guides. However, the effect of Onley transcribing these notes, works to turn him into a tour guide like figure that is teaching the reader about the region. This kind of approach indicates Onley is acting selectively, choosing to dedicate the limited space in his diary to regional facts and interesting events, because it paints him as a kind of worldly figure. Onley also includes information in his diary, in a scrapbook like manner, as it contains some of his paintings and lists of his completed works while in China. In Onley’s February 26 1988 entry, he travels through the Guilin Mountains, and finds an inscription in a rock that translates into English as, “Guilin passes the most beautiful landscapes in the world, only painters can improve …show more content…
Firstly, Douglas brings up the notion of an “archiving I” who decides how the “real or historical ‘I’” is represented in the archive, and then of the “archived ‘I’” which is the result of the “archiving I”’s decisions (55). With this in mind, the journal goes through another layer of processing. To an extent Onley was likely able to edit his journal and work as the “archiving ‘I’” because he chose to donate the diary. However, the archivist working with the Toni Onley fonds, those part of Onley’s estate such as Onley’s children and ex-wife, Gloria Onley, were all able to also work as the “archiving ‘I’” and help to determine how the diary is taken up into the archive (Morrow)). Even how the diary is represented in the fonds, impacts how the information presented in the diary is view by researchers. In the archive the “China Diary” is part of a “series [that] reflects Onley’s travels from 1972 to 2003” and is mixed among other journals and documentation regarding Onley’s many “painting trips or expeditions” (Cockroft 58). This information indicates to the researcher viewing the China Diary, to consider the information in the diary in the context of an overseas trip. In this way, “the archiving ‘I’” is shaping how the China Diary, in a way that may or may not be congruent with Onley’s original intentions for the diary. Furthermore, while it is hard to know the extent to which the diary was altered in this process, the final copy of the diary we view today as researchers, is likely different from the original copy (Douglas 84). Admittedly, this also means we do not know for certain if there was other information that Onley wished to include, that would have altered how he was represented in the diary. For instance, Onley’s “Japan Remembered” Diary contained a
Imagine being back in the colony of Massachusetts before the Revolutionary war. As you walk down the streets of Boston, you meet a young man named Johnny Tremain. After listening to his story, you think of the different ways you could describe him. You could describe him by his looks, by his personality, and by the talents he portrays. His character is so interesting that it's hard to describe his skilled talents, his complex personality, and his adored physical features.
John Fielder is a nationally famous photographer. For the last 40 years his photos are taken of Colorado while he is hiking and skiing. When he first visited Colorado at the age of 14 he said he felt like something or someone guided him their and he belonged in Colorado for the rest of his life. He is well known for creating his best selling books ever; Colorado 1870-2000. His latest work is the work of great outdoors Colorado for its 20th anniversary. When he was 23 he decided to start doing photography. He was amazed by other famous photographers work and tried to take photos just like them, but it didn’t really turn out how he wanted. Nevertheless he did not give up. On his days off he would go on hikes and he would take photos. He practiced for 8 years and decided to quit his job and just focus on photography. He loves nature so therefore he loves to take photos or nature. He has published 33 books in the past 30 years. He uses photography with a large format 4 x 5 film camera, he also carries 7 lenses and 30 sheet film holders and about 400 sheets of color film. In the winter he usually country skies around the mountains of Colorado. He skies 5 to 9 miles a day to get to hut to hut. In the summer he goes on river trips and usually river rafts. Sometimes he rafts on class 5 rapids. He has two daughters who love to go on trips with him although they do not take photos themselves.
John Q is a emotional story about a family who is faced with an economical problem that many Americans struggle with. It is about a father whose son is dying from an enlarged heart. He needs a heart transplant in order to survive. This was a problem for the family because they did not have enough money for the hospital to proceed with the operation. John Quincy Archibald, the father, who goes by the alias John Q, tries everything in his power to save his son from dying. John performed actions that can be seen as both selfless and sacrificial and selfish.
Joan Didion in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook”, stresses that keeping a notebook is not like keeping a journal. Didion supports her claim by describing entries that are in her notebook. The author’s purpose is to enlighten the reader as to what a notebook is. The author writes in a nostalgic tone for those who are reading the essay, so that they can relate to her. She uses rhetorical appeals; such as flashback, pathos, and imagery to name a few. By using these devices she helps capture the reader’s attention.
Are young children putting their health and even their lives at risk if they partake in the sport of football? Some claim that the American sport is far too dangerous and the risk of concussions and injuries far outway the pros of the physical sport, while others insist that technological improvements and new regulations have made the sport safer. Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at New York University, argues in his paper, “We Must Stop Risking the Health of Young Football Players,” that football is a sport that is too dangerous for the youth. He states his belief that technological improvements in helmets and changes in the rules of the sport have had little effect on reducing injuries and that nothing has worked.
