Kira Ridenour Professor Montgomery-Moore Short Fiction 236 May 12th, 2023 Final Analysis Paper of Two Stories “Safari” by Jennifer Egan holds a shifting omniscient view that provides the reader with context into each character's individual stories. This story describes a chaotic family adventure involving Charlie and Rolph, Lou, and his girlfriend Mindy. Charlie and Rolph are Lou’s children, and they are having a hard time accepting Mindy as an addition to the family. “Thirty-Nine Rules for Making a Hawaiian Funeral into a Drinking Game” also portrays a realistic approach to family dynamics. Kristiana Kahakauwila set this story up by numbering one through thirty-nine with instructions to drink when something happens at the funeral. This …show more content…
In “Safari”, Charlie has been watching the warriors dancing and has noticed she has been acting differently since arriving in Africa. For example, “During her days in Africa, she has begun to act differently—like one of those girls who intimidate her back home. In a cinder-block town that the group visited a few days ago, she drank a muddy-looking concoction in a bar and wound-up trading away her silver butterfly earrings” (Egan, 2). This takes place when Charlie is watching the warriors dance and sing, and noticing how different the culture might be compared to her own back home. The phrase “like one of those girls who intimidated her back home” stuck out to me because the wording here gives the reader a sense that she feels stronger and more powerful than before. We get this sense of power as she gains confidence and “sways” to their music and dances. The quote also gives the reader a sense of rebellion by saying that Charlie was drinking and ended up giving away a valuable pair of earrings. As a reader, it can be easy to relate to this theme of estrangement from the environment you’re in. Most people have had a sense that they are an outcast in a certain place, and it can be uncomfortable, Egan does a great job explaining that feeling. In “Thirty-Nine Rules for Making a Hawaiian Funeral Into a Drinking Game”, there is a strong feeling of estrangement that the narrator is going through throughout the entire funeral. Since she only moved to Hawaii a year earlier, she doesn’t feel like she fully fits in with her family, especially since her mom is white. For example, the narrator states, “You cannot hula or play the uke. You do not speak pi-gin. You never add the right proportion of water to poi. But you can summarize your grandmother’s life in a five-paragraph essay” (Kahakauwila, 3). This happens as the narrator is watching her younger cousin play the uke
Charlie is shown to be timid to
Historically and in modern times, Hawaiian myths and legends have significantly impacted their culture and society. In addition, these stories continue to be a source of inspiration, connection, and cultural identity for Native Hawaiians today. This essay will explore some of the most prominent ways these myths and legends have impacted modern Hawaiian culture and society, including specific legends and myths and how they have served in revitalizing the culture through colonization. Myths and legends have played a massive role in preserving and revitalizing the Hawaiian language and culture, especially through colonization. The stories were mainly told in the Hawaiian language, being passed down via oral tradition.
As he gains intelligence, Charlie realizes his co-workers, including Joe and Frank, seem afraid of him and are not so friendly anymore. Finally, Charlie recognizes that Frank and Joe used to laugh at him and never were his real friends. He feels foolish for being deceived by them. It's a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now I know what it means when they say "to pull a Charlie
I like to think of this song from Charlie's perspective to his aunt helen. At the end of the book Charlie says, “I guess we are the way we are for a lot of reasons.. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” (Chbosky 211) Charlie does not want to be labeled as someone who was sexually abused, but he knows that it IS a small part of him.
Yet questions about his reformation linger” (Rosenblum). In the opening scene, Charlie is a sole survivor, while all of the other members of the previous crowd he was with succumb to death, disease, or dishonor. While everything about his casual demeanor towards drinks suggest he has moved on from his past, it still leaves the readers questioning whether or not he can be truly trusted on this matter, and wondering if Charlie really has fought his
These quotes from the text shows how Charlie’s not only upset at his “friends” but also at himself for now he started to become just like those
Because of this, he can stick up for himself and stand against the people making fun of him resulting in better relationships with other people and less people taking advantage of him. When Charlie starts noticing that people have been making fun of him, he says, “‘I’m sick and tired of people making fun of me. That’s all. Maybe before I didn’t know better, but I do now, and I don’t like it.”’ (57)