While I was reading an excerpt about “Fuku” from a story named “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, I could tell the word “Fuku” was a curse that existed among the old world and the new world when I read the first paragraph. I understood most of the wording and language techniques that were used in the excerpt, except for the first two sentences where I had a hard time understanding. When I read the sentences that the author, Oscar Wao used to start off the story with the introduction by saying this in the very first section of the excerpt, “carried by the enslaved” and “that it was the death bane of the Tainos”, I found it very difficult to understand what the first two sentences meant by this. What made it difficult was this phrase in one of the two sentences, “death bane”, and it was an unfamiliar phrase to me and it made the whole sentence difficult for me to understand. The phrase “death bane” in the introduction was bothering me, and as I was looking at it and thinking about it, I had an idea that the phrase meant mass murder, but I believed it meant something else and it started to confuse me. “Carried in the screams of the enslaved” was what I also had trouble understanding because I didn’t know if this sentence referred to the Tainos that were slaves before the new world.
Author: Khia Caze (Page 9 of 9)
I believe what Mike Bunn said, “You already an author” means that we all authors and have written things in our everyday lives. For example, papers, essays, articles, text messages, tweets, posts, and other forms of writing you can think of. Also, we as authors control how our story should go. For example, choices play a part in our writing. Let’s say this, your life right now is a story and you have control over it. There is a life decision you have to make, a good decision and a bad decision. If you choose either of them, it affects you later in life. Everything we choose to do and say is part of our storyline in life, which is the past. when it comes to writing, the choices we make towards how it should go impacts our whole pieces. I’ve already an author because I’ve written stories about my life and my thoughts in journals and written research papers and essays. I even wrote fictional stories back in elementary school. This existing expertise will help me in my college reading and writing by improving my writing techniques and help me learn new things that I can use in my writing, such as vocabulary.
I discovered a method I can use for my writings when I read Bunn’s article. This sentence, “You are reading to learn about writing”, means reading to recognize a writing technique that an author provided in their piece of writing to understand how they put it together. When I read a writing piece, I think about the choices an author makes for their writing piece, why they chose it, and how it affects the audience. The techniques used in pieces influence readers to not only share their own responses to a text as a reader but to influence them to use these techniques authors used in their piece for them to write their own writing pieces and help them create their thoughts and ideas for it. When I read the way a piece is written, it makes me feel something and that influences me to write.
After reading Hanif Abdurraqib’s article and watching Unlearning My Name in class, I feel like both of these talk about how their name is influenced by family and culture and how their names have been mispronounced or misspelled, which is normal. I also assume that their names reflect their true identity. My name is Khia. “Khia” it’s a unique name. My name was supposed to be “Kia,” but my mother decided to add “h” so that I wasn’t named after a car company called “Kia” and that people wouldn’t make fun of it. When I meet new people, most of them pronounced my name wrong. They pronounced it as “kai-uh,” but it’s pronounced as “kee-uh.” I really love my name. Although I was uncertain about it in the past.
My name comes from an indigenous and African-American background. I was born with a mixed heritage, mainly Native American and some Caucasian, so I am technically a multiracial or “Black Native American”
I know that most African Americans and multiracial people have unique names and different backgrounds, but most of them I know don’t have an indigenous family history. Most of the girls in my race have a common unique name in African American culture. My name is very different. Most people I know have no other backgrounds outside their ethnicity or race background. It made me feel confused and isolated because I wasn’t like other people at all and I didn’t understand how other people don’t have multiple backgrounds like me. I felt like I was the person who had an “unknown” race, which means that I didn’t know which race I belong to despite the color of my skin. I hated being different because I felt like everyone was the same and that it was impossible to find a similar connection with someone.
I couldn’t figure out what my name means and what it means to other people. I was not able to find my own true identity, who I am. I lost myself.
Suddenly, I noticed that all of these things reflected my personality as I do the things I love, how I interacted with and behaved with others, and I didn’t notice what I did that reflected my name. I even realized that although most people share a similarity, it doesn’t mean that everyone has to have this kind of connection or something in common, including personality. It doesn’t matter. I also realized that most people have unique backgrounds, whenever you’re white, black, or of any race.
Everyone is just different. I enjoy being unique now, and most importantly, I also found my true identity and being proud of my mixed background. I love my name because I am exceptional and proud of t
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