The main traits of the narrator are that the narrator is very observant with things that interest him, and is determined to find out everything about them in either through fascination or to use that information to his advantage. For example, the narrator knows many aspects of Sheila Mant’s mood through observation, “I had learned all of her moods/ if she lay flat on the diving board with her hand trailing idly in the water, she was pensive, not to be disturbed” (Wetherell 1), the narrator had a big crushed on Sheila, so he decided to learn everything about her, even knowing how her moods change based on observation her body language, which shows immense dedication. However, despite being deep in love with Sheila, the narrator had also great love
The representative from the 10th congressional district of Illinois for the U.S. House of Representatives is republican John Porter. Porter has been the representative from this district for the last 11 terms (since the election of 1980). He was born in Evanston, IL on June 1, 1935. Here is where he started on his road to congress.
By any measure, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong, known as Hanjungnok (Records written in silence), is a remarkable piece of Korean literature and an invaluable historical document, in which a Korean woman narrated an event that can be described as the ultimate male power rivalry surrounding a father-son conflict that culminates in her husband’s death. However, the Memoirs were much more than a political and historical murder mystery; writing this memoir was her way of seeking forgiveness. As Haboush pointed out in her informative Introduction, Lady Hyegyong experienced a conflict herself between the demands imposed by the roles that came with her marriage, each of which included both public and private aspects. We see that Lady Hyegyong justified her decision to live as choosing the most public of her duties, and she decided that for her and other members of her family must to be judged fairly, which required an accurate understanding of the her husband’s death. It was also important to understand that Lady Hyegyong had to endure the
The business of making a book together was new for both of us. Difficult. Awkward. Another book could be constructed about a writer who goes to a prison to interview his bother but comes away with his own story….the inevitible conflict between his role as detached observer and his responsibility as a brother would be at the center of such a book. When I stopped hearing Robby and listened to myself listening, that kind of book shouldered its way into my consciousness. I didn’t like that feeling. That book compromised the intimacy I wanted to achieve with my brother. (Wideman p. 723)
To understand what Couser refers to as “particular way of writing one’s life” a close examination of the origin and the meaning of the word ‘memoir’ is necessary. The word has its origins in French and it derives from ‘mémoire’ meaning ‘memory’. Coulter elaborates that “ … being based on memory rather than research, a memoir will necessarily be very different from a formal biography. It will be, or resemble, a reminiscence, consisting of personal recollections" (Coulter 19). Because of this aspect of the memoir he then explains, “In turn, this creates the expectation that the narrative may be impressionistic and subjective rather than authoritatively fact based” (Coulter 19).
) Alan Brinkley is an Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, where he specializes in teaching the history America in the twentieth-century. Brinkley received his A.B. in Princeton University in 1971 and his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1979. Brinkley also taught American History at Oxford University as the Harmsworth Professor from 1998-99 and taught American History at the University of Cambridge and has stayed as a member of Columbia since 1991. Brinkley has four other affiliations with/as, the Chairman of, Board of Trustees, The Century Foundation, 1999- present; Chairman, Board of Trustees, National Humanities Center, 2003-present; Trustee, Oxford University Press, 2009-present; Trustee, The Dalton School, 1999-2005. Along with affiliations and
As for Percy’s writing style, he adopts the narrative structure while reaching a descriptive angle to provide the story a vivid focus. He provides an informal type of writing directed for readers of the Outside magazine, with the intention of encouraging them to visit Griffith
One guy comes to store and claims he owns and is looking for a camera with bland emotion. Clive automatically knew it was a scammer and that this was definitely not the owner of the lost camera. Another guy comes looking for a diary and a camera. Judging him to be a scammer like the other guy, Clive toyed with him but after showing signs of significance with emotion Clive was convinced, thinking all he wanted was the camera but in fact it was the diary’s significance to the guy that truly convinced Clive to realize this was in fact the right person, the diary was an address book. Josh questioned this to his current knowledge on page (43) “you care, don’t you Clive?” and also questioning why these two individual people seemed special to Clive, the person looking for the diary and the lady with brooch. Clive followed up with a response of him liking to see the joy on peoples’ faces once their items are returned. Clive shows himself being lost, and the expression on others once they had been reunited with things they had lost was another way of Clive finding himself and making himself happy, sometimes more than the individual themselves. Clive’s wife died 10 years ago due to medical illness and misinterpretation of medication use, this caused a draft change towards Clive’s life, someone lost never to be found again. The author shows by using this
Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman was China’s first real major modern short story. Xun unusually avoided traditional short story writing techniques. He tends to stray from the omniscient narration and replaces it with the author’s subjective, personal point of view. This can be seen as untraditional because it was almost completely unprecedented in Chinese literature of this era. Xun’s ‘I-narration’ (“at school I had been close friends with two brothers whose names I will not omit to mention here.”(p.21) This provides an effective way of further distancing himself from the text and creating a reading of the diary, which allows readers to form different perspectives on the literature. It could be argued that this is slightly ironic as he cleverly
Written six hundred and fifty years apart from each other, Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi and Ki no Tsurayuki’s Tosa Nikki are both examples of nikki bungaku or “diary literature.” Both of these travel diaries reflect the ideas and values of their respective time periods.