Blog Post: How does Lalami go about exploring the word she has chosen? Right from the start of Lalami’s essay, she mentions the word assimilate when talking with her seat mate on the plane; mostly about Koreans. Her seat mate mentions that “they don’t assimilate”. Lalami only continued to listen to the conversation was to try and understand where the miscommunication was within the word assimilate. She goes on to explain the word as “meaning to make similar”. Lalami goes…
Yoshino integrates his quotes by mostly using colons to introduce them. Right after each of his quotes, if needed, Yoshino goes on to explain them for further clarification for the reader. A quote that Yoshino introduces is a single phase sentence that is followed by a colon, ending with another single phase sentence. Yoshino quotes, “The True Self is associated with human spontaneity and authenticity: “Only the True Self can be creative and only the True Self can feel real.”…
Throughout Yoshino’s story, I found that his definition of covering was in a way spot on. I thought that he used the word in the right context. He gave the definition right in the beginning of the text, but then used some more context to fully define it. Yoshino states, “Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream. In our increasingly diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some…
