Thomson Li

Professor Dr. Leigh Gold

ENG 1121 D432

17 May 2019

                                                              Writing Reflection

In the beginning of class I was confused about the things you wanted us to learn through our writing and reading. As the months a pass I realize my writing needed work and how if we sure our writing it would help us in the future. Now that i’m thinking about it I think I learn a few things from my fellow classmates. All of them have unique way to write, and i notice these through open lab. I didn’t read all but I read a few which were good.

From the start i always had trouble understanding poems and short story. It was really hard for me and even now I can’t understand the writing the author want me to read it from. I would never understand what they want me as a reader to know. So during this class we were given many poems and I read some. Some were easier than some other but I understood some. After reading we would share the what we thought it meant and made it easier for me to understand after class. Secondly sad to say but my grammar is like a child. I never go back and check my essay. I would always think it’s fine because I read really fast I skim through basically so i wouldn’t notice.

During this semester i revise all of them with the help of a tutor but never had the chance to print the revised version out. I would have exams come up so it was hard to reprint the newly written essay. When I was revising the proffor reading my paper said I really need to work on my grammar, I laughed and said I know. Knowing that i also realize my paper needed a lot of work I should focus on reading to improve my writing. Writing about my idea and is my strength because I could never say the things I write because it personal. I can share my feelings through writing, my opinion, and my thoughts. I don’t think I improve much I still make the same mistakes twice so i’m not to sure.

When we read about Ray Bradbury and the other poem authors. For years I didn’t understand poems so I would like to understand them now as I get older so it helped when we read this in class. Gave me time to realize what some poems mean. I still like to write how I feel I don’t know what kind of writing style that. I would say I don’t mind any because I get to figure out another way of writing. The genre essay was difficult in some sense, I had to do some research for the genre I chose which was difficult. Well repurposing my genre essay I had to go back and check my mistakes and what I did wrong through out that essay. Im was never a good reader, throughout this semester we read a lot so I hope it help impact my reading because i’m not sure myself yet. I hate reading but I try my best to I would always skim through it look at the important facts and highlight and remember that part only.

When writing I would have thought is self expression. A way to tell your own story for reader to read. Have significant connection to readers and hope it can impact someone’s life. When I was younger I hated english I was never the person that pass english. I was always good at math, but then when I had a good teacher i realized how it was english was easy, you just need to put in effort in to reading and writing your thought clearly. I would say my highschool writing was poor but entering college I learn some new things that i think help change my writing for the better. To hope for the future I want to be better in writing so I can use it when needed for my job or mayne for future kids. In doing so I believe this semester and my last semester of english was helpful learn new perspective and new way to think of writing

Thomson Li

Professor Dr. Leigh Gold

ENG 1121 D432

                                                            Genre Assignment

In Japanese mythology there culture was meaningful, I found this genre interesting. There are many Japanese myth that was factiting, when reading some of these myths they sounded like old fable. The Japanese always try to incorporate something in existence and time of creation. Which means beginning of time were ancient peoples beliefs on a certain thing or certain creature with power. For generations a person name Nihon Shoki stated “that the Kamiyonanayo group was the first to appear after the creation of the universe, as opposed to the Kamiyonanayo appearing after the formation of heaven and earth”. It was said that the Japanese people believes in the higher up (deities). They worship these myth and fables and legends because of the proud it gives out. Given that I believe that ancient Japanese myth are necessary for society because of how relatable it is for the people to come together. How even deities got problems like a normal person.

