Okay, this is not an official blog, I just want to dump my frustration, you don't have to read this.
So far, I've started/finished/watched four of Belle Yang's work....and guess what!?!?!? They are all like different versions of the same story, except maybe one is longer than the other. And that's not the worst part.
I'm lost.
What am I looking for? Rhetorical Techniques? The meaning of the story? I feel like the more my brain take it, the more confuse I get. AH!!!!!!!
I'm also lost in her book. She jumps around a lot. She talks about her father in one paragraph, jumps to the history of China that will happen and then falls back to her father when the things she said haven't happen yet. It's hard to give a summary for the annotated bibligraphy when there's like 10 stories in one chapter.
She uses a lot, and I mean ALOT of figurative language. It's okay at first, but it's really annoying after a while.
AND
She introduce a person's name once in the chapter, and then refers to them as he/she for a chunk of the section. I get so confused.
LASTLY
I think I'm doing this wrong since I'm so focused in finding rhetorical techniques that I find myself not paying attention to the story and if I pay attention to the story, I don't really notice the techniques. This goes back to what I should do for notes.
Hopefully, I won't be this frustrated when vacation arrives and I have a decent amount of leisure time to appreciate the books.
ah!!!
BUT
She does have good qualities but I'm too frustrated to name them. I will in the next blog.
2 comments:
Ngoc,
Sorry to hear about the frustration.
My advice is to appreciate the story - try to notice overarching things and moments that surprise you or delight you - not everything.
I'm giving you permission to be less detailed oriented. Try to notice patterns - it seems you already have.
I hope this helpful. We can talk more. Again, I'm not familiar with her work.
OH one more thing, since she seems to tell the same story in different mediums - how does her rhetoric change in each? (Perfect stuff for your paper)
I am sorry that you are fustrated with the work as of now. But I do feel that you should enjoy the book rather than intentionally look for things. That is because I feel that the strong ones (meaning things you write about in the paper) should be more apparent and it would also be easier for you to understand/read the books. For a while I actually just tried to enjoy my book and I find that a lot more things seem to pop out to me then when I intentionally look for it. Either way good luck!
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