Essays on Spirit

In her critique of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Janelle Taylor argues that Anne Fadiman’s portrayal of Hmong culture is problematic. Please explain how Fadiman’s story is problematic. In your discussion, be sure to consider: How is the story set up as a tragedy? That is, if both the parents and the…

The House of the Spirits is a novel written by Isabel Allende in 1982. One of the main characters in the novel is Esteban Trueba. As the story progresses, we see Esteban continuously thinking he can get what he wants but never stays satisfied. He goes through many changes throughout the novel. The main alterations…

1. Introduction- introduce the book, summarize what it is about, and then give your opinion about it, which is your Main Point The book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, narrates the pathetic story of suffering and death of Lia. It is the story of Lia, the thirteenth child of…

If one is born and raised in a Filipino family and community, they will definitely recognize the term ‘albularyo’ (or ‘arbularyo’ which is a common mistake in spelling due to mispronunciation). Usually, Filipinos seek these ‘albularyos’ as an alternative for going to the hospital. By tradition and because of chronic economic constraints particularly in the…

In Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, Allende uses the characters experiences to symbolize the struggles between the lower and upper classes. Characters like Esteban and the tenants captured the roles of the Elite and working class through out the novel at Tres Marias. Wile there are those like Blanca and Pedro who challenge…

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a book by Anne Fadiman about a Hmong family (the Lee’s) that moved to the United States. It deals with their child Lia, her American doctors, and the collisions of those two cultures. In Fadiman’s unbiased book I learned that there are many cultural differences between…

Today marks ten whole years since Studio Ghibli first shared Spirited Away with the world. Thus far it is the only foreign film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which says a lot about it and its success with foreign audiences. Spirited Away is one of my favourite films for the simple…

Spirited Away Essay In the movie ‘Spirited Away’ by Hayo Miyazaki is about a journey to the land of spirits of a ten year old girl named Chihiro. She has puffy cheeks and downcast expression and can be seen as having an awkward personality – angry and miserable, and unwilling to do anything out of…

What is Ascetic Spirit?  In the first instance, the word “Ascetic” pertains to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline or it may refer to “ascetic practices” or it may refer an abstainer or “someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline.” (Wordnet, n.d) By these range of definition given…

This story is about two aboriginal kids, Amelia and Peta, sister and brother, girl and boy, who get kidnapped under the laws of the Canadian government, who chi is completely legal, and were taken to a Residential school to be educated to be implosions. They were forced into giving up their whole culture and everything…