The Woman Warrior - DJ # 5

The Woman Warrior - DJ # 5

Quote 1:
"Brave Orchid saw that all variety had gone from her sister. She was indeed mad. 'The difference between mad people and sane people,' Brave Orchid explained to the children, 'is that sane people have variety when they talk story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over." - page 159, paragraph 4, Brave Orchid (Aiaa)

Significance:
I choose this quote because it's kinda showing the harships and challanges that Brave Orchids family is having to deal with because of Moon Orchids going mad. They are having to sneak out of the house because Moon Orchid will grab a hold of the families clothing so that they wouldn't leave her to the "Mexican Ghosts". I blame this on Brave Orchid because she dragged her on a plane from China to the U.S. Then made her go up and down the west coast, back and forth through cities and L.A. I think that Brave Orchid pushed her sister too far, that she went emotionally dead, and ultimately mad.

Character Judgement:
I think that Brave Moon is very pushy, demanding, and guilty for her sister's madness. A part of me thinks that Brave Moon does feel guilty and wants to be with her sister ever step of the way, yet another side of me is telling me that she is a bad sister and justs wants to do whats best for herself. Coming from all this, I have ultimately decided that Moon Orchid is very immature, has not life challanging experiences, but has had to deal with servere heart-ache. She is a very strong woman but needs help.

Question 1:
If one of your siblings went sane or mad, how would you deal with the situation? Why?

Quote 2:
"During air raid drills (it was during the Korean War, which you knew about because every day the front page of the newspaper printed a map of Korea with the top part red and going up and down like a window shade,) we curled up in this basement. Now everyone was gone. The playroom was army green and had nothing in it but a long trough with drinking spigots in rows... When someone flushed you could hear the water and other matter, which the children named, running inside the big pipe above the drinking spigots." - page 174, paragraph 1, Maxine

Significance:
In this quote, it is saying that during school they would have air raid drills when they would hide in the basement and wait for the air to be later cleared. Its telling us more about their life here in America. During the Korean War, schools had drills just like we have fire drills but to think that America has turned into a safe, secure, living space, makes a lot of people want to live here. Although at one time there were such things as air raid drills, it is nice to know that America has shown that we can be strong and pull through. Those raid drills were just for protection but it would've scared me to death just thinking about being in "war" territory.

Personal Connection:
Although America is safe, when I think of war, I think about 9-11 and when the twin towers came down. That was a big shock but it made us stronger. Many lives were taken but many poeople steped up to help one another which America is all about. Also, it just makes me thankful for all of the security and safety we, as Americans, feel living here in America. We are fortunate to not have to worry about people coming and knocking on our doors asking if they can seach our houses.

Question 2:
Do you think that a lot of kids were worried about, possibly, getting bombed on or having war break out right there on school campus? Why or why not?

Vocab for DJ #5:
burlap (pg 148) - a plain-woven, coarse fabric of jute, hemp
frena (pg 164) - a fold of membrane that checks or restrains the motion of a part
frenum (pg 165) - a fold of membrane that checks or restrains the motion of a part
self-assertion (pg 172) - insistence on or an expression of one's own importance