Vietnamese Immigrants Escape From Pain

In her article Yang uses many rhetorical tools to analyze the act of self-immolation and the Browne’s photograph. She analyze the power structure how it was affected by the act of self-immolation by Duc, she uses Ethos and Pathos, shows the how the act was deliberate and forensic while using micro-forms. The article has a strong emotional appeal. Yang uses vivid words to describe the act of self-immolation. The wording used by Yang is strong and descriptive which paints a picture in the mind of the reader. He analyzes the affect the picture has on the audience and talks about the about to die moment. Browne captures the picture of the monk right before he dies and the affect this has on the viewer. The viewer of the picture questions who is to blame and what could have been done to prevent the act of self-immolation. She analyzes the emotional appeal of the picture, then analyzes the character appeal of the picture.

Did you know that the Vietnam War, which lasted for approximately 20 years, is the longest war in the entire U.S history. Ha’s life mirrors the universal refugee experience as their lives are turned “Inside Out” because both ha’s life and refugees had to flee, were under attack and had to adapt to their new surroundings.

A challenge Wiesel and Beah face is dealing with pain in all forms of it. In A Long Way Gone, Beah took some bullet wounds during war. In A Long Way Gone Beah states,“How did you get these scars? Bullet wounds” (Beah 248). Beah experiences physical pain in this instance, which relates

While America’s government felt that aiding the Vietnamese refugees was the best solution, many Americans held negative judgments toward them, causing a division between American citizens and Vietnamese refugees. Prior to America granting refugees permission to enter, Americans struggled with the education system in cities and economically. When the government began to use “two thirds of the taxes for the war” (Chisholm), rather than for issues happening at home, people started to grow angry. The government uses taxes to help supply different divisions with money to help American citizens, however if majority of this money goes to aiding outside sources, then Americans are left to suffer. By using American money to support the Vietnamese, resentment

To ease one’s pain, humans will do anything to escape the negative emotions they feel, even if it is not healthy. In the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, he effectively shows how Saul faces a journey of undoing years of isolation after his traditions and values are ignored by St. Jeromes, a residential school. This experience causes him a large amount of emotional pain. Therefore, Saul copes with his problems by escaping reality itself so he does not need to dwell on his negative emotions.

Any genre of literature can talk about pain. Pain is something that everyone can relate to; therefore, many writers use the theme of pain in their works in order to make a connection with any person who reads it. Some authors may be able to perceive pain better than others and they may be due to their history, or perhaps each genre of literature may be able to equally show pain through its works regardless of what the authors background is. The fact of the matter is, the only way to tell if different authors can show the same amount of pain in their different types of literautre, is to take a look at multiple genres of literature that talk about pain. This paper analyzes John Cheever’s short-story “The Swimmer” (1964), Edwidge Danticat’s non-fiction Brother, I’m Dying (2007), and Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “Facing It” (1988), in order to show that different genres of literature can perceive pain better than others.

Humor’s foundations are made up of seeds of truth, from which comedy and laughter can grow from. Within these seeds different types of issues are found that cast a wide array of topics in which are discussed or given question to by humorists. As the evolution of humor continues to grow it can be seen that it will continue down a darker road, as history has

If pain is inevitable then maybe the best course of action would be to have a reason to suffer. Baldwin’s character Sonny effectively portrays this mindset. In a conversation with his older brother Sonny asks, “‘why do people suffer? Maybe it’s better to do something to give it a reason, any reason’” (44). Sonny’s reason to suffer is from his heroin addiction. He is a musician with an acute sensitivity to the dark environment around him. He feels a deeper, harsher connection to the human’s fate to suffer. “‘I’ve been something I didn’t recognize, didn’t know I could be. Didn’t know anybody could be,’ [Sonny says] ‘Sometimes, you know, and it was actually when I was most out of the world that I felt that I was in it, that I was with it, really, and I could play, it just came out of me, it was there’” (45). By creating a reason for suffering, Sonny seems to suffer more. He reaches a dark, low level and alters who he was, loses his identity. Suffering is what he channeled through his music, because of suffering being everywhere. “It filled everything, the people, the music, the dark, quicksilver barmaid, with menace: and this menace

