What is the meaning of the title?
To me the meaning of the title is living life the way you want to. As Tosh stated twice in the book talking about how Kiyoshi and he will have to work until the debt is gone. Again Tosh stated that the debt could take about twenty years or more. The significant part about wanting their bodies’ was to box and the work they had to do in order to get the money was hard on their body. Not only was the work hard on their bodies the only food they could get did not work with their workouts and training, something I know much about.
Something great about part III was Tosh becoming a boxer and complaining with Kiyoshi following not too far behind. The both started to become great boxers and get better jobs at the plantation but would still take much time to finish debt. The way Tosh saw the debt going away was the boxing fights and become champ, in turn he needed his body at top shape. Again with Kiyoshi following Tosh’s footsteps becoming a boxer and later on champ. In the end “all I asking for is my body” is the way Tosh and Kiyoshi saw as the best and fastest way out of debt with boxing.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
All I Asking For Is My Body, Part II, Dialogue
"She insisted that rice should always be scooped at least twice from the big bowl to the individual bowls even if the second scoop was a token one without any rice on the ladle." (14)
"All I asking for is my body" is the by far the best book I have had to read for school. Most books you read in school are not ones you would usually pick up on your own or even take a second look at. Then with those books you are given you either hate it or enjoy it. This book is no different, I would have never picked it up or looked inside. What is different though is the moment I started ti read the book I couldn't put it down. The reason for this sudden and strange connection is I am Japanese and reading all the Japanese words and phase that I relate to.
Starting with "zori" a word I never hear anywhere else but with family. Next would be your parents and elders are always right and you have to follow what they said even if you don't quite agree. That was how I was raised and how the rest of my family on both sides were, so to me that was the "norm". Which always confused me when i was younger when other parents or adults would say I was so good and not like other kids my age. The next great big connect would be the superstitions in the book especially the one I quoted something I have listen to since I could remember. When I asked about why we did it my mother would just say that was what her oba-chan did. Oba-chan being grandmother like in the book as "0baban", which again is a connect where I laugh a bit. I must say this is a book I really do enjoy and can't to read more.
"All I asking for is my body" is the by far the best book I have had to read for school. Most books you read in school are not ones you would usually pick up on your own or even take a second look at. Then with those books you are given you either hate it or enjoy it. This book is no different, I would have never picked it up or looked inside. What is different though is the moment I started ti read the book I couldn't put it down. The reason for this sudden and strange connection is I am Japanese and reading all the Japanese words and phase that I relate to.
Starting with "zori" a word I never hear anywhere else but with family. Next would be your parents and elders are always right and you have to follow what they said even if you don't quite agree. That was how I was raised and how the rest of my family on both sides were, so to me that was the "norm". Which always confused me when i was younger when other parents or adults would say I was so good and not like other kids my age. The next great big connect would be the superstitions in the book especially the one I quoted something I have listen to since I could remember. When I asked about why we did it my mother would just say that was what her oba-chan did. Oba-chan being grandmother like in the book as "0baban", which again is a connect where I laugh a bit. I must say this is a book I really do enjoy and can't to read more.
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