Autobiography

I am what i am!!i am an Indian but born in USA.
I am what i am!!i am an Indian and born in India.
my forefathers are Indians,but my grandma was born in Pakistan.
all my family is from India
i know that all our forefathers,etc were Indians.
in my family no one is from other country.
when i live in America then people say that i am an Indian.
all in USA say that I'm an Indian and I'm proud to hear that.
when i live in India then people say that I'm an American.
i feel comfortable here because all are good.
i feel that i am of different planet because on both sides I'm of different nationality
i like USA because everything is available here.
well,i like India then saying USA because i felt like that is my own country
USA gave me many kind of rights.
in other words i feel like the people of India are more better then Americans
I'm happy that i came to USA for my future.
including me/not:)
I'm proud to be an Indian and I'm proud that I'm living in USA by being an Indian.
but I'm happy about this thing that i am both Indian and American:)
i am what i m.
and im proud that whatever i am i am what i am and i will like to remain like this.
i am proud to be myself
i am proud that nobody could be like me and i am unique.

$letter to the author$

*letter*
144-05,
Apt-4a.
Jackson heights,apt-5A,
N.Y. 11313.
Feb 13,2008

Dear speaker,
i read your short story "Ambush".I felt very emotional after reading that story.It was a very good story.The story was expressing the real events which took place in soldier's life.I liked the lines when you said "I remember slapping at them,wondering if i should wake up Kiowa ans ask for some repellent,then thinking it was a bad idea,then looking up and seeing the young man come out of the fog.He wore black clothing and rubber sandals and a grey ammunition belt."
In these lines i guess you tried to convey your feelings that you had for that guy who was fighting with you in the battle field.Those were my favorite lines.
I wanted to ask you that why you realized that whatever you did was not good,why you felt like that??why you had feelings for that guy who was fighting against you in the war but not for any other guy?did you felt anything special about him?can you tell me more about your feelings towards him and tell about yourself that have you ever felt like this with any other person?I will be waiting for your reply.
Your's sincerely,
Prya Saini Kaur.

*$wiki-elements from olauhdah equiano$*

Genre: "In this situation I expected every hour to share the fate of my companions, some of whom were almost daily brought upon deck at the point of death, which I began to hope would soon put an end to my miseries."

Symbolism:"I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic."

imagenary:I envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs.

Plot:this is ocurring durying when the people were slaves which were controlled by trades.
in this topic it is shown that how slaves went through lots of thorns.

Characters:
*protogonist:slaves,Equiano.
*antagonist:Equiano.
*dynamic characters:Equiano.
*static characters:slaves,trade.
*round characters:Equiano

Setting:in a deck of a ship where trade controls the slaves.

Conflicts:man is fighting with himself during he is struggling thorugh slavery as 2 men were jumping in the sea beacause of their sorrowful lives.
And man is fighting with natural climate as in the topic the author says:"The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us."

Point of View:first person.

*$Wik-elements$*

Identify Genre:literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

Symbolism: An object, an event, or a person that represents a larger idea or set of ideas.

imagenary:descriptive language that evokes one or all of the five senses.

Plot: sequence of events,the chain of related events that take place in the story.
*rising action
*climax
*falling action
*resolution
*settings

Characters:the method used by a writer to develop a character.the author demostrates characterization by describing the character's:qualities,appearance,actios,beliefs,thoughts.
*protogonist
*antagonist
*dynamic characters
*static characters
*round characters


Setting:the time and location in which a story takes place.for some stories the setting is very important,while for others it is not.
example::
place and time,weather,or social conditions,mood or atmosphhere.

Conflicts:the struggle between (external)or within(internal)characters.
*man vs man
*man vs nature
*man vs self
*man vs society

Point of View:the perspective from which a story is told.

*$Olaudah Equiano$*

Comprehension Check Questions:
For what crimes were slaves punished? And what was the punishment?
The 2 countrymen who were chained together were punished because they jumped in the sea to get rid of this life of misery as they were annoyed because they did'nt got food whn they were hungry.They were caught after they jumped into the sea.They gave a unmercifully punishment for prefering death to slavery.