What I found interesting about Japanese mythology was how there version of gods are deities and warriors. The samples that I have read, they all seem like fables to me because they are short stories. I found these five myth on wikipedia “Izanagi in the underworld”, “Sun, moon and storms”, “Amaterasu and Susanoo”, “Susanoo and Orochi”, “ Prince Ōkuninushi”. I read many other too, but these seem more connected with one another. What these five myth have in common was that how their story went about, all five all lead back to the origin of deities. I feel like if the people in our society knew of the myth that Japanese had, they would be interested in other cultures and their way of thinking and how their culture came to be. How their Japanese people in the past created this myth. The history about the myths are how one deities gave birth to many other. In the “Sun, moon and storms” the deities was given birth from Izanagi. It was said that each time he undress another deity was formed “As he undressed and removed the adornments of his body, each item that he dropped to the ground formed a deity”. This gave birth to “Amaterasu (incarnation of the sun) from his left eye, Tsukuyomi (incarnation of the moon) from his right eye, and Susanoo (incarnation of storms) from his nose”. The moral of this story was how these deity came to be, and reading about the others it show how these individual deity and what they had to protect, they were given a role to what needing protecting.

The Japanese myth  had many view to their main points. They all share a common message of what they had to protect and how deity came to be from their origin. The five story I chose are closely similar due to their structure. You can say that these deities were once a family at one point and separated because of different belief, and one of the story is about a descendant of susanoo, the story of “Prince Ōkuninushi”. She was a foreshadowing a figure, she foresee a future that she didn’t want to happen and she went to see the descendant susanoo in the underworld where he was banished. so what I found interesting in this was how it talks about how when she needed help she would go seek it. This bring you back to a real life scenario. Where a person can relate to the story. The form of this genre is basically a short story, easy to understand and help give us a small picture of imagination. Although we don’t know who started the myth but we know they wanted people to understand the story and hopefully relate to it and respect its legend. There are other who knows of these myths in Japan, the people who believe so much in these myth they named their shrine after these tails. All five of these myths are almost similar like I said in the beginning it’s like one origin starts

These myth gives off vivid examples of what they are giving off to the people that wants to believe in their myths. I believe that the goals of these myth was for the Japanese to come together, and relate. Although they are not exactly the same they all have their own story, how in “Izanagi in the underworld” was about how “Izanagi lamented the death of Izanami and undertook a journey to Yomi (the shadowy land of the dead)”. While in the others like “Sun, moon and storms” was about how Izanagi dropped items, and how the items becoming deities. That the beginning of the origin story for the deities. In “Amaterasu and Susanoo” it was about how siblings have different ideal of what good and evil, and being deity Susanoo was banish from the heaven, and “Susanoo and Orochi” was about an old tail of susanoo being a deity he was banaish, while being banish he met a old couple. They sought his help protecting their only daughter from the evil dragon orochi “The old couple explain that they originally had eight daughters who were devoured, one after the other, by the dragon, Yamata no Orochi”. So he offer to help if he can have a “ hand in marriage” with the author and of course the couple agree. As a parent all you want is to protect the most precious thing their child. Finally the story of “ Prince Ōkuninushi” he was a descendant of Susanoo. The main plot of this story was that the prince encounter a rabbit that was hurt, and cured it “the cured rabbit made a divined prediction that Ōnamuji”. This goes to show how different these myth are but it also goes to show how similar they are. By showing deities having the same problems as a regular person so that many can relate to the myth.

As stated I believe that Japanese mythology is a meaningful genre. That I think people should know about. I feel like many can relate to these myth. Even though I find these myth like a short story, it is so much more. It relatable to many other, you can understand the culture so much with these myth and many others. How do origin of these came from, where they come from, and how their purpose of life. What they need to protect, what they stood for. A myth that a parent can tell to their kids so they would pass it on to the next generation. Having the story pass down to one generation to the next with proud from these story that they can one day relate to it.

Works Cited

Japanese mythology. (2019, April 03). Retrieved from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mythology

Japanese Creational Myths. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.crystalinks.com/japancreation.html

To the Underworld (Yomi-no-kuni) and Back. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.japanesemythology.jp/yomi-no-kuni/

what I notice about my writing is that while I think of words I am also limited to certain amount of words which was challenging, because of the haiku has only 5,7,5 syllable poem.

HAIKU:

Empathy and needs
Interpret identity
Serve existent flaws

Goal:to improve reading comprehension skills

Quote: without proper guidance your perspective on reading and writing will be mislead