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Discussion 1- Silence
Carlos Alvarado
November 9, 2010m
ESL Discussion 1

In the story, "Silence," the girl realizes that her mother lied about why she cut her tongue. What helped her persevere (succeed or get through a struggle)? Give at least 3 examples including quotes from the text. Include an introduction and conclusion.

In the story, “Silence,” by Maxim Hong, the girl realizes that her mom cut her tongue for no reason. There are a few things that helped her get through her struggle.
First, she helped herself by painting pictures all black. She wanted to communicate with her paintings she felt that she was on a black stage. She thought that she was going to speak better in the future.
Second, she often kept asking questions her about her tongue to her mother about why her mother did that to her. She was always asking her about her tongue, what she did to it, why she would do that, and why she does not like to talk about it. Maybe the girl wishes to go back to the past and see what happened in her life. She probably asked questions to her mom because she wondered why her mother cut her tongue because she felt that her mother was hiding a secret from her.
Thirdly, another thing that helped her persevere was Chinese school. She talks in Chinese school but she did not talk in American school because she said that she doesn’t like her voice; she thinks it sounds “hideous.” Why did she talk in Chinese school? Because she felt like she fit in and she felt more comfortable doing things the Chinese way. In American school you need to perform like you are on a stage, but in Chinese school, she felt that all the Chinese students worked together in a group to help each other.
Finally, the girl’s struggle existed because she didn’t feel like herself because her mother cut her tongue to talk better, but the mother is keeping something from her…that she lied. Trying to wonder why her mother did that, she asked her a lot of questions about when she was little. In the end of the story, when she was in Chinese School, she got up and recited to the whole class even though her voice sounded like, “a crippled animal running.” But, she never quit. In school, she got up and participated and in her house she stands up for herself because she learned what she wanted to know about her life, about her mother cutting her tongue. As a result she became very happy because she learned how to speak better and believe in herself by practicing.

Theme
Garlen,

Great response...you need one more piece of evidence.

CHARACTER TRAITS
Garlen,

Which traits HELPED her. These are not things that helped her to overcome her struggles. These are traits, but not ones that HELPED her to move forward.

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Theme
Describe a theme in "Silence." Give examples to the text to support your answer. Include an introduction, 3 examples, and a conclusion.


One theme for the story “Silence “ is that everybody haves a voice & they cant express it. One of the detail that support’s my theme is “ when she draw’s pictures with a black crayon “. She is expressing her feeling how she is feeling when she sings. By saying she see the curtains rising up.
My second detail that supports my theme is when she arrives to the Chinese school and she talks. And raises her had when she never did that before in normal school. She saw that everybody was her own kind and knew were she was coming from,

In this story the girl she learn how to find her voice she learn how to express what she was feeling by using her voice.

CHARACTER TRAITS

Describe some of the girl's character traits that help her to overcome her struggles in her relationships and at school. Give at least 2 quotes

Well some of the character trait that the girl had was that she felt left out – because she felt like she was the only one that had her fremun cut of .
She was shy because she didn’t want to speak or she would participate

Discussion 1- Silence
In the story, "Silence," the girl realizes that her mother lied about why she cut her tongue. What helped her persevere (succeed or get through a struggle)? Give at least 3 examples including quotes from the text. Include an introduction and conclusion.


In this story in “silence”, this story is about this girl and her mom cut her frenum. And she lied to her for the reason of her mom cutting her fremun. When she try to talk it would sound squeaky. So she decides not to talk at all. When she went to Chinese school she talked more. She predicated more.

This is few things that help her become over her fears

When the girl didn’t talk she would have express what she was feeling was by drawing picture with a black crayon.
When she was in Chinese school she would practice with her sister by singing the words to each other.
The last detail was when she became her fears of being shy and she sang in front of the class.

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is something in real life that the mom cuts the girl tamper sow she could talk better.