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"Come over here and listen to a story," said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord."
"In a low, confidence voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, the behavior of the children here is obviously ironic ad children usually focus intently on things that interest them and which they like but here they are disruptive, they openly voice their discontent and their confrontationalstance with the aunt.
Letter to a Young Refugee from another and Farewell to Manzanar
are both stories about struggles of families inside a refugee camp for the
former and internment camp for the latter. In the “Letter to a Young refugee”
which took place in Guam after the Vietnam war, Lam addresses another refugee
he saw in the news to relate his previous experience. The theme is more like, “I
know what you are going through.”
In “Farewell to Manzanar”, the main character went back to
the old camp in Manzanar much later in her life to reflect on what used to be her life
there as a displaced Japanese in America.
The line in this excerpt that uses the logical fallacy of ad hominem is this one: "The police, as usual, were as friendly as could be, but, because of the complaint, we had to turn down the volume." Ad hominem refers to the <span>logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character</span>
To understand this phrase you have to analyze it in pieces.
Courtier is a word to describe a person that goes to the court to present, in this case, poetry. The court was the place where the powerful people (kings, princes, queens, royal governors...) of society would go to have a different kind of reunions and presentations.
Middling is a word that was used as a synonym for standard, regular. Here it means that the poet is not particularly bright, not all that talented.
