Sunday, August 29, 2010

No Speak English

First of all, Mamacita is homesick. Same as everyone if one day they have been far away from the place where they lived, surely they will feel homesick. What is the word “homesick” means? Why Mamacita’s homesick?

Homesick is when you’ve been far away from your home. Whatever the reasons are. You will feel miss your home and realize that everything is not the same as before, feeling strange and felt sad. So that’s what homesick mean.

Mamacita’s felt homesick because she had to move to place where she never been before with her husband who took her the baby boy here to work for their two. Even though, her husband painted her room to pink color but she still sad because, she feel nothing about it except felt missing her own home.

Second reason why mamacita’s homesick is she can’t speak English so that made mamacita don’t have any friends and have to stay at her room all day long. So when she felt lonely, miss her home, and when she listen to her country songs it made her felt sad that’s why she cried and homesick.

Therefore, mamacita is homesick because she missed her home and she can’t speak or understand English so she has a hard time living in this new country. So these are the reasons why mamacita’s homesick.

By: Jindarad Nuanmanee {Bee}

Saturday, August 28, 2010

No Speak English ( Why Mamacita is homesick?)

Have you ever heard the word "There's no place like home". Home is a place where we can feel peace, safe and secure. It does not make us feel happy only but it also makes us feel angry, sick, bored or maybe even insecure. There is really nothing that makes us feel like home and that is what Mamacita is feeling like.

Home, everybody has a home. What do you feel when you are not at home? Do you feel homesick? Or do you feel scared and unsafe? When most people left their home for a short time, they feel nothing because anyway after a while they will go back. But for some other people, they left their home for work or studies at other country for a long period of time. Some will continue their university at other countries like America or England. What they will feel is homesick and want to come home.

Before I begin this paragraph I would like to tell you again that "There's no place like home". Everything has it's strengths and it's flaws. For this topic, the strength is we will feel happy, peace, safe and secure but the flaw is we can sometimes feel angry, sick, bored and insecure.

Not only at home that we can feel angry, sick, bored and insecure. We can experience these feeling anywhere like at school or at work. But the most common is at home. When we are mostly at home we will feel peace and safe because we are with our family and it's place where we spent most of the time. We can even study or work at our house if we are sick or it's difficult to go to work.

All in all, home is a place where we feel safe and secure. If we go to other people's house for a long time we will miss our house and we will try to change that house feeling to the way we like it. I would like to end this essay by saying that "There's no place like home".

No Speak English

People rather stay home when they don’t know where to go. Such as the story “No Speak English”, the mamacita doesn’t know where to go, so she rather stays home. The reason why she doesn’t go anywhere is because she can’t speak English clearly. She also missed her home a lot and she can’t go back. And last, she is too big and it’s hard for her to travel from place to place.
English is the most important language in the world. If we don’t know English, we can’t communicate with other foreigners and we will be home sick in their country. Such as the story “No Speak English”, mamacita who doesn’t know English well can’t communicate with other people, so she rather stay in her room than went out somewhere. Everybody miss their home when they went somewhere out of their country.
Everybody can’t forget their home that their miss their home. Their will start thinking of their home and wanted to go back. As the story “No Speak English”, mamacita really wanted to go back to her home, but her husband needs to stay in Mexico and work ,so she also need to stay there. She will start to cry when she think of her home like everybody. It’s hard for huge or big people to travel from place to place.
It’s hard for fat people travel from place to place. It will cause a lot of problems like the story “No Speak English”, which the mamacita stay in the taxi and will went back to her apartment. When the taxi arrived, she needs someone to help pull her out of the taxi, which is cause problem. So she rather stays home often than went somewhere else.
Everybody miss their own home, they will start thinking of their home when they are far away from their home. As you will go somewhere out of the country, you should know how to speak English or else you will don’t know what to do. Fat people rather stay home or it will cause many problems to other people and yourself.

Why we do not have to follow grammar rules in writing short story

Book is our best friend. I’m sure everyone will agree with that. But have you ever noticed that most of the story will have at least ten grammar mistakes. I will say that we do not have to follow grammar rules in writing short story. Each person has their own style in writing book. There are three grammar rules that the author usually break. Sometimes, the author will use slang words or conversation to make us feel the feeling of characters. In conclusion following the rules is not always required in writing short and long story.

To write a short story, each person will have their own way to produce or make their sentences. Even though it may not be their real natural innate style, but people will remember that it is their style. For example, in the story 'No Speak English', Sandra Cisneros, the author, used the sentence “Home. Home. Home is house in a photograph” to give us more pressure and to feel that it is home while we are reading it. This sentence also provides a grammar mistake, but it is Sandra’s way to make a sentence more attraction. As long as the sentence is giving us a positive feeling, it is alright to not follow the grammar rules.

The author usually breaks three grammar rules: ending the sentence with preposition, beginning sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’, and splitting infinitives. Stated by CopyBlogger, these three rules are made to be broken. Most people try to switch the sentence not to end with preposition. Sometimes, it even makes a sentence terrible to read. In the interest of readability, it is all right to end a sentence with a preposition. In the same case, to start a sentence with ‘and’ or ‘but’, it is now acceptable to start the sentence with conjunction. You are not allowed another word to come between ‘to’ and its verb. This is the last rule to be broken. For example “To go boldly” it is better to write as “To boldly go”, so sometimes it is all right to split the infinitive. Therefore, on the whole, it is find to not follow the grammar rules in writing story.

We do not have to follow grammar rules because sometimes it also requires the author to use slang words. It will be easy for us to understand more about the character’s feeling. For example, if the character is teenager. The author may use the sentence like ‘I’m baaack’ to show that she or he is speak in a drawl. So that we will understand more feeling about how the character is doing. That is why we do not have to use correct grammar in writing story.

In conclusion, following the grammar rules in writing book sometimes seem annoying for us. We don’t have to follow the rules every time we write a book. People may have one’s style to make their best sentences. There are also some silly grammar rules that we can break. It is also giving us more poetic flavor while reading a book. Therefore, on the whole, it is not always required for the authors to follow the grammar rules.