. This short story is from Ernest Hemingway called Hills Like White Elephants. Its about a man and women waiting for an express train to Barcelona while getting drinks at bar, that was at train station. And how she stares out window and sees the mountains threw the trees outside the bar that looks like an white elephants skins.
Also she may not have the money to raise a child an be force to do things in order to survive and provide for her child. But maybe if they think about a little longer and not jump too soon maybe their love could work.
Their was a time in my life when I had to move from my girlfriend house back home with parents. Because while being in relationship with my girlfriend had 4 kids, and 2 of them were bad seeds. I was 23 years old and she was 30 years old. I never judged her for have 4 kids because i can't judge somebody, because I'm not GOD. So as lived with her i noticed the 2 youngest child were unmanageable and disobedient. You would have to tell the numerous time to stop doing this and stop doing that. After a while it puts a strain on you and you say to yourself " I hate these kids!!!" Their was a time that I told her youngest son to stop playing around and on the glass table that was in living room. I remember I told him stop playing with the glass table and he reply's "You not my daddy". A few moments later the glass tablet was chattered into little pieces. When his Mom came home she warmed that tail up for braking the glass tablet. So the last straw was me coming home late night and coming home to notice that it was crayons, notebooks, clothes and everything on my side of bed and one of her kids was sleep in my spot. That was it, I grab my things and when back home to parents and realize that i bite off more then i could chew.
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Yes, I do agree with their decision to deceive her grandmother partially. Because they were only doing what they taught to do and what was culturally accepted. Because in China it is the rule for doctors to give the bad news to family members, rather than to person especially if the older. With the notion that the person might die or have heart attack, by hearing the life changing news. Lulu Wang aunt was very concern about telling her sister the bad news. Because she thinks tell her sister the new would devastate her. Having her sister unable to eat, sleep and lose interest in life. By not telling her grandmother was a way of prolonging her life. Lulu Wang stated that “The Chinese believe that mental and emotional health are completely linked to physical health”. So that was the whole premise of them lying to their grandmother, with the faith that is will cure their love one. The doctors only gave her grandmother 3 month or less to live. So they came up with an elaborate plan of getting everyone in the family together to see her before she dies. So her cousin Liang-Liang was getting married the following year, but so everyone could see her grandmother before she dies they just put the date up for the wedding 10 months early. So in order to do this her Aunt had to fake medical records and disguise the bad in the document as the “9 shadows”. Her aunt believes that her sister would appreciate that the family was lying to her. Because her grandmother herself lied to everyone also, that is how she knows she would have wanted them to lie to her also. In 2007 6 years before getting her present diagnoses she had breast cancer, and had a mastectomy. And she was wearing a prosthetic breast for 9 years. In Chinese believe they have this saying called chongxi. Chong means to rinse out and xi means joy. They believe you can just wash out misfortune and replace it with joy. So by them lying to her their grandmother it has prolong her life 3 years and counting. So I guess Chinese tradition really works. Also with some help from some expensive probiotics that their Uncle brought from Japan. But I also think someone should know that they are dying so they came tie up loose ends, maybe mend relationships and squash grudges they having been wanting to do but wasn’t the right time. And this is the perfect time to do so. Plus to prepare the family for your departure and to tell things to your family you want them to know before you live this world.
So there was a time in college when I lied and it cost me to being kicked out of the dorms. Well going to college in California I became friends with some students that just started at the school. So as we find things to do in the dorms, we thought it would be a good idea to go get some beer and bring it back to the dorms. But was we were sadly mistaken that we could boldly walk onto campus, right in front of Chief of public safety with a beer cover in brown paper bag. So we all walked down to the neighborhood beer and liquor store got beer. So the new freshmen and other students go to walk into campus, then Chief of Public Safety stop the freshmen’s in their tracks and taken the beer from out the paper bag. The freshmen students got kicked out the dorms and had only 2 weeks to finds somewhere to live off campus. So me being young and dumb I thought it would be a smart idea to fake like a had beer in a paper bag, after my homies just got pinched the other day for the same thing. So I go to the beer store and buy a Arizona Ice Tea and get it put in paper bag just like the beer from the other day. Then I walked back to dorms entering the back entrance way and as I walk through an I boldly show the paper bag with Ice Tea with in it as I show my I.D. I then started to argue with the Chief of Public yelling at him. I was pushing the Chief’s button by calling him a dickhead, then at that time he had had it. Before I could say sike! “ It’s just an Ice tea!!! He was like you’re finished, then the same day was kicked out of dorms living out of hotel. So by me lying about a beer being in a bag, it got me kicked out of dorms. My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).Hello readers, this blog is about the short story that author Maya Angelou called "My name is Margaret". It is a tale about two black female servants( Margaret and Miss Glory) working for a rich, old, wealth fat white woman, that can't have any children named Ms. Voila Cullinan. So both of the servants have been working for the women for some time now, and one day Ms. Cullinan broke the number one rule, Don't display any form's of racism, derogatory statements about an black person. Let alone right in front if their face! Oh no that's wrong thing to do, so be careful go at your own risk. What if this happens at your job,what do you do?
Because it is hard enough being black, let alone being a black women at that. So she had to stand for what she believed in, so she made her point and made Ms. Culllian feel some pain by breaking her favorite dishware.
This is my store of when I worked at TJMAXX backroom unloading and separating the merchandise for the whole store. So working in the backroom with conditions that may have been harmful to your health, because we was working under an Grocery Store. There was several leaks coming from the ceiling of the store dispelling some sort of liquid. They had someone rig up sort of drainage system piece together with an tarp , connected with holes draining the liquid into a trash can. So a few months passed an they still haven fix the leaks in the ceiling. So there was a day in the summer when the leaks start pop up in areas where the tarp wasn't at and the liquids would drop on your head. I went back to management to tell them about the new leaks, and they simply said "Go back to work!". So I stormed away angry about what they just had said to me, without any regards about the health of their workers or my discomfort. So i when into one of then bents that we sort hats into and put it on my head. Some coworkers were saying "Oh your getting in trouble". I reply " I don't care until they fix these leaks this is what i will be doing". Then here comes the store manager walking into the backroom, she says 'Hey take that hat off!". I reply " No until yall fix these leaks I will be wearing the store merchandise. Because i don't know what in the stuff leaking on my head!. She gave me a blind stare and ask me to walk her to the office. When we arrived in office she said that she understood why i was mad. She then said that she would allow me to wear my own hat until they can fix the leaks in the backroom. |
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