Summary: In these last chapters of The Unheard a letter arrives from USAID. The letter noted that the clinic project had been approved, this project involved building a new ward, giving josh his own office, bring electricity, and getting a doctor. They made many plans and continued those that Jere had made long ago. The bigger space that they planned to have would help the village and having a real Doctor will do even better the villages only source of help about health was from the small clinic Jere, Josh and Patrick worked in and there medicine cabinet the size of a bathtub help medication for 50,000 people. The clinic project would be the best thing for the village and it will give josh the satisfaction that he is actually doing work in Africa instead of nothing at all. They drew model scales, calculated prices, list potential workers and created a construction schedule. They created a plan and intended to finish it and getting the letter gave hope for the plan.
Quote: "America is like heaven? Come on, it's insane as anyplace else. He should know the truth."
Raction: to Josh Amerirca was a different place, thats why he came to Africa. He came to Africa to escape his deafness. And in Africa he makes friends, experiences violence and difficulties that had nothing to do with his deafness. Africa is different for him and he learns that.
Friday, October 29, 2010
the unheard pgs 145-202
Summary: In these pages of the Unheard Josh experiences another traumatic event, his first being the man being dragged all over the village. It was already dark out, the moon wasn't in sight and a man comes into the clinic, the one Josh works in part time, with a boy in his hands. It was the man's son. The man came into the clinic and placed his fifteen year old son on a table. When the man came in he was immediately taken care of they examined the injury and explained what had happened. The boy had stole a fish from someone else's net in the river and so they "swung an ax through the back of his leg." The ax went through the skin and the muscles, and it stopped against the kneecap. But that was not the only problem. The clinic did not have the materials to amputate the leg and even if they did they did not have the capabilities to do so. but they did have a chance of gettting someone who could. they would just have to wait for the abulance whwen it came back around. When it did pass though it was full of fish and there was no space for the boy so josh who has started going though a fit of anger threw enough bags of fish out and yelled at the drivers.
Quote: "I turned my hearing aids off" pg 149
Reaction: Many times during the book Josh deliberatly turns of his hearing aids. He turns it off when he's sleeping, when there is no point of hearing anything, and when he is angry. Josh uses his disabliity to his advantge to get away.
Quote: "I turned my hearing aids off" pg 149
Reaction: Many times during the book Josh deliberatly turns of his hearing aids. He turns it off when he's sleeping, when there is no point of hearing anything, and when he is angry. Josh uses his disabliity to his advantge to get away.
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Unheard (107-145)
Summary:
In these pages of The Unheard Josh begins to feel fear. On Christmas eve a villager, Chitondo, had killed someone by punching him in the nose, breaking it in the process and leading it right into the other guys brain. Though, strangely, this is not why Josh was afraid, he was afraid of what happened to Chitondo afterwards. When the village found out that there was killer among them they set out in a mob to kill him. During their search in finding Chitondo they killed two of his friends, tortured his wife and threatened his mother. When they finally found Chitondo at hie girlfriend's house they threw rocks at him and he begged for his life. When the mob got him out of his girlfriend's hut "they stripped him naked and tied ropes to his wrist. The mob then takes turns, two at a time, dragging him miles on Christmas day even when he was already dead then they chopped him up and fed him to the dogs. And the most wicked thing of all was that they didn't think that what they did was wrong they thought that they were doing the right thing so they celebrated this.
Quote:
"Then the forest cleared and we were standing on a grassy knoll before a huge hill of thundering water, a long white curtain, a hundred yards long and a hundred high --it looked like God was dipping a paintbrush in the river.(Swiller141)
Reaction:
In this quotation from The Unheard Josh describes his path to a hidden waterfall. In this quote he uses descriptive words (adjectives), such as huge and long white, and he uses a simile to describe his surroundings. Throughout the book Josh describes his surroundings very clearly and he compares his experiences in Africa with other things such as God.