My family on the same car with my uncle, the other on the same car with Steven. The traffic congestion is common in Chicago. But, that was really bustling for newcomers. On the road, there was many dead animals like: deer, skunk, and raccoon. We got home at 7:00pm. This time in Vietnam, the sun had already set, but not here. “It will set at 9:00 pm” my uncle said. My first impression about that house was that is a big and smell good inside. The first Vietnamese American is Kim Nguyen, she cooked many Asian foods for us as chicken soup, chicken salad squeeze, Vietnamese salad… because she knows we could not eat American food on the first day. I was guided downstairs because I couldn’t eat or do something right now. A sleep will probably

In this dark place I began to hear people ridiculing me for my failures. I had not at the age of nineteen fulfilled any of the self- actualizations I made for myself. In steps substance abuse to hold me tight and caress my worries, silence the voices if I did enough of them at once. Suicide became my favorite dream and pain my release. During this major depression I learned that not everybody hears voices in their heads like I did. This caused further isolation, to complement the depression. I would often walk to Franklin Park a local golfing, sporting, and general hang-out spot. I went there, with pain stored up and compressed in my body, and wait behind the tall trees with a knife in my hand. My intention as usual was to cure my pain by afflicting pain on others. Pain on pain makes pain less painful. This went on for months until one night on the bus ride home from

In a world full of pain today, many choice to ignore it or rather bottle it up and showcase it on a shelf which gives it a sort of control over a person. Yet throughout time there have been certain individuals who have truly captured there pain instead of letting their pain control them. One of these individuals would include a certain painter by the name Frida Kahlo and one painting in particular named "Diego and I" showcases her greatest pain, a love that was never meant to be.

Mental anguish and how it effects various people differently and is usually held inside and not talked about, to the point of being bottled up in to a Silent Scream. Many different things can cause mental anguish. From not living up to some loved one’s standards causing feelings of being lesser than they should be. Doing a job for many years and never getting any credit or acknowledgement for it causing you to want to give up or in on life as they know it. All the way to watching someone die and even in some cases thinking or being the cause of their deaths. These are just a few of the types of things that can and have caused mental anguish in these stories and poems. These silent screams we hold so close and locked up inside, never to be known, finally

Although the government’s intentions to provide security and protection to the Vietnamese was positive, ultimately, it behaved as a disadvantage. Not only did the refugees have to assimilate into a new culture, but they faced challenges from citizens who held discontent for them. Yet, the refugees still prospered even with the odds against them. Since then, however, a new crisis that appears to be similar has occurred. America yet again has found itself caught between joining a war with Syria or abandoning the war to focus on issues afflicting its citizens. Though the President has already sent attacked Syria, he has yet to announce officially that America waged war against the President of Syria. While Americans argue against going to war

The story reflects a soldier that is about to be hung as an enemy to another militant force (Bierce). The shocking escape plan that Bierce describes through the text, shows the desperate will to survive. This genius work of literature makes the reader believe that the soldier escapes his coming death, but in the end turns out to only be a fantasy before death. War takes loved ones from their families and soldiers are taught to see an enemy as less than human. A man who was simply doing as he was told must seek his death if caught by the opposing side. This concept creates an overbearing sadness within soldiers making their jobs undesirable. Many soldiers were not respected for their vulgar line of work and therefore; this created a division between military persons and outsiders. Following the Civil War suicide rates increased tremendously (Lande). The severity of the war and its conditions traumatized the soldiers who were able to make it out alive. War has been and will remain to be a major part of society and the harshness of it still takes lives away. Literature throughout the realism time period reflected author's feelings about the tragedy of

Since Indochinese refugees started arriving in the United Sates, the main concern have been voiced about consequences of the war and their experiences on their mental health. There haven’t been any studies that examined the complex relationships between psychological traumatic experiences and depression among Vietnamese Americans. Studies on the mental health status of people after traumatic experiences in war, Nazi concentration camps, and natural disasters found that traumatic social and natural events are related to various forms of psychological problems among the victims (Tran, 1993). Most refugees fled from Vietnam to the United States to get away from the horrifying tragic. According to (Kunz, 1973), refugees are “pushed out of” their country, whereas immigrants are “pulled away from” their homeland. Vietnamese respondents in this study were conceived and grew up amid the war, and a significant number of them were specifically included in battle or invested years in death camps, either in comrade detainment facilities or in refugee camps. While others witnessed violent death of family members, or experienced rape, robbery, or starvation as they escaped from Vietnam.