Research Paper

In all my life I have always written traditional papers. I have never even heard of a multigenre paper, however, it does sound interesting. I like the way videos and links are incorporated into the multigenre papers. I really don't know what I am going to write about!! I need more than ten minutes to think about it but here is my brainstorming. I suppose if I was going to use American Born Chinese or The Bluest Eye I would write about self image, and the idea of perfection and how peole conform to their societies ideal image of perfection as much as they can. If I were going to incorporate Oranges are Not The Only Fruit I would write about Homosexuality and the discrimination that homosexuals/ bisexuals have to face. If I were to use Blankets as my reference I might write about the importance of siblings or about sexual abuse and the effects. Although I have not read Night or Maus yet I know someone who was a POW and I might want to write about POW's and war and the impact on them afterwards. Like I said I don't know what I want to write about, but whichever book I decide to incorporate I would use one of these topics.

Blankets

On pages 51 and 52 in blankets Craig comes to a realization and says "At that moment I knew what I wanted... I wanted Heaven." This is showing a point in Craig's life when he finds out what his purpose is in life, he believes his purpose is to live his life here on earth, which he believes to be torture at this point in the novel and go to heaven. Craig says that he grew up striving for heaven the world that would wash away his temporary misery. On page 51 after Craig says that he wants heaven, he is jumping into a sea of clouds. The look on his face is almost as if it is fun he looks excited. He is small in this panel considering the panel takes up a whole page, therefore showing Craig jumping into life and all of the space around him representing uncertainty. On page 52 Craig keeps falling but his expression changes almost as if he no longer excited but now afraid of the uncertainty, or perhaps dreading what is to come with his life here on earth. Craig is also getting older and his size relevent to the page and the size of the panel is getting larger.
Craigs relationship with his father doesn't seem to be the warm comforting relationship that children long for. On page 14 after Craig and his brother had been fighting for a while their father comes upstairs. Their Father is a very large man and his facial features are rigid and dark. After their father picks them up by the back of their shirts they both look scared and when Craig is put back into bed his eyes widened and it is obvious that he is frightened then in the next panel it almost looks as if they are pleading with him. It is obvious that Craigs father is the one who disciplines in the household and he isnt a very warm individual.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit... Close Read

At the end of the chapter Judges on page 136 I found one line that jumped out at me and struck me as odd. When Jeanette decides that she will not repent her sins(being lesbian) because she feels as if she has done nothing wrong because she is only following what her heart is telling her to do, the church and her mother decide that they will get rid of her. Jeanette's mother says "I'm not havin' demons here" assuming that Jeanette is a demon. This is extremely important because Jeanette's mother no longer looks at Jeanette as her daughter but as a demon, and wants nothing to do with her. Throughout my life I have always heard parents say that they love their children unconditionally and that no matter what their children do they will always love them, it seems to be a common theme among parents when talking about their children. Jeanettes mother obviously does not, and when she can't make Jeanette into the "cookie cutter" perfect christian that she wants her to be she says she has to leave because shes apparently full of demons. When Jeanette's mind starts racing thinking about where she is going to go she realizes that she doesn't have anywhere to go her mother tells her "The devil looks after his own." At this point Jeanette's mother has now completely disclaimed Jeanette and is basically telling her that she is no longer her daughter or her responsibility but the responsibility of the devil a "devil's child".

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

What do I believe? I believe in God. Ever since I was a young child I went to church Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night. I choose to believe in God because when I look at the world around me I know that someone must have created all of it, and with everything that has happened in my life it would have been hard to get through without him. My parents, my friends and the rest of my family shaped my belief in God, I have a mostly religious family. Even though some of my family may fall down every once in a while and lose their path, and they may not go to church every Sunday they still know that there is a God and believe in him. After my parents got divorced I had an ongoing battle with my belief system, my mom stopped taking me to church because she was embarassed to go alone, and because she was to depressed to go anywhere really. For a while I had a hard time believing, I couldn't understand that if there was a god why would he let something like this happen. It wasnt until this past october when my faith became really strong again when my grandmother passed away, she was a very religous follower, my grandfather being a pastor and all. Somehow I knew that her passing away was a sign that I needed to renew my faith.
In the book Oranges are not the only fruit Janette struggles with her mother, and who her mother expects her to be. Her mother always gives Janette oranges and tells her that "Oranges are the only fruit." Janette obviously knows this isn't true therefore the title gives a little bit of foreshadowing saying "Oranges are not the only fruit" possibly saying that there are other things to be discovered, outside of what Janettes mother allows her to come in contact with. When Janette kept saying that men are pigs, and when she kept hanging out with Melanie constantly, as soon as I stopped reading the first half of the book last night I set my book down and told my boyfriend "She is going to turn lesbian." He was obviously confused because he wasnt reading the book I was but i just told him not to worry about it and I would tell him if she did later. So I definetly think the end of the first half of the book foreshadows that she is going to be a lesbian and fall in love with melanie.