Sep 28, 2008

Different, Different! Different? (Liu Yang Xue)

"They go to different schools, dress differently and eat at different restaurants." (We get alone by not get alone)
I chose this quote first because in this sentence the author used 3 "different", which in a technical way makes the readers have a strong feeling when it. The black and the jew did everything differently to make themselves differently from each other. The author seemed quite emphasize the word "different". From this 3 "different", we can figure out that how separated people were from different races at that time. Actually, when I read this sentence, I felt a little bit sorry for them and even a little bit sad.
Why couldn't people just get together? Why couldn't they go to the same school and eat in the same restaurant? Isn't it a good idea that people from different races get together and share their own culture and customs with others? It benefits everybody who participate in it! I really hope that people can unite together so that the world can really be a family full of harmoney! There really not a lot of differences exist! We need really get alone!

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Those punctuations made this title mean a lot (leslie)

Look at the three punctuation Liu Yang used. They depict her meaning very well.

First, she noticed the three "different" the author used to show why we become so different. Since the children were sent into different schools and dressed and fed in different ways, they grow up without contact with each other and, as a result, they are made different.

The second "different" followed with an asclaimation mark means that how amazing that people can be molded into such different shape by intentional alienation and isolation. By not getting along people can only become different, just in the same way when the languages in the world were being isolated for a certain period, they turned into totally different ones.

The third "different" is followed with a question mark, which questions whether we are really so different, or whether we should remain in a state of not getting along.

I like her comments, too. Great post.