In these pages of The Unheard Josh begins to feel fear. On Christmas eve a villager, Chitondo, had killed someone by punching him in the nose, breaking it in the process and leading it right into the other guys brain. Though, strangely, this is not why Josh was afraid, he was afraid of what happened to Chitondo afterwards. When the village found out that there was killer among them they set out in a mob to kill him. During their search in finding Chitondo they killed two of his friends, tortured his wife and threatened his mother. When they finally found Chitondo at hie girlfriend's house they threw rocks at him and he begged for his life. When the mob got him out of his girlfriend's hut "they stripped him naked and tied ropes to his wrist. The mob then takes turns, two at a time, dragging him miles on Christmas day even when he was already dead then they chopped him up and fed him to the dogs. And the most wicked thing of all was that they didn't think that what they did was wrong they thought that they were doing the right thing so they celebrated this.
Quote:
"Then the forest cleared and we were standing on a grassy knoll before a huge hill of thundering water, a long white curtain, a hundred yards long and a hundred high --it looked like God was dipping a paintbrush in the river.(Swiller141)
Reaction:
In this quotation from The Unheard Josh describes his path to a hidden waterfall. In this quote he uses descriptive words (adjectives), such as huge and long white, and he uses a simile to describe his surroundings. Throughout the book Josh describes his surroundings very clearly and he compares his experiences in Africa with other things such as God.
Friday, October 8, 2010
The Unheard pages 63-130
summary:
In the memoir the unheard by Josh Swiller, josh tries to get the well project started. The whole point of the peace corps sending him to that village was to develop well systems in Zambia. There he was supposed to help the villagers learn to fend for themselves instead of waiting for the rare volunteer. Josh set up a number of meetings to talk about how the villagers will build the wells but many of them were vacant.A lot of people who didn't go didn't have time and alot of them couldn't read the posters the meeting information was on. josh tried to start quick but time was going quicker. Though he soon found a village that looked promising, the village of kaseke, where there was a man, Jefferson, who knew how to speak English. The first meeting he set up had many villagers but when josh came he felt that there was a problem, and there was. the headman's mother died so they ask to have the meeting next Monday. At the second meeting it was also full but, that time there too was a problem. this time the headman's other mother, also known as aunt, died. The next meeting was scheduled for the next day. At the third meeting there was nobody there. as josh tries hard to complete his task he encounters many conflicts that deter him form moving forward. Later on at a peace corps meeting josh and the other Peace corp volunteer, who did less then him, were told that they were not expected to finish the task during there task. They were told that because they were the first peace corps volunteers there and that it would be almost impossible to complete their projects.
Besides the lack of audience in the well meeting, the political figures were also great discourages. all the politicians were drunks and apathetic. The latest chief of the village of Mununga was chosen randomly, before he became the chief he was a shovel operator, it was like jury duty if you were called to serve you had no choice. The new chief's first rule was the same as the last chief's rule, who was a school teacher. His first rule was "one bottle out of every batch of banana wine brewed in Mununga be tithed to him" the rule that cause the last chief to drink himself to death was being reestablished. Things such as these made Josh's project tougher to do. With everyone wanting more josh can give, he was slowed from his goal.
quote:
"I watched the students talk to each other in the cafeteria. Some threw signs like rapper, quick, harsh motions that had a bop and and an edge"(Swiller 99).
reaction:
My reaction towards Josh's writing is that because he grew up death he was probably used to hearing very specific descriptions, turning him into a very literate writer that uses devices such as similes.
In the memoir the unheard by Josh Swiller, josh tries to get the well project started. The whole point of the peace corps sending him to that village was to develop well systems in Zambia. There he was supposed to help the villagers learn to fend for themselves instead of waiting for the rare volunteer. Josh set up a number of meetings to talk about how the villagers will build the wells but many of them were vacant.A lot of people who didn't go didn't have time and alot of them couldn't read the posters the meeting information was on. josh tried to start quick but time was going quicker. Though he soon found a village that looked promising, the village of kaseke, where there was a man, Jefferson, who knew how to speak English. The first meeting he set up had many villagers but when josh came he felt that there was a problem, and there was. the headman's mother died so they ask to have the meeting next Monday. At the second meeting it was also full but, that time there too was a problem. this time the headman's other mother, also known as aunt, died. The next meeting was scheduled for the next day. At the third meeting there was nobody there. as josh tries hard to complete his task he encounters many conflicts that deter him form moving forward. Later on at a peace corps meeting josh and the other Peace corp volunteer, who did less then him, were told that they were not expected to finish the task during there task. They were told that because they were the first peace corps volunteers there and that it would be almost impossible to complete their projects.