Critical Thinking Questions:
Interpret:
Why does Equiano blame the illness aboard the ship on the “improvident avarice” of the traders?
Equiano blames the illness aboard the ship on the "improvident avarice"of the traders because Equiano and the other slaves which were on the ship and chained together were suffering from many diseases and were not able to survive.these diseases occured because of the suffocation in the deck.traders were not concentrating in the health of the slaves which was not a good thing for slaves.slaves were becoming weak day by day because they didnt got proper food.they used to stay hungry and thirsty for many hours.traders kept them in a very bad condition.slaves were chained together in a very less space/used to sit tightly because of the tight chains,this created a lot of suffocation due to which people became ill.The whole main cause of illness was that they could not breath properly.

Support from the text:
How can you tell that Equiano has a great zest for life despite his assertion that he wanted to die?
" I was now more persuaded than ever that I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic." this quote shows that he was satisfied with his slave life instead of being sad like other slaves.he was so confident about himself that he always smiled and used to observe the feelings of others.he never tried to escape from the ship.he always stayed in the deck so that he could not suffer from certain kind of diseases that is why he didnt ever became sick in the ship as others used to remain ill.


Infer:
What does this passage reveal about the author?
this passage reveals that the author,EQUIANO has experienced a lot of things in his life.he has experienced about the lives of the people that how they deal with their lives.he was a very confident person with lot of qualities.he never feared of slavery.he dealed with his life of slavery very smoothely.he experienced that how other people(slaves)hate their life and are feared of traders and becoming helpless.

Draw conclusion:
Explain what a variety of languages indicates about the slave trade.
slave trade gave a very sorrow and painful life to the slaves which made them helpless.
slaves passed through many different painful ways.

Thematic Focus:
When one culture dominates another, what troubles might society face?
when one culture dominates another one then corruption can take place.if one country will domminate other country then a they will fight with each other on certain kind of issues.discrimination among people will also occur.

*$wikibulary words$*

1)excerpt: to take or publish extracts from

2)loathsome: giving rise to

3)pestilential:causing or tending to cause

4)copious:present in large quantity

5)respiration:the physical and chemical processes by which an organism supplies its cells and tissues with the oxygen needed for metabolism and relieves them of the carbon dioxide formed in energy-producing reactions

6)improvident avarice: not provident for Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin avaritia

7)apprehensions: the act or power of perceiving or comprehending

8)procured:to get and make available for promiscuous sexual intercourse

9)wearied: to become weary

10)dejected:cast down in spirits

11)accursed:being under or as if under a curse

12)quadrant:an arc of 90 degrees that is one quarter of a circle

13)kindred:a group of related individuals ,one's relatives

*$quote by D.H.LAWRENCE..$*

The quote “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead from a bough. Without ever having felt sorry for itself.”, which is aid by D.H. LAWRENCE tries to consider a bird as a person and a dead from a bough as a death of a person after he fulfilled his all dreams.he tries to tell us that a person who has achieved his american dream will not feel bad/sorry if he dies at the end.he will feel proud that he did something in his life and then he died.

*$i am nobody.....who are you?????$*

I am a 16 yrs old girl prya saini.I am an indian.I love my india.People say that you are an american citizen then why you love india??I say that i have born in US but india gave me life.when i was a kid and was living in US then i felt like i am in a prison but when i went there then i felt like yes i am free.well that is the another part of my life.I am a girl who knows how to see dreams.I am an optomist who thinks about the brighter side.I am a daughter of my dad who loves me a lot!!I am a friend of thet person who gave me happiness.I am a student of that teacher who appreciates my work.I am an indian with a big heart.
Some times mostly people say that i have a lot of attitude and i am alone and dont talk with anyone but,they dont know what they are saying as they dont know me well.I am unique and i am myself.I am proud to be myself as people never tried to know me......