My name is song Thao. I was born in a faraway place called Thailand. But I grew up mostly in San Diego, CA until i turned 4. My parent decided to come to MN because Mn seem to have more and better job opportunities. Some of my favorite sports are badminton, soccer,basketball and volleyball. I'm a very fun person once you get to know me. I may be a little bit shy sometime but i could be really loud too.
The book “Cat in the Hat,” written by Dr. Seuss is a great story. It tells about on a rainy day the cat came to a home. Which there were only two kids left at home while there mother is out of the house for the day. The cat showing up to there house and start doing tricks and mess around with the things in house. While the narrator and Sally are just staring at the cat creating chaos in their home, which the cat thinks, is fun. When on the other hands the fish tells the narrator and sally that they should stop the cat from doing all those bad thing. But instead they don’t listen, they just continue to watch the cat every move. I believe the theme of the story is Id vs. Superego. I think it is bad vs. good because in the story the cat character is a bad one. He doesn’t listen to anyone. He always does what he wants. Even though it not the best choice he would still do it. It is because in the story the cat character is like the devil. For instance, the cat never listens to what the fish say. Like when the fish tells him to put every down before he falls because he standing on a ball and tossing the thing around. The cat becomes even more Id because of the way is it look. The cat is very big which is unimaginable and not only that but it can talk. The cat has a bad character in the story at the beginning. It is because he wants the kids to have fun. But what he doesn’t know is that the thing the he is doing is not making the narrator and Sally having fun. It only seems to make them shock of what he doing. For instance, the cats bring Thing One and Thing Two into the house has causes more problem. The two Things then cause the house to become messier than before. Everything becomes out of place. That when sally and the narrator step up to the scene. They then try to catch Things one and Two with a net but that just created more damage to the house. The house with such a mess and the mother coming home, they then tell that they want the cat to be out of the house because with his bad character he has created such a mess in their home. The cat in the hat leaving the house with a sad face shows that he feels sad that he not wanted in the house. Also, this show that he been doing a lot of bad things which should have not been done before. At the end of the story he came back and tells sally and the narrator. That he has a rule and the rule is to pick up after him. He use the machine he came with to clean the house. The cat in the hat cleans at the end of the story show that he finally becomes a good person or a superego. He has learned from what was wrong to do and right things. And that was to clean after his mess that he had created. The cat cleaning up after his mess also shows that he has taken responsibility. What I mean by this is that he learns to become a good person by being a responsible for what he do. And that was to clean after the mess. In conclusion the cat character ties back to the theme Id vs. Superego because he has a very bad character in the beginning of the story then his character changes at the end to be a good person.
12. The role of women in the story Persepolis is very different. For instance Marji mother play a very strong woman in the story. For instance she goes protest even though she was a woman only. Like her mother Marji is brave and very smart who’s also very educated. Compare to the maid whose doesn’t have any education. And when she fell in love with the next door neighbor she didn’t know how to read. And need marji to help her write letter and read the letters he wrote to her. I think the maid is represented as a very weak woman in the story. It is because at the end of the story “letter,” they maid didn’t get to be with him because she was from a lower classes status. And the story they are not allow to marry out of there class. Her school teachers play a role of very strict to the country law. For instance, she very strict that the kids and Marji have to wear veil to school. Since the government wanted every girls to wear it. 13. The role of every character is very different in the story Persepolis. Marji and her family seem to represent a modern family. I think it is because the woman and girl seem to have a very powerful and brave role. For instance, the main character she doesn’t always listen to other people. She likes to talk and make her point. And the mother she doesn’t let her husband tell her what to do. And the father unlike the very strict father. He actually is a very gentle and cool father. But the importance of the story is the religion in Persepolis. It is because since the country Iran very religious for instance having to wear the veil. It kind of split them apart from others people including learning. For instance when they were in school and the teacher telling the students formation about something which was not correct and marji and telling the student it was not correct. And correcting the statement she got in trouble. This mean that since their country is very religious they also do not know much about other people other then their history and people. I think what Marjane is trying to say about how religion has an effect on individual and society. It is because if one individual does not follow their own religious then who will. So people start believing in it and some don’t because they don’t like what they have to go through. Religious also is something that defines us as a individual and society. If we have no religious then we don’t know what to do or be. We will be a person who doesn’t belong to nowhere and anywhere. 9. The kids in the story Persepolis although their country doesn’t let kids to look hip. They still do it because it was fashion. They usually do it at home or in place where no one can find them doing it. For instance, when Marji got the new clothing she decided to wear it and go to the black market to buy some tape. At the same time it kind of reminds me of my childhood. I think I was very brave like I would do things that I would not do today. Like I climb trees and jump and the puddle ect.. But I think Satrapi is a normal kid because she likes to be adventurous and experience new things although she knew she was forbidden to not do. Being a kid of course you always want to try new things. so yeah I think she a normal kids because she want to fit and so them it makes her do things that are bad.
