Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ribbons

When Stacey’s Chinese Grandmother moves into her house with her, she acts kind of diabolic and fastidious. She tries to act decorous but just cant hold it in because grandma (also called Paw-Paw) gets into some impeccable, uncanny fights with her when she is not getting enough attention. In the short story titled, “Ribbons” includes many symbols, and the author Laurence Yep makes it relate to real life and also to a TV show episode that follows the same plotline, of a comedy.
Most of the symbols that Laurence Yep used in this story symbolize happiness, and or something good. It all starts out when it says, “in that bright warm rectangle of light.” This represents an non-nebulous day and also tells that something good is going to happen. Most of the time sun represents joy, or happiness. You can tell that this story is a comedy because when it mentions, “into our living room rug”, the living room and rug lets you know that this is totally normal and there is nothing unordinary about it, because you would probably find a living room and a rug in most normal houses now a days. Another symbol that caught my eye was when Laurence wrote, “she wore a silk jacket and black slacks”. This is basically saying that the grandmother is not an impecunious woman. The last symbol in the story was when it said, “mom was as meek as a child”, this is saying that mom was angry and the conflict was about to arise. This is also saying that something or someone was making her abashed.
Even though that this story has a lot of sapid symbols, it also relates to real life situations. This could happen to anyone and it has happened to me. When people pay a lot of their attention to my two year old brother, Jake, I always seem to be sequestered. This is ok though because I have learned to be on my own and now I’m very independent. People get ignored all the time by people all over the world; they also get in fights just like Stacey and her Grandmother. This says that the story is a comedy because comedies are realistic.
This story is very likely to happen in real life and also on TV. This was the same thing that happened on the Disney Channel show, “Hannah Montana” . When the Stewart family’s grandmother comes to visit, both of the kids have important events to go to and both of the kids are both extenuate but Grandma will only go to Jackson’s event because she feels that Miley has too much attention already and because she is a singer and is proverbial. So Grandma believes that Jackson is put aside and doesn’t get enough attention as Miley. This makes Miley sad and she wants this to stop. But in the end she talks to her grandmother and they work things out and everything is okay again.
This realistic story relates to real life as well as a TV show episode. The author also uses some symbols that show that this story is definitely a comedy. People will get mad when they don’t get enough attention. However, if they talk it out, this problem can get rersolved.

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