my experience would have been with that book. This book really showed how families work together and I think that family is something that you need in your life. In a way I liked writing out the LC stuff out, because you actually got to talk with your group, so if one thing sparked another’s thought you could add, but with our blogs we couldn’t do that. I did like using our blogs, because we were able to reflect a different way then we were used to, and it was a good experience. For some odd reason, the blog website made it so it wouldn’t show my response, so it lowered my grade, but other then that I thought using blogger was good.

I decided to paint a picture of a woman holding her baby girl. When I was thinking about what to paint I thought a lot about my book. I 1st thought how the book is about family, so I was thinking about paint a line down the middle and a family with half of the family on one side and the other half on the other side, and the words Haiti on one side, and America the other side. I would have put this because only part of the family went to New York at first. Then I thought trough and didn’t like that idea, so I thought of a mom and here baby, because my book was about birth, but there was also a lot of death so I thought of a mom and her baby, because that represents the circle of life. I don’t feel a great connection between my artwork and my book, because I don’t think its east to see what I thought while painting. I think my final painting looks good, in my final draft I hadn’t put stripes, but then I did on my painting, so I am glad it turned out good. I liked how we did a piece of art instead of a long paper for a reflection. I think that it was good, because it was different so we got a new experience.


My interview process was extremely aggravating! At 1st my interviewee and I emailed back and forth for maybe 2 emails. Then he stopped replying and so I called him and no one answered. So after about 3 weeks, I gave up on him, and changed people. So then it went pretty smoothly. I interviewed one of my friends moms and it was really easy. I think it made it seem like immigrating was actually somewhat enjoyable, because she said she thought all of America was like Disneyland, and she was extremely excited to come here.

final post!!!

Narrator Pg145: Tante Denise died from a massive stroke the day after my uncle's eighteenth birthday

I chose this because in this story there family had to deal with a lot of deaths it seemed like, so i chose it. It deals with the 5th question, because it seems to me like death is a hardship this family really had to get used to.
Did it seem like to you a lot pf deaths took apart in this book?



Narrator Pg 257: I don't want him to die!
I chose this because like i said earlier this family had a lot of hard times, so i think this would go under #5 or # 2. I think that because i think it was a big hardship, and because i think death makes it hard for somebody to immigrate to a different country!

Do you agree with me that it makes it hard to immigrate somewhere?

post #5

pg 184: Her legs are broken, she's at the hospital! - Neighbor
This shows that where this family lives is a bad neighborhood, because there was somebody with a gun in there neighborhood. This deals with question #4 because it is a hard thing to deal with in America, crime, because we have such a high crime rate!
I can not really connect with this, because i dont really see very many crimes done in my neighborhood, but i can connect because when there is a crime or a fire in the neighborhood all the neighbors know about and can talk to each other as soon as possible.
Have you ever had to deal with crime?

pg 202: Cimo, Siag, Minustah, Civpol - narrator.
I chose this because this is the kinds of officers they have in Haiti, so if she is talking about them obviously this has something to seal with her homeland and that deals with question #2 i think, because they are talking about something from there homeland, while in the USA.



Have you ever lived some where else? If yes do you ever travel there?

Blogpost #4

Uncle Joe pg: 154 She was my friend, my wife, the woman who stood by me both when I could speak and when I was silent.
I think this has to deal with question 4, because it is a big deal when you lose someone, if it's death, or when you leave a country and you leave someone, it's a big obstacle.

If you were in Uncle Joe's case what would you do?

"Narrator: Pg: 147 When ever i could i like to spend a few extra days to my trip, so i can stay in Bel Air.

I think this has to do with question 5 because a lot of times when you have a bad life, then you get rewarded, or even if just one good thing happens, you like it to be as long as possible. I think that she really is having trouble in America so she likes to feel like royalty.

Do you think that she likes visiting her uncle?