4. The story Persepolis is organized by parts. Like as a book that is organize by chapter. Like a story the graphic book Persepolis part has title just like a normal written book has. In each different part it tells a story about Marji life or story about people that are close to her life. Such as her grandma, maid and uncle. I believe Marji emphasized mostly about her life in the revolution time. How life was not the best. For instance she has to wear veil to school and outside of school because if they are seem not wearing the veil then they could get into trouble. The passage of time is present by from past to future and usually is doesn’t tell them much about the year unless she want to tell something is important. Like in 1980 they have to wear the veil. But she tells the story kind by her age. Like as she grew older there more and more problem that he and her parent have to both face. The drawing in Persepolis has more different shot. For instance there is long, side, shot. The drawing in black and white only. I believe the picture help the reader recognize or have a visual of what is happening in the story. Also, not only we get to see pictures of the characters and what happening in the story. But it also helps us understand the story. 5. I think the writer of Persepolis voice is very strong. Even though she tell the story as a young girl. I think she has a stronger voice because she confident in what she say. For instance, going to school say able to say out loud about the truth. And yes her voice is appealing because she say what she think is right. The least think I like about Marji charater is that she want to act smart. But what I likee about her is the she can defend herself. Like when she went out to buy tape wearing western clothing and got caught she knew what to do it get out of it. I would say yes reading the little girl reaction my reaction experiences. 6. The revolution power influence many people to wear the veils and for man to grow beard. It even causes boys and girls to go to their own school. Like boys have to go to their own school. And girls have to go to an all-girl school too. Also, the revolution causes people to do many demonstrations on the street. Like Marji parent does. They demonstration what is happening and things that they are against. So many people leave after the revolution because people are afraid of change. And scared of what will happen in the future to the place they lived. And probably they have no hope of any good thing happening in the future coming for them. Probably her parent sent her off to Tehran and didn’t go because they want her to be in a safe place. Also, they didn’t go because they don’t have enough money to pay for them all to go to Austria. So they let her go because she was the only inherited in their family and she is still young and have a long life ahead of her.
There are many things that are contained in my feed. For instance my feed contains music, songs, and which symbolize as helps connect people faster to others. My feed show feature such as help you look for clothes, finding fast food restaurants, and shoes. The reason why I put these pictures into my collage is because it helps explain how American always likes new things and especially easy things that they could work with. I put some photo of natures because I think that no matter how much we will change in the future. We all should keep a part of the past to remember. For instance in the book Feed what I realize was that Titus and his friends seem to have no idea of what kind of world was in the past. In fact they seem to enjoy the junky planet earth in the story. Like when violet and Titus was in the moon and them staring at the dead garden. My feed you can hear new songs and listen to many songs when you want and where ever you want. Having all these kind of thing, what it tell a lot other people that we a American people. My collage shows that you can do everything. Like creating you own dream house. Writing story and being able to learn about the past and futures new things. We all love technology and probably if we have no technology we wouldn’t be that successful. But what I have to say is that sometime I think technology is bad to use a lot because it harmful to our environment. For instance using technology could create a lot of pollution. And listening to music on the iPods and MP3 ect… can make us have hearing loss. I mean if we all know that technology is bad then why we all continue to use it. Well although many people have different ways to answer this question. This is how I’ going to answer the question. I think people continue to use technology because it easy and fast. For instance we now would rather use a microwave instead of boil water and having to wait for 10 to 14 minute until boil to cook noodle. It is because we as American society I think were lazy so then we invented things that could help us. But what I think is that us creating more and new technology is just making us more and more lazy. If there is a moral to the story “Feed”. I believe the moral of the story is that technology will soon take control over people. If people don’t start thinking about what they are going to do with life. People will continue to create things that seem very good. But what they don’t know is that they are just killing people with the feed. Although the feed does help them find quick information and fast resources it making them more dumb and killing them. For instance having the lesion was a sign of that the feed what killing the people in the book feed. At the end of the story Titus was ordering all these pants. I believe he was doing that because he never really learns to communicate with anyone except Violet. Instead he always uses the feed to communicate with people. So buy all those pant in the feed was all he know what to do when he in the mood of confusion, mad, and sad. In conclusion the feed is some things that define us as an American we like to get everything at fast. So they collage show that we like things at a fast speed. That why we have fast food restaurant like Mc. Donald, subway and so on. We use telephone to get fast connection with people. Also were influence to but things because our favorite celebrate is wearing the kind of clothing, shoes, make-up or eating the types of food.
