The Search in Zora Neale Hurston

Annie Walker and her friend she talks in over email and both love Zora Hurston, and admire her books. They both decide that they will meet up on the search to find more facts about Zora Hurston. Walker and Charlotte both meet up at the airport and start their quest by beginning to questioning the lady in the post office. Following from her and what she knows they start questioning Mrs. Moseley that knew Zora. They learned where she was buried at, and decided to buy a tombstone for Hurston's grave.Then they meet up with Dr. Benton, who was close friends with Zora, just to find more things about her. For example, like her real cause of death and her relationships with her neighbors. Annie Walker comes across the problem of getting people to tell her more information about Zora Hurston. So Annie came up with the idea to pretend to be Hurston's niece. She knew one really knew Hurston's real niece,and because of that, that was the only reason why she could pull off being Hurston's niece. But throughout the story Annie Walker begins to find her own roots. She ends up thinking that she is apart of Hurston's family. This experience made it clear to Walker and also got her to look at Hurston and her novels, but it also had Walker learn more about herself. Like where she came from, and personally opened her eyes to who she is. Just like Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Janie has the Blues

Janie goes through many confusing objectives in her life while trying to figure out how to be happily married. Her grandmother helps her which doesn't help at all. Her grandmother tells her that she must get married with the man that she chose for her. Even though Janie says that she doesn't love him. Janie's Nanny insists that eventually the love will come. So poor Janie agrees and gets married. Nanny told her that she didn't want her to struggle as much as she did when she was younger. Which was a life of being a slave, and her being with logan would relieve her worries about Janie having to struggle. Janie finally realizes that this wasn't love or how marriage is. Janie later in her life found a man that she thought was the perfect one. Someone she can make her dream of being happily married. But he wasn't the one. As years go on Janie has not been self satisfied and has remained quiet and just working. Janie has gone through a lot to reach her goal in life.

Questions and Answers

Right now Janie has a lot of questions to how her life is going right now. But this goes for everyone. When people are young everyone's minds are full of questions, and over the years the questions get answered. More problems come and they are bigger. For example, if she really loved her husband Logan and if she really wants to stay with him. Over the years she finds out that she doesn't love him. She also finds out what love is as a woman. The quote,"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." I think that majority of her problems now will be answered in the years to come in her life. Unfortunately, she will have more problems coming to her maybe even bigger.

Men and Women and their Futures

Men and women have different views on their future. For example, high school students who date a lower classmen is hard to do. Because the older one may want to break up and focus on their future and go to tyheir dream college. This can be difficult for the younger classmen if they really liked each other. It may also be good if they can work it out but if they are really focused on their future then it would be best to break up. Then it might be good if the younger one is going to the same college as the ther one. But then they might not want to be together anymore. It may be difficult but then it may be hard. THis topic in particular has many different views but this is mine and I know it may not be the best but it is all I have experienced in my life now.

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Gatsby's Questions

Why does he describe almost everything and everyone with colors?

Why is Tom and Daisy still together?

Why Does Gatsby host so many parties?

The Abnormal MInd of Oneself

He didn’t say any more,
but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way,
and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
In consequence,
I’m inclined to reserve all judgments,
a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me
and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself  in a normal person,
and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician,
because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
Most of the confidences were unsought frequently I have feigned sleep,
or a hostile levity when I realized some unmistakable sign an intimate was quivering on the horizon;
for the intimate revelations of young men,
or at least the terms in which they express them,
are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that,
as my father snobbishly suggested,
and I snobbishly repeat,
a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. pg.5

Would You Marry for Money or for Love?

  In my opinion I would marry for money, because that is one less thing I would have to worry about. But if I fell in love at the age of 16 and made it through everything I wouldn't care if he had money or not. As I grow older and I learn more about the problems we are going to face as young adults it convinces me to look into people like that to have a well off life.

  I have always wanted to be rich or wealthy my entire life and ever since I was young I have always said I was going to marry for money. I know it sounds crazy but I feel like my mom told me that at a very young age that it fixed my perspective on marriage. Also if you watch TV and you see some well off women, it just makes me want to be in their shoes. I don't care how they got there, if they made it through their careers or their husbands. I just want to be where they are at, and not want to worry about money.

  I am all out for finding that true love, but if a man wants to marry me and I don't love him but he sure is wealthy. Then, of course I'll marry him. Honestly I just have to like the guy to marry for money. I wouldn't care if I loved him. If someone walks into my life well off and I love him, that would be a BIG plus for myself. Unfortunately, things like that don't always happen like that so m answer would be yes, I would marry for money instead of love.

Are Appearances Deceptive?

  The way people dress an act are very important to me. I have been raised all my life to always dress presentable and when I was younger I need really knew why, but as I got older my mother was the main one in my life who told me why. She always said to me was because everyone judges people just by how they look. Everyone is like that unfortunately. For example, when I am tired or I wake up super late and I don't look very presentable, people always tell me "you look tired" or "are you sick?" when ever people tell me or ask me certain things like that I feel so embarrassed! So the next day I try to look really pretty or just presentable.
   America can be cruel in ways. Such as looks, people who dress well with high brand clothes people automatically think they get paid a lot of money and if they don't people are judge as "poor" or people will just think they don't have money. Which is unfair and people shouldn't be like that.
  Also in another way it effects money is when you go to a job interview and you know the job is for you but you walk in wearing something inappropriate or not presentable then people who are interviewing you will judge you on how you dress. In some cases people won't get their dream job just because of that reason and wont get paid good money. It can be very unfair and cruel.

Assimilate

To assimilate is to fit in or get comfortable with your surroundings. It's when you get one culture and its way of living and you start to act think and ado the same way they do.
 In the Raisin in the Sun the one who shows assimilation is the character Ruth because she always goes with the other characters actions or with what they even say.  In the play, assimilation is shown by Ruth by showing her weakness of herself and of other women in their similar situations. It just shows how easily women can give up all their opportunities and rights all up.
 Everyone assimilates, and I see everyone doing it everyday. School is the home for people who assimilate. Majority of the time it is teenagers who do it, and sometimes adults. I too assimilate, as in growing up physically and mentally. Everyone has to look at these things in their own way in order to understand or meet new people in their lives.
 In Eric Liu's view of assimilation is when he saying that he isn't Chinese from the core. He is saying he is an Asian American and has learned the customs and the way of living here in American. He accepts that he no longer has Chinese culture in him but that does still make him different, by saying Asian American. Eric Liu just finally grasped the American way of living.

Me? Or my family?

 If I had to choose between the two, I would choose my family because I don't think I can go through a day knowing I chose myself over them. I would feel so self fish and then I would feel like I messed up and would have that on top of me like weights that I wouldn't go anywhere.

 That's why I would choose my family over myself. But then I know my family would want me to choose myself. Just as them wanting to choose me is a good enough reason to choose them over myself. Plus family is family you never give up on them, they are the people who make you, you! They are the ones that always believe in you when you don't believe in yourself. So this is why I would be crazy not to pick my wonderful family over myself.

The American Dream

My perspective of the American Dream is everyone having a family, middle class not rich nor poor but everyone happy really doing the right things. As in all the kids doing their homework going to school not getting in trouble and the parents working not really fighting, and the moms making dinner for the whole family every night for the whole family. Kind of like a picture perfect family to me, with the whole white fence around their house.

Introduction

Well my name is Emily Amaya. I love to play sports! Any sports really, but my favorite ones are volleyball, gymnastics, and track. I try to stay on top of my grades, and I try to hangout with my friends as much as possible. Well, that's pretty much me! :)