Bullying

Hello again! With the semester coming to an end this is my last blog for my World Literature class. In this blog I want to talk about a very important topic that affects many people, that topic is bullying. People of all ages are bullied, from toddlers to people of old age. People get bullied for all sorts of reasons, from having different views on a topic, have different hobbies, to them having a disability, and many other reasons. In the novel, Notre- Dame de Paris, Quasimodo the main character was bullied because he had a physical deformity. Quasimodo had a hunched back, a leg that was shorter than the other and a deformed face. In the novel the sisters wanted to kill Quasimodo because they believed he was evil that his eye was a egg with a devil inside. They thought that he was bad so he should just be killed. I am glad that today bullying is getting better, and people who have disabilities are not looked at as being bad they are now cherished for who they are and are assisted to live their life to the fullest. With that thank you for reading my blogs!

Man travels to India to help Women

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/recalls-journey-rescue-india-youth-horrors-sex-slavery-article-1.1259918
         Hey all! I am back to talk about a very interesting article that I recently read, which I have linked above. This article titled Former NY Met and current Toronto Blue Jay R.A. Dickey tells story of his journey to rescue India's youth from horrors of sex slavery, was a very touching story because Dickey made the trip with his two daughters to India to work with Bombay Teen Challenge (BTC) in the efforts to slowly end sex slavery. These women are usually promised jobs as either a housekeeper or seamstress but then they end up getting locked in a small room being a sex slave. I read this article because it reminded me of the current book we are reading for our World Literature class, The Waiting Years, the article reminded me of this book because in the book Shirakawa has concubines. Which concubines are women kept by a rich man for sexual purposes. Not only does he have these concubines but he has his wife who he was no longer interested in find them for him. I believe Fumiko Enchi the author of this book wrote it to make a point that women should not have to live like that they should not have to be someones slave, which is also what Dickey is trying to get stopped in India. I am glad that this issue is getting better in the world but it is still a problem that needs to disappear.

I Wish

Hello again! I am back and want to tell you all about the experience I had of watching the Japanese foreign film I Wish. I thought watching a foreign film would be difficult because I had another project where I needed to watch a television show without any sound and that was extremely difficult because I could not keep up with the reading of the subtitles. But this experience was very different, even though I still needed to read subtitles they went at a pace where I could read them all and still see what was happening in the movie. Well I suppose you are wondering what this movie is all about. I Wish is about two young brothers who are separated when the parents get a divorce and one lives with mom while the other lives with dad. The boys talk on the phone often and talk about the bullet train and how they heard that if you make a wish while the two bullet trains pass each other your wish will come true. Each brother and a couple friends decide to meet and wish on the trains. Each have a very special wish that they want to come true. The older of the two brothers says he wants the family to get back together so he said he was going to wish for something to  happen where the family would have to get together again, but when it came time to actually make a wish he did not because he thought it would be selfish. Many things about this video made me wonder, one thing that made me wonder is why would the parents of all these children let them travel all by themselves overnight to a different town to make a wish on trains, why wouldn't a parent go with them. In our county now parents won't hardly let their children walk or bike to school let alone go to a different town on a train. I also wondered why the boys were split up, why wouldn't they be with one parent for the week and the other on the weekend. I do not know why one would split the children up when a divorce is a hard enough time for the children. Lastly I did not understand why all the writing on the children's shirts was in English. Why wouldn't the writing be in Japanese with it being a Japanese movie. Even thought some parts of this movie had me confused I still really enjoyed this movie and have a good afternoon watching it. I hope you also consider  watching I Wish.