The perfect world. What is included in a perfect world? How does a perfect world function or work. What kind of people exists in a perfect world? What are the benefits and bad thing about a perfect world? All these question rises up when I think about a perfect world. In the story “Feed” there is a part called Utopia. In the part Utopia it talks about how Tistus and his friend are getting treated. Like Tistus and his friends are like kings and queens. It is because their mother brought them their ginger ale for them in bed. I mean they don’t sound that sick. They are able to do chatting on their feed. That like so cool. Instead if you were sick wouldn’t you be resting instead of doing what Tistus and his friends are doing, chatting on the feed. Also reading the part Utopia I kind of realize that the kids parent seem to never lecture them much about going out a lot. I mean I guess that why this part call the ideal world or utopia. Also, seem like they all can driver without license. But I think a Utopia world is just within a dream. A dream that is far within our reach. A perfect world cans only happen if people learn to do good things. But the thing is some people will never learn to do anything. Instead they choose the path to become bad and take the bad path on their life. But in some cases those people decided to choose that path because they have no money or no support which make their-self esteem goes lower. Which make them think that they can’t do anything at all? But what they don’t know is that in order to be a stronger person you don’t always need support. You first got to believe in yourself. But it hard to tell someone to be good or do something because you can’t get them guarantee them anything but ours words of wisdom. Which don’t always go as it sound? For example if I told a girl that she needs to start finding a job so that her life would be better. What if that girl does decided to find a job and did find one. After finding a job she use her money to buy things that are unnecessary and become poor again. she then comeback to me tell me that it all my felt to tell to find a job and no look at her what have she gain nothing. This is why a perfect world can never happen because some people think differently. Like in order to success you got to think differently and wisely. such as thinking if you really need the things your about to buy or purchases. This can be connected back to the story "feed" since Violet seem to be smarter about buying things than Tistus and his friends. she seem to think about the stuffs being offer in the feed. while Titus and his friend doesn't know what they are shopping for but still but something that not worth they money at all. for my own experience i don't believe in a perfect world it is because i feel a perfect world seem more like a dream for me to have. nothing can be perfect because everyone has their own thoughts about things. we all can never agree on one thing. I guess reality influence me to think this way because in reality if you don't do you nothing you will gain nothing in life. it feel sad for me to understand this. but it life we all have we all have to live with it. I choose the photo i did because i believe that it show the differences that we all can not fit in and people will not get the same protection and rights as some peole will. That why there no perfect world because we all are not treated equally. That always be the story because we can never be able to change the way a person thing and we can never be able to make someone listen or agree to what we think is good for the people. we all will not get the same protection as good as others.
I pick this movie as an explanation to my theme dystopia because there are a lot of good things in the movie. The movie Stepford wives are about a town that everyone seems so perfect. Let just say everything there is like perfect. All their houses are clean they always have tea party ect. Well in the movies Nicole kidman plays a woman you just got fire from her job. She and her husband play by Mathew Broderick they decided to settled and start a new life in Stepford. Living in Stepford she experiences a lot of things. She notices that a lot of the woman there are very feminist. Who always listen to their husband and is a good housewife. I believe a message from the movies is that nobody can be perfect. Because if things were to be perfect will there be feelings in it. For instance, in the movie the women are being control by a chip put into the head. They only listen to what other tells them. They seem to not have any feelings or knowledge what they are doing.