Besides the lack of audience in the well meeting, the political figures were also great discourages. all the politicians were drunks and apathetic. The latest chief of the village of Mununga was chosen randomly, before he became the chief he was a shovel operator, it was like jury duty if you were called to serve you had no choice. The new chief's first rule was the same as the last chief's rule, who was a school teacher. His first rule was "one bottle out of every batch of banana wine brewed in Mununga be tithed to him" the rule that cause the last chief to drink himself to death was being reestablished. Things such as these made Josh's project tougher to do. With everyone wanting more josh can give, he was slowed from his goal.
quote:
"I watched the students talk to each other in the cafeteria. Some threw signs like rapper, quick, harsh motions that had a bop and and an edge"(Swiller 99).
reaction:
My reaction towards Josh's writing is that because he grew up death he was probably used to hearing very specific descriptions, turning him into a very literate writer that uses devices such as similes.
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Unheard (1-58)
Summary:
The memior The Unheard is Josh Swiller's story of Africa and deafness. Since he was born, Josh, was death, though it was oblvious to his family who just either thought he was slow or stupid. then when he was four and finally diagnosed as deaf he got his first pair of hearing aids. However, he still was not alone one of his three brothers were deaf and also his cousin. Plus he also had a teacher, Adele who taught him to lip read, hear, talk, write and read. When Josh left college he joined the peacecorps and with the peacecorps he decided to go to africa where he can find himself, making it a number of peoples first view of a white man. In Africa he encounters many new people and makes many new friends he even decides to work as a teacher(volunteer) to teach the death kids at a school he passes, between his peacecorps training.
Quote:
"Evening came and filled the shy with such reds and oranges it was like the valley had been slipped inside a sliced papaya."( Swiller 12)
Reaction:
As a writer od a memoir Josh protrays his writing with small clicks of personification, similes, metaphors and other literary devices. Though most of his writing involves alot of descriptions and thoughts he saw ans thought about. Swiller's quote above shows one of his clicks of similes he adds in. much of his work describes his difficulties with hearing and how alot of times after having someone repeat something a number of times he just guesses what thay are saying and nods. his writing technique includes a descriptive quality parts of his life with pieces of literary devices added in.
The memior The Unheard is Josh Swiller's story of Africa and deafness. Since he was born, Josh, was death, though it was oblvious to his family who just either thought he was slow or stupid. then when he was four and finally diagnosed as deaf he got his first pair of hearing aids. However, he still was not alone one of his three brothers were deaf and also his cousin. Plus he also had a teacher, Adele who taught him to lip read, hear, talk, write and read. When Josh left college he joined the peacecorps and with the peacecorps he decided to go to africa where he can find himself, making it a number of peoples first view of a white man. In Africa he encounters many new people and makes many new friends he even decides to work as a teacher(volunteer) to teach the death kids at a school he passes, between his peacecorps training.
Quote:
"Evening came and filled the shy with such reds and oranges it was like the valley had been slipped inside a sliced papaya."( Swiller 12)
Reaction:
As a writer od a memoir Josh protrays his writing with small clicks of personification, similes, metaphors and other literary devices. Though most of his writing involves alot of descriptions and thoughts he saw ans thought about. Swiller's quote above shows one of his clicks of similes he adds in. much of his work describes his difficulties with hearing and how alot of times after having someone repeat something a number of times he just guesses what thay are saying and nods. his writing technique includes a descriptive quality parts of his life with pieces of literary devices added in.
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