Alarm Clock

So for the first time since I started working at the bank and the move I made a friend. It was cool, I always had Guyanese friends but this time, the girl is a white girl. She was coming over for dinner but I didn’t know if she would like “my” type of food. I don’t know what “white” people eat, hamburgers and fries all the time?

So when she came over I introduced her to my aunt and uncle, and Jenny turns to me and say “Ally, you look just like your aunt.” Now my aunt had a puzzled look on her face but didn’t say anything.

All of a sudden, while we were listening to our favorite radio soap opera in the living room the alarm goes off! “Allahu-Akbar, Allah.” Oh my gosh!?! I don’t understand why my aunt needs a loud speaker reminder as to when to pray, she can just have a regular alarm clock.

Azan Clock

Thoughts on readings

The Plot Against America and several of the other readings gave some incite to our overall project we are working on and what direction I should be taking. The time aspect in the Plot against America made the novel stand out and paradoxical. For some reason when stating something in chronological order or within a time frame words seem to flow too fast and lacks emotion and experience. The words just seem to come out without thinking. This is shown as an example in chapter 8 compared to the other chapters that Philip narrates in kind of a forward backward time frame. Especially chapter 9, this made me cry, because he was stating that Seldon would come to realize his mother was gone. And death as a perpetual fear. Something that has become part of my fears the loss of someone when I lost someone dear to me last year.

I also liked Everyday Use, coming from an Indian family but from the Caribbean we are mixed with a lot of different ethnic/ cultural aspects. I could see how Dee acts is something like how I would do. Only at certain times is it “fashionable” to say you are of a certain heritage. In some groups of friends I identify myself as Indian, or others as Caribbean or even as Muslim with other groups of people.

Recitatif was also an interesting story. It was more like multiple scenes in a movie that jumps over time periods and the date is noted on the bottom. You are kind of given its different time periods just from the way the characters act or what is part of their environment. Also that Roberta and Twyla could never get out of their mind about Maggie. This is that their experience will shape their lives and how they interact. Roberta and Twyla both could never get out of their minds about Maggie. We never forget the peculiar or something that is against the norm in our lives.