There is no perfect world. You got to learn to work to make a living. I pick this picture to show that in reality you got to work to earn a living. That why there no perfect world because you don't get to play and have fun like Titus and his friend does in the story "Feed". Also if you don't do anything but play then you won't get anything good. For instance we need trees to be able to breath. We need food to eat so if people always play instead of planting and growing crops then everyone will starve to death.
In my definition of protection is to be safe and have it own privacy. When it comes to being safe everyone wants it for them and their family. Of course who wouldn’t? I pick this picture because the leave on the left side means that some protections are not the best protection but you payless for it. And on the right show that some protection works better but is more expensive. This picture can tie back to my theme dystopia. Because the world is not a perfect place we all will not be able to be protected. We all don't know who were surrounded by. And not just that but some people are poor and some are rich. So of course the rich people will get better protection then the poor people. For example, pretend that a rich beautiful girl hit my car on the highway. She was the one whose car hid mine but I was blame for hitting her car instead. She has more right then me because she richer and people listen to her instead of me because I was a poor person. As I connect this back to the theme dystopia because everyone doesn't get the same protection. Although there is laws is doesn’t always protect each individual equally and fairly.
I pick this picture because it represent that a perfect world does not exist. It is because people on earth would never be able to agree on something peacefully. I mean looking at the picture the two men seem to fighting because they don't agree on something. It seem like they don't agree to something because they are different races. So the message that I seem to get from this is that because were all look different we all think differently and live differently. And sometime it hard for other to understand each others because everyone has their own religious and beliefs and that why we all cannot agree on something and lead back to the world which cannot be perfect. since we all have different beliefs were not allow do some of the things that others are allow to do.
Inconclsuion, i think that being in a unperfect world is better. althought there will be crime and bad things still will happen. And we all can not stop something bad from happening. but what important is that most people can be able to think for themselve and our thoughts and mind are not being control. Also we have feeling and that important because it makes the things you do to have meaning.
When I read the book I kind of picture the setting of earth to be like this in a way. Because everything seem to be trashy and dry because the forest are cut down to make more air for the people and they still think it a good place to live in.
In the story every time they go to a new places or somewhere advertisement will always show up. I just think it so annoying if you were to see everything like this.
“We enter a time of calamity”. Before this line appear in the story. They all went back to the hotel. And on their way back they saw people protesting about the feed. Saying that they don’t want the feed in their brain they would rather be dead then having the feed in their brain. So when I think about this. It kind of make me realize that some people now are realizing that they feed are bad for their body while at the same time some people don’t even know or doesn’t even care what the feed doing to the people. Now let go back to the quote. “We enter a time of calamity,” I believe it means that they enter a time of misfortune and disaster. I believe the old man who hacked then make them say that because he trying to tell them. That wearing or having the feed in their brain is just going to make their life in disaster. Also trying to tell them that if they don’t have the feed he doing that to them would not have done much damage to their body. For example, the people that have the feed start to have lesion and they don’t even not what the cause of it. But the truth is that the chips in their head are the cause of it. Also, one interesting things was on page 85 in the story. When the president was talking to the citizen and telling them that the lesion was not a cause of what the feed is doing. This made me think, what he is crazy. Is he doing this because the feed taking control of his brain too. I mean very weird. Why would a president say something like that when he knows the feed are the cause of the lesion. In the story something that seems important was violet father studying the dead language. Of course what is a dead language; well according to the story a dead language is a language that has not been use for a long period of time. I believe violet father study the dead language because he doesn’t want to lose history. For example when people don’t use something for a long period of time they would forget about it. So Violet father must had wanted to study it. It probably because it was important to keep old literacy and thing alive so that people can understand history or thing that happen in the pass written in old language. In the story the author must have dedicated the book to those who resist the feed because he wanted people to read about the story. I think he mean that you should not resist the feed until you read about it. But in reality if people would to have the feed probably that wouldn’t be the smartest choice. It is because people are like robot and being control or taken over by the feed. Although, one good benefit could be that the feed can influence or make people to not be in crime or bad people. But when I think about everything. I think there is no perfect world. I mean there will be time when thing seem so perfect. But we all just have to admit that there are no perfect worlds but there a world where we can explore our mistake which can make the world a better place